A question for anybody interested in this topic

Topic:  The role of Christianity in Western Civilization

Question:  Is the secular state attempting to stamp out Christianity, and by what means?

Answer:  I think yes, and the means is by taxation.  Although it is true in the United States that the church is tax exempt, it is also true that the church must stay out of politics.  However, what happens when politics encroaches upon religious liberty?  Then the churches are helpless from such encroachment.  You are seeing that with the implementation of Obamacare.  But make no mistake.  It goes much, much farther than that.  Everything that the political left wants so badly ( such as abortion ) goes into enhancing their power at the expense of the church.  Abortion encourages promiscuity and irresponsibility.  The result is a nation that no longer produces children.  No nation can survive that for long.

But the churches are only helpless to the extent that they allow themselves to be sucked into the moneychanger scheme of control.  The moneychanger scheme of control means that the church cannot stand on its own without assistance from the state and is thereby subordinated to the state.  Once that happens, the church is no longer free to be itself.  It cannot actively protest abortion, for example.  If any church does, it will lose tax exempt status.  The moneychanger scheme of control wins again.

The solution?  The church should grow its own food.  It should build sufficient housing for a substantial portion of the population when the government fails to adequately address the needs of the people.  The government WILL fail because every government does fail eventually.  Check your history books.  It fails as the Ricimer example of the late Roman Empire in the West demonstrated.  It fails because it concentrates all of its attention upon its own needs and ignores the needs of the people and the community.  Such an empire cannot stand because it lacks what it needs to sustain itself---the will to sustain itself.  The leaders simply don't care about anybody but themselves.

You have to take matters into your own hands while at the same time not getting burned by ruthless authorities who only care about their own perks and privileges.