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This blog is meant primarily to discuss political subjects and current events.  Social events would come second, and religion falls under this category. Religion is a social phenomenon that is important to any society.  The relationship between God and man is crucial to man's understanding of his existence, his meaning and moral precepts.

I have written recently, more frequently, about Christianity for two reasons.  One is that it was the religion of those who founded this country and wrote our founding documents.  Secondly, it is under attack. In my view, when Christianity is under attack, the United States is under attack. 

Christianity has always been a positive force in America, and a safe haven for those who needed a source of comfort and stabilization.  It has been the greatest source of funds, gifts and helping hands for the poor, abused woman, troubled children, prisoners, victims of crime and countless others.  Christianity has been a source of good in the U.S., and does not deserve to be the target of extremists, 'progressive' Christian haters and those with an agenda to remove God from America.

I will write soon about the many Christian churches that have been burned to the ground by an arsonist(s) in Phoenix, Arizona and the ten Baptist churches burned down recently in Alabama.  These are prime examples of the growing wave of anti-Christian bigotry that is running rampant in our country today.  I have recently written about the hateful, senseless desecration of Christianity by the student newspaper at the University of Oregon.  Another example of the Christian hater’s overt attempts at institutionalized bigotry. 

Now the good work that Christian groups have done in prisons is under attack.One study, in 2002, found that faith-based prison programs decreased the rate of recidivism to 16%. 70% is the norm.  It would seem that this does our society an enormous benefit, since this means there are fewer victims of crime and prisoners return to society with a foundation, and belief system, that they did not have previously.  This end result should speak volumes, and if the prisoner becomes a Christian in the process, do we find an egregious downside?  Apparently some do. 

This past week, a judge in Iowa decided that one of the most successful prison ministries violated the first amendment. U.S. district judge, Robert Pratt, sided with an anti-Christian group called Americans United for Separation of Church and State.  In recent years, the courtrooms, and those wearing the robe, have been both the rallying point and the vehicle for change for so many anti-Christian extremist groups.  The group that brought the suit in the first place is based on a false premise, which should be understood by anyone familiar with the U.S. Constitution. The whole separation of church and state issue has been badly misconstrued and twisted in the mainstream media to the benefit of Christian-haters everywhere.  They have turned freedom of religion into freedom from religion. 

Sometimes the Christian-haters falsely represent themselves as Christians. The group, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, is headed by a lawyer who likes to pass himself off as a Christian, declaring that he was a minister with the United Church of Christ.  To those outside the Christian community, this would seem to be someone on the 'inside' who understands Christ, and puts Christ first in everything he does.  After all, if you come from a denomination with a name like the United Church of Christ, you must be a real Christian.  Nothing could be further from the truth.

The United Church of Christ is a denomination mired in legalism and its own history.  While most real Christ-centered Christian denominations focus on Christ as the basis of our religion and God in the flesh, the United Church of Christ is more concerned with the many social themes and historical research subjects that are at its core.  Efforts to bring people to an awareness of Christ and eternal life in Heaven are nowhere to be found in their activities or foundation.  Any wonder that a Christian-hating, liberal extremist attorney would identify himself with this very Christian-sounding church? 

The same organization boasts of having a number of staffers who are of many Christian denominations, Jews and Muslims.  The reality is that many who call themselves Christians are members of churches like the Unity church or the United Church of Christ.  Although the first six letters in 'Christian' is what the Christian religion is really all about, you won't find Christ mentioned once on the home page of the Unity church.  There is a good reason for that.  Christ said that we should not spend our lives trying to collect material things, and worship those things, because they will all rust away or be eaten by moths eventually, and we would not be able to take them to Heaven. 

The Unity church ignores Christ's own words and advocates all the getting of material things and money that you possibly can………….not to mention that you should give plenty of it to them in the form of donations. The United Church of Christ might consider renaming their denomination.  They are so caught up in the social causes of the extreme left, that they ignore the importance of teaching members how to get to Heaven.  They seek to block the Marriage Protection amendment to the Constitution and produce people like the head of the Americans United for the Separation of Church and State organization who seeks to ban the word God from America.

Real Christians believe that the core of the religion is one's relationship with Christ.  Christianity is the only religion on earth where God came to stand alongside man.  Real Christians believe that the Bible is the living word of God, and that it is infallible. If you are not a real Christian, then these things are foreign to you. 

As strange as it may sound to those reading these words now, who are not born-again believers, Christians really believe there is a devil.  Christians believe that the devil has dominion over the earth, and he can influence people, even Christians.  When one asks what motivates organizations like Americans United for Separation of Church and State to go after Christianity with such tenacity and loathing, one is reminded of the successes the devil can claim.  Why else would anyone create an organization whose purpose is to destroy the one institution that has helped so many people when they needed help most?

The prison program that was the target of the anti-Christian lawsuit was the non-profit Prison Fellowship program originally founded by Chuck Colson, who went to prison himself in 1975 for crimes related to the Watergate scandal.  It is the largest prison ministry in the world.  The good the organization has done for prisoners and their families is immense. 

The Angeltree program alone, part of Prison Fellowship, helps with the purchase of Christmas gifts for children who have a parent in prison.  Every year, thousands of children realize a happy Christmas because of the program. This is the kind of good that Americans United for the Separation of Church and State are attempting to snuff out.  Their hatred of real Christians, in unison with groups like the ACLU, is a front for extremists who use the court system to destroy all that is good in
America. 

The AUSCS website describes real Christians as 'extreme and intolerant' with a 'radical agenda.'   Seems to me that they are describing their own actions, and those of their supporters.  They boast of the cooperation they have had from the main stream media.  Christian-bashers helping Christian-haters; what a novel idea.

With so many other 'progressive' ideas picking away at the fabric that is America, is it any wonder that we are witness to so many new problems in our country?  And those problems that have been around are flourishing.  Those left-wing groups bent on the destruction of Christianity and Christ-centered Christians will not stop until all that is at the core and foundation of America is removed and gone.  Any wonder that the head of the Americans United for Separation of Church and State organization was for seven years the legislative counsel for the Washington office of the American Civil Liberties Union? 

It all adds up………….pseudo-Christian organizations, anti-Christian organizations founded as communist front groups, anti-Christian student organizations, pro-alternative lifestyle groups immersed in the progressive, popular culture movement and Islamist extremists groups all working together with one goal………..the end of the Christian faith.  Does it help us or hinder us as a nation to remove the people and organizations most likely to help other Americans? 

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