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Quote from a letter writting by Pat Boone
The President Without A Country=20
By Pat Boone=20
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"We're no longer a Christian nation." - President barack obama,=
June 2009
" America has been arrogant." - President barack obama
"After 9/11, America didn't always live up to her ideals."- Pres=
ident barack obama
"You might say that America is a Muslim nation."- President bara=
ck obama, Egypt 2009
Thinking about these and other statements talked by the man who we=
ars the title of president. I keep wondering what country he believes=
he's president of.
In one of my very favorite stories, Edward Everett Hale's "The=
Man without a Country," a young Army lieutenant named Philip Nolan st=
ands condemned for treason during the Revolutionary War, having come=
under the influence of Aaron Burr. When the judge asks him if he wish=
es to say anything before sentence is passed, young Nolan defiantly ex=
claims, "Damn the United States ! I wish I might never hear of the Uni=
ted States again!"
The stunned silence in the courtroom is palpable, pulsing. After=
a long pause, the judge soberly says to the angry lieutenant: "You ha=
ve just pronounced your own sentence. You will never hear of the Unite=
d States again.. I sentence you to spend the rest of your life at sea,=
on one or another of this country's naval vessels - under strict orde=
rs that no one will ever speak to you again about the country you have=
just cursed."
And so it was. Philip Nolan was taken away and spent the next 40=
years at sea, never hearing anything but an occasional slip of the to=
ngue about America. The last few pages of the story, recounting Nolan'=
s dying hours in his small stateroom - now turned into a shrine to the=
country he fore swore - never fail to bring me to tears. And I find=
my own love for this dream, this miracle called America , refreshed=
and renewed. I know how blessed and unique we are.
But reading and hearing the audacious, shocking statements of th=
e man who was recently elected our president Even tho he wont show us his birth certificate!. - a young black man livin=
g the impossible dream of millions of young Americans, past and presen=
t, black and white - I want to ask him, "Just what country do you thin=
k you're president of?"
You surely can't be referring to the United States of America ,=
can you? America is emphatically a Christian nation, and has been fro=
m its inception! Seventy percent of her citizens identify themselves=
as Christian. The Declaration of Independence and our Constitution we=
re framed, written and ratified by Christians. It's because this was,=
and is, a nation built on and guided by Judeo-Christian biblical prin=
ciples that you, sir, have had the inestimable privilege of being elec=
ted her president.
You studied law at Harvard, didn't you, sir? You taught constitu=
tional law in Chicago ? Did you not ever read the statement of John Ja=
y, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and an author of the=
landmark "Federalist Papers": "Providence has given to our people the=
choice of their rulers - and it is the duty, as well as the privilege=
and interest of our Christian nation - to select and prefer Christian=
s for their rulers"?
In your studies, you surely must have read the decision of the=
Supreme Court in 1892: "Our lives and our institutions must necessari=
ly be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind.=
It is impossible that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and=
to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically=
Christian."
Did your professors have you skip over all the high-court decisi=
ons right up till the mid 1900's that echoed and reinforced these view=
s and intentions? Did you pick up the history of American jurisprudenc=
e only in 1947, when for the first time a phrase coined by Thomas Jeff=
erson about a "wall of separation between church and state" was used=
to deny some specific religious expression - contrary to Jefferson '=
s intent with that statement?
Or, wait a minute . were your ideas about America 's Christianit=
y formed during the 20 years you were a member of the Trinity United=
Church of Christ under your pastor, Jeremiah Wright? Is that where yo=
u got the idea that " America is no longer a Christian nation"? Is thi=
s where you, even as you came to call yourself a Christian, formed the=
belief that " America has been arrogant"?
Even if that's the understandable explanation of your damning of=
your country and accusing the whole nation (not just a few military=
officials trying their best to keep more Americans from being murdere=
d by jihadists) of "not always living up to her ideals," how did you=
come up with the ridiculous, alarming notion that we might be "consid=
ered a Muslim nation"?
Is it because there are some 2 million or more Muslims living he=
re, trying to be good Americans? Out of a current population of over=
300 million, 70 percent of whom are Christians? Does that make us, by=
any rational definition, a "Muslim nation"?
Why are we not, then, a "Chinese nation"? A "Korean nation"? Eve=
n a "Vietnamese nation"? There are even more of these distinct groups=
in America than Muslims. And if the distinction you're trying to make=
is a religious one, why is America not "a Jewish nation"? There's act=
ually a case to be made for the latter, because our Constitution - and=
the success of our Revolution and founding - owe a deep debt to our=
Jewish brothers.
Have you stopped to think what an actual Muslim America would be=
like? Have you ever really spent much time in Iran ? Even in Egypt ?=
You, having been instructed in Islam as a kid at a Muslim school in=
Indonesia and saying you still love the call to evening prayers, can=
surely picture our nation founded on the Quran, not the Judeo-Christi=
an Bible, and living under Shariah law. Can't you? You do recall Muham=
mad's directives [Surah 9:5,73] to "break the cross" and "kill the inf=
idel"?
It seems increasingly and painfully obvious that you are more in=
fluenced by your upbringing and questionable education than most suspe=
cted.. If you consider yourself the president of a people who are "no=
longer Christian," who have "failed to live up to our ideals," who "h=
ave been arrogant," and might even be "considered Muslim" - you are pr=
esident of a country most Americans don't recognize.
Could it be you are a president without a country? Un Qoute
All who love their Christian belief's and your country, forward=
to all in your address book.
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I really think this sums up alot dont you?
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