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Poll after poll describes how religious America is. It is true that at its inception, and for over 150 years following, America was indeed a very religious nation. In fact, without the strong Christian convictions of the Pilgrims, Puritans and Patriots, the United States would have never come into existence. That statement is indisputable.
After the Second World War, however, America began experiencing a gradual but undeniable transmutation. During the 1950s, Christian fervor in America was still very much intact. But after the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 (which coincided with prayer and Bible reading being removed from America’s public schools), things began to drastically change.
The Deep State’s war in Vietnam created more than an unconstitutional war abroad; it started a war between the American people at home. The uber-Zionist Lyndon Johnson and his war-obsessed administration produced the “Hippie” generation, which, while doing much good in promoting the principles of peace and anti-war fervor, also brought about the great evil of a promiscuous “free love” drug culture that lingers to this day. It’s a shame that it wasn’t the Hippies’ anti-war culture that stayed with us.
On the heels of the warmongering Lyndon Johnson, whose loyalty to Israel was so strong that he was willing to collaborate with the Zionist state in assisting and covering up its attack against the USS Liberty at the onset of Israel’s invasion of its Arab neighbors in 1967 during the Six-Day War, came the corrupt Richard Nixon. Nixon not only took America off the gold standard (which hit the launch button for our ensuing debt-driven economy) but he also made the support and buildup of Communist China official U.S. policy. Of course, Nixon’s corruption caught up with him at Watergate.
For all intents and purposes, that was the last time the mainstream media lived up to its responsibility to be a watchdog over government corruption. The media showed the dark reality of Democrat Lyndon Johnson’s war, forcing his decision to not seek reelection, and the dark reality of Republican Richard Nixon’s corruption, forcing his resignation. But that was before the media became a stool pigeon for Zionist money interests. We haven’t had a free press since.
The election of ethically corrupt Bill Clinton shocked Christians in America, and Ronald Reagan (and later G.W. Bush) stole their hearts on the rebound. The result was that a religious/political marriage took place between the Republican Party and evangelicalism. (I was in the inner circle of GOP politics and a leader in the Moral Majority at the time and witnessed this unholy union up close and personal.)
Meanwhile, ultra-left progressives in the Democratic Party were mesmerized by the Marxist Barack Obama. At that point, America’s great divide was firmly entrenched in the psyche of American politics. Then came Donald Trump, and the divide widened exponentially.
I’ll let Attorney John Whitehead take it from here:
Politics has become our national religion.
While those on the Left have feared a religious coup by evangelical Christians on the Right, the danger has come from an altogether different direction: our constitutional republic has given way to a theocracy structured around the worship of a political savior.
For all intents and purposes, politics has become America’s God.
Pay close attention to the political conventions for presidential candidates, and it becomes immediately evident that Americans have allowed themselves to be brainwashed into worshipping a political idol manufactured by the Deep State.
In a carefully choreographed scheme to strip the American citizenry of our power and our rights, “we the people” have become victims of the Deep State’s confidence game.
In this particular con game, every candidate dangled before us as some form of political savior—including Donald Trump and Kamala Harris—is part of a long-running, elaborate scam intended to persuade us that, despite all appearances to the contrary, we live in a constitutional republic.
In this way, the voters are the dupes, the candidates are the shills, and as usual, it’s the Deep State rigging the outcome.
Terrorist attacks, pandemics, economic uncertainty, national security threats, civil unrest: these are all manipulated crises that add to the sense of urgency and help us feel invested in the outcome of the various elections, but it doesn’t change much in the long term.
No matter who wins this election, we’ll all still be prisoners of the Deep State.
Indeed, the history of the United States is a testament to the old adage that liberty decreases as government (and government bureaucracy) grows. To put it another way, as government expands, liberty contracts.
When it comes to the power players that call the shots, there is no end to their voracious appetite for more: more money, more power, more control. Thus, since 9/11, the government’s answer to every problem has been more government and less freedom.
What we are dealing with is a rogue government whose policies are dictated more by greed than need. Making matters worse, “we the people” have become so gullible, so easily distracted, and so out-of-touch that we have ignored the warning signs all around us in favor of political expediency in the form of electoral saviors.
Now read the remaining paragraphs very carefully.
Yet it’s not just Americans who have given themselves over to political gods, however.
