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NJ Megachurch Pastor: America Is Not a Christian Nation [View all]
http://www.christianpost.com/news/nj-megachurch-pastor-america-is-not-a-christian-nation-82145Tim Lucas, lead pastor of Liquid Church in New Jersey, told his congregation on Sunday that, contrary to the popular opinion within some Christian circles, the United States is not a Christian nation, and the majority of the people in his congregation seem to agree with him.
"When we call America a Christian nation, what that assumes is at some point in our history we were operating wholeheartedly in the kingdom of God," said Lucas.
He added, "There is no doubt our country has been blessed and influenced by Judeo-Christian values. We're thankful for that. But there's very little evidence that America as a whole ever had some golden age when we operated wholeheartedly with kingdom of God values."
I found this and was actually rather impressed and somewhat surprised. Of course he's in New Jersey and not the South, where there seems to a message and mindset that the US is some type of country specifically favored by God in world affairs and anything it does is God's work, some junk heard from pro-Republican evangelicals defending the Iraq War.
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