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National Religious Freedom Day aka Celebrating the Founders’ Violation of the First Commandment

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January 16 is National Religious Freedom Day. This is a day on which many Christians will celebrate the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause, oblivious to the fact that, in doing so, they commit treason against their God and Creator:

And God spake all these words, saying, I am Yahweh1 thy God…. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. (Exodus 20:1-3)

Yahweh’s moral law begins with recognizing Him as sovereign God and Creator. As such, He retains the exclusive right to man’s reverence and fidelity. He allows no competitors, if only because He has no competitors:

Hear, O Israel: Yahweh our God is one Yahweh. (Deuteronomy 6:4)

For even if there are so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords, yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him. (1 Corinthians 8:5-6)

Only the most radical antinomian2 will deny that the First Commandment is still relevant under the New Covenant. Yet modern Christianity (including both antinomians and pronomians) is replete with Christians who blatantly violate the First Commandment. They do so by promoting the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause, which established religious freedom in America.

Christians have been hoodwinked into believing this violation of the First Commandment is somehow Christian:

Although the First Amendment does not allow for establishing one religion over another, by eliminating Christianity as the federal government’s religion of choice (achieved by Article 6’s interdiction against Christian test oaths), Amendment 1 authorized equality for all non-Christian and even antichristian religions. When the Constitution failed to recognize Christian monotheism, it allowed Amendment 1 to fill the void by authorizing pagan polytheism.

Amendment 1 did exactly what the framers proclaimed it could not do: it prohibited the exercise of monotheistic Christianity (except within the confines of its church buildings) and established polytheism in its place. This explains the government’s double standard regarding Christian and non-Christian religions. For example, court participants entering the United States District Court of Appeals for the Middle District of Alabama must walk by a statue of Themis, the Greek goddess of justice. And yet, on November 18, 2002, this very court ruled that Judge Roy Moore’s Ten Commandments Monument violated the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. Despite many Christians’ protests against this hypocrisy, it was in keeping with the inevitable repercussions of the First Amendment.

…Christians hang their religious hat on Amendment 1, as if some great moral principle is carved therein. They have gotten so caught up in the battle over the misuse of the Establishment Clause—the freedom from religion—that they have overlooked the ungodliness intrinsic in the Free Exercise Clause—the freedom of religion.3

Religious Freedom and Christian Liberty are not the same thing. They are, in fact, hostile to each other. The former is born of the First Amendment. The latter is born of the First Commandment. In 1789, the First Commandment and Christian Liberty were formally sacrificed on the altar of the First Amendment and Religious Freedom.

When the 18th-century founders replaced the First Commandment (found intact in some 17th-century Colonial Constitutions) with the First Amendment, America was transformed from a predominantly monotheistic Christian nation (a united nation under one God) into arguably the most polytheistic nation to exist (a divided nation under many gods).

It’s one thing to allow for individual freedom of conscience and private choice of gods, something impossible to legislate for or against. It’s another matter altogether for government to enable any and all religions to proliferate through the land and evangelize our posterity to false gods. This is what the First Amendment legitimizes. It is an unequivocal violation of the First Commandment and the polar opposite of the following First Commandment statute:

[Y]e shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves. For thou shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: Lest thou … go a whoring after their gods…. (Exodus 34:13-15)

Ironically, Religious Freedom Day is promoted by more Christians than non-Christians. Consequently, the First Commandment is more likely to be violated on this day by Christians than by non-Christians. However, with your help in sharing this article, we can awaken some of our brethren and deliver them from this grievous sin.

Rather than celebrating Religious Freedom on January 16 every year, let’s instead celebrate Christian Liberty every day by proclaiming Yahweh as our exclusive sovereign and His moral law as supreme, beginning with the First Commandment.

 

Related posts:

Thou shalt have no other gods before me

Chapter 11 “Amendment 1: Government-Sanctioned Polytheism” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective

Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant

A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government

 

  1. YHWH, the English transliteration of the Tetragrammaton, is most often pronounced Yahweh. It is the principal Hebrew name of the God of the Bible and was inspired to appear nearly 7,000 times in the Old Testament. It was unlawfully deleted by the English translators. In obedience to the Third Commandment and the many Scriptures that charge us to proclaim, swear by, praise, extol, call upon, bless, glorify, and hold fast to His name, we have chosen to memorialize His name here in this document and in our lives. For a more thorough explanation concerning important reasons for using the sacred name of God, see “The Third Commandment.”

 

  1. The word “antinomian” is derived from a Greek word implying one opposed to Yahweh’s moral law as pertinent under the New Covenant.

 

  1. Chapter 11 “Amendment 1: Government-Sanctioned Polytheism” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective

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