Rev. Mark H. Creech doesn't think very much of the American Republic. Like many evangelical Christians, he argues that America should be conceived of as a theocracy, ruled by divine laws interpreted by people like himself. Only a theocrat would say that we need to be under the "laws of God" in order to have freedom and that if we live under the "laws of men," we will be living under tyranny.

Creech wrote at Agape Press:

Our founding fathers never intended the First Amendment to mean that religious dogma should have no influence on our system of government. This has always been the understanding up until recent years when “activists” judges started ruling otherwise. In fact, the Declaration of Independence refers to “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God”; the National Motto says “In God We Trust”; the Pledge of Allegiance admonishes “One Nation Under God,” and the Judicial Oath is “So Help Me God.”

Isn’t interesting that Mark Creech doesn’t quote the Constitution here? He quotes lots of other sources, some of which simply aren’t relevant to interpreting the Constitution. Could it be that even he realizes, deep down, that the Constitution itself doesn’t support his claims?

The case of Judge Roy Moore is a watershed issue for the nation. If Moore’s cause, which ought to be the cause of all Americans, does not succeed; then our nation will be destined to live within the boundaries of legal relativism. There will be no definitive and final legal standard of appeal to justify moral decisions on governmental levels. One judge’s opinion, whether good or bad, will be just as valid as another. And so the great horror will begin -- no longer will we be governed by the laws of God, but by the laws of men -- no longer will there be freedom, but tyranny!

The rejection of theocracy is characterized by the concept of living under laws created by human beings, for better or for worse. But Creech and those who think like him are not satisfied with the laws of men. For such people, anyone who doesn’t want a theocracy — whether religious or non-religious, Christian or non-Christian — are enemies both of the State and of True Religion (tm).

Mark Creech appropriately and favorably cites a book written by Gary Demar, a Christian Reconstructionist. One can legitimately speculate that Creech himself supports Reconstructionism, a particularly vile brand of Christianity which advocates “reconstructing” America along the lines of Old Testament laws.

Mark Creech certainly wants the American government to explicitly endorse Old Testament laws (as in the Ten Commandments) and he wants all Americans, no matter what their religion, to live under the “laws of God” as Mark Creech understands them. What, really, is the difference between his views and those of Christian Reconstructionism?

 

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