CHRISTIAN FREEDOM OR SOCIALIST BONDAGE?

I see that President Obama has managed to polarize Americans like never before.

Arguably, he clandestinely concocted and had passed “Obama-Care” (ie, socialised medicine) behind closed doors and furtively foisted it on an unwilling majority of Americans!

Of course, this is not exactly how President Obama would describe the latest turn of events in America. And that’s the point! He doesn’t seem to be able to see, let alone acknowledge, the damage he is doing to the very fabric of the Christian Republic of America. For, last time I looked, at least twenty of the fifty states are seeking to sue the Federal Government on and around the constitutionality of the Federal Government’s *forcing* individual Americans to buy one of its products on pain of a fine.

Socialism is the *forced* redistribution of wealth. This, therefore, is not Christianity in any way, shape, or form! In opposition to this, the Bible teaches “Thou shalt not steal,” (this goes for governments as well as individuals), and charity for the Christian is a *voluntary* thing (eg, the Lord loves a *cheerful* giver).

To be sure, paying our fair share of taxes is Biblical. However, Obama-Care is not about loving one’s neighbour as oneself. Rather, it is about the government harassing one and one’s neighbours to pay another’s (medical) bills! This is socialism, and it is nothing like what the Christian founders of America had in mind when they wrote the Constitution and Bill of Rights etc.

Christianity is about (collective and individual) freedom under God, even at a national level. Socialism is simply bondage by and to the State.

Because the Federal Government is now in the process of forcing its people to involve themselves in its socialised medicine plan (on pain of government retribution), this has caused people to wonder if President Obama is some kind of socialist.

If any are brave enough to criticize Obama and his policies they are immediately shown the “racist card.” One only has to look at what the leftist media says about Sarah Palin and all Conservative Americans (eg, the Tea-Partiers). They are being demonised by the leftist (ie, the main stream) media. This is is only serving to polarize America further.

It is no longer about politics in America, whether a person is a Republican or a Democrat. Rather the lines are being drawn on whether one is a Constitutional American or a Socialist American.

America is THE great Christian experiment. As a Christian I am greatly encouraged to see Americans at a grass roots level seeking to regain their Christian heritage, their freedom under God, as they (re)discover their (Christian)Constitution. Whether at a federal, state, or individual level, may America live up to her constant boast before the world: “In God we trust.”

Christian freedom or Socialist bondage? We watch and pray. For if America falls to socialism, what hope at this time have the rest of the nations?