Heilsgeschichte

Another example of Christian nationalism gone wild has surfaced today in Kentucky. The Chicago Tribune ran an article about a new law that requires Kentucky to acknowledge "God almighty" as homeland security's homeboy. Here is an excerpt:

Turns out a stealthy legislative move by a Baptist preacher-turned-politician led to the passage of a 2006 bill requiring the state's Office of Homeland Security to acknowledge formally that safety and security in the state "cannot be achieved apart from reliance upon almighty God."

For good reason this law has really ticked off the atheists of the blue grass state. I don't usually cheer for atheists, but this law has got to go. I hope that Christians will wake up and recognize that we do not live in a Christian nation nor should we seek to. Our nation is the Kingdom of God, which is international in scope and non-violent by nature. Acknowledging "God Almighty" as the source of state security is not far from the armament of the vatican or Constantinian Christianity. This is bad theo-logic and a direction the church needs to speak against.

This entry was posted on Thu, 12/04/2008 - 20:36

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