Many of our fellow citizens often claim that we are a Christian nation and that we, therefore, ordained by their God, should act according to divinely inspired Christian principles as they interpret them. Jesus sums up his principles in a simple humanist statement: “We should love one another and do unto others as we wish they do unto us.” It seems to me that many citizens and politicians, as well as our new president, are denying this humanist principle, though, according to their religious convictions, they consider it only to be an inspired Christian principle.
They are hypocrites! They contradict in their legislative actions the very religion they profess. They claim divine approval to be Pro-Life, yet they refuse to honor life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to many of their fellow citizens by refusing to provide them wellness, health, and education. For them, life begins at the moment of conception but lasts only for nine months and ends at the moment of the birth of the child.
After that event they deny the child its constitutional rights by refusing to give the child its Creator endowed rights to wellness, health, and education. Their Pro-Life Christian claim only lasts as long as a life is totally dependent upon the mother. And that sanctimonious claim is even dubious. By eliminating support for Planned Parenthood, they also eliminate the wellness, health, and education of the mother. They are replacing healthcare with wealth fare. Their so-called Christian principles are revised to read, “exploit one another and do unto others as it benefits you.” Their constitutional professions are reduced to “Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Wealth.” It would be more honest to leave religion, whatever the kind, to the private pursuit of the individual citizen and to honor, as our Constitution asserts in the First Amendment, that no law shall be proclaimed in the name of religion.
Jake Hjorth
Grand Marais
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