The current policy of the US government treats our Democratic Republic as something that we did
for ourselves. While our founders certainly played their parts, they almost universally also acknowledged a deep dependence upon the God and wisdom of the Bible. And they assumed that only like-minded people could be successfully governed by our Democracy. As John Adams said quite well:
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
We abandon these truths to our very great peril!
But the Palestinian people under Hamas are likely to soon make this point for Adams. Let us pray that the Iraqi people will not do the same.
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The first verse of our national anthem, the Star-Spangled Banner, is known by most Americans.
But do you know these words from the last verse?
O thus be it ever when free-men shall stand
Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation;
Blest with vict’ry and peace,
may the heav’n-rescued land
Praise the Pow’r that hath made and preserv’d us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: In God is our trust!
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
As was true in 1814 when our national anthem was written, I’m so thankful that we live in a country where we can still openly give thanks to the author of our freedoms.
But do those who want to excise all public recognition of God from our nation know that what they seek would destroy the very foundation upon which it was built?
Our culture war has escalated to the point that, in the US Congress, one party believes that its primary duty is simply to stop the other.
We have a crisis of values — traditional values against a growing culture of self-indulgence. We have hypocritical politicians who decry the deaths of soldiers in war while enabling the killing of the most innocent imaginable — unborn children by the millions. We have politicians who can now seldom find common ground and are only interested in obstructionism and the acquisition of more and greater power.
Our great technological inventions have allowed our country — which much of the world perceives as a Christian nation, to export, via Hollywood and the Internet, some of the most depraved filth imaginable. Islamic terrorists falsely associate this trash with Christianity to both destroy our witness and bolster their war against us among Muslims.
During the prelude to the US Civil War, President Lincoln quoted Jesus Christ to illustrate the dangers of division; “A house divided against itself cannot stand”. There are few examples in our history when we have been more divided than now.
Freedom has never been free. I challenge the reader to objectively research the beliefs and struggles of our nation’s founders. Our nation was founded by a great people who pledged an allegiance, and their very lives, to ultimate Truth.
If our people cannot find a way to reach back to our roots, back to a people who loved freedom but not anarchy nor licentiousness, then the soul of our once great nation may be already lost.
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In Dover PA there has been a furious battle over simply mentioning Intelligent Design as an alternative theory to Darwinian Evolution. Why such an uproar?
In the federal education act (“No Child Left Behind”) it is stated: “where topics are taught that may generate controversy (such as biological evolution), the curriculum should help students to understand the full range of views that exist [and] why such topics may generate controversy.”
What was the Dover school board proposing other than “teaching the controversy”? Certainly, they were not teaching creationism. And yet, after coming under national scrutiny for proposing the mere mention of the existence of the theory of Intelligent Design, all eight Dover PA school board members who were up for re-election came under furious opposition and were defeated.
Given that science is supposed to be a quest for the truth, the great lengths that proponents of Darwinian naturalism will go to silence skeptics is very instructive. It shows that evolution is more a faith-based belief than true science.
Intelligent Design theory makes no attempt to identify the designer but, unlike Darwinian naturalism, it at least allows the possibility that a designer exists. Why such closed minds and combativeness in academia about the topic of origins? Because of the naturalistic preconceptions of Darwinism.
Why are all non-evolutionary theories portrayed as “creationism” while naturalistic Darwinism is seen as science? Because modern “science” has become intertwined with naturalism — a philosophy that has as its central tenet a presumption that there is nothing beyond “nature” and that the universe exists only as the result of blind chance.
But by so restricing the definition of what can be considered, science is made blind to anything but unplanned randomness; because any theory that suggests otherwise is artificially disqualified — no matter how strong the evidence! Is this really a search for truth?
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