One could
say America turned onto and first trod this road the day President Clinton
defiled the White House. One sin begets another. His lust begat lies, his lies
tolerance for wickedness, and so on. It continued with President Bush, and this
journey America is on is being spearheaded today by our incumbent president, the
man who seems intent on accelerating our destruction.
For years
America has been trading off the greatness of the World War 2 generation. Seven
decades have worn this greatness down to a nub, until today we find that
countless nations around the world hate our once revered country.
It is no
coincidence that this slow and steady decline of faith in America as the
greatest nation on earth has coincided with the steady decline of morality and
religious values on which this nation was founded. (And don’t bother arguing
that Thomas Jefferson was an agnostic; even he lived by an unshakable ethical
and moral code founded on Christian principles.) Contrary to his early claims
of being a Christian, Obama clearly possesses no moral compass, but prefers to lend
his support to whichever group happens to be in the majority at the moment, and
has a proclivity for waving the flag of whichever assemblage might produce for
him the most votes.
President
Obama is, ironically, as misguided as was Jefferson Davis in his day. His
principles lay with the highest bidder. Either he is intentionally sabotaging
America or he is unspeakably, monumentally inept, making the wrong choices at
every turn. He needs our prayers so that he might be led by God rather than by
self-interest.
The attacks
on this nation, the growing anti-American propaganda, the wars, all these
terrible events will accelerate and worsen the more America strives to become a
godless nation. We are systematically denigrating our religious values, shoving
God out of school and public life while pushing for the tolerance of those acts
which used to be committed only in the dark. If our government and its people
continue seeking the outlawing of God Almighty, we will reap even worse
consequences than those which trouble us now. In the Bible God gave the
Israelites opportunities to repent. Whenever they chose stubborn disobedience
to His Word, He let their enemies overtake them. I fear the same for my nation,
a land I love—America the Beautiful.
Concerning
anti-discrimination laws, our government needs to tread carefully.
Discrimination
of any sort is both backwards and harmful; this includes anti-Christian sentiments!
It is good that we Americans are seeking anti-discrimination, but if in doing
so we trod over religious liberties, cultural advancement will go out the
window. Likewise so-called ‘Religious Liberty’ bills are just as controversial.
We must take care to make sure these bills do no authorize discrimination, just as we must work to prevent
anti-discrimination laws from shoving Christians into a rock-and-a-hard-place,
forcing them to choose to either follow their beliefs (and thereby invite
lawsuits), or to compromise their faith in compliance with religious
intolerance promoted via these anti-discrimination laws.
Let’s get
specific: The pastor of a Christian church is asked to perform a gay wedding.
Adhering to God’s view that homosexuality is a sin in His eyes as it is
contrary to His design, the pastor says he is not comfortable with performing
the marriage and refuses to do it. The gay couple sues. Following the current
social agenda and the popularity contest that our judicial system is fast
becoming, the gay couple wins. The pastor loses his position. Another pastor is
brought in to the church, one who will perform marriages of any type, because,
after all, making concessions in one’s faith is what the church is all about in
this the age of tolerance for sin. Whatever brings in the numbers.
In the
obverse we have a so-called Christian owner of a diner (re: Indiana Religious
Freedom Bill) who turns away a lesbian couple, citing the bill. This is
intolerance and displays an arrogance not advocated by the Bible. It is
false Christians like the bigoted diner owner who give Christianity and
religious freedom a bad name. Religious freedom bills should exist to protect
believers from being forced to jeopardize their faith, not to empower them to endorse
discrimination.
A balance
between the two sides can be met, but not by bigots, racists, God-haters, or religious
hypocrites.
We need a
better class of leadership in this nation. We need men and women of unshakable
faith if we ever hope to enact this decisive balance. We should invite the LGBT
community into our places of business, we should hire them, bring them to
church, but if we feel it would displease God to honor their lifestyle by
marrying them, then we should not be forced to choose between God’s will and
man’s. After all, as our Creator, it is God’s right to decide what is pleasing
to Him, and what is detestable (Leviticus 18:22). I know of many straight
couples who were forced to choose a different church and pastor to marry them
due to various reasons. It upset them, but they didn’t sue anyone over it. Why
start a war over a disagreement, when a peaceful resolution can be found by
those who honor God above man?
This
dangerous path America is currently on can only lead to civil unrest, or worse,
to a Godless nation. We must pray. We must live as good examples. We must voice
our concerns and support those who support a God-fearing America. (It is right
and good that we should love and fear
Him; He is both Creator and Destroyer. Let us not provoke the latter.)
Consider
this: without God, who will there be to bless America?
