The End Of Christian America

by Jon Meacham - April 4th, 2009 - Newsweek

While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing—good for our political culture, which, as the American Founders saw, is complex and charged enough without attempting to compel or coerce religious belief or observance. It is good for Christianity, too, in that many Christians are rediscovering the virtues of a separation of church and state that protects what Roger Williams, who founded Rhode Island as a haven for religious dissenters, called "the garden of the church" from "the wilderness of the world." As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom—not least freedom of conscience. At our best, we single religion out for neither particular help nor particular harm; we have historically treated faith-based arguments as one element among many in the republican sphere of debate and decision. The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life.

Certainly this is the desire of the atheists of Newsweek. If Christians would just focus on their religious life, quietly, away from the public, perhaps they could be dealt with the way the Russian's have dealt with religion. With governmental efforts to suppress and denigrate them into a virtual, if not actual, elimination. Russia is still the favorite example of socialist life for many or our American lovers of the concept.

I would not take Newsweek's clear wish for the suppression as actual fact yet. However Christianity, in fact all religions except Islam, are under attack from our secular press and our atheist party, the Democrats. Their only religion is global socialism. Like all religions, there is a desire to declare socialism the one true religion - and elminate all others.