This is the season for fireworks and fighting fire with fire
Tis the season to celebrate America’s independence, so a festive mood is settling over the nation. I am moved at the sight of Old Glory (American flag) fluttering proudly at the flagpoles of many homes.
A friend drove me around our neighborhood speaking somewhat proudly about the fireworks that the city would put on later on at night. Maybe he thought I just got off the boat and would be dazzled by whatever lights up the night sky. Inwardly, I snickered; you think fireworks put on by a small suburban town would impress me who has seen spectacular fireworks displays in historic Boston and beautiful Honolulu.
Our much beloved America has changed a lot in a few short years —- and for the worse —- in many ways. Tis greatly lamentable!!
They are tops in almost every negative statistic. First in divorce, murder, teenage pregnancies, and second to Russia in abortion. I have been listening a lot to TBN (Trinity Broadcasting Network) which has been running a documentary on America’s Broken Vows. In it Dr. James Kennedy, Dr. James Robson, E. W Hill, and a host of other Christian leaders I admire bemoan the direction the nation is heading. They highlight America’s Christian heritage and tie its moral decline to the move to purge the public square of Biblical principles. They remind us all that the founding fathers warned that the Constitution can only be upheld if the people of America remain faithful to Biblical morality.
This America’s Broken Vows documentary is a must-see for Christians not only in America but for Christians everywhere. Many Christians cannot articulate the Christian worldview or defend Christian principles when they come under attack. . They have bought into the fallacy that America’s Constitution calls for the separation of church and state. They might be good at calling down fire from heaven, healing, deliverance, speaking in tongues of men and of angels, but when it comes to contending earnestly for the faith, they are at a loss.
In this nation where about 75 per cent consider themselves to be Christians one woman was able to stop the saying of prayers in public schools. Christians have sat back and allowed engaging in religious activity to be interpreted as the establishment of a church, therefore reading a Bible, putting on a Christmas play, displaying the 10 Commandments, saying prayers before a game, offering a benediction are all banned in many public settings. The American Constitution says Congress shall make no laws respecting the establishment of a religion, but the anti-Christianity zealots of America (many are judges) have succeeded in stretching that prohibition ( by Congress) not only to include engaging in religious activity but also expressing a Christian worldview, or even being a Christian. You will hear some say Christians should not engage in politics or hold public office. And some Christians gladly concur.
Many churches do not teach their youth how to defend their faith or contend for it, so many of them lose their faith soon as they go off to college and encounter peers and professors hostile to Christianity. I had already been a journalist before starting on my master’s degree course in America and was able to defend my worldview in class. After listening to one of the top authorities on Evolution, I said to him to the hearing of the entire class, “ I believe my Bible even more after listening to you, “ One of my classmates said to me after class: So you believe that human beings started out on Earth as fully formed beings”. I was equally incredulous, “How else could life possibly have started? “
There is a sticker that reads: Scientists make apes of themselves with Evolution. That is indeed true and I am glad that Christian scientists are now mounting a powerful challenge to the Theory of Evolution using scientific language. Many Bible schools and churches now offer classes on Apologetics (defending the faith). I have taken such classes and highly recommend them. YouTube and the Internet also offer Apologetics tools.
I really did begin to think that we in Africa are smarter than White people after listening to the Evolution and Big Bang theories. Those who believe in those theories are like those Americans who believe that the images of some American presidents on Mount Rushmore have always been there…nobody carved them out.
I told my classmates at the topmost universities in America that even people in the deepest parts of the jungles of the world know that life and the Earth could not possibly have started without the hand of a Supreme Being. If life started in a “primordial soup,” who made the soup? Even the most fastidious husband knows that If there is a pot of soup on the dining table someone must have made it? Where there is information or a design there must be a designer. If there is a garden, there must be a gardener. My people (like the early scientists who were Christians) know that much and that is why their name for God is Chi ne ke (the God who creates).
