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By Donavan “Mark” Quimby for the Shenandoah Christian Alliance
It’s Christmas time, a time for joy, peace, and hope, so what’s on the news? There’s 26-year old Luigi Mangione. He’s from a very wealthy Maryland family and has outstanding personal achievements. At 6:46 a.m., December 11, he allegedly assassinated United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a New York City Hotel. Then, according to an Emerson poll: “41% of voters under 30 consider (Thompson’s) assassination acceptable… with 40% saying it was unacceptable… ” People have established go-fund-me accounts for Luigi and advocate for murdering more CEOs. Then, on December 16, a 15 year-old girl at a Madison, WA Christian school murdered a student and teacher, and wounded others before murdering herself. What morality justifies this?
Historically, extreme lawlessness wasn’t the norm in America because Christians established their communities, and being a Christian meant attempting to be Christ-like, to voluntarily obey His commandments, which established God’s morality – what’s right and wrong, good and evil. “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments” (John 14:15). Various Christian communities set the moral standards so their citizens could live freely and safely within the boundaries of Christian morality, and accept tough, Bible-based justice when God’s laws were broken. All Americans weren’t Christians, but those who were required that their government authorities and judges apply equal justice for all based upon Judeo-Christian principles.
American’s early Christian heritage included Reverend Robert Hunt’s leading 104 Englishman onto Cape Henry (near Jamestown, VA) on April 29, 1607, erecting a large cross (a replica stands today), and dedicating North America and themselves to God. As late as February 29, 1892, The Supreme Court declared (in Holy Trinity v. United State) that America’s historical record overwhelmingly demonstrated that America “… is a Christian nation.” Then the anti-Christian “ism’s” began arriving.
So how do we re-establish America as a Christian nation? We pray for a Christian revival; understand the Gospel sufficiently to evangelize and increase Christendom; attend churches that preach Judeo-Christian morality and how to defend it; attend churches that demand influence in the public square because separation of church and state doesn’t mean separation of church from state; accept that legislation and judicial rulings affect morality, but disobey those that conflict with God’s morality; accept that civil disobedience may be necessary; advocate for Christian principles before governmental and school board meetings; join your church with others to identify and remove sin from the community; vote and work for politicians who defend Christian morality, defeat those who don’t; and cleanse society of influences from anti-Christian philosophers like Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, and others. Today’s major Christian enemies are hate, debt, abortion, attacks on traditional families w/children, and Wokeism’s identity politics of all critical theories, DEI, and LGBTQ+ that promote division, our Constitutional Republic’s and capitalism’s destruction; also drag queens; pornography; and pornographic children’s books.
This Christmas, let’s sing carols of joy (Jesus first, others second, yourselves last) “to glorify God and enjoy Him forever,” celebrate Jesus’ rescue mission that can save us from our sin, and obey the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19-20) by re-establishing America’s Christian heritage, with its Christian morality. Merry Christmas!
Donavan “Mark” Quimby Shenandoah Christian Alliance
