'Oh.....How we need Billy Graham....to stand up and tell us the grave error of our thinking....and how we have taken a wrong path'....or so I might lament....but we didn't listen to him when he was with us....so why should we believe if we were to listen today?
For much of the day....Fox News Internet headlined JD Vance saying that America was a Christian nation. America is not....and never was....a Christian nation. England....and other nations....at various times were closer to being a Christian nation. 'Christendom'....of which we are a part....is a sociopolitical term....with only varying degrees of the Christian Faith within it....of which we at times had a high degree of Christian faith....but they were very temporary....and even fleeting....while today we are little more than a remnant in a pagan culture.
How do you explain a rogue element of the government doing what it did in November of 1963....and then the rest of the government lying to cover it up...for sixty years? How do explain a political system that primarily relies on trickery and psychological manipulation instead of truth and honesty? How do you explain impeachments where the defendant's party....in either party....will not cast an honest vote? How do explain revenge as the chief component of a chief executive....and a Congress showing no compassion at all to the most needy....and the alien....just to keep that chief executive in office....thereby keeping your political party in the majority? How do you explain bombing a boat when you could stop it without loss of life? How do you explain purposely fomenting anger....and even hatred? How do you explain giving money away....both parties again....to buy votes? How do you explain so many people wanting drugs? How do you explain being outraged at drugs....and then signing an executive order....again to get votes....when it only makes it easier for people to get a drug? How do you explain the violence....and the greed....that is everywhere? How do you explain families who came here....legally or not....to find a better life for the children....and then forcing them to fear who is knocking at the door....or firing hundreds of thousands of people....where the savings will do little to nothing on a national debt that we built through our greed and power-mongering....and then after all this....having the audacity to decorate the White House for Christmas....and wishing everyone a Merry Christmas?
How do you explain the prosperity gospel? How do you explain preachers with multi-million dollar 'ministries'....telling the poor people and poor souls that listen to them....to send in a seed offering? How do explain all the divorces within the church? How do you explain going to church and then rushing home for eight hours of football? How do explain Christians fawning over celebrities who obviously haven't a clue about the Christianity that they profess? How do explain a church....that refuses to warn about anything....because people might leave that church....when it is not even telling them their need for salvation anyway?
No....we are nothing near a Christian nation. We consecrated our own Hophni and Phinehas types of ministers....Eli's wayward sons who thought that if they just took the ark of the covenant to the battle that they were losing....that God would give them victory....which is kind of like us always saying....'God Bless America'....and thinking that God would thus bless us with victories. So the ark was taken to the battle....the battle was lost....and the ark taken by the Philistines. The wife of Phinehas gave birth...and when she heard that her husband was killed and the ark taken and the battle lost....she named the child....Ichabod....meaning....the glory has departed....and then....after the ark didn't work....we wanted to go the way of having a powerful king....and we got more than we bargained for....and are now paying for it.
So....the glory has indeed departed from America....and the American church....Ichabod! The gospel message that is presented on the dais of our rallies and conventions....is almost unrecognizable.....and it is a gospel that does not save....neither in the temporal....nor the eternal.
