Many Christians in America have an idea that they want to preserve some type of “Christian America.” They generally point to America’s past as a “Christian nation” and to some Christian golden age in America.
While such sentiments are nice, they are also misguided and false. I want to look at both the positive points and negative points in trying to return America to a “Christian Nation”:
Positive:
1) It calls for a higher ethical view - when people call America back to be a “Christian nation,” it is a call for better morals. Like it or not, loose morality concerning sexuality does harm a society. It holds a greater potential to break up the nuclear family, which leads to other negative side effects. It lowers self-control as it promotes the idea of, “Get what you want when you want it.” How often are the corrupt in society often linked to dubious sexual deeds? These connections are not a coincidence (though sexual immorality doesn’t always lead to other types of morality); when there is a moral failing in one aspect of life, other parts are to follow.
