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Originally Posted by OneFormula
I don't.
Seeing as ALL of the Founding Fathers were Freemasons that dabbled in witchcraft and all. I would venture to say this country was founded on Masonic prinicples more than Christian ones.
From Washington all the way up to Obama. Freemasons.
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America is not and never was strictly a Christian nation. Yet it was founded on Christian principles and for a while at least dedicated to them and to the God who created them.
What is meant by Christian principles? To answer that question one must examine the nature and effect of the European reformation.
Prior to the reformation, ordained priests were the only persons allowed to interpret scripture. They were the only ones allowed to disseminate policy and decisions about faith and everyday life. Despite the cloak of honorable religion they were tyrants of the most wicked sort - they put chains upon the minds and hearts of those who sought to live lives pleasing to God.
But change was in the wind when Martin Luther and others promulgated the idea that men could interpret the scriptures for themselves - could decide for themselves what the will of God was for their own lives. Thus personal responsibility and authority was wrested from the clutches of religious tyrants and kings. If a man can decide how to live his life before God, then it naturally followed that he had a right to decide how he would live before his king. Thus was democracy born in the world. For years afterward the wars and battles that were fought were pitched between men who were determined to establish the pattern of their own lives for themselves and those who would take it from them.
And so the war came to America and in the name of liberty did men fight and die so that they - not some king or some priest - could decide how they would live. It was, as many of them believed, their God given right to do so.
But times changed when men debauched their liberty and enslaved other men to do their will -
when men established a policy of genocide against a race who had inhabited this land before they arrived -
and when men used the prosperity and military power God intended to overthrow tyranny to establish it on their own shores.
Yes America was established upon Christian principles, but those principles have been denied and overthrown and subverted by the principles of fascism and corruption and religious bigotry. Liberty has died in America because America has forgotten God. In this something more is at hand......judgment.
IF GOD DOES NOT JUDGE AMERICA, HE WILL HAVE TO APOLOGIZE TO SODOM AND GOMORRAH.
and that's just me, hollering from the choir loft...
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