Religious Oppressors

The most important reason for the formation of America, the travels of the Pilgrims, and the strength of our nation, is the foundation of religious freedom and the ability to escape religious persecution. The Christian church flourished here because the government was established in such a way that the truth could overcome all other teachings.

Now, the Christian church leads the charge to limit the freedoms of people based on religious reasons. They lead the way to discriminate against people and force a particular religious view down the throats of those who do not agree.

It doesn't take much effort to see that this approach has become the foundation for the greatest resistance the cause of CHRIST has felt in this country. When you pick up the Bible to use it as a weapon against any group of people, or even an individual, the natural response is to recoil and defend.

If, on the other hand, the church were to put more trust in the power of the truth, and the power of GOD, and handed the Bible to people for them to use as a weapon against Satan, than all of the spiritual issues facing this nation would be overcome.

We do not have a problem with drugs, alcohol, divorce, homosexuals, or abortion. These are symptoms. Symptoms of a spiritual sickness. It is not just a sickness in the nation. It is a sickness in the people who say they trust in GOD.

If we, as a people of GOD, trusted in HIM and HIS power and spent our time doing what HE has asked us to do, living by HIS precepts, and being the people HE has called us to be, then the spiritual aspects of the decline in America would be reduced and the issues we face would be reduced. There is no place in the Bible that we have been told to use the government to battle evil. We have a lot of instruction on how to battle evil. The government is not in there.

The Bible, the founding fathers of America, history, even common sense should tell us that the approach we have been lead to use does not work and is not a good idea.

There was a time when the nations of Europe were run by the Christian church. Now, it is likely you would get arrested for preaching JESUS in the streets.

We, as Christian Americans, need to protect all Americans from religious persecution, particularly from Christians. Undermining these principals will result in these freedoms being lost to Christians as other groups rise up to defend themselves from the persecution by Christians.