America, This Easter

I have always tried to separate my political views from my religious views. It is becoming more difficult to do as each day passes. This year is special because Easter and Passover are celebrated the same weekend. The Resurrection story takes on new meaning…events real time, so to speak. Minimally, it showcases Christianity’s common history with Judaism. Here in America, it highlights our Judeo-Christian culture’s roots. Whether we like it or not, on both the sacred and secular levels, Christians and Jews are forever bonded together here in America.

But this year, something is amiss. There has been uneasiness in the nation. There is a pervasive discontent. People are angry. Scarier still, people are angry at each other. I’m not sure people know why they are angry and feel disjointed. But I have been writing about it for three years, and now America is beginning to wake up to what is happening here.

People always operate in a box of their life experience. The Jews in Nazi Germany could not comprehend what was happening to them not because they were cowards or afraid or passive. It simply was beyond their understanding of the human condition and their basic belief in the goodness of other people that the holocaust was able to develop around them, and then it was too late. The same could be said for the Germans as a nation, the Catholics and Pope Pius, and the Franklin Roosevelt and the United States turning Jews away from our shores, sending them back to Germany and ultimate annihilation.

And it wasn’t just the Jews in Germany. The story repeated itself in Ukraine as Josef Stalin starved the Ukrainian people, sending in troops to sweep up the kernels of corn off the floor of their houses. Millions died in the man-made Ukranian famine and America refused to believe it was happening. The same can be said for the Irish as England moved to push them to the sea. The potato famine in Ireland was unnecessary, and we could not comprehend that the British government was hijacking relief provisions in the British ports. These are the kinds of things that when they are happening, people cannot understand because it is literally beyond their understanding. It is not within their realm of experience.

Thus America is dealing with the ultimate secular humanist in Barack Obama. He is not a bad man. He is a good family man with an attractive family. He is engaging. He is the most powerful orator we have had in the White House since Ronald Reagan, and surpasses Reagan in hope and change rhetoric.

But at the end of the day, his secular humanist philosophy is foreign to us as a nation. We are basically a Christian nation by numbers. We embrace the Judeo-Christian ethic by our cultural beliefs. We have been taught to value individual freedom, self-reliance, hard work, thrift, respect, and operate under a moral code governed by the Ten Commandments. If you strip away the first three commandments, you have seven left that are secular in nature and spell out how to make society work. Even in law school, Moses is the law giver.

Secular humanists have the exact opposite belief. Morality is irrelevant. In the secular humanist world, there is no right or wrong. It takes a village, not a mother and father, to raise a child. People can’t be trusted to take care of themselves. The government needs not only to provide a safety net if things go wrong, but an all encompassing life to its citizenry. This results is a dependant nation. If you want to see the results of secular humanism, go to the welfare department and watch the despair of those trying to get by on government assistance with no hope. It is sad..and we did that to those good folks.

All of these things work against the very soul of America. Barack Obama promised to fundamentally transform the country. He said what he was going to do. The problem is Americans didn’t understand three years ago what he meant, and is just now waking up from its media induced stupor, confused and dazed as to what is going on. The Supreme Court, in its Affordable Health Care Act hearings of last week, does understand. Justice Kennedy articulated the issue saying that Obamacare, if allowed to stand, would fundamentally change the relationship between the government and its citizens. He knows what Obama meant. And the floundering Solicitor General of the United States, who the press has thrown under the bus, is suffering because he is a lawyer, and by training knew in his heart that the indefensible could not be defended. The lie had been stripped away. Do we, or do we not, want this fundamental change in the relationship between the government and its citizens?

Now the nation finds itself in a haze of hatred that is being fanned by the President of the United States. He is attacking the wealthy. He is attacking our corporations. He is attacking our banks. He is attacking the Catholic Church. He is attacking the Supreme Court. He is attacking the oil companies. He is attacking small business. He has attacked the doctors. He has attacked the pharmaceutical companies. He has attacked the Chamber of Commerce. He has attacked Fox News. He is fanning racial hatred to a level I haven’t seen since the 1960’s. And his adoring press has invented a new term…the white Hispanic. Can anyone tell me what is a white Hispanic other than a bogeyman created to fan the template of racial hatred in the unfortunate death of Trayvon Martin in Florida. His religion is liberation theology, rooted in hatred rather than love. He is a constitutional professor who studied what he called a flawed document not uphold it, but to get around it. He has humiliated the United States by bowing to tyrants.

And let’s talk a minute about the new poster child for the entitlement society….that babe who testified in front of Congress that she can’t pay for her own birth control pills at $9.00/month. She is going to school on a scholarship. She is paying for living expenses on a stipend. She also has a stipend for books…all of which are being paid for by somebody else. But she did have enough money to fly to from Georgetown University to San Diego to visit her boyfriend for some fun in the sun. I hope she brought money for her birth control pills or at least for a box of condoms. I suppose her boyfriend will pay for those. She gives new meaning to drill baby drill. And I ain't talking oil.

That is the discontent that America is just beginning to fully understanding. For Christians like me, this Easter should be an affirmation of our faith and celebration of our redemption. For non-Christians, follow your faith and look for mankind’s well being, both individually and for society as a whole.

And most importantly, when you cross from the sacred to the secular, remember that here in the United States, we believe that among God’s greatest gifts to us is freedom. Our freedom does not come from a secular humanist government. It does not come from Barack Obama. It comes from our God. Our government governs with the consent of the people…not the other way around. Our government is a servant to us. We are not servants to the government or the EPA which rapidly becoming a dictatorship by agency. And we do believe in right and wrong, and good and evil, and the basic goodness of the individual. That is the truth we find in all of our hearts be we Christian, Muslim, Jew or Hindu or whatever our beliefs.

God bless the United States of America, and may God be with us as we enter this most important election year.