The Role of Religion in the Founding of America

Vladimir Putin on the Religious Roots in America

This morning as I was doing my essential morning exercise of perusing Facebook, I came across a post from the page of Milo Yiannopoulos whose recent proposed visit to Berkley (UCB) was the target of a violent riot fomented.  It was a clip of a speech by Vladimir Putin, President of Russia on January 17 of this year.  I was quite taken and - frankly - surprised by his topic which was the religious roots of western nations, particularly of the United States.
 

Before I quote Mr. Putin, let me make a disclaimer that I am in no way endorsing him as a model of religious propiety.  He is the leader of an authoritatian society and is, in fact, one of the dictators listed on the site I quoted yesterday.  What I am saying is the Mr. Putin, as an outsider and - insofar as I know - an atheist, is stating what he is witnessing geopolitcally as he observes Western nations on a downward course of self-destruction.  He knows his history well enough to know that the West, particularly the United States, was founded on Judeo-Christian values and laws that were millennia in the making.  This is what he said (I transcribed the English translation.)

People in Europe act ashamed of their religious affiliations and are, indeed, frightened to speak of them.

[Americans]deny and reject their own roots, including their Christian roots which form the basis of western civilization.

He went on to say that one culprit is the excesses and exaggerations of political correctness and closed by saying;Without moral values of Christianity and other world religions, without rules and moral values which have formed over millennia people will inevitably lose their human dignity.

I would like to hear what Mr. Putin would have to say about the Russian Orthadox Church that was driven almost out of existence by the Bolshiveks, but he didn't and that would be a topic for another day.  What he did say piqued my interest because it expresses my own thoughts and feelings on the matter.  This has been true since the first day of former President Obama's first term in office when he said, "America is no longer a Christian nation" and his agenda to push the so-called contributions of Islam to the "weaving of the American tapestry."

What I would like to do over the next few weeks (and I can't promise to write every day) is to look at the influence of religion in general and Christianity specifically in the founding of this nation.  We shouldn't have to have a Russian dictator tell us what we should already know for ourselves. 

• We have, in fact, rejected our root values.
• We have, in fact, allowed political correctness to run amok.
• We have denegrated the value of all human life to the point that we are losing our human dignity.

Please join me.

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