I noticed a concern by some people about Donald Trump making a more religious appeal than a secular one this time on the campaign trail.

Former President Donald Trump promised to use a second term in the White House to defend Christian values and even suggested he’d shield the faith’s central iconography, warning a convention of religious broadcasters on Thursday night that the left wants “to tear down crosses.”

“Remember, every communist regime throughout history has tried to stamp out the churches, just like every fascist regime has tried to co-opt them and control them. And, in America, the radical left is trying to do both,” Trump told hundreds of cheering attendees at the National Religious Broadcasters International Christian Media Convention in Nashville.

I will say this first and then make a more significant point later: Without strong Christian support, Donald Trump would not have won in 2016 and 2020.

Now, to my larger point. Secularism is atheism.

America’s founding is designed for our government to work within a theistic framework and it cannot work any other way. Governments are created by God, and not by people, as many people are led to believe. (This does not mean evil people don’t get in office as we can see with the Biden administration and some in the uniparty establishment.)

The role of the government is to bear the sword, by punishing evil and making sure we can live a peaceful life.

Our founders understood this point very well and that is why we have the structure of government we now have.

And that is why many were very clear that our Constitution was created for a moral and religious people and is suitable for no other.

The Church is created by God but operates in a separate jurisdiction from the government and that is what Jefferson was pointing out to members of Danbury Baptist Church when he mentions a wall of separation between the church and state. The government does not get to interfere in the Church’s business, but Christians should be involved in our governments.

Christians ought to be involved in the government, we are to be light and we are to make the case for the principles taught in the church to be a guide for a moral and religious society.

Failing to make that case has come at a steep cost.

We are reaping the fruits of secularism, and Darwinian evolution; truth cannot be relative, you are a person at conception, a man cannot have babies, marriage is between a man and a woman, a boy cannot be a girl, and transfigurement of children is evil and demonic. And yet we are awash in the denial of those things, to our great detriment as people and as a society.

Trump is making the right move by appealing to our religious foundation this time around.

There is only one explanation for him still standing after all the assault he has endured.

He has recognized that God is his protector. And it is worth honoring him.