News and Views: Why should God bless America?
By Al Duncan
It was in Engel vs. Vitale, 1962, that the justices discovered a previously unrecognized “wall of separation between church and state.” Despite dozens of court decisions establishing the U.S. a Christian nation, they decreed that there was to be no future mention of Christianity, or religion, in public places. With that decision, the Supreme Court nullified the Judeo-Christian heritage of our nation.
Then, in a series of unprecedented decisions, the court outlawed prayer in public schools, discussion of religion in schools, ordered the destruction of a war memorial built in the shape of a cross, outlawed references to God in official publications, acknowledgment of Christmas in public places and religious exhibits on public property. As a direct result of these decisions, children can no longer be taught about our nation”s Christian heritage or that our laws are based on the holy scriptures in the Bible.
The removal of Christianity from public schools was replaced by a new philosophy that taught children to make decisions that were no longer based on generations of traditional Biblical teachings of right and wrong, but on their own concept of what was right and was wrong. Accordingly, our schools adopted the belief system of Aleister Crowley who taught his disciples: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.”
On Feb. 16, 2007, WorldNetDaily, an Internet news site that attracts more than 7 million readers a day, reported that a former Christian college that removed a cross from its chapel because it could offend visitors, this week packed its auditorium with an explicit porn show.
According to the Encyclopedia of 20th Century Photograph, in a 1989 exhibition, partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which are public funds, Andres Serrano featured his 1987 photograph of a Christian crucifix suspended in a beaker of urine.
According to WorldNetDaily, March 20, 2008, a former member of the U.S. Supreme Court has justified a city”s decision to ban prayers at council meetings that are “in Jesus name,” calling it a “reasonable” restriction on a councilman”s speech rights.
On Oct. 3, 2008, WorldNetDaily wrote that Governor Timothy Kaine of Virginia supports a new statewide policy under which state troopers serving as chaplains will not be allowed to pray in Jesus” name, explaining that he can pray “without mentioning Jesus.”
According to WorldNetDaily, Oct. 21, a single, 31-year-old woman in Michigan who posted a note on her church bulletin board seeking a “Christian roommate” to share her residence has been cited by the state for violating the Fair Housing Act by discriminating against those of other faiths.
And yet, on Jan. 31, 2008, Bob Unruh, of WorldNetDaily said that a Nevada Hindu who has opened the U.S. Senate with a faith-specific chant now has provided the invocation to open the state senate in Colorado with a Hindu chant of the “om” syllable that, supposedly, contains the universe.
And on Feb. 01, the U.S. Air force Academy revealed that the chapel is adding a new worship area for followers of Earth-centered religions, including Paganism, Druidism and the form of witchcraft known as Wicca.
Brock Parker, of the Globe, reported on Oct. 10, to make it easier for Muslim students to honor their highest holy days, Cambridge will close schools for one Muslim holiday each year beginning in the 2011-2012 school year.
While on Constitution Day, 2009, WorldNetDaily reported, Michelle Winkler, a teacher at a Sacramento, Florida school was charged with contempt after her husband, who is not employed by the district, offered a meal prayer at a private event in a neighboring county.
April 16, 2008, per WorldNetDaily, a federal appeals court ruled that a New Jersey high school football coach broke the law when he bowed his head while students on his team prayed.
Accordingly, Jesus Christ and the God of the Bible have been barred from our public institutions, kicked out of our schools, forbade to be mentioned in the work place, restricted in pulpits, vilified throughout the mainstream media, and maligned, belittled, mocked and slandered by plays, movies and TV sitcoms.
For centuries hypocrites professing to be Christians, have defamed the name of Christ and Christianity by their ungodly deeds, when they”re actually warmongers, child molesters, drunkards, wife and child beaters, liars and thieves. But true Christians, whom Christ characterized as being his disciples by their love for one another, and who were also commissioned to share his love and way of life with others, are now being marginalized and constrained to a place of fear.
And so I conclude, why should God bless America?
Al Duncan is a author, businessman and Record-Bee columnist. He can be contacted at alduncan@pacific.net.
