We’re a Secular Country

“So, is this still a Christian country,” another Interviewer queried? To his credit, Billy Graham, openly in his own words and voice, does acknowledge in that conversation, “No, we’re not a Christian country; we’ve never been a Christian country. We’re a secular country, by our constitution…where Christians live…and have a voice, but, ah, we’re not a Christian country” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f68IgZruyNI). In so stating, a silver-haired Dr. Graham immediately affirms that all of today's top tier, well-known preachers (Including the likes of the late Adrian Rogers of Love Worth Finding, Southern Baptist preacher Dr. Robert Jeffress, the late D. James Kennedy of Corral Ridge Ministries, etc., etc.) who teach that America is and has always been Christian, are in fact liars. But, why? How could the best-known American voice for Christ make so damning an indictment? If that is true, and Mr. Graham is right—as indeed he is, by accounts and measures beyond his own testimony—then these men and others like them would know that. Thus, when they talk about Christian founding fathers, and such (most are said to have been ‘deists’—of the ones who were not deists, many if not most were the products and purveyors of a largely faulty, fruitless brand of Christianity), and, a “return to her roots”, what they are really saying is that they affirm and embrace all the evils perpetrated by those fathers upon Africans, Indians, Mexicans and others in the name of God, and, as such they long for a return to that time of unbridled hostility and bigotry. There never was, never has been, is not now, nor will there ever be a Christian America (These truths are affirmed by white commentator and writer Jim Wallis—among others—in his 1987 article titled “America’s Original Sin”, published in his magazine, Sojourners and by John MacArthur, who affirms unequivocally that the fathers were not Christians, per se, as rather they were ‘deists’.).