King of the Mountain
by Kathy Brown on August 5th, 2010 | 0 comments
Recently I heard the comment that the United States does not want a theocracy; therefore, God must be left out of politics and policy. For sure not many of us would want to have our country run like the Middle Eastern Muslim regimes. But, do we like what we’ve recently adopted? Much like the child’s game, King of the Mountain, there has been a pushing and shoving to see what ideas will govern us. One thing is for certain: the high ground will be occupied.
Why has there been an attempt to kick aside the Biblical God of our Founding Fathers in the public domain? The “separation of church and state” argument is one reason. This is a well-used phrase which is not in our Constitution. It was extracted from Jefferson’s personal letters (from the Danbury Baptist Association in Danbury, Connecticut, 1801.) It was a discussion concerning whether or not one particular denomination would be the federal faith. Within the correspondence was the term “wall of separation between church and state.” Christians, in a desire to not impose their beliefs on others, have fallen for the idea that there is a religious “neutral”; that the “church” refers to those who hold a Biblical worldview. They have likely not understood that taking God out of a perspective does not leave a vacancy. Another religious worldview slips in: Secular Humanism. (Foundational Presupposition Chart) It then becomes the “church” that should be, if logic follows, also “separated” from the state. The question, then, becomes which religious construct will we submit to?
There has been a shift in the religious worldview of this nation. The turf at the top has been captured; the Biblical worldview has been toppled. We have not properly defended the territory given to us. But the battle is not over, and we need to brush off our weapons and move forward. After all, we know the King of the Mountain.
From 2 Corinthians 10:4-5
“The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”
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