I always enjoy perusing artist Jon McNaughton’s website, and specifically, his posted artwork which includes a nifty interactive feature.  It gives the viewer an opportunity to peer into McNaughton’s political motivations and influences.  And based upon his piece “One Nation Under God”, I’ve come to realize that McNaughton is guilty of perpetrating a crime that used to bear my fingerprints.

The crime is this false notion of “religious liberty”.  A notion that puts all religions on equal footing.  A notion that crowns conscience, at the expense of Christ’s social Kingship.  A notion that, in my opinion, has opened the door to utter societal chaos on matters that have no business being debated (see, “gay” “marriage”).  A notion that has produced such colossal slippage in Catholicism, that Kathlyk Supreme Court judges view those holding on to the traditional and TRUE meaning of marriage as intolerant, bigoted tyrants.  Well Justice Kennedy, you can put me at the front of the line.  Not the “bigoted” line, the “faithful Catholic” line.  Thanks.

But back to “One Nation Under God”.  It is utterly galling to fathom Our Lord and Saviour holding up the U.S. Constitution as a means of emphasizing the “important role in the preservation of” the United States of America.

This push to embalm “religious liberty” makes a virtual church out of the institution of the Constitution.  This same Constitution that has Constitutionalists arguing that the government should “get out of the marriage business” and “get out of our bedrooms” and “get out of women’s wombs”.   If the United States were truly One Nation, Under God, would the United States be in the predicament in which it currently finds itself?

Or… am I simply painting with too large a brush-stroke?