BATS: Does Christianity Have Public Policy Answers?

Blogging Against Theocracy Silliness


One of the key objectives of the "separation of church and state" movement is the marginalization of Christianity. In other words, it seeks to brand Christianity as irrelevant to "real life."

In the last century, Christians as a group have thrown up their hands and surrendered to the secularists. They have signed a treaty with the secularists that created a kind of Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between Christianity and "the real world." They have adopted a "what's yours is yours, and what's mine is mine" mentality.

Yet this is completely erroneous, and in violation of what God has called those who believe in Him to do. Faith is supposed to speak to EVERY area of life. In fact, if your religion is only good on Sunday morning, then your religion is completely worthless.

On the contrary, Christian theology has answers for practically every area of "real life," in both the personal and the public policy arena. Listed here are just a few of the areas to which Christianity has answers.

And this weekend, I've already presented evidence, for those with eyes to see, that those who founded this nation, who set up its government, believed unequivocally that the Christian faith has answers for government questions, for "real life."

To try and keep God in a box, irrelevant unless you're sitting in a pew on Sunday morning, is not only shortsighted in the denial of the answers to many of life's most pressing problems, it is in direct contravention of what the believer has been instructed to do.

Examining and debating what God, the Creator of the universe and all things within it, in the discussion of public policy just makes good sense--especially for those who claim to believe in Him.

And following the best advice even if it's God's advice, just because the source is "religious" doesn't constitute "Congress [making a] law respecting an establishment of religion." Nor does it constitute a "theocracy."