In 1953, I was 30 miles from Nagasaki, in the port city of Sasebo, Japan, on the way to Korea during the war there to keep communism from trampling every corner of Asia.

I did not know it at the time, but Nagasaki, the second city to be A-bombed in 1945, the last year of World War II, had a significant Christian population. It was a legacy of Japan’s 16th century opening of ports to foreign explorers and missionaries. Significantly, Nagasaki was once known as the “Capital of Christianity” in Japan. And so it was that on August 9, 1945 tens of thousands of men, women, boys, girls and babies vanished instantly from the face of the earth in one burst of an atomic bomb.

I bring these facts of history up to highlight the inevitable inhumanity of global warfare and to underline the importance of Christianity to people anywhere on earth. That importance evidently reflects something deep in the human spirit that overrides cultural and political considerations.

Fast-forwarding to present times, the importance of Christianity in political affairs may be sensed from the fact that faithful followers have been branded as terrorists by officials of government in this nation. Plainly this faith touches something much deeper than politics.

In view of the freedom of religion wisely instituted in the Constitution, we must wonder why such extreme carelessness of duty on the job has not been grounds for official censure, at the least.

But that’s another story . . .

I’ll continue by asking, what is it that could make a U.S. government official regard Christians as a threat to America? The idea occurs to me that anyone who thinks that way is behaving as though he/she has been drugged somehow. A........

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