Separation of Church and State

Does a fish know it is wet?

If you are swimming in an ocean of water for your entire life, do you know you are wet? No, it just seems normal.

We swim in a sea of culture. A culture that continually tells us that there MUST BE separation of church and state--even though that concept is nowhere expressed in the American constitution, nor was it ever expressed by our founding fathers.

And because we swim in this sea, and don't recognize we are wet, Christians are taking the position that they must remain separate from government. Christians are saying they should only be concerned with spiritual affairs -- not secular, government affairs. The problem is that our government is, "Of the people, for the people and by the people." If the Christian people withdraw from participating in government, we are left with those who, as the book of Judges says, "do what is right in their own eyes."

Having good government is simple: it requires people of good character to be running the government and as government employees. The character of the government isthe character of those who make up the government. Without Christ, without Christians involved in government, we get a government with no abosulte moral basis. We get a government that does what is right in its own eyes.

What type of government do we get when Christian principles are not a part of the government? Look at history.

America and England have governments built on Christian foundations. Even Japan, although not a Christian country, now has a government based on Christian principles. What about those countries that do not have Christian principles (God's principles) as the basis for their government? You get:

Hitler's Germany (12,000,000 people exterminated)
Stalin's Soviet Union (30,000,000+ people exterminated)
Mao's China (100,000,000+ people exterminated)

You get the killing fields of Cambodia. You get suicide bombers.

You get what Darwin says we get if God is removed - survival of the "fittest".