In the wake of the terrible school shooting in Nashville, a politician from Tennessee has called for a Christian revival all over the country. A few weeks before, at a college rally in Kentucky, thousands of people said almost the same things.
Tim Burchett, a Republican from Knoxville, talked to the press on Tuesday. He then implied that Congress wasn’t the way to stop mass killings and instead called for a return to Christian values, saying, “It’s terrible. I spent 16 years in the Tennessee assembly and lived in Nashville. It’s just a terrible situation.”
Burchett pointed to the Capitol building and said, “It’s not going to get fixed. Criminals will keep breaking the law.” My father, who fought in the Pacific during World War II, once told me, “Buddy, if someone wants to kill you and doesn’t care about losing their life, there’s not much you can do about it.”
He said, “The United States is in the middle of a mental health crisis, and we need to act right away.”
When a reporter pointed out that Burchett was from Tennessee and knew about the problem, he said, “It doesn’t matter what state it happens in; we’re all Americans.” They can be any color you want. The blood of all people is red. They’re bleeding out badly.
Burchett said, “I don’t see any real role we can play other than making things worse.” As I said before, I don’t think the fact that guns can now be 3-D printed on a computer would stop a thief. My guess is that you won’t be able to reduce gun violence. I think it’s important to win over the support of your audience.
Then he went into more detail about his earlier claims about the need for a Christian renaissance. This is a widely held belief among Christians, and he said, “I really think we need a revival in this country.” It’s in the Bible, so maybe if everyone in the church started preaching about love we’d make some big steps forward.
Christian students from all over the country have been going to Asbury University in Kentucky for a month to take part in a prayer and praise practice that started as a simple church gathering. On February 8, students who had planned to leave the service instead prayed and sang, starting what is now called a revival. Within a week, the return was on the front page of almost every newspaper in the country.
College students from Purdue, Indiana Wesleyan, Ohio Christian, the University of Kentucky, the University of the Cumberlands, Transylvania, Midway, Lee, Georgetown, and Mt. Vernon Nazarene were among those who went. The revival ended 16 days after the university said it would put it online.
One of George Washington’s helpers, who was also his relative, said that the president prayed every morning and night while kneeling in front of the Bible. John Adams said that our Constitution was “written by a moral and religious group for a moral and religious group.” This means that it was never meant to govern anything other than a religious nation.
Daniel Dreisbach says that the Bible is the most often mentioned book in the works of government figures. Many of the founders believed that the Bible contained the morality and faith needed for a republican government.
According to the Rand Corporation, there is a link between a large number of religious people and a low crime rate. Other study shows that more religious people try to stay away from criminal behavior.
Pew Research found in September that “many Americans have left Christianity to join the growing number of U.S. adults who say they are atheist, agnostic, or “nothing in particular,” and that “by 2070, Christians of all ages are expected to drop from 64 percent of all Americans to between 55 percent and 35 percent of all Americans.”
Burchett said, “I’m an idealist, brother.” I didn’t come up here because I was afraid someone would kick me in the but. I was going to do something because the Bible says that’s what we should do.