The nation founded on faith is surrendering to moral decay.
When Hillary Clinton was seeking the presidency in 2016, she referred to a segment of the citizenry that objected to the so-called liberal agenda as “deplorables” (that liberal agenda is now seen more clearly as a communist agenda expanded to include cultural communism in a model of communism advanced by A. Gramsci).
This writer was delighted to be included in Hillary’s deplorable grouping, and in my published essays and in private communications, I have enjoyed referring to myself as a deplorable. This term reminded me of a certain protestant group in England in the 17th century snidely being referred to as “Puritans.” The term was applied as a put-down of those who dared criticize the Church of England as being unbiblical in a variety of ways. Yet, when the Puritan group of Pilgrims came to the North American continent faithfully trusting the Lord to meet their needs and hoping to establish a “city on a hill,” they did not know that the Lord would use their faithfulness to establish a unique and prosperous culture that would become the USA.
Along with the Pilgrims, the other early colony established in Virginia was composed of bold Church of England male believers/adventurers who founded Jamestown. Although there was an element of greed in Jamestown that was not found in Massachusetts colony, a church was also built as one of two original buildings. “Church services in James Fort were held fourteen times a week.
Regular church attendance was required, with punishments ranging from loss of food rations to execution for violators who blasphemed ‘God’s holy name’ or challenged the authority of a preacher or minister.”
More than 100 years after those original settlements, a Great Awakening or revival of faith came about in the colonies led by Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield. However, in the Southern and Middle Colonies, John Wesley was preaching and inciting a return to Christian faith and virtue. And his movement also was put down by calling his followers Methodists because he insisted on more methodical study of the Word of God and more fasting. It should always be encouraging to believers to be put down by unbelievers or apostates. Rejection is not pleasant, but we receive our encouragement from a loving God and from the comforting power of the Holy Spirit.
O ye fellow deplorables, fast forward hundreds of years with me to the 20th century.
When this writer was still in public school, although not raised as a Bible-believing Christian, the Bible was read daily in the public elementary school I attended in Philadelphia, PA. Typically the Psalms were read as not being offensive to students who were Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish. There were no doubt atheists in the class, but their presence did not establish the format.
But in 1962 and 1963, prayers and Bible reading in the public schools in the USA were declared unconstitutional under a false understanding of separation of church and state. However, the principle that there should not be an establishment of religion in the USA properly understood meant that there could not be an official religion of the USA supported by public moneys as was the Church of England. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black’s contention that Jefferson’s allusion to “separation of church and state” in a letter affirmed a strict division between government and Christianity, that was a false interpretation. The premise that Christian religion in a general sense was valid was and is true, and the distortion by Black that produced our present wall of separation was false.
We cannot have an official specific religion, like the Church of England was in that country, but Biblical values can still be accepted as a spiritual norm. Public tax moneys cannot be used to support a particular church or denomination. Biblical values are the underlying ethical values of the USA no matter what atheistic blasphemers like Black may think or say.
The Bible says marriage is between one man and one woman, and that is why polygamy is illegal. If Christianity based on Biblical truth is not “established” then what can prevent a state from legalizing polygamy? Where do legalities such as not stealing, not killing, not lying in court, respectful behavior to one’s parents and teachers come from if not from the Bible? And in fact, because of the rejection of the Holy Bible in our lives, we see a continuous rise in crime, misbehavior in schools, disruption of family life, decline in marriages and birth rates, all supported by the affirmations of SCUSA in the early1960’s. --->READ MORE HERE
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