A Christian Nation: Turning the Other Cheek
A truly Christian nation, properly understood, would not be a "nation" at all. It would welcome all people as brothers and sisters.
Christ counselled to "turn the other cheek", and taught that you must not resist evil, even to the point of refusing to defend yourself. He exemplified this teaching himself when he went to the cross. Therefore a truly Christian people, i.e. people who literally follow the ways of Christ, would not even have a military. They would not use force or violence even to defend themselves, let alone launch a pre-emptive war. If a Christian people were attacked, they would collectively turn the other cheek, and forgive their attackers, and strive to love them. If they were conquered, they would submit to their conquerors and work to slowly convert them from within. The masters would, maybe eventually, adopt the ways of the slaves, and all would be levelled as children of God.
As you can plainy see, a "Christian nation" has never existed on earth, and arguably never can. The United States is anything but a Christian nation. It has become rich and powerful to the extent that it is not Christian. Yet it pretends to be, hence its hypocrisy in the slave and Indian extermination days, and now. Hence its unending hypocrisy, delusion, and hubris. And for those who dont know, you cannot be a true American if you cannot chastise your own country when it deserves it.
Believing that it has a "special covenant" with God (the same Old Testament God the Muslims call Allah, btw) America will go the way of the Dutch and the British Empires. What empires? Actually we will be lucky if we get off that easy.
Christ counselled to "turn the other cheek", and taught that you must not resist evil, even to the point of refusing to defend yourself. He exemplified this teaching himself when he went to the cross. Therefore a truly Christian people, i.e. people who literally follow the ways of Christ, would not even have a military. They would not use force or violence even to defend themselves, let alone launch a pre-emptive war. If a Christian people were attacked, they would collectively turn the other cheek, and forgive their attackers, and strive to love them. If they were conquered, they would submit to their conquerors and work to slowly convert them from within. The masters would, maybe eventually, adopt the ways of the slaves, and all would be levelled as children of God.
As you can plainy see, a "Christian nation" has never existed on earth, and arguably never can. The United States is anything but a Christian nation. It has become rich and powerful to the extent that it is not Christian. Yet it pretends to be, hence its hypocrisy in the slave and Indian extermination days, and now. Hence its unending hypocrisy, delusion, and hubris. And for those who dont know, you cannot be a true American if you cannot chastise your own country when it deserves it.
Believing that it has a "special covenant" with God (the same Old Testament God the Muslims call Allah, btw) America will go the way of the Dutch and the British Empires. What empires? Actually we will be lucky if we get off that easy.
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