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Obama Erases Christianity from the American Founding
Posted on January 28, 2011 by Ben Johnson
by Ben Johnson
In the State of the Union Address, Obama said: “We are the first nation to be founded for the sake of an idea – the idea that each of us deserves the chance to shape our own destiny. That is why centuries of pioneers and immigrants have risked everything to come here.” In Obama’s telling, this is the reason “why our students don’t just memorize equations, but answer questions like ‘What do you think of that idea? What would you change about the world? What do you want to be when you grow up?’”
That is perhaps the most underwhelming description of freedom ever uttered by a president.
It is rendered less impressive by the fact that later in his speech, Obama called on more Americans to study equations and stop telling him what they think of his ideas. This lack of vision manifested throughout the SOTU is one of the reasons so many Americans considered this address drab and uninspiring.
The president’s presentation of America’s founding lacks its most important cause: Christianity.
The stout souls who migrated across the Atlantic in a wooden ship in 1620 came from England “In the name of God, Amen” to plant a colony on the Atlantic’s shore “for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith.” This fact, now suppressed, would have been part of the standard curriculum if Obama had received his primary education in the United States. The Mayflower Compact embodied the intentions of those who founded our country: to worship God as they saw fit, something they could not do under the King. In the annals of history, the Pilgrims’ voyage represented complete dedication to the Lord Jesus Christ and a sacrificial commitment to live out their faith. For Obama, it was an exercise in self-realization.
This omission would not be noteworthy if it did not build upon a long pattern of Obama’s cutting God out of the Declaration of Independence and minimizing the role of the Christian faith in American life.
Although Christianity had no place in Obama’s State of the Union, he took pains to emphasize that “Muslims are a part of our American family.” This ties in with his long history of favoring Islamic causes at home and abroad, while downplaying or actively opposing key tenets of Christianity. Although three-quarters of the American people call themselves Christians, Obama has insisted, “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation.” Yet he said elsewhere America is “one of the largest Muslim nations in the world.” This simultaneous rejection of Christian values and favored status for Islam is one of the major reasons a growing number of Americans cannot believe Obama is a Christian.
Ironically, a passage in the State of the Union showed parents a way to assure the Christian faith’s role in America’s founding is taught to future generations. Obama gave unsolicited advice “to every young person listening tonight who’s contemplating their career choice: If you want to make a difference in the life of our nation; if you want to make a difference in the life of a child – become a teacher,” he said. “Your country needs you.”
I will add better advice yet: become a homeschooler.
Obama Erases Christianity from the American Founding
Posted on January 28, 2011 by Ben Johnson
by Ben Johnson
In the State of the Union Address, Obama said: “We are the first nation to be founded for the sake of an idea – the idea that each of us deserves the chance to shape our own destiny. That is why centuries of pioneers and immigrants have risked everything to come here.” In Obama’s telling, this is the reason “why our students don’t just memorize equations, but answer questions like ‘What do you think of that idea? What would you change about the world? What do you want to be when you grow up?’”
That is perhaps the most underwhelming description of freedom ever uttered by a president.
It is rendered less impressive by the fact that later in his speech, Obama called on more Americans to study equations and stop telling him what they think of his ideas. This lack of vision manifested throughout the SOTU is one of the reasons so many Americans considered this address drab and uninspiring.
The president’s presentation of America’s founding lacks its most important cause: Christianity.
The stout souls who migrated across the Atlantic in a wooden ship in 1620 came from England “In the name of God, Amen” to plant a colony on the Atlantic’s shore “for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith.” This fact, now suppressed, would have been part of the standard curriculum if Obama had received his primary education in the United States. The Mayflower Compact embodied the intentions of those who founded our country: to worship God as they saw fit, something they could not do under the King. In the annals of history, the Pilgrims’ voyage represented complete dedication to the Lord Jesus Christ and a sacrificial commitment to live out their faith. For Obama, it was an exercise in self-realization.
This omission would not be noteworthy if it did not build upon a long pattern of Obama’s cutting God out of the Declaration of Independence and minimizing the role of the Christian faith in American life.
Although Christianity had no place in Obama’s State of the Union, he took pains to emphasize that “Muslims are a part of our American family.” This ties in with his long history of favoring Islamic causes at home and abroad, while downplaying or actively opposing key tenets of Christianity. Although three-quarters of the American people call themselves Christians, Obama has insisted, “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation.” Yet he said elsewhere America is “one of the largest Muslim nations in the world.” This simultaneous rejection of Christian values and favored status for Islam is one of the major reasons a growing number of Americans cannot believe Obama is a Christian.
Ironically, a passage in the State of the Union showed parents a way to assure the Christian faith’s role in America’s founding is taught to future generations. Obama gave unsolicited advice “to every young person listening tonight who’s contemplating their career choice: If you want to make a difference in the life of our nation; if you want to make a difference in the life of a child – become a teacher,” he said. “Your country needs you.”
I will add better advice yet: become a homeschooler.
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