Future of Faith

It is going to be a new world we live in.  The Christian faith is going to be, as it has always been in this country, one of many. The major difference will be that it will not be given preferred status by law. The situation will be more like the church in the first two or three centuries when it was competing with the Roman and Greek religions. It was not given preferred status until the Emperor declared it the religion of the Empire.

The Christian faith will no longer be privileged before other faiths. The Jews, The Muslims, the Buddhist and others will have equal standing in law. The people who want to be Christians will have to be intentional about it the way Jews have to be intentional about their faith. The way Muslims have been intentional about their faith.

The impulse of all Religions to impose their values and laws upon the rest of the society will have to be rejected. Shari law can not be accepted in our society nor can the religious practices of Christians be imposed upon the rest of society.  Any laws and rules will have to be rooted in some common and general sense of values that are good for all society.

This will be a very rude awakening for most nominal Christians. The thought that this is a Christian nation has been an illusion.  The reality is that most of the early Christians came to this country to be able to practice their religion they way they wanted to and they all attempted to impose their religion on the whole community. That is how Roger Williams had to flee to Rhode Island.

It will be a great benefit for the Christian faith because it will decrease the number of joiners who simple tag along for various personal reason.