In order to make the mess we have at present, Americans have had to ditch our founding ideas and substitute others.

I pointed out below how Lincoln and his heirs (National Review is fanatically Lincolnesque) got today’s tyranny and the Civil War slaughter AND open borders AND the melting pot all by substituting the Declarration Preamble for the basis of America, which is hte Preamble to the United States Constitution.

Please read that last paragraph over a few times.

I’m tired of repeating it.

In the Bible, we have managed to do much the same thing. So, when someone hears “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s” everybody can quote it, but noblyd has any idea of the context.

It has absolutely NOTHING to do with Caesar, or property belonging to God, or any balance between the two.

NOTHING!

He was parrying a trick question. His point was that he didn’t care whether people paid Caesar’s taxes or not. As he surely got tired of saying, his kingdom was NOT of this world. He was NOT here to tell the Jews how to deal with the Romans or to save the Holy Glory of Israel in the Ancient Covenant.

They KEEP asking Jesus that, and his reply was ALWAYS the same. He took salvation seriously. As C.S. Lewis kept pointing out, Jesus was God or he was a madman.

There is no choice for preachers who want a foot in each camp. There is no room for “Christians” who want to keep one foot in each camp. Ther is no room room for “Christians” who want to concentrate onthe Ancient Covenant or the Promised Land being returned to the Jews.

He told hte Jews that then, and the statute of limitations has NOT lapsed.

Another thing an endless parade of sermons is based on is “The poor we have always with us.” That is exactly what Jesus was NOT talking about. He was saying, “Forget social justice. I am here about eternal salvation. Eternal salvation is NOT a subtext to the Old Testament. Eternal Salvation is NOT what I am here about.”

He was right or he was wrong.

America is dedicated to the proposition that ALL men are men are created equal or it is for the people of the United States when it was more native-born more than at any other time in its history, “excluding INdians not taxed,” as the Constitution SAYS.

In MY opinion, there is no room in America for anybody whose loyalty is to a proposition. Ther is no room in Christianity for anyne who has any opinion about the Holy People or the Old Book or anything else.

Everybody can recite the Lord’s Prayer, but nobody looks at what Christ was SAYING.

He said get your nose out of the BOOK and call a fish a fish.

He said when you address God, ask for what you need in the your pursuit of SALVATION. That is why the Lord’s Prayer did not satisfy people. It was EXACTLY what Jesus was saying, and it ended with a simple forgive us our trespasses IF we forgive those who trespass against us.

Jesus never ONCE said “Praise the Lord.” Jesus never ONE said “Read your Bible.” Jesus never ONCE promisd hte Jews a homeland or told us he had a formula to succeed in business without ever trying.

Thew whole testimony of Jesus is one long dialogue on how he kept emphasizing this point of salvation AND HOW HE STAYED ALIVE BY PARRYING ALL THE OTHER CRAP WE CALL CHRISTIANITY TODAY AND NOT GETTING STONED TO DEATH ONTHE SPOT FOR DOING IT.

So “Christians,” most especially the evangelicals, have done to Christianity exactly what the Lincolnizers have done to America. When the founding fathers wrote a sillyass buch of statements to stay alive, theyused those statements as the bassis of hteir anti-Americanism.

When Jesus had to say things to stay alive, the Old Testament crowd used his words to destroy Christianity.

When you comment on things like the poor we have with us or render unto Caesar, you are in the enemy camp.

I am dead certain that when Jesus said to call a fish a fish and spoke a simple, direct prayer, he did not add, “for thine is the kingdom the power and the glory forever.”

God did not need to be reminded of that.

But early Christians had only the Old Testament for a century. No New Testament canon had been formulated. Jesus left out the Praise God bit and they put it in. In one book it’s in, in one it’s out.

That addition would have been a pretty ridiculous way for Jesus to end his whole point out calling a fish a fish and making your prayer simple and direct.

I just can’t deal with this crap much more.

Choose between the Declaration and the Constitution. Choose between everything Christ kept saying over and over when he was not trying to stay alive or try to be a Christian.

I wold rather be black than be a mongrel. I would rather hear an atheist than a mongrel who calls himself a Christian or someone who respects French Revolutionary crap and claims to be an American.

CHOOSE.

Then STOP talking CRAP.

Your country depends on it for sure.

If Christ was not a madman, your soul depends on it.