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Should Christians Take over America & make it a Christian Nation?

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JustKara said...

Have a great spring break! As for me... poor me, I must continue working--in fact reading that long post made me need a nap! (Seriously--thanks for all the work you did,)
I think the religious right is winning--Christians are taking over America gradually. George Bush is clearly a "Christian President" but that's not all. Congress is packed with Christian cell groups now who are committed to return America to Christian Nation status. (See Rollling Stone, 2/9/06)These Christian politicians are quietly working behind the scenes to return us to our roots.

I think that in ten years or less we will have a "permissive Christian nation" that is explicitly Christian and based on Christian morals yet graceful enough to be permissive to other religions and unbelievers.
Half the books you reviewed thought the reform idea was dead. They were wrong. In the time since, Christians have moved even further away from personal conversion and toward political reform--and are winning. Unless something turns it around I expect abortion to be totally outlawed in ten year and so-called "gay marriage" laws to be totally reversed and I don't think a person can even be elected President who does not at least claim to be a Christian any more... a "faith-based politician is a losing politician... you’ve got to be Christ-based like George Bush was.

If I were a secularist I'd be terrified. But I am a fairly conservative Christian... and even as that I have some serious reservations with this reorientation of church energies toward government and politics. I'm just not sure.

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