Now here’s an idea.
Members of an Idaho county Republican Party recently sent a letter to the state GOP asking that it endorse a proposal to get the legislature to declare Idaho “formally and specifically a Christian state.”
Apparently a lot of Republicans across the nation think this is a good idea. According to a new Public Policy Polling survey 57% of them would like for the U.S. itself to officially make Christianity our national religion.
Wow! What a great idea. Think of all the possibilities if the U.S. declared itself a Christian nation.
A host of new laws would be passed to show we meant business.
First among them would certainly be placing restrictions on the selling and buying of guns, as well as banning military type rifles to the general public. Any genuinely “Christian nation” would do everything it could to reduce the violent crime rate in the U.S., the highest among all Western nations.
Capital punishment would be banned, of course, simply because real Christians do not believe in an “eye for an eye” criminal justice system, especially one fraught with failures and mistakes.
Equal pay for equal work for women would become law because real Christians reject any form of economic inequality.
The Voting Rights Act would be reinstated fully because real Christians reject discrimination under any circumstances.
Gays and lesbians would be given the same civil rights all other Americans enjoy because real Christians believe in equal treatment under the law for all citizens.
Military spending would drop like a rock. No genuinely Christian nation would maintain a military industrial complex, believing as it would what President Eisenhower said: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
Funding for programs like Food Stamps, Medicaid, and Head Start would increase by millions, and Obamacare would be expanded into Medicare for everyone because this would be a practical way a genuinely Christian nation could show it believes in loving your neighbor as yourself.
Every young person wanting to go to college or get vocational training would receive whatever financial aid he or she needed, believing as a genuinely Christian nation would that caring for the future of its children is one of its first moral obligations.
And perhaps best of all, all politicians – all – would immediately be held to a radically new moral standard because a genuinely Christian nation would not accept the notion that business as usual was the best its government could do.
I don’t know about you, but I think that Idaho county Republican Committee is on to something.
What better way to put this country on a new road to freedom and justice for all than to officially make ourselves a Christian nation?
So I hope all progressive Christians in Idaho, and around the nation, will get behind this initiative…except for one small caveat.
That those behind the idea prove to the rest of us that they honestly want to put into practice what it truly means to be Christian rather than just baptizing their conservative political views and calling them “Christian.”
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BAM ! You nailed it!
The use of sarcasm and satire are time-honored methods of exposing the pomposity, hypocrisy, and self-serving agendas of those who would impose their particular “religious” beliefs on others.
In this instance, you have effectively dismissed the ultra-conservative Republican notion that states and our nation should be “pure” and have one specific religion for all.
Thank you once again, Jan, for your wisdom.
You know full well that would never happen.
AMEN three times over! This one is SPOT ON! The idea of America, or any state within it, being defined as a Christian nation or state has really begun to ring my bell. I hope the Idaho Legislature sends this one to the dustbin of nutty crackpot ideas (but I wouldn’t bet on it). Those who would put forward this proposal are either ignorant, arrogant, bigoted, or most likely, some of each. I’m currently reading Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges. I defy anyone to read this and then, with a straight face, say America is a Christian nation.
I think that being a Christian nation, or state, is defined by how people within that entity live their lives and how they treat others, not by some self serving, hypocritical proclamation
You forgot one item (conveniently) fellas, we could put an end to abortion as a form of birth control. Some states even allow murdering a baby until it is out of the womb. Have you seen the pictures of a partial birth abortion. Be “Honest” with yourselves, pick a side! Don’t just slam what you feel is “THEIR” pious attitude, with yours. OOOPs, that’s just tooooo far right!
JM: If you think calling ourselves a Christian nation (or state) will put an end to abortion, you are dreaming. BEING a Christian nation may do so, CALLING ourselves one will not.
Wally….Da! I was just adding something that dear old Jan forgot to mention. I just have to quote a famous church lady. “Well, isn’t that special” he forgot to go after abortion. Liberal “Christians” truly LOVE choices as long as it is “their” choices. We can mock and belittle other Christians and still present ourselves as holier then thou. Jesus did this all the time……NOT in my book.
Ever notice in our liberal media that if is a black child it is just a fetus, but if it is going to be next in line for British “royalty” it’s a BABY.