Fundamental Christian Thinking is Dangerously Wrong!

After Reading “A Christian Foundation” I am again reminded what is dangerously wrong with Fundamental Christian thinking. D’Souza would have you believed that we owe all of modern day science, moral behavior and law to Christians. What he and many Fundamental Christians fail to realize is that there is a long and rich history before the birth of Christ. Every single great scholar that D’Souza mentions is born after the birth of Christ, how convenient for his article. He gives no credit that our roots in government, science, medicine and social order fine their beginnings with the Roman’s, Egyptians, Greeks, Hindu’s and many other eastern cultures. Let’s remember that Christ was not a “Westerner” but from the Middle East.

D’Souza wants us to consider the Words of Thomas Jefferson. A typical ploy when Christians want you to believe that this nation was founded on Christian belief. But what he fails to tell you is that Thomas Jefferson said that his bill for religious liberty was “Meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and the Mahoetan, the Hindu, and infidel of every denomination.” Jon Meacham author of “American Gospel” writes that Andrew Jackson resisted bids in the 1820’s to form a “Christian Party in politics, Abraham Lincoln buried a proposed “Christian amendment” to the Constitution to declare the nation’s fealty to Jesus. “The founders were not anti-religion. Many of them were faithful in their personal lives, and in their public language they evoked God. They ground the founding principle of the nation that all men were created equal in the divine. They wanted faith to be one threat in the country’s tapestry, not the whole tapestry.

Fundamentalist Christians distort history constantly, most have never read a history book other then the bible and for any one that has read that it can quickly be recognized as not a very good source of history at all. Few have any idea of how this nation was really founded. But yet they like D’Souza spare no time to wave falsehoods and distortions in front of the media and anyone who will listen to drive home their agenda. That agenda, that we should all live under their belief system. Can you imagine for one minute the freedoms that would be lost in this country with a Christian run government?

What is sad in watching and reading the recent news coverage on how Conservative Christians are not happy with the Republican list of Presidential hopefuls, why because they are not “Conservative Enough”. Where is all the great and free thinking that D’Souza talks about here?

This is the editorial I sent to USA Today just Yesterday. Hope they print it.
Charlie Palm Springs