Steve King Proves America is a Christian Nation… With Dogs
The practice of politics involves odd justifications for all sorts of things, from the naming of post offices to the placement of bridges. Sometimes, however, a justification for a previously-held position stands out head and shoulders above the rest. Today we award our Creative Congressional Justification Award to Representative Steve King of Iowa, who has come up with a proof that America is, indeed, a “Christian Nation.” Read along with me:
Let’s just say if an honorable man from Texas were to pull into his driveway and his neighbor’s dog had gotten loose and had run underneath the tire of his car. If you’re in Texas or Iowa or most of the places in the country, if you run over your neighbor’s dog, what do you do? This is how I’m going to illustrate this is a Christian Nation. You go over and knock on your neighbor’s door and you say, Well, Joe, I just killed your dog. I’m sorry.
Well, there are two things that happened there. One of them is confession, I just killed your dog. I’m sorry, his repentance. The third thing you say is, Will you forgive me? I didn’t mean to. It was an accident. So you would have confession, repentance, and you ask for forgiveness. And the neighbor, Joe, will say, Well, it wasn’t your fault. Of course you’re forgiven. And that is the path of Christian forgiveness that takes place even when we run over our neighbor’s dog.
This is a Christian Nation.
Do you have Buddhist or Islamic or Jewish or Agnostic neighbors? Well, don’t just sit there; get your dog inside the house right now, before it’s too late. Apparently they’ll just run over your dog and keep heading for your mailbox. And we all know what happens after that.
Bonus points go to Representative King for capitalizing both words of “Christian Nation” in recognition of the term’s pending trademark status.
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