Is it advisable to heed calls to make U.S. a theocracy?

In recent months, some Christians have called to make the United States a theocracy. One nation under God, and one religion under God.

However, what would a formally Christian United States look like? How would it be achieved? How would it get around the Constitution?

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A reading of our Old Testament, along with portions of the Gospels that describe the crucifixion of the one we serve, Jesus, clearly show the dangers of a theocracy.

There were thousands of priests in Israel prior to the exile of the Jewish people to Babylon who were a part of the theocracy. If we read their names in the Bible, we only read this once. Yet the names of Elijah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Amos are not only mentioned a few times, books in the Bible are named after them.

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Finally, in my many readings of the Gospels, I have never found an instance where Jesus made anybody do something. Jesus changed people by his words and actions.

Instead of changing our form of government to make people act the way we want them to act, we should follow the example of Jesus. Jesus changed people by His words and actions. Our words and our actions can make the United States a much greater and better nation if our words and actions reflect the Jesus of the Bible that we say that we love and follow.

(The Rev. Leonard Edloe is pastor of New Hope Fellowship Church in Hartfield. His email address is leonard.edloe@gmail.com.)