"Turning Back to God"

Yay for Glenn Beck giving me a great reason to rant.

Basically, the whole country's ranting/complaining/praising whatever version of God they believe in that Beck is holding a rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial...supposedly to ring in America's return to "christian" morals and values in the political realm.

...when in reality (something Beck refuses to believe in) Christian morals and values (however you define that) don't EXIST in the political realm.


We should probably stop the contradictory notion that we are a "christian nation" AND YET are so sinful that Sodom and Gomorrah demand a note of apology.

...in addition to completely throwing out the idea of a "Christian nation" anyway. Read... the Treaty of Tripoli for a lesson in what our government (and, in reality, the constitution) thinks we should be.

Nations aren't Christian. Individuals are Christians. We can't throw spiritual bombs and assume everyone caught in the blast radius is going to instantly toss their old selves and start believing in/following Christ.
Our responsibility as individual Christians is to those in our circle, whom we influence and interact with on a daily basis, NOT any of the groups we try to box others into in order to feel superior to them.

Glenn Beck and his ilk, in addition to being power-hungry warmongers, maintain a good-old-days delusion, that at some point American WASN'T dealing with the spiritual issues which it faces today.
The only difference now is that we are more free as a nation to BRING THOSE ISSUES TO LIGHT, not sweep them under the rug by order of the Church's traditions.

Those who maintain that delusion don't want to have to remain intellectually present in the spiritual and political realms. They are addicted to a black-and-white world of "absolutes" (read: catchphraes/soundbites) which has NEVER existed except in name, and NOW is fading away even in name.

If anything, it is time for America to step up as a nation and throw off the shackles of black-and-white blanket thinking, and admit that the spiritual and political issues with which we each struggle daily do NOT have easy solutions or clear-cut answers, and finding some sort of resolution to them requires contributions from EACH OF US, each bringing his or her own experiences and reasoning ability to the table.