Dishonest Christians

It is my belief that most Christians very much want the government to endorse Christianity. They will say that people are free, and should be free, to practice whatever religion they choose. However, the government should endorse Christianity. They will argue that when this country was founded our forefathers did just that. And, indeed, if one were to study this aspect of the history of out country anyone who is being intellectually honest will have to conclude that our forefathers did give the freedom practice whatever religion one would choose while our government endorsed Christianity. This is a fact. One could make the argument that our government endorsing any religion at all was morally incorrect and this would be a fair argument. But the fact remains they did.

Christians who are upset about our government slowly removing itself from the endorsement of Christianity will argue that as the government did this at the time of our countries founding so should they still do this. This is part of the founding of our country. I say this is a garbage argument as it is a dishonest argument. The dishonesty comes from the fact that Christians do not believe the government should endorse Christianity because the government did so in the past, but because they believe Christianity is the one way to heaven.

Let’s say our country was founded on religious freedom but the government endorsed the religion of Islam. And through the years the government endorsed Islam less and less and separated itself from Islam. Now these Christians would have to say, if they are being honest, that in this situation they would call for the government to endorse Islam once again, after all, our forefathers did this. Of course none would. It is my opinion as a Christian that this argument should not be used by Christians as it is dishonest and intellectually inconsistent.