Note that the position of the Committee is that the free exercise of “all religions” in our nation is entirely consistent with the PCA’s constitutional standards.  In this context “all religions” does not mean all Christian denominations as it did during the time of the writing of our founding documents.  It means all religions including Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, and a multitude of others. 

In the middle of the Report of the PCA Ad-Interim Committee on Christian Nationalism stands one sentence that reveals the major premise of the entire document. It is the “Sine Qua Non” of the Report.

On page 2721 it says, “Some who use the language associated with Christian Nationalism mean nothing more by it than the conviction that Christians should seek to influence civil society, that natural law and biblical moral principles should inform legislation, and that Christian piety (per WCF 23.2) is best promoted and protected when the civil magistrate promotes and protects the free exercise of all religions. This position is entirely consistent with the PCA’s constitutional standards.”

Note that the position of the Committee is that the free exercise of “all religions” in our nation is entirely consistent with the PCA’s constitutional standards.  In this context “all religions” does not mean all Christian denominations as it did during the time of the writing of our founding documents.  It means all religions including Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, and a multitude of others.

This is the endorsement of “religious polytheism” as the national religion of the United States of America. This is the “Sanctus Religio” of the PCA Committee.  It is a new Americanized version of the Christian Faith which posits a secular holiness in a religious polytheism which replaces the Kingship of Christ over all of life.  It defends the ultimacy of secular democracy as a theological presupposition equal to the authority of Bible. The authors read into the Bible principles absent from the Bible itself.

The problem is not ultimately what they say in the Report, but what they don’t say.  Thus, the Report is not really about Christian Nationalism. The “Nursing Father” of the 1788 Standards has in reality become a beast of prey.  Don’t be deceived.  A multitude of religions existing together in peace is not an option.  It never was. Not all religions relish religious freedom like Christianity when they rise to power. Visit any Muslim country and see what it is like.

Judaism and Islam cannot live together in peace.  This is evident in the importation of the Middle East to the United States in the last 50 years, and with it, chaos and bedlam. The Hart-Celler Act became law in 1965, and as a result all religions of the world officially became equal.

The Nursing Father who is supposed to protect the Church and uphold our Christian public morality, died years ago when our civil magistrates sanctioned abortion and legalized homosexual marriage.  Have we become so blind and naive that we cannot see that some religion will rule the state?  It’s just a matter of which religion.

The Report also says on page 2709 that, “We further deny the right of the Christian magistrate to engage in persecution, suppression, or the disenfranchisement of citizens on the basis of religion.” As long as Christians control our civil government this may be feasible.  However, the only real antidote to the practices of Islam and Hinduism is some form of Christian Nationalism.  This Document officially sanctions the practices of both Islam and Hinduism. Both Muslims and Hindus understand this, and this is why their immigration into the United States has exploded exponentially.  It makes those communities a happy bunch.  Apart from some type of Christian Nationalism what is to prevent Muslims from having three wives and marrying 13-year-old girls?  Or, what is to prevent Dearborn, Michigan Muslim magistrates from implementing the Jizya tax upon Christians?  Or, widow burning (Sati) by Hindus?

While men slept, America has drifted so far from the Christian Faith that we can no longer be called a Chrisian Nation. The Reformed and Evangelical Church has been asleep for nearly 100 years.  It is an interesting fact that before 1962 homosexuality was considered a criminal offense in all 50 states.  Since then, the Nursing Father has become a malevolent murderer, and yet our denomination rushes ahead almost with rage to declare Christian Nationalism as the greatest and last danger to face modern man.  People cannot leave home without a security system, and women cannot ride a commuter train without being threatened with murder; and yet, we are told to believe that Christian Nationalism is our greatest enemy.  Economically blessed Christians must stay in their nice suburban neighborhoods to avoid the dangers of a fierce jungle in the large cities.

Furthermore, the Report failed to deal with Question 108 of the Larger Catechism which says that the civil magistrate in his “place and calling” must disapprove, detest, and oppose all false worship “removing it, and all monuments of idolatry.” Since all religions are now equal in the United States there is no false worship, nor monuments of idolatry. There is only freedom of all religions. Just visit Sugar Land, Texas, and see the giant Hindu statute.  Welcome to a nation that our forefathers 250 years ago would never have recognized.  Welcome to religious polytheism, and a denominational committee that now endorses it.

Any elder in the PCA who is a proponent of this Document should immediately either originate an overture to change our standards in the answer to Question 108 in the Larger Catechism, or make known to his Presbytery his exception to this statement in our confessional standards. I’m really saddened that the Ad-Interim Committee did not recommend this.

I don’t write this with any malice or malevolence.  I appreciate all the hard work the Committee has done.  I think they tried to be fair and confessional.  I just think there is a major problem in the middle. It’s an American problem and now it is a Christian problem.  The Religious polytheism endorsed by the Committee is a prescription for the death of a nation.  It may take a few generations, but it is coming.  If Christ is not ruler over all, then he is not a ruler at all.

Larry E. Ball is a retired minister in the Presbyterian Church in America and is now a CPA. He lives in Kingsport, Tenn.