One Nation Under God?
What would a nation be
like that was totally committed to God?
Just imagine. Can you conceive of
such a thing? What if we got in charge
of this nation and rewrote the constitution?
What if we wrote God—the true
God, our God—right into our
constitution? Can you conceive it? Then, what if we took over the Supreme Court,
the congress, the executive branch and all state and local governments so that we’d
see “God’s will done on earth as it is done in
heaven?” What would such a nation look
like?
For starters, I bet
we’d make abortion illegal. We’d forget trying
to reverse Roe vs. and simply pass a national law making any and all abortions
illegal. If a nation put God and His
laws first, abortions would become illegal the next day…no, the first
afternoon.
And I bet we’d totally
outlaw prostitution too. Can you imagine a
nation submitted to God’s laws that would even consider legalized prostitution—even
in
I’m sure we’d shut the
pornography industry. Can you imagine a nation fully under God’s
rule permitting porn? Never! We’d make
it illegal as fast as we could. There’d
be no porn on the Internet, none in magazines and we’d even eliminate the porn in romance novels so
women couldn’t have it either. No more
porn. If we got in charge and made this one
nation under God we’d not be recognizing people’s rights” to look at such garbage.
Face it; a nation under God would always let morality trump freedom.
And we’d outlaw
homosexual practice too I think. If our constitution submitted to God’s law do
you think we’d let people practice homosexuality? No way! We’d make it illegal and punish evildoers
with severe penalties—maybe even the death penalty.
In fact I bet we’d
outlaw adultery too.
Certainly if we turned this nation into a God-fearing nation we’d need to make
adultery illegal. We couldn’t pick and choose some of the Ten Commandments to
enforce and leave others out. No way! If
we got control of this nation and rewrote the Constitution we’d need to ban all
adultery—no exceptions.
I bet we’d change the divorce
laws too. Who is going to argue
that divorce is God’s will for a nation?
Not me. Will you? Nope. If
we get in charge and make this country “one nation under God” I bet we’d want
to make almost all divorces illegal and we’d even make the legalized ones
harder to get.
Maybe we’d even
prohibit “lascivious dancing.” Have you seen some of these
bump-and-grind dancing in
OK, one more: How
about language? Wouldn’t it make sense that if we became a
nation under God we’d want to pass a law making blasphemy punishable by
death? At least we’d want to give it a
long prison term. I mean, if we were
really serious about God’s name could we let people get away with this most
serious sin of all? I doubt it. So, if we rewrote the constitution to make our
nation truly serve God and we enshrined God’s law as the source of our
constitution we’d certainly make cursing God one of the most serious penalties
of all.
So, can you imagine
it? Can you imagine a nation like I’ve
described?
Of
course you don’t have to imagine it—such nations exist already. This is precisely what Islamic fundamentalist
nations are.
So what do you think?
What questions are raised by this article.
Keith Drury 2/19/06
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