Religious Freedom

As I stated in an earlier post entitled … "A True Native American Patriot" … I have decided to post from time to time things that I think might be helpful or needful for believers to know and understand concerning the dangers that face our nation if we still want America to remain … Christian.

At present there is a controversy brewing over the building of a Muslim Mosque close to Ground Zero. I feel building this mosque is just one more attempt to establish a foothold for Islamic (Sharia) Law in America. This must never be allowed.

Barack Hussein Obama has made the case for Islam in America, on the grounds that America's religious diversity promotes the religious freedom of all people and faiths. Yet if introducing Islam into America promotes religious freedom, then why is there no religious freedom in the Muslim world?

Muslims demand religious freedom, yet are not willing to give it to others.

His endorsement of the Ground Zero mosque is another case of Obama standing "with the Muslims" and against Americans of all other faiths, who want the freedom to practice their faith in peace without harassment, persecution and violence from the followers of Islam, who believe that all other religions are invalid, and that all forms of government and law that are not governed by the Koran, have no right to exist.

The man who sometimes occupies the Oval Office in the White House, Barack Hussein Obama, made the following statement … "One of the prettiest sounds on earth is the Muslim call to prayer at sunset." (And he says he's a Christian?)

At a recent Ramadan dinner in the White House (Ramadan marks the beginning of Islam's intolerance for other religions), Barack Hussein Obama proclaimed that he supports the building of the Ground Zero mosque as part of his … "unshakable commitment to religious freedom." This sounds very noble and good, until you ask the question … "Where is the religious freedom in the Muslim world?"

This mosque will be used for Muslims to pray to their non-god "Allah," with one of their daily Muslim prayers from straight out of the Koran … "Guide us the straight way, not (the way) of those who earned Your Anger (such as the Jews), nor of those who went astray (such as the Christians)."

America was not founded on "religious freedom" to worship any evil, satanic faith; but rather on the freedom to worship Jesus, the Son of God as a "Christian nation."

Such then is the case for posting the following article once again written by Dr. David Yeagley, the great-great-grandson of Comanche leader Bad Eagle. Dr. Yeagley is well qualified with a Master of Divinity from Yale University. But his greatest qualification is … He is also a believer in Jesus.


"The Ground Zero Mosque: Not About Freedom"

Religious freedom? NOT. The proposed Cordoba Mosque at Ground Zero in New York has nothing to do with religious freedom. It has nothing to do with tolerance, either. It is simply to honor Muslim murderers. For Americans to "tolerate" such a permanent gesture is truly a Freudian death wish.

Freedom of religion is not something this country was founded on at all. This is a grave error, and a most precarious, pernicious presumption. There is no justification of any mosque, or even cathedral, in the United States of America. And "justification" is a misapplied term altogether. Why?

"Religious freedom" is not a term found in the American Declaration of Independence, nor in the United States Constitution. "Religious freedom," as a term, is a subsequent abstraction, or a theory. It is a proposed principle, found in later commentary. It later developed into a political slogan.

To attempt to read the concept of "religious freedom" into the 1st Amendment is to commit scholarly error. To consider "religious freedom" as a principle, divorced from historical context, is to transcend history with personal application. It is abandon to the subjective, with a certain arrogance of soul.

So what is the historical context of the Constitution, of America’s foundations? Freedom from England. The men who rebelled against the Crown wanted independence, economic and religious, from the Church of England. The historical context of that European socio-political development was the general trend away from Rome, from Roman Catholicism. If the abstract term "religious freedom" ever occurred in the minds of America’s founding fathers, it would have been in reference to the tyrannies of England and Rome.

The fathers of America wished to practice their Biblical beliefs the way they wanted to, without dictation from state authority. They wanted to practice Christianity the way they saw fit. That is the bedrock of America. The economic independence was an evolution of that "protestant" Christian faith.

The fathers had no mind for Islam, Hinduism, Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Voodooism, Satanism, Buddhism, Shintoism, or any other kind of religion in the world. America was not conceived as a haven for non-Christian, non-Protestant religion or culture. To think it was is profound error in interpretation. This is anti-historical, unscholarly, and wholly unjustified and unreasonable. Such a concept leaves America as some multi-cultural buffet, or an international bazaar. The haven idea makes American society worse than a melting pot. It turns American into a big brown bowel movement, ineviscerably impacted with infectious bacteria.

For this conceptual error, we suffer the constipated stupidity of the Ground Zero Mosque issue. Yes, there are many reasons why there should be no mosque at Ground Zero; yes they are all obvious. But they are also subjective, non-historical, and superficial. Bad taste, insensitive, inappropriate; yes, these are all reasons to disallow such a mosque. But the best reason is the unfair, preferential treatment the murderous Muslims received by the defiant, Communist city council of New York–who unanimously voted in favor of the Ground Zero Mosque, while at the same time have nothing to say for the 85-year-old Greek Orthodox congregation who want to rebuild their St. Nicholas Church–which was destroyed by the 9-11 attack. (Just why the Port Authority is cited as the offending body instead of the city council is unclear–but it apparently has to do with money, $20 million, which was due the church, which the Port Authority refuses to turn over.) Why are the Greek Orthodox ignored, and the Muslims coddled and indulged? Because the Greeks pose no threat. They are not murderous. The Greek Orthodox do not bomb American interests, or seek to destroy America.

But again, the concept of religious freedom is not an American foundation, and that such a concept should form the essential justification of the proposed Mosque is laughable. It is the most idiotic, non-historical discussion in modern political discourse.

Those Americans to prefer the Hebrew take on reality (i.e., the Bible) need to be reminded that there is really no such thing as religious freedom. There is one God and one Word. Religious freedom may be a political concept, used originally to justify independence from England and/or Rome and to let Christians practice Christianity in the way they wished, no matter how many different groups of Christians developed different styles of worship. But tolerance never included that idea of allowing murderous Muslims to build shrines to their murderous beliefs and practices.

Tolerance is insulting, deceptive, and suicidal as applied to the Ground Zero Mosque fiasco. The Islamic lust for death has already infected America, and it accentuates the liberal perversions of anti-Americanism. Too much discussion about "religious freedom" is wholly subjective and naive, bordering the inane.

"Religious freedom" is a curse to America. As articulated by the ignorant, and the politically biased, "religious freedom" is a lethal deception.

Written by Dr. David Yeagley … August 17, 2010

Visit his website at … www.badeagle.com


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