Across the world today, Christians of every race, tribe, and tongue celebrate the highest of Holy holidays – the resurrection of Jesus. To the unbeliever, it is a foolish notion that someone would die and come to life again — unseen and unheard by them — in a volatile world filled with anguish and ruin.
As Holy Week approaches its pinnacle, it is well worth pondering the question of what, if any, relationship the Christian Gospel has to the establishment of these United States. The answer cannot simply be found in the fact that most of the founding fathers were professing Christians. Many nations – and empires – were ruled by legacy Christians whose yoke, unlike that of Jesus, was not easy nor the burden light.
The argument that this is a “Muslim ban” falls apart on so many different levels.