Chuck Colson
Quoting Chuck Colson:
A recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times asked, “What’s God got to do with it?” The “it” being referred to was the security and freedom that Americans enjoy and often take for granted.
The answer to the question is “quite a bit,” and arguing otherwise requires taking something else for granted: our way of life’s debt to Christianity.
The man asking and answering the question was Michael Shermer, the publisher of Skeptic magazine. Shermer took exception to the words of a recent House resolution to keep “In God We Trust” as the national motto. The resolution read: “Whereas if religion and morality are taken out of the marketplace of ideas, the very freedom on which the United States was founded cannot be secured.”
Shermer was troubled by the “belief that religion has a monopoly on morality,” especially, he says, “in this age of science and technology, computers and cyberspace, and liberal democracies securing rights and freedoms for oppressed peoples all over the globe.”
According to Shermer, what really makes people feel free and secure are things like “the rule of law,” “education for the masses,” the establishment of “fair and just laws” and the “equitable enforcement of those fair and just laws.”
What Shermer doesn’t tell us is that things like the rule of law, mass education and the other things he credits with making our freedom and security possible didn’t spring fully-formed out of nowhere. They are part of Christianity’s legacy to the West.
Filed under: Bible, Christianity, Church, Constitution, Culture, Education, Faith, Founding Fathers, Government, Grace, History, Holiness, Jesus Christ | Tagged: Charles Colson, Christianity, Constitution, God, Government, Los Angeles Times, Michael Shermer, Rule of law, Skeptic, United States |
Samuel at Gilgal 
Chuck Colson is a modern-day hero.
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Indeed he is!
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