One Nation Under God?
"This is exactly what Jesus does not want"
“President Trump believes America’s best days are ahead, and in order to reestablish ourselves as ‘that shining city upon a hill,’ we must acknowledge we are One Nation Under God.”
Dr. Ben Carson, Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, National Faith Chairman for Donald Trump’s 2024 Campaign
“If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one religion … One nation under God and one religion under God, right?”
Mike Flynn, former Chief National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump, former Director of the US Defense Intelligence Agency, and a leading figure in the US Christian nationalist movement
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“It is the will and command of God that, since the coming of his Son the Lord Jesus, a permission of the most paganish, Jewish, Turkish, or anti-Christian conscience and worships be granted to all men in all nations and countries, and they are only to be fought against with the sword which is only, in soul matter, able to conquer, to wit, the sword of God’s Spirit, the word of God. … God requires not a uniformity of religion to be enacted and enforced in any civil state; which enforced uniformity, sooner or later later, is the greatest occasion of civil war, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servant, and of the hypocrisy and destruction of souls. … true civility and Christianity may both flourish in a state or kingdom, notwithstanding the permission of divers and contrary to consciences, either of Jew or Gentile.”
Roger Williams, 1603-1683, founder of the First Baptist Church in America in Providence and of what is now Rhode Island, where Mike Flynn, quoted above, was born and raised.
"The fact that there is a general process of decay in the moral life is a matter of great concern to public opinion throughout the world today (...) The only way to stop this decay is therefore to try to reassert the moral ideals of Christianity in the lives of the masses. Everything must be done to ensure that the eternal religious values and laws are once again respected by the people. (...) However pious these words and slogans may sound, this is precisely what Jesus does not want. (...) Jesus did not set out any political agenda, he did not announce any ideological claims. (...) He is not at all someone who would want to win the masses to his ideals and rule the world with them. On the contrary, He always turned from the great mass to the individual, to souls who, in their sins or other troubles, had become lonely and abandoned, and who were really not fit to win the world and to launch a wide propaganda campaign in favour of Christianity."
Sándor Joó, 1910-1970, renowned pastor of the “Pasarét” Calvinist congregation in Budapest, Hungary.
Their struggle continues, from now on with greater intensity.
Photo: Roger Williams and Joó Sándor.