Lee Culpepper
Dreams of “Our” Cowboy
April 16, 2009

As he rides along rounding up his vision of an egalitarian world, the president appears inclined to marshal the atrophy of America’s Judeo-Christian foundation. President Obama seems to believe the government has the power to redefine morality—often through political correctness—and he may be bent with enough audacity to attempt wrangling the nation’s hope from God. The president has wasted no time trying to cover America’s identity with his new brand of old, liberal ideas. His statement in Turkey regarding what “we” consider America today is a revised version of what he whistled in 2007:

“Whatever we once were, we're no longer a Christian nation. At least not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, and a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers." (That’s six nations in case you were wondering.)

Last Monday, the president made some progress—the one way he seems most capable—through long-winded rhetoric. In his revised speech, the sharp-shooting speaker aimed to reunify the nation. Only a few months into his presidency and America is no longer the six Balkanized nations he declared two years ago. As of last Monday, “America is a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.” The president habitually orates in vague, sweeping statements—and while he made an abstract reference to our “founding documents,” he failed to explain the specific ideals and values that bind us.

What his teleprompters did make consistently clear, however, was his principal objective: Divorce America from Christianity. To accomplish this goal would certainly wound our “founding documents.” Separating America from its Judeo-Christian heritage would diminish the following principles of The Declaration of Independence: Belief in Creator; God created us; God gives absolute moral laws; God establishes governments; God’s providence; and God’s judgment day.

John Adams warned:

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” 

President Obama boasts knowing something about the dangers of diluting values. In France he stated:

“I don't believe that there is a contradiction between our security and our values. And when you start sacrificing your values, when you lose yourself, then over the long term that will make you less secure.”

The president was patting himself on the back for his decision to close Guantanamo. But how does his own sacred argument not apply to the perils regarding his vigor to distance America from its Judeo-Christian roots? America once placed her hope and faith in God and individualism. Today our president asks us to put our hope and faith in the government and him.

Driven by an ambition to separate the nation from Christianity, he may continue to modify his assertion of what we consider ourselves. Though a professed Christian himself, the president preaches the ideology of political correctness. And political correctness serves only to blur the line between right and wrong as it censors and oppresses our God-given freedom to speak and to think. His administration’s euphemisms concerning the Islamic terrorists’ war against America are blazing examples of the role political correctness will serve in trying to censor truths regarding morality and immorality.