A good reading from Pat Boone

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Not sure if this is right place to pu tthis but here goes. also Note copy write I have changed some words so its isnt Quote from a letter writting by Pat Boone The President Without A Country=20 By Pat Boone=20 =20 "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. http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/patboone.asp I really think this sums up alot dont you?