1) The undermining of the dignity & sanctity of the home. Which is the basis of human society.
2) Higher & higher taxes, the spending of public money for free bread & circuses for the populous.
3) The mad craze for pleasure. Sports becoming every year more exciting, more brutal, more immoral.
4) The building of great armaments. When the great enemy was within, the decay of individual responsibility.
5) The decay of religion. Fading into mere form, loosing touch with life, loosing power to guide the people.
I believe in America we are at, or may be way past number 5. Back in the 60’s we started undermining the home, if not earlier. Taxes seem to continue to rise, paying for everything from a photographer to create “art” by taking a picture of a crucifix in a glass of urine, to wool research. Thought we knew all you could know about wool? Guess not.Wasteful spending goes from the city government all the way through the federal government. Our politicians have lost sight of “who’s” money it truly is.
A look at the UFC & (even though it’s fake) the WWE & you can see the level of violence in our society, all for our pleasure. Not to mention the fleshly pleasures that people take part in, from drugs & immoral sex to immoral movies & music, our society is becoming more & more depraved in the way of pleasure & becoming “mad crazed” about it.
Do you know that San Francisco is about to vote, or may already have voted, on legalizing prostitution? On AOL news a few months ago, they put out a poll that had two questions 1) Do you think San Francisco should decriminalize prostitution? Out of 29,208 people: 62% said yes only, 33% said no & God bless em’ 5% didn’t know. 2) Do you think prostitution is a victimless crime? Out of 38,204 people: 54% said yes only 39% said no & again, God bless em’ 7% said I don’t know. I think the 7% of the “I don’t know people” scare me more than the “yes people”.
Though we do have enemies outside our country that we must defend ourselves from, we more than overlook the enemy we have here within. I’m not speaking of some terrorist cell, but decaying morality & ungodliness. God’s hand has been on this nation, because of it’s Christian roots & the true Christians that pray for it, but as of now, God may be removing & may have already removed His hand from us.
"The decay of religion", we are passed this stage. We have watered down Christianity & the worship of God so much that people can claim to be believers & live however they want without guilt. We have made it a bad thing to feel guilty for doing wrong. We have candy coated the gospel & God’s Word to the extent that it hasn’t the effect it should on wayward believers & unbelievers. We are terrified of speaking about hell & sin afraid that we may offend someone. We won’t even use the word lie anymore; it’s now stretching the truth. A person who is hooked on alcohol isn’t in sin they have a disease. If someone committees a heinous crime, their not guilty, it’s their environment’s fault or their parents are to blame.
If a politician lies, cheats or steals no big deal, that’s just the way they are, or we take up for them because of our party affiliation. Abortion is just being pro-choice & homosexuality is called an alternative lifestyle. It’s all good with us, it’s all gray. No more black & white, night & day, right or wrong, we are riding the fence, we are lukewarm.
You open the paper or turn on the news & it’s, there was a murder here, a robbery over there, yesterday someone was raped, a drug deal happened up the street, there was a shooting in a school, ect… but you never hear the word Sin. We don’t have anything in this country more than a SIN problem. We can call it what we want, but our nation is turning away from God & falling deeper into sin. We are no better than Israel, God’s chosen people. He disciplines them, & He will discipline us as well.
All throughout history any nation or people who turned against God or would not turn to God, that nation or people were destroyed by their own sin, or removed by God. George Bernard Shaw said it best, “We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.” It’s a very sad thing that we as Americans have been handed a nation by God through the faith of our forefathers who understood what they had & now we have. Unless we are total fools we can look back at our American history & see the hand of God. We hear it from the lips of our founders:
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible" President George Washington, September 17th, 1796
"Without a humble imitation of the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, we can never hope to be a happy nation."
President George Washington
"Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being, who rules over the universe, who presides in the council of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States.." "...Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency" From President George Washington's Inaugural Address, April 30th, 1789, addressed to both Houses of Congress.
"I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- God Governs in the Affairs of Men, And if a Sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, Is it possible that an empire can rise without His aid?" Benjamin Franklin
"Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education. The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effectual means of extirpating [removing] Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools." Benjamin Rush
We also hear it from the lips of some of our greatest presidents & citizens:
"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Savior (Jesus) of the world is communicated to us through this book. President Abraham Lincoln
"The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion." President Abraham Lincoln.
"Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty" President Abraham Lincoln.
"The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country." President Calvin Coolidge
"The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible, 'In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths." George Washington Carver.
The list & quotes can go on & on, we my friend have lost something from the times of the pilgrims landing till now & that something can not be regained without God. We have lost our knowledge of history. History has taken a backseat to the other school studies & Christianity has all but been removed from the history books. Abraham Lincoln said, "The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next." We are seeing this first hand.
Hopefully you are now thinking about our nation & how it would be without it. Hopefully you are thinking about the future of your children & what we will leave them. Hopefully you will get off of your backside & help in changing things. We need to start by praying, seeking God in our everyday lives. He is the only one who can stop us from forgetting history & becoming history.
“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
George Santayana
George Santayana
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