A Reasonable Response to the Mayor’s Declaration

By Vince Coakley with Dr. Steve CrosbyIt is intriguing that as our esteemed Mayor prepares to leave our city to fill a Cabinet position in Washington, we learn about the true spiritual convictions that apparently undergird his beliefs and policies.In case you didn’t know, Mayor Anthony Foxx, going against the grain of others who will “turn to God in a day of prayer and meditation,” argued in his proclamation May 2 was better served as A Day of Reason because "the application of reason, more than any other means, has proven to offer hope for human survival on Earth."Mayor Foxx is also mistaken in his history in implying that our forefathers based our republic on the thoughts of the Age of Enlightenment and reason. No, Mr. Foxx, that is what the French revolution was based on, and the result was beheadings, secret police inquisitions, and imprisonments. The American experience was not a theocracy of state religion as in the blood-soaked soil of Europe, but neither was it the perfection of secularism that Mr. Foxx would have the naïve believe. It was a hybrid of the Age of Reason infused with a Biblical worldview. Our forefathers were a mix of theists, deists, and atheists and even the atheists were positively disposed to the teachings of Christ, though they despised organized Christian religion (with good cause, I might add!)Mr. Foxx wants to excise the portions of history that don’t suit his progessivist agenda. The battle cry of the revolution, “No King but King Jesus,” doesn't fit Mr. Foxx’s very prejudiced progressive spin of the history.Let me help Mr. Foxx with some history that he probably didn’t get at New York University:·         The first and almost only Book deserving of universal attention, is the Bible. – John Quincy Adams·         It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible. - George Washington·         What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ. It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his[…]