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A CHRISTIAN'S CALLING IS TO BE SALT AND LIGHT, EXERCISING DOMINION OVER THIS PLANET, REIGNING IN LIFE BY HIM (ROMANS 5.17).

"It may come as a shock to many Christians to learn that our faith began and prospered in a strict intolerance, an absolute refusal to bow the knee to Caesar, to the State.  As R.H.Barrow writes in his The Romans ..'Moreover, there were Christians who felt that every daily act which contributed to the welfare of the State contributed to the maintenance of idolatry.'

"Despite the increased persecution in the 3rd and 4th centuries A.D., which was the consequence of this steadfastness.... Barrow writes that 'Christianity was true to its early intolerance; it would not accept a place among contemporary religions; the claim which it made upon its adherents was absolute.'

"He writes: 'The oppressed found their protection again, not in a magistrate of the State, but in the Church.  The Church became the leader in the alleviation of poverty and distress, in providing hospitals and schools and orphanages and charity of all kinds..(S)o it offered to men a hope ... in bondage to the State.'

"All around us today we hear people who call themselves Christians urging us to compromise, to be pluralistic....  Pluralism is a sin and a grievous one indeed." (From 'Our Man in Washington', Chalcedon Paper No. 11, May 1986, by J. Lofton.)

We have never been a pluralistic nation and we are not a pluralist country even now.  We are a mono-culture, and that culture is Christianity, which allows other religions to exist but not to dominate.  We believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour - any other religion is a false faith, because God Almighty says so..

"If God's voice isn't to 'dominate or drown out all other voices,' then He isn't God - at least not the God worshipped and died for by Christians!

"..(I)t is almost impossible to believe that Harvard University's original charter contains the following education mandate: 'Everyone shall consider the main end of his life and studies to know Jesus Christ which is eternal life.? Can it really be true, as it is, that Harvard was 100 years old before it had even one professor who was not a Christian minister?" (Chalcedon Paper 11)

Our culture has always been determined by Christianity, but at this late stage in history Christianity is becoming sub-cultural, i.e. through pressure by Humanist academics, sections of Christianity have begun to be determined by the culture.

"There can be no tolerance in a law-system for another religion" because "toleration is a device used to introduce a new law-system as a prelude to a new intolerance." "In the name of toleration, the believer is asked to tolerate all things because the unbeliever will tolerate nothing." "This means life on the unbeliever's terms." "Biblical order is denied existence, because all things must be levelled downward." (From Dr.R.Rushdooney's Institutes of Biblical Law)