Evangelical Christians, seduced by electoral promises of power and religious domination, have become yet another tool in the politician’s toolbox.
For instance, repeatedly conned into believing that Republican candidates from George W. Bush to Donald Trump will save the church, evangelical Christians have turned the ballot box into a referendum on morality. Yet in doing so, they have shown themselves to be as willing to support totalitarian tactics as those on the Left. [Emphasis added]
This was exactly what theologian Francis Schaeffer warned against: “We must not confuse the Kingdom of God with our country. To say it another way, ‘We should not wrap Christianity in our national flag.’”
Equating religion and politics, and allowing the ends to justify the means, only empowers tyrants and lays the groundwork for totalitarianism.
This way lies madness and the certain loss of our freedoms.
If you must vote, vote, but don’t make the mistake of consecrating the ballot box.
Amen, Mr. Whitehead! I couldn’t have said it better myself.
I have no knowledge of Whitehead’s personal faith, but what he said about evangelical Christians is 100% spot-on. And it’s what I have been saying for decades.
In my former pastorate in the deep south, when I called out Democrat Bill Clinton for his unconstitutional, tyrannical conduct, my congregation loved me and called me a hero. But when I called out Republican G.W. Bush for the same kind of conduct, I was called a traitor, and several people stormed out the back door. A similar thing happened here in Montana. When I called out Barack Obama, evangelicals loved me, but when I called out Donald Trump, they hated me.
(Thankfully, the core of Liberty Fellowship have remained steadfast, loyal supporters of both the Biblical/constitutional principles of Liberty and the doctrines of Christ’s New Covenant which I teach. I love and appreciate these wonderful people very much.)
But the principles I advanced were exactly the same during each administration. But evangelicals only appreciated the principles when they applied to Democrats. Republicans are exempt from truth, righteousness and constitutional fidelity.
I believe that our loyalty as American citizens is not to political parties but to the principles enshrined in our Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights. And as disciples of Jesus Christ, our allegiance is due not to church denominations but to the immutable truths of God’s Holy Word.
But evangelicals have become as politically rotten as secularists. They will overlook almost any act of treason or tyranny in the name of preserving the power of the Republican Party. To them, the GOP stands for God’s Own Party.
In a way, America’s evangelicals are similar in philosophy to Israeli Zionists. The IDF can commit ANY act of barbarism, torture or crimes against humanity, because they believe they are “God’s chosen people” and, therefore, can do ANYTHING—no matter how heinous—to their fellow man.
In like manner, evangelicals worship at the altar of the Republican Party, and GOP presidents can commit any act of terror against other nations, because they are acting out of some sort of self-ascribed exemption from the rule of law and obligation to humanity demanded in God’s Natural Law, because, as Republicans, they are doing God’s service, and the end really does justify the means.
Democrats behave the same way, except from a mostly secularist perspective.
Let me ask you something: What difference does it make if treason, tyranny or terrorism is committed by a Democrat or a Republican? Treason is treason; tyranny is tyranny; and terrorism is terrorism no matter what party label the traitor, tyrant or terrorist goes by.
Almost every church in America today is defined by an “R” or a “D.” For the most part, ecclesiastical labels are not nearly as important as party labels. Pandering politicians are far more popular than plucky pastors who put principles over party.
This is one reason why a sizeable number of “pastors” are so very extremely careful to not say anything that could be construed by a church member as being “political,” because if the statement seems to give preference to one party over another or seems to besmirch one party more than another, the rush to the back door will be on.
What these “pastors” don’t understand is when true men of God in the pulpit talk about the principles of honesty, integrity, humanity, decency, truth, righteousness, etc., in government, they are NOT talking about politics. God’s Word has as much to say about good government as it does about good parenting, good business practices, good education, good behavior, etc. As did the Apostle Paul, pastors should be declaring “all the counsel of God.” (Acts 20:27) (Emphasis added) That includes what God says about government, political parties notwithstanding.
But because today’s evangelicals worship political parties and not the truths of God’s Word that govern the affairs of government and ignore the divine principles upon which good government rests, our country continues to spiral downward no matter which party is in power.
Again, this is due to the idolatrous homage that evangelicals—and almost everyone else—give to the god of politics. Accordingly, America has only two religions: Democrat and Republican.
© Chuck Baldwin
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