Look people, when Taylor Swift is the voice of reason the American church has some serious issues.

1) The Christian Church in America has been off base the day we set foot on Plymouth Rock. That’s right ‘mainstream’ Christianity in the Americas has been heretical from the beginning.

The Puritans, according to an entry in Christianity.com had some misconceptions about Christianity to begin with.
 “They were expected to establish rules for a godly social order, a society which would glorify God. As the Mosaic Law had regulated Israel’s society in Old Testament days, so the church under the Scripture’s authority would regulate New England’s society.”
 So basically this is what the  Conservatives want for America today; they’re not constitutionalists at all, but instead, desire a return to the rules of the Mayflower Compact.  Ok, you kids may need to read about it. Here is an excerpt from its opening Statement;

“IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the northern Parts of Virginia; Do by these Presents, solemnly and mutually, in the Presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politic..”

Sound familiar?

Look, America was never meant to be a ‘Christian Nation’ –Never.  While the vast majority of the  Founding Fathers attended Church because attending church was the Cultural norm that does not of necessity make them Christ Followers, nor does it say they were not. Essentially because the pattern of Colonial culture was being based on the Puritan culture, so not going to church would violate ‘proper’ behaviour. 

Since the earliest days of the colonisation of what would become the United States, America has been about as far from Christ’s teaching as you can get. Christians at the time were kind of schizophrenic in that they  would sit in the pews on Sunday, even though they owned human beings in brutal slavery, killed non-whites, burned people who they thought were witches, and broke treaties with abandon – you know, let’s omit the fact they murdered and committed genocide, but  hey, they were lying. 

Oh, you can try and defend slavery and murder, but you can never defend lying. (Sarcasm)
Solomon was right when he said ‘there is nothing new under the sun.”

2) We need to be honest; American Christianity is going backwards. Look, I think in the 21^st century we really should cut the cords on the teachings of the 17^th. Look in 1610 you could only read a book in the library, and I’m pretty sure that the governor of the  Massachusetts Bay colony’s  John Winthrop wasn’t going to let his flock read up on the radical new teachings of Descartes and Keppler. Come on, guys; we have the sum of human knowledge in our pockets and purses, but hey, Facebook.

3) American Evangelical Christian Culture today is too interwoven with politics;
 the core of evangelical teaching is that Christianity should be;

(1) focused on the importance of conversion; (2) support activism, particularly in missionary efforts to spread the gospel; (3) display a high regard for biblical authority; and (4) stress the centrality of the cross, with an emphasis on Jesus’ work of substitutionary atonement.

None of those characteristics is currently being shown by the Republican Party;

There are no signs of ‘Christian’ GOP politicians desiring inclusiveness or expressing a desire for anyone but Anglos and WASPs to be in their party. In point of fact, there is no desire for poor white folks to be involved beyond their votes. Trump and the GOP are screwing over the lower class, but hey her emails.

I’m not going to knock missionaries at all, because I do believe that spreading the message of Christ’s love is important, but he doesn’t need Americans to do it! God’s doing just fine with missionaries from other nations. Seriously, he’s handing out his message in visions. (You don’t have to believe it, but there are several reports from converts.)
 https://www.christianpost.com/news/report-isis-fighter-who-enjoyed-killing-christians-wants-to-follow-jesus-after-dreaming-of-man-in-white-who-told-him-you-are-killing-my-people.html  Take it for what it’s worth.

The point being American Christianity should not be a zero-sum game. If hordes of Visigoths slaughtered every American wearing the name of Christ, (Which for some reason many think is going to happen) Jesus and his message would do fine.

I’m not being unamerican. I’m a veteran, and I love living in the nation of my birth, but we are are only 4.4% of the human population. Americans think waaaay too much of themselves. There 7,346,235,000 people on this planet, and if we blew ourselves the rest of the planet would go ‘Huh, saw that coming,” and move on.
We are not unimportant to him but inconsequential to what he is doing. He has an endgame, and he doesn’t need a bunch of Red Hat screaming Yahoos to do it; in fact, he probably doesn’t want them around him at all.
 
I have tons of friends on both side of the divide, but nine times out of ten, I would rather be with my non-Christian friends because a great many Christians are very ragey and mean.

I mean, hey T-Swift nailed it:
You are somebody that we don’t know, But you’re comin’ at my friends like a missile.
Why are you mad? When you could be glad (You could be glad. )
Sunshine on the street at the parade,
But you would rather be in the dark age. Just makin’ that sign must’ve taken all night.

I mean Jesus said they know us by our love,  “so you just need to take several seats and then try to restore the peace.”

And so try to control your urges to scream about all the people you hate, ‘Cause shade never made anybody less gay.’