America’s Best Christian, Mrs Betty Bowers says ‘America is a Christian nation – if you ignore the pesky facts!’
Ah, but Betty isn’t one to let little facts get in the way when she is providing a decisive answer to what has become a very divisive question. “Is America a Christian nation? The answer to that question is a given, it’s a great, big YES by those who have somehow gotten the impression that this country was founded by Christians, for Christians. It soon becomes obvious that none of these folks have read the constitution or a biography of the Founding Fathers.
I can see why one would think it is a Christian nation. What proof do you need? The title of Mike Huckabee’s latest book echoes the beliefs of Teabaggers and Christian TV hosts. It is titled “God, Guns, Gravy & Grits” or something to that effect. You can’t have America without flags waving, God, baseball and Apple Pie…You see where I’m going with this.
Naturally the constitution will back up our nation’s connection with a Christian God. It will be filled with directives stating that Christianity is the national religion and all others are to be tolerated, if we feel like it. Psst! Don’t look now, but it kinda says the very opposite. You could say that it discourages – rather than encourages our national religion.Perhaps Betty’s copy of the constitution is flawed…She has a heretical copy, surely the Founding Fathers won’t let us down. Those Godly men “worked and worked until slavery was no more.” Sorry, I lapsed into Michele Bachmann mode for a moment. Perhaps we should stick with Bachmann unless you’re ready for some shocking news. The very patriots whom the Teabaggers have claimed as their model of wild-eyed, gun-toting, God-loving revolutionaries…Aren’t. God-loving. Nor did they believe in mixing government and God. They had some strong personal views, in fact.
The guy on the one dollar bill is a bit harsh. “Religion causes more acrimony and hatred than anything else.” George Washington. Maybe he just had a bad day. How about John Quincy Adams “The United States is not in any way founded as a Christian religion.” Come on Jefferson! “The Bible is a dunghill!” It seems to be unanimous.
Perhaps we’d do well to act more like a Christian nation, and talk about it less?