"One Nation, Under God," - No More

The events of the past week should be a wake-up call to all Americans, especially Christian-Americans.  Our Democracy has been undone.  We are no longer “One nation under God,” but rather a nation divided, and our civil leaders follow neither God’s Truth nor even the ‘rule of law’ as established in our Constitution.  Our government is supposed to one of self-governance and rule of law, established by democratically elected representatives of the people, or as Lincoln put it in his Gettysburg address: “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”  Instead, we now have a ruling class in the form of unelected judges, who not only fail to uphold law as written, but overturn laws duly enacted by the States under the democratic process.  The Supreme Court’s decision last week to uphold Obamacare means that law, as plainly written, can be ignored by the Executive Branch who is then at liberty to implement whatever they please, giving exemptions to political cronies while imposing penalties on Christian organizations who object to the removal of their religious freedom.

In the gay marriage decision, SCOTUS established marriage as a civil right of all Americans, although no such right exists in the constitution, and more than 30 States had democratically voted to restrict marriage to one man and one woman.  In doing so, the court denies the truth of nature and nature’s God(as revealed in our bodies), while ignoring natural law and the right of every child to be raised in a family with both of their biological parents.  Marriage has officially been redefined as ‘any loving relationship’ rather than a sacred institution for the nurturing and protection of children in a family.

On several occasions, president Obama has pompously declared, “We are no longer a Christian nation…”  Skeptics and Obama defenders will point out that he went on to say, “… at least not just a nation of Christians.”  But listening to the You-tube video of President Obama in its entirety, demonstrates how perversely he interprets scripture, which he quotes mockingly to point out (in his mind) its ridiculous demands.  He even derides the sermon on the mount, saying that it “is so radical, it is doubtful our own Defense Department would survive its application.”  Revealingly, he goes on to say, “Even if we were all Christians, which form of Christianity should we follow, Dr. Dobson’s, or Al Sharpton’s?”   Given the fact that the president has welcomed Rev. Sharpton to the Whitehouse more than 50 times, I guess we know that answer to that rhetorical question.  If you think I’m exaggerating , view the You-tube video yourself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOOrSAbU9z8

President Obama has indeed transformed our nation, or perhaps it is more accurate to say he is dismantling our nation.  What is a ‘nation’ after all?  The standard definitions include things like, “defined territory;” “people sharing a common culture, tradition and language;” and “people united by common interest.”  Our borders are so porous, can we say we have a ‘defined territory,’ when people can stream in illegally and be welcomed with an array of rights and welfare benefits?  We certainly no longer share a common culture or even common interests, and we welcome and celebrate multiple languages.  People being offered legal status and/or citizenship are not required to take a civics course, or pledge allegiance to our nation, but rather, just show up.

In the midst of all this bad news, I turned to scripture for solace and encouragement.  Here’s what I found in Sunday’s first reading: “…justice is undying.  For God formed man to be imperishable; in the image of His own nature He made him.  But by the envy of the devil, death entered the world, and they who belong to his company experience it.” (Wisdom 2:23-24)   Our nation is in the grip of the ‘culture of death’ and is sinking deeper and deeper into the lies and deceit of our president and his appointees in the courts, and the Departments of Health, Justice, Education and the EPA.   Each departments is busily cranking out reams of new regulations repressing religious freedom, inhibiting job growth,  and stifling  our economy.  But worst of all, our elected and unelected rulers have abandoned morality in favor of absolute freedom that disparages and ridicules religious sensibilities.  What remains to be seen is whether or not this newly imposed law on marriage will result in legal action against Christians and religious institutions who will not abide by it.

The answer to that question depends heavily on the next presidential election.  The presumptive Democratic nominee will surely advance the liberal agenda.  A couple years ago Hillary Clinton accepted the “Margaret Sanger Award” from Planned Parenthood, and said this in her acceptance speech: “I admire Margaret Sanger enormously – her courage, her tenacity, her vision.  I am really in awe of her; there are a lot of lessons we can learn from her life.”  This is the very same Margaret Sanger who wrote voluminously about “race purification.”    In her book Women and the New Race, Sanger wrote, “The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is kill it.”   In The Woman Rebel Sanger wrote, “I look forward to seeing humanity free some day from the tyranny of Christianity, no less than capitalism.”   This is Hillary’s role model, and she is on the threshold of becoming our next president!   Barack Obama, despite all he’s done to undermine our democracy and impose immoral laws on our nation, may have been only the warm-up act for what’s to come if Hillary is elected.

Alveda King, the niece of Dr. MLK, has pointed out that Planned Parenthood is “the most obvious practitioner of racism in America.”  They target black neighborhoods and are the biggest contributor to the fact that 25% of all African Americans have died at the hands of abortionists over the past 40 years.  Although African Americans comprise only 11% of the population, they account for 43% of all abortions.  Clearly, Margaret Sanger (and Hillary’s) dreams have come true, and much of it is now financed with government tax dollars from direct grants and government-provided health insurance.  Under Hillary’s presidency, religious organizations who refuse to support these “women’s health” initiatives will be punished severely unless they change their beliefs and adhere to the new laws.

Our nation is dying and those who advocate for the culture of death, the destruction of children’s lives, and their natural rights, are deeply mired in evil and the death that accompanies it.  Unhinging society from the moral values that protect human life and uphold marriage and traditional family values, is like committing national suicide, albeit in slow motion.  Is Christianity on the wane, or are we only being temporarily repressed?  The choice of our next president will determine whether or not we, as a nation, are “Imperishable, created in the image of God,” or does America “belong to the company of evil?”  This is the time to choose between Life and death.  Remember, “Justice is undying.”