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A Christian Nation

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In a Christian Nation there are two dynamics in play.  Government is instituted to maintain law and order and provide a safe environment for its citizens.  And the citizens need infrastructure to enable commerce and travel as needed. It is in the elections of government officials that the citizens are dependent on an informed electorate that will elect honest and knowledgeable people to provide means of commerce, regulations, and policing so that the citizens can live a life without embracing religious practices. It would seem that Christians would be the logical people to be elected.  But in a Republic, religious tests are not required.  There are many, not professing religious faith that, nonetheless are skilled in government. So religious practices are not a requirement for government positions.  Religious people can and should seek to win non-believers. A Christian Nation can only exist if the citizens are devoted disciples of God.  God interacts with the citizens in a seemingly ra

George Washington Prays

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This prayer is read aloud each day at Mount Vernon's public wreath-laying ceremony. "I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have the United States in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Devine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.  Amen" Prayer adapted from Washington’s Circular Letter to the States, which he wrote on June 8, 1783, as the commander in chief, at his he