People may wear crosses as jewelry, they may say they believe in a god of some sort and even talk about Jesus, but when Joel Osteen and his ilk are held up as a Christian pastors/teachers, the definition of “Christian” has lost all meaning. Superstition and “god-ish” talk are a far cry from comprising Christiaqn principles and values. Heck, two popular TV shows of recent years what were all the rage with so-called Christians featured abiblical representations of angels and God (Touched by an Angel) and a so-called Christian pastor who couldn’t gett scripture right or even teach biblical precepts to his own children (that other show with tons of children in the family–whatsitcalled *heh*).

*feh* And so-called Christians idolized these shows in droves.

And to what degree do Christian principles and values instruct, inform and mold our legal system, legislatures and executive branches? Somewhere between damn little and zero. And so-called Christian Americans make what kind of argument for being heard in the public square? Oh, tradition. Those Ten Commandments aren’t religious documents, no, no; they are traditional underpinnings of some far off and long ago influence on the vague beginnings of jurisprudence.

And what of specifically Christian (see Romans chapter 13, et al) injunctions–specific precepts–requiring Christians to obey the law and show respect to civil government? Find that in any church you know? Heck, just check the parking lot of any supposedly Christian church at random and count the number of radar detectors. (You’ll likely find one in the pastor’s car, most of the deacons/elders’ cars, etc.)

And those are the “serious” so-called Christians.

No, America is as divorced from its Christian roots as much as it is divoced from teh Founders’ Constitution (a document that could be said to have died at Appomattox, although it contracted its fatal illness much earlier, cf. Marshall, Jefferson and others who laid axes to its roots early on *sigh*)

On paper, at a surface glance, the uncritical eye might see a Christian nation following the Constitution laid down by the Founders, but no one with their eyes wide open, looking at the society we actually have could honestly say either.