Not of This World

This message was in my inbox this weekend.

Federal government bans flag-folding recitations following one complaint.

It is time for Christians to say enough is enough

In the latest attack on Christianity, the U.S. government has banned the flag-folding recitations at all 125 national cemeteries. The banning came as the result of one complaint! The situation is similar to that in which one person removed prayer from schools.This article from The Associated Press explains the situationComplaints about religious content have led to a ban on flag-folding recitations by Veterans Administration employees and volunteers at all national cemeteries.

At thousands of military burials, VA volunteers have folded the American flag 13 times and recited the significance of each fold to survivors. The 11th fold glorifies "the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” The 12th glorifies "God the Father, the Son and Holy Ghost."Citing a need for uniformity, the National Cemetery Administration has prohibited unpaid VA volunteers as well as employees from conducting the recital at all 125 national cemeteries.

American Legion attorney Rees Lloyd calls it another attempt by secularist fanatics to cleanse any reference to God.

Following one complaint, the Veterans Administration has made anti Christian bigotry the law of the land. The U.S. government has bowed to pressure from one radical anti Christian secularist. Allowed to stand, the action by the Veterans Administration, in essence, means that anti-Christian bigotry is now the accepted and approved law of the land.

First I'd like to look at the first ammendment to the Constitution.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

It is apparent by this constitutional ammendment that, by working for the government you become part of it and lose the right to practice your religion as you see fit while in the capacity of your job. This, my friends, is because the government is not obedient to God!

It is incompatible for a religion that says I must "lay down my life to find it" to endorse an institution whose purpose is to preserve my life, at any cost to another person.

This is the irony of it. Christians are crying foul while their governement is helping them live a little closer to their calling.