Committing Clerical Suicide With Lies

 'THE MYTH OF A CHRISTIAN NATION" How the Quest For Political Power is Destroying the Church", by Greg Boyd, is a book title which beckons you to open the book and read,if you are an intellectual with an inquiring mind, or to add another good book to your index of forbidden books if you happen to be a conservative evangelical Christian, intent on perpetuating the false narrative that the United States of America was established as a "Christian nation, and remains one today. the monograph actually concerns itself with the fact that the church, any church of any religion, was never founded for the purpose of obtaining and exercising political power in the temporal world, but rather, for the purpose of worshiping and creating a connection between humanity and God. That the United States was founded by its framers to be a Christian nation, upon christian principles, is, in today's terminology "fake news", and has long been the prevailing narrative of the Christian community in America, an example that American Christians have from the beginning bought into the false notion that the church should be involved in and indeed dominant in the affairs of state. This false notion is quite the opposite of what both the founders of the christian church, particularly Jesus, and the founders of the United States intended. Another excellent book: "Natures' God: The Heretical origins of the American Republic" by Harvard historian Mathew Stewart examines the same issue not from the point of view of the church, but from the point of view of America's founders.  By allowing itself to be drawn into political affairs and the struggle for political power in many areas of the world, the church has in recent times lost its primary focus, and thus its main source of strength, its spiritual and moral energy, in favor of crass, mundane life in the political swamp. By deceiving themselves that their religion is somehow the official or state religion in the United States, and that the U.S. was in fact founded upon Christian rather than enlightenment values and principles, the Christian community has lost focus of both its role in connecting with God, and has polluted the secular civic realm with false narratives and values. Just as Madison and Jefferson intended, there should be an impermeable wall separating church, all church and all religion, and all functions of the state, of the government.All the founder intended all citizens to have complete freedom of and from religion, and for religious tolerance to be universal. To educate the conservative evangelical Christian community with this truth is a tall order, because we are dealing with people good at indulging in denial such as denying the scientific fact of human evolution by natural selection, denying the true intent of Christ and America's founders, and denying the urgent necessity of combating and reversing climate change. That is a considerable amount of denial. When one denies both historical and contemporary realities, one become impervious to truth and reason.