My god, Liberty Be Thy Name

As I reflect upon my life I can say that I have always sensed it, though I have not always recognised nor been cognizant of it. But is has always been there--at July 4th parties, Veterans' Day ceremonies, and most certainly during Memorial Day observances. The 'it' of which I write is the god of the New American Century; the idol of the Red Staters and, unfortunately, of professing Christians as well. The 'it' is Liberty.

We are told that 'Liberty' (which is interchangeable with 'Freedom') is worth the lives of thousands of dead American soldiers in a part of the globe most government school graduates couldn't find on a map if their lives depended on it as well as the 'collateral damage' that you and I would call dead innocent civilians.

Liberty/ Freedom has become our god. We allow ourselves to be pressured into hiding our faith and ignoring--rather, disobeying--God's command to spread his Gospel yet we have absolutely no compunction at all about interjecting and inserting ourselves into another country's business--at the point of a gun--in the name of spreading Liberty.

As if it were not bad enough that folks are combining Christianity with the worship of Liberty, we are increasingly seeing the supplanting and replacing the True Faith with the same! A couple of recent articles make it very clear--we shouldn't be obeying and worshiping God, we should be worshiping and spreading Liberty because, after all, Jesus was a libertarian and wanted 'democracy' to be spread across the world, not his Word!

The world would have us believe that our faith is something not to be 'foisted' upon others. Yet, the new Religion of Liberty/ Freedom must be propagated--whether others want it or not.

Oh, well, let's just dust off Lee Greenwood and pretend that everything is going to be ok.