VA Tech U Carnage: America Always Goes to Prayer
By J. Grant Swank Jr. (04/17/07)
"A somber President Bush went on TV last night to say: 'Schools should be places of safety, sanctuary and learning. When that sanctuary is violated, the impact is felt in every American classroom, in every American community.
"'We hold the victims in our hearts. We lift them up in our prayers,'" per David Williams of the Daily Mail.
No matter how the secularists scream for their manufactured "separation of church and state," it never works when tragedy befalls America.
Americans with their Judeo-Christian heritage go to prayer.
When violence struck Virginia Tech University, the US President reminded those in pain that they will be remembered in the prayers of concerned citizens.
When natural disaster strikes anywhere in our nation, we go to prayer. We call on God. We walk into sanctuaries to be quiet, meditate and pray. We phone friends to ask them to intercede before heaven’s throne. We remember the stricken in our public prayers the next Lord’s Day.
Secularism does not hold up when our backs are against the wall.
Yet this Eastertide, the Dems via their Chairman Howard Dean muffled the Easter greeting by not mentioning one word regarding the resurrection or Christ. It was the typical double-talk in quasi-religious jargon so as not to offend. That is typical of the Dem legacy of secularism championed, though some within that party try to appear biblical when addressing evangelicals or Catholics.
This is the Dem definition of Easter per AFA Action Alert: "'Easter Sunday is a joyful celebration. The holiday represents peace, redemption and renewal, a theme which brings hope to people of all faiths.' The DNC refused to even mention Jesus or the Resurrection, the very heart of Easter."
Dean praises himself in being a loyal churchmen, though he has hopped denominations as a sport over the years. Now he lands in the theologically liberal United Church of Christ (Congregational) where one can be an atheist and find comfort. Consequently, his lack of biblical conviction in speaking for the Dems at Easter is characteristic of his unbelief and that of his denomination.
However, for the grassroots Americans, they believe in the power of prayer. When TV cameras nose in on common folk during a hurricane or tornado aftermath, it is typical for those interviewed to speak of their faith in God, prayer, and Christian friends who stood by them.
It is also typical of churches to open their doors to provide shelter, food and clothing as well as the usual spiritual assistance.
Now we have been slapped around again by a zealous gun fanatic. He laid low those on campus. Blood flowed freely. Students jumped from fourth floor windows in order to escape death.
So it was that the President came to the door of our hearts. Then he reminded us all that we are "lifted up in prayers."
Typical America. And we cannot afford to lose that typical by secularists wiping our heritage out. It only takes one generation for that disfavor to take place.
Believers: beware.
THE TRUTH ABOUT ‘SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE’
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Liberals have run off with this phrase, prostituting it per usual.
The matter is simple. It’s this: America does not want a state church. England has a state church — the Anglican Church. America does not want one denomination considered The Nation’s Church.
On the other hand, America has a religious heritage. It’s not Muslim. It’s not Hindu. It’s not Shinto. It’s not animism. It’s not New Age. It’s not Paganism. It’s not Voodoo. It’s Judeo-Christian.
America, while not desiring a state church, does desire religion in life. That includes religious expression in everyday exchange. Because Judeo-Christian is America’s heritage, most citizens honor that heritage expressed and honored. Its expression then should not be thwarted. It should not be belittled. It should not be erased in the name of "separation of church and state."
Unhampered religious expression is promised in the First Amendment.
Further, America, having a Judeo-Christian heritage and the right to present-tense expression, permits freedom of religious expression to other religions. Therefore, there are those of other religious persuasions who practice without fear their religions in America.
What the liberals want to do is redefine the phrase "separation of church and state" to exclude Judeo-Christian religious expression in America. They want not only "separation of church and state" defined on their terms but the exclusion of the Judeo-Christian religion and anything coming close to that particular religious expression—period.
Liberals believe that if they continue harping on the "separation of church and state" phrase, brainwashing the public with their prostituted definition, especially indoctrinating the next generation with their prostituted definition, then they will have won secularism for America’s future.
They, in other words, want not only separation but exclusion of religion — completely so. Note however that the chief religion they want excluded is Judeo-Christian.
They will even tolerate other religions, as they are presently doing with the Muslim infiltration, but it is Judeo-Christian that they want cleansed from America. In other words, it’s a religious cleansing they desire for this nation — the extinguishing specifically of the Judeo-Christian faith.
Therefore, if tolerating another religion such as Islam helps wipe out Judeo-Christianity, then so be it. Islam is far better a tolerance than the American heritage of Judeo-Christian. Therefore, there are school districts hiring Muslims to speak to teachers on how to give Muslim students honor and space. No such invitation, of course, has been extended to Judeo-Christian specialists speaking to public school educators on how to give Judeo-Christian adherents honor and space.
In a nearby high school, a prayer room was set aside for Muslim students. No such prayer room or any other respect has been presented those of the Judeo-Christian heritage.
Liberals, in other words, will do whatever it takes to obliterate America of its rightful Judeo-Christian heritage. This is accented every year particularly during the Christmas season. Any other so-called "religious expression" can come to the fore but the Christian particulars must be silenced at all costs. So we hear throughout the Christmas season, not Christian hymn carols, but "separation of church and state."
Once again, liberals have taken language to serve their own twisted purposes. They took "homosexual" and made it "gay." They took "pro-choice" and made it "protecting females." They take "separation of church and state" and make it "wiping out America’s Judeo-Christian heritage."
What those of the Judeo-Christian heritage must do — and far more concertedly than they have ever done in the past — is to make clear to the public what "separation of church and state" really means. This must be put in print in magazines and journals. It must be preached from pulpits. It must be taught in religion classes. It must be spelled out in letters to the editor.
Unfortunately, this simply has not been done. The church in particular has permitted the liberals to carry on with their prostitution of the phrase. I have been appalled over the years to note that the church specifically has not risen to expose the liberals’ misuse of that phrase. Therefore, the young have taken quickly to the liberals’ definition while the church has sat, in the main, silent, allowing the enemy to win out.
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