Thursday, October 8, 2015

Closing Pandora's Box

America was built on religious freedom – even if the beliefs disagree with our own.

The Ten Commandments monument was removed from Oklahoma’s Capitol grounds Tuesday after judges deemed its placement a violation of religious freedom and naturally, social media is outraged. Somewhere, a large populace failed to pay attention in their high school civics and government classes and acknowledge that the United States of America does not have a state religion. Fact:  77 percent of this nation claims to be Christian in some way, shape, form, or fashion.

What the removal does for our more conservative neighbors to the west is free Oklahomans from more litigation that could surrender much-needed tax dollars from their communities as well as close Pandora’s box, which many are not fully comprehending of the fact. Otherwise, other groups not limited to Satanists and Muslims would have the freedom to post their monuments without backlash. Then again, equal protections seem too much like right in an increasingly intolerant nation.

 FYI, Christians: We are not losing the war on religion. It’s in your heads. Try living what thus saith the Lord before passing judgment on issues we do not fully understand. Besides, the way we conduct our daily lives beyond 11 am on Sunday morning is more indicative of what God wants of us and what the world actually sees in our soul-saving mission.

Was it serving as a historical monument? I think so, but to outsiders, it was a clear display of a certain religion. Isn’t that why the Pilgrims left England some four hundred years ago, to worship not in the auspices of the Church of England, but that of personal choice?

You know, you’ve gotta love the fake outrage from some people.

 Rather than falling all over ourselves because an outward religious symbol was moved a few blocks away to the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, why don’t we find a way to help our brothers and sisters who may have lost everything in South Carolina or give comfort to the hungry or sick and shut in within our own communities? Or is doing more than paying lip service to the ministry something beneath us?

America was built decades ago on religious freedom. Just because someone chooses to worship a bit differently than we do does not make us superior to them; keep in mind it was not that long ago when certain Christian men and women hid behind white sheets and hoods as they perpetuated sin.
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