Danes feel Obama is greater than Jesus

[kandrathe]

So the government providing people with food stamps is "socialism," while feeding people in a church soup kitchen is "charity"?

Yes. That is exactly correct. Robin Hood was a thief, and a socialist. The food stamps didn't spontaneously appear, the money was taken from other people. When you give your own money its charity, but when you give other peoples money its a crime. But... It's worse, because our government also gives money to bail out failing corporations, wall street tycoons, we defend over half the nations in the world from the other half, and when anything in the world breaks (like Haiti), we are expected to go fix it on our dime. The average debt owed per US family is now over $120,000. If we only ever spent money on widows, orphans, and those unable to care for themselves we'd not be in this much trouble. Instead, the government gives away millions to millionaires, and to corrupt bureaucrats within and without our own government. Consider this; All deficit spending is deferred taxation. We've got a big hole to fill, and it's only getting deeper fast.

I doubt that any theocracy (on this earth, anyway) would life up to your definitions of a "truly" christian nation -- any nation based on a specific ideology, religious or otherwise, is not likely to be a tolerant one.

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. No true Christian in my definition would pursue fame or power. I think much like George Washington, they tend to have the responsibility pushed upon them.

Seems odd to suggest this given that the US has an extremely high level of religious belief and very full prisons while western Europe has a lower level of religious belief and less crowded prisons. But I do agree with you that people who are engage in a social structure of one form or another are less likely to commit crimes.

Actually, a majority of people in the US claim to be Christians, but less than half actually attend church regularly (about 40%.) compared to about 20% in Canada, or 10% in the UK (less in Sweden, Netherlands, and France). I would actually call the 60% of Americans agnostics, they are unsure, unchurched and uncommitted. Now, consider how many of the 40% would be enlightened Christians who actually have based their beliefs on some level of reasoning (I would estimate < 5%). Most people go along because they feel it is the easier path to go with the status quo. Still, from the research, it seems that the important statistic is regular attendance in some positive life enriching activity, whatever the heck they are teaching as long as it is teaching moral behavior and social responsibility.