There is a large amount of confusion about what the phrase "Christian Nation" means. We hear all kinds of rhetoric about America as "melting pot," a "nation of immigrants," a land of "equal opportunity," and many others.
The fact is, all of the features of America that have made it the "shining beacon on a hill" for the rest of the world, derive directly from the underlying premises of Christianity. Whether you believe in God or Christianity or not, these premises are contained in Christianity and the America that we have created based upon these premises cannot exist without them:
The Christian view of man is that man is a special creation of God. God loves all men, not only the ones who profess to be Chrsitians. God wants all men to come to him and worship Him. But God will not coerce anyone; He wants men to come to him willingly. God bestows upon man the dignity of trusting him with decisions about his own eternal destiny. This dignity is succinctly described in our Declaration of Independence..."We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights..." Christianity, among all of the religions of the world, holds that man is free.
If man is then free, then it follows that he has the rights of free speech, ownership of property, equal justice before the law, etc. as stated in our Federal Constitution. Capitalism is a natural consequence of man's God-given freedom.
We must think twice about throwing out the divine origin of man's rights. Those who advocate this will sadly find out that they have laid the axe at the roots of their own prosperity and the great social adventure that started in 1776 will be destroyed in favor of the old worn-out ideas that have plagued man since the beginning of history.
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