The Religious Nation

The religious right keeps telling us that the USA is a Christian nation. That the founders of this nation were Christians and that they had built this nation on Christian values. This is a well-mounted religious propaganda of the religious right to win the cultural war for the control of the soul of America.
The Pilgrims Fathers who landed on Plummet Rock were devoted Christians. The Puritans who later settled in New England were fanatics of Christ is an historical fact. But these were not the only groups of people moving into the new colonies of America. There were non-Christians and even antichrist-ians that also came with them. All these were part of what we can consider as the founders of this nation.
Most important the Founding Fathers of this nation, who signed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the 13 original colonies of America, were far less Christians than it has been assumed and wrongly affirmed by the religious right. One thing is sure; these Founding Fathers were most of them religious, since some of them were sincere Christians while the rest were notable freemasons. And the values upon which they built this nation were not Christians. Some vague references to God are not Christian values since everything Christian should refer to the person of Jesus Christ and not to a general idea of God.
Free Mason values always refer to God as a universal principle of good and high power and seek to promote the goodness of mankind in general and its welfare. These are the values upon which this nation had been built by the Founding Fathers. The “In God We Trust” is not a Christian affirmation but freemason formula of universal brotherhood; it is not a Christian conviction, but a religious belief in the freemason God who has little to do with the God of the Bible. Only pure religious hypocrisy could still keep people propagating the public lie about the symbols and writings on the dollar bills as proofs that this nation had been founded on Christian values. Everything on that bill is about freemason principles.
On September 18, 1793, George Washington dressed in his Masonic apron, leveled the cornerstone of the US Capitol with the traditional Masonic ceremony. As Stephen puts it, “At that moment, the occasion of the lying of the new Republic’s foundations, Freemasons assumed the mantles of ‘high priests’ of that ‘first temple dedicated to the sovereignty of the people.’”
No one could honestly dispute that America is a religious nation. But to continue propagating the false idea that this is a Christian nation built upon Christian values is a public lie that need to be repudiated and confronted by all those who are honest Christians. Such confrontation of the false of pretension of the religious right will be healthy for America since it would lead to an exorcise of the demons that have taken grip upon the soul of this nation that has been bewitched by the religious right.

Rev Alex Tah (BA in Law, MDiv, MST)
Graduate of Dallas Theological Theology

Alextahbi@yahoo.com