It Is Too Late to Mourn the Death of Christian America
One of my favorite gospel songs is Sweet Beulah Land in which we sing “ I'm kind of homesick for a country to which I've never been before” referring, of course, to our heavenly home. Many Christians are longing now for the America that was founded by people longing for religious freedom and formed in a revolution promoted by people of faith. It is a country that no one has ever seen and has never existed. The America of 1776 was a mess of slave holders, British loyalists, unskilled soldiers, and determined patriots longing for independence from England but necessarily encumbered by France to make independence happen. The names we rightly salute as founding fathers who pledged their lives and honor for the infant United States of America spent the productive years of their lives in debate, argument, intrigue, and scandal. Their product, the U.S.A. in 2018, is an amazing and certainly Providentially ordained land, still one of opportunity and liberty, both of