It’s fitting.
Some time back a good friend asked if I’d do a special report on Satanism for Torch Report 666. We laughed about it, and I said maybe. It seems remarkably fitting that the front page headline news on The Hill this morning was this:
I know a great many Americans are excited and thoroughly grateful about this development, giving praise to God for Trump’s leadership, and celebrating the long overdue reconciliation to traditional American values. I agree.
However, as covered in a recent series of reports, I believe this is a slippery slope. Indeed, I believe this is a very slippery slope, but not for the reasons you might think.
To spare the need for reiterating much of what I’ve recently documented and explained, I’d point your attention to the reports below. The common theme among them pushes three important distinctions:
* The Founding Fathers made an explicit effort not to include Christianity in either the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the United States.
* They did this knowingly and intentionally, even though the majority of them were in fact men of strong Christian faith.
* The reason was simple and perfectly logical: they understood the government should have no power to push a religion or infringe upon personal convictions.
As discussed during that series of reports, I understand that this is an uncomfortable reality for many Christians—and yet it is reality just the same. Tackling the debate over whether or not we are meant to be a “Christian Nation” is equally uncomfortable, and I received no shortage of blowback on the assertion that, upon reviewing the documents to ascertain the Founders’ intent, the answer is unequivocally no.
To get up to speed on this conversation, please review the following reports:
As covered by The Hill, while speaking at the time-honored National Prayer Breakfast, Donald Trump said he was going to establish a commission on religious liberty that “will work tirelessly to uphold this most fundamental right.” Good.
His plan is to appoint Pam Bondi, the recently confirmed Attorney General, to a task force assigned to “eradicate anti-Christian bias” and stop “all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government.” Good.
Trump said that he also intends to create a White House Faith Office, led by his personal religious adviser Rev. Paula White, who is a television evangelist who pushes “prosperity theology.” Hmmm.
More on this lady and her way of thinking in a moment.
Trump’s vision, in his own words, seems perfectly sincere:
“While I’m in the White House, we will protect Christians in our schools, in our military, in our government, in our workplaces, hospitals and in our public squares. And we will bring our country back together as one nation under God.”
Do we need to protect Christians from persecution in the public square? Well, unfortunately, yes. Christians have been mercilessly mocked, shunned, and ostracized by liberalized American culture for decades—at least in some places, though certainly not all. I doubt people in the Bible Belt have felt an equal level of persecution.
But let’s just cut to the chase here:
Should people be free to share and talk about their faith, without fear of being fired or flagged for differential treatment by their employers?
Well, let’s think it through.
What if a Buddhist had a Buddha statue at their desk and shared the secrets of mindfulness meditation with a stressed out coworker—would you be okay with that?
What if a Hindu displ
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