critique of Blaker (pt 2)

True biblical Christianity, to put it in the words of James, is: “to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.” The goal of every true Christian is to become more like Jesus Christ as described in the New Testament. What objection does Ms. Blaker have to this? Does she object to caring for the sick? Does she object to showing compassion to the hurting? No, what she likely finds most offensive is Jesus’ statement that He is “the way, the truth and the life. No man comes to the Father except by [Him].” If this statement is true (and I believe that it is), then would it not be extremely unloving of the Christian believer to not inform others of this single way of salvation? Ms. Blaker would likely jump in at this point with the argument that some “Christians” attempt to do this through violence, but I challenge her to show one place in the New Testament where violence is condoned in the conversion of the lost. Again, just because someone calling themselves Christian behaves a certain way in the name of Christ does not mean that it is something condoned by Christ or in the Scriptures. That would include the ideas of concubinage (i.e. the Branch Davidians), racism (i.e. the Christian Identity Movement) and murder (i.e. Army of God). Again, by focusing attention on the small, radical elements claiming identification with Christ, Ms. Blaker attempts to paint all who hold to a conservative Christian view in the same light. This is unfair, irresponsible and, as she describes Dr. Dobson, manipulative.
Ms. Blaker continues with her unfounded alarmism as she goes on to say that children in “fundamentalist” homes are “at high risk for physical abuse and incest.” I personally find this statement extremely offensive and am appalled at the author’s total lack of facts to back it up. But that is not part of her agenda. She only seeks to throw the idea out there to create suspicion of Christian parents knowing that those who quote her will be relying only on her authority as the writer of such an article rather than checking her facts. After all, if it’s in print it must be true, right? Again, Christian parents, if they are truly following biblical principles, are the best, most loving and nurturing parents in the world today.
The author’s ignorance of biblical Christianity is only matched by her ignorance of the United States Constitution. She refers to the “Separation Clause” in the first amendment. There is no such clause. The anti-establishment clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution reads as follows:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
There is nothing in this clause, or anywhere else in the Constitution, about a “wall of separation.” This is an assurance that the government will not pass a law making an official State Church, not that religion has no place in informing the views of government officials or the laws they devise. If there were laws against such in intrusion of religious ideas in the government, then that would be a denial of the right of the individuals in government to exercise their faith, thus violating the same clause. Studies have shown that of the to 100 sources of quotes found in the writings of the founding fathers of our nation the Bible is far and away the most-quoted source (four times higher than the 2nd most-quoted source). With this in mind, where does Ms. Blaker believe the founders got their ideas for the governance of this nation? Even the French statesman Alexis DeToquville recognized the United States as a nation founded upon Christian ideas as shown in this passage from his work Democracy in America:

“The greatest part of British America was peopled by men who… brought with them into the New World a form of Christianity which I cannot better describe than by styling it a democratic and republican religion. This contributed powerfully to the establishment of a republic and a democracy in public affairs; and from the beginning, politics and religion contracted an alliance which has never been dissolved. … It may be asserted, then, that in the United States no religious doctrine displays the slightest hostility to democratic and republican institutions.”

The very principles found in the Bible are what our great nation was founded upon, not the godless ideas of secular humanism. Far from placing democracy in peril, as the title of this article implies, Christianity is actually the very source of democracy.