Looking back at the foundations of the United States, we can see the dark period of time when people came to this country to evade the tyranny of the crown, only to invoke the same tyranny against the Native Americans who inhabited the land. While many of the concepts that were established during the foundation of what we call the United States were based on Christian principles, the actions that were taken during this period are far from holy. It must have been what occurred during the following years when we would kill a vast amount of Native Americans and finally end up marching them incredible distances into separated segments of land that has us boldly saying we were a Christian nation. The mass murder of these people is a dark past many Christians would rather not talk about, due to the fact that we may no longer be looked at as a Christian nation
Maybe it was the next dark spot in the history that involves the mass transport and imprisonment of an innocent group of people from Africa that makes us think we’ve been a Christian nation in the past. Yes, it must have been the enslavement of innocent human beings that makes us a Christian nation. We all learn about the rancid actions taken by both southern and northern states to enslave Africans in history class, but we fail to connect the fact that these actions were coming from a supposed Christian nation. While “Christian” slave owners went to church on Sundays, slaves were overworked, underfed, and mistreated with almost no rights. The racism involved in the justification of these actions was common then to rationalize horrid treatment of different people, and it is common now. If we stop and think about the justifications that occurred during that time we can plainly see that we were definitely not acting like the Christian Nation that we’re told we’ve always been.
Or it must have been when we allowed the attack on Pearl Harbor in order to create a justification for involvement in attacks during World War II that has us thinking how wonderfully Christian we were? Surely a good Christian nation would disregard warnings from 11 days prior and sacrifice thousands of human beings to fulfill a military and political agenda. Wouldn’t any God fearing, holy and devout Christian nation do the same? This is insanity, why these events don’t call the attention of more Christians is appalling in my opinion, and there’s no excuse for being ignorant about these issues. The fact that our nation’s government would willingly sacrifice its own citizens and secretively suppress the specific details regarding prior knowledge about Pearl Harbor gives credence to the fact that we have never been a Christian nation. In fact, although not with such drastic results, Pearl Harbor can be seen as an American version of the German Reichstag fire prepared by the Nazis. Although it is nowhere near the brutality inflicted by regimes such as Hitler’s, Pol Pot’s, or Stalin’s, it is an inexcusable sacrifice in any realm.
It quite possibly could have been when under the CIA, the Office of Strategic Services saved many Nazi scientists through Project Paperclip that has made the U.S. appear to be such a merciful and Christian nation in the past. Using all of the people who complied with the likes of Josef Mengele aka The Angel of Death and Adolf Hitler, in order to use them in our divisions of the CIA is just what God wanted us to do in those circumstances. Any moral conviction held by this “Christian Nation” was clearly superseded by the selfish intentions to use those scientists for discrete CIA purposes. If any person with an acceptable understanding of history would look at these issues and attempt to justify, they are caught in an attempt to dissuade the use of historical fact in order to continue in a false perspective.
But, maybe we can justify our great American Christian heritage by pointing to when we set up draconian legislation to put people of Japanese descent into internment camps during WWII? Of course, here is the clear cut example of Godly justice, when we put anyone, including American citizens, into camps to do forced labor and supply our military with the very supplies used to attack their country of origin. Although I don’t remember the passage, certainly the Bible tells us somewhere that we should treat people in this manner during war. I truly don’t understand how this action can be justified by any means. While I won’t mention anything about the injustice of recent wars in general, it doesn’t sound very Christian to create forced labor camps and strip everything from Japanese migrants. Anyone with a sense of history and any sense of morality would find these actions grossly repulsive and will not accept a mere apology from the nation’s government Forty years later as suitable.
But more recently we have much more cause to call ourselves a Christian nation, with the illegal wars, the dismantling of rights held by U.S. citizens, the persecution of Christian values, and so-called “Conservative Christian” leaders who take part in occult rituals surrounded by the redwoods of central California. "Of course our leaders are Christians, they all swear on the Bible, and take part in the national prayer day. But at times, they need to relax and take a break and so what if they chose to do so at the Bohemian Grove." The Bohemian Grove has guest list including the likes of former presidents; Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, conservative leaders Donald Rumsfield, Colin Powell, Arnold Schwarznegger, , Walter Cronkite, Newt Gingrich, and invitees such as Tony Blair, conservative radio hosts Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, and like Al Gore, and other attendees include Charles Schwab, David Rockefeller, and Henry Kissinger. Surely within the group of these members we find great “Christian” leaders. But, what is most strange about the Bohemian Grove something known as the Cremation of Care ceremony that takes place to open the festivities at the Bohemian Grove. You see, the Cremation of Care is a symbolic pagan ritual taken from the ancients where, in order to get rid of their “cares” of their world, they burn an effigy of a baby in front a 40 foot owl that represents the Canaanite god known as Moloch/Molock or Moleck. The concept is that because these people “hold the cares of the world on their shoulders,” they must come and get some relief during their stay at the Bohemian Grove. But, the Cremation of Care ritual is not the only strange event that takes place at the Bohemian Grove. According to past attendees like Richard Nixon, there are many homosexual orgies that take place and both hetero- and homosexual prostitutes and porn stars are brought in to “attend to every need.” These prostitutes and porn stars are brought in to attend the "needs" of our so called Christian politicians, media personalities, and multinational business tycoons. Well, if these actions can be attributed to leaders of a Christian nation than I truly have no words to say. Any one of these different events that have taken place, and the disgustingly immoral actions that continue to take place in this nation put in question the notion that we are somehow a “Christian Nation.” How mainline Christian leaders, pastors, and evangelists fail to call out these disgusting actions is truly beyond excuse. Ask yourself why mainstream thought and even many mainline Christians support these leaders instead of calling out our "Conservative Christian" leaders.
