"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." ~George Washington
On March 14, 2007, a
headline in our local newspaper read, “Congressman is highest-ranking elected
official to admit that he does not believe in God.”
Why, I wondered, after almost 35
years in public office, did Representative Pete Stark decide to disclose this? Was
he trying to win the $1000 prize offered by the Secular Coalition for America,
a group held together by the “far-ranging philosophies” appealing to him?
The article continued,
“Stark gives confession,” aligning himself with 46 other prominent public
leaders who considered themselves “nontheist—a group that includes atheists,
agnostics and other types of secular humanists.” So, what we have here is a
“Stark” contrast. For Christians, the verb “confess” connotes admitting one’s faults
or repenting for having broken laws put in place by a Superior Being, even God.
Christians are under further obligation to “confess God’s hand in all things.”
