Will Federal Government Attempt to Establish a National Religion?

It happened in England, Wales, and Ireland during the 1530s.  The Catholic Church, which had led Christianity, education, and the West out of the Dark Ages, had its monasteries, friaries, convents, and priories confiscated by the national government in England under Henry VIII.  The clergy that had ministered for centuries since the fall of Rome was thrown out, their churches and assets robbed.

        The government simply set up its own church, the Church of England, with Henry as the Supreme Head.  Divorce was in, the institution of marriage out.

      This month a new movie One Church has started filming, starring former US Army POW Jessica Lynch (photo) to focus on what America will become if something similar happens here.  What will life look like if the federal government were to declare a national religion based on a liberal utopian New World Order?  While “separation of church and state” has never been in the US Constitution, the establishment of a state religion has been made unlawful.  All the more reason not to use that language.

      Federal control of churches, of course, will avoid the “establishment” language of the Constitution, but what if the results are the same?  What if pastors, priests, and rabbis have to cower in the pulpits so as not to offend naked political power, now coalescing into one look-alike, dominant establishment party.   Many fear that the government is already going after religion in America.

      One Church‘s website asks us to “Consider” how the church has already suffered at the hands of the New World Order.  There’s no tyrant like Henry VIII using military force to shut things down.  Being indirect and legal more effectively keeps the public from knowing what’s going on: