1 Thessalonians 5:17 says to, "Be joyful always, pray continually..." It doesn't say, "Be joyful... but only when it doesn't bother someone else, pray... but only when no one is around to see you since they may be ofended..." Christianity isn't a part-time job... it's a life-long, soul-impacting career. It's not something you can remove when you walk into a room like a hat or coat. God is a part of every true believer and they are a part of Him.
"But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship Him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth." (John 4: 23-24 KJV)
The United States of America is rapidly, and sadly, become a Godless nation. As our government leans further and further towards the embracing and acceptance of immoral behavior and anti-Christian beliefs, we grow ever less the nation that declared it's independance with the words:
"...We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights..."
The first Amendment of the Constitution guarentees each and everyone of us the right to "practice what we preach".
The first chapter in David T. Moore's book Five Lies of The Century is entitled "America Never was a Christian Nation" and begins with this paragraph:
When Missippi governor Kirk Fordice stated that America was established as a Christian nation, he slipped from political correctness and was ridiculed by newspapers from coast to coast. The Washington Post slammed him for his historical ignorance and "policies of exclusion," suggesting he was a bigot who was "attempting to cut large categories of people out of the [American] process." Was Fordice really ignorant of American history, or did he simply make the mistade of violating current political correctness? Was the founding fathers' motivation freedom from religion or freedom of religion? In both questions I believe it was the latter. Furthermore, the founding fathers intended religion to play a central role in their national experiment of democracy.
** (exerpt from an article written By Curtis J. Sitomer, Staff writer for The Christian Science Moniter 4/15/88):
"... Fr. Blum is particularly critical of recent rulings on ``equal access,'' which he says ``prohibit children
at school from reading the Bible or talking about God during nonclass time, but allow them to talk
about bingo and the World Series.''