We, as Christians, pray for our country. Perhaps, we should add prayers for ourselves to stand up to our country when it tries to adjust our consciences and means of worship to coincide with the country’s secular and unchristian agenda for the world. Right now, pastors are reticent about crossing the ‘separation of church and state’ line lest they lose their tax-exempt status. From what I understand the separation of church and state was put into place to protect religion not the state. Given the many travesties of government to come down in the last decades, they might have been fought more strongly by people of faith if the faithful understood that the government couldn’t tell them how to worship and to keep quiet about candidates that would not promote the values that built this county.
There is a scary repeat of history taking place but like it’s forerunner, the changes are subtle and persistent. There are way too many easy comparisons between the Rise of Hitler’s Germany and what is taking place in the United States today. This is an excerpt from http://christianpersecutioninamerica.com.
While prayer in school had been obligatory the people allowed Hitler to make it optional.
Prayer was removed from America’s public schools in 1962.
Festivals that had previously been identified as Christian holidays were reclassified with secular names.
This has been accomplished all over America.
They took very aggressive steps to control and intimidate “Pastors” to incorporate and encourage various seemingly harmless pagan worship while discouraging churches from preaching the true Gospel message.
Most American churches have already voluntarily surrendered many of their rights by unnecessarily embracing 501 C3 (tax exempt status) registration and some “churches” in America today incorporate “Christian” yoga, “chrislam” and other pagan religious activities into their programs.
They took control of public radio not allowing views contrary to theirs to be broadcast.
In America there is movement to restrict Biblical views as “hate speech” as they now do in Canada and some have tried to do in America.
They supported and promoted Darwinian Evolution to justify the purging of the species.
In many schools and universities in America Creation is not even allowed to be introduced as an option.
In some cases the Christian cross symbol was outlawed and replaced with the German swastika (the swastika didn’t originate with Hitler; it had previously been used as a religious symbol for thousands of years).
Today many of the largest main stream churches that call themselves “Christian” are practicing and promoting the removal of the cross symbol so as not to offend anyone.
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