The Post-Christian United States

Che Obama

Occasionally, I'm criticized because I don't promote conservative political candidates "who'll turn America around and take back our nation!" I'm chastised because I spend too much time "in the Bible and not enough time promoting conservative political candidates."

First of all, you aren't going to turn America around at the ballot box. Secondly, how are you going take America back when godless humanists control much of the government, the public schools, media and the entertainment industry? And thirdly, the very reason why the United States has become a post-Christian nation is because too many folks who profess to be Christians spend very little--if any--time reading and studying their bibles.

Nearly, 3,000 years ago, King Solomon wrote this: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline." (Proverbs 1:7) Nearly 80 percent of Americans claim to be Christians, and yet their actions clearly betray their declaration of faith. A growing majority of professing Christians today support such anti-biblical causes as same-sex marriage and abortion.

How can you claim to be a Christian when you support godless causes that the author of your faith condemned? What? Jesus Christ never condemned abortion or same-sex marriage? Jesus Christ is called the Word who became flesh (John 1:14), meaning that He's the One who wrote the Law and the 10 Commandments and revealed them to Moses. Thus, those who claim that Christ never publicly condemned such sins are completely ignorant of the Bible and its author.

Politics is the lazy person's way of promoting the faith. Promoting political candidates is much easier than promoting the gospel because that involves engaging people on the street and challenging them to get out of sin and commit their lives to Christ. Although political candidates may be able to limit crime and moral decadence via the laws they write and pass, they can't solve the problem of sin that's the cause of all crime and moral decadence.

The reason why so many Christians continue to put their faith in the ballot box is because until recently, it generally worked. Back in 1980, millions of Americans denied the ultra-liberal and thoroughly inept Jimmy Carter a second term in the White House and chose a conservative named Ronald Reagan. Reagan reversed the damage that Carter had done to the nation at home and abroad and made America the most powerful nation on earth once again.

Reagan was succeeded by George H.W. Bush, a moderate conservative who was then succeeded by Bill Clinton, a liberal who was moderately conservative on certain issues such as welfare reform and traditional marriage. And Clinton was succeeded by George W. Bush, a professing evangelical who governed very much like a big government liberal. And of course, we know who succeeded George W. Bush.

The political leaders of nations are a direct reflection of the people who elect them. If the people are righteous and godly, they'll elect righteous and godly leaders. But if the people are depraved and evil, they'll elect wicked leaders after their own hearts. Thus, Barack Obama is a direct reflection of the morally depraved culture he came from. He's a liar and a Marxist and a virulent racist. And tragically, that's a pretty good synopsis of many Americans today.

And so, whoever succeeds Obama isn't going to change America anymore than any powerful politician is going to change America. America won't be changed until her somnolent Christian community wakes up and begins to exert its influence once again on the culture.

Sure, that's hard. That'll bring persecution and even death. If you want to know how it's done, then read the Book of Acts and the apostle Paul's epistles to the early churches. The apostles gave up all their worldly possessions for Christ because they knew that a far better place awaited them in Heaven after they left this fallen world. They put their faith completely in Christ. And their faith wasn't blind--it was based upon hard evidence.

Here's what Paul wrote in his second epistle to the early church in Corinth: "We put no stumbling block in anyone’s path, so that our ministry will not be discredited. Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses; in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger; in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love; in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left; through glory and dishonor, bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors; known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed; sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything." (2 Corinthians 6:3-10)

That's genuine faith. That's the kind of faith that changes cultures and civilizations. And that's the kind of faith that's needed to turn America back from the brink of destruction. Because without it, America is doomed.