America
We Exclaim, “God
Bless America
But where are our hearts
Throughout our nation’s history,
Americans have exclaimed “God Bless
Years ago it was understandable where
such an exclamation could come from. You
knew it was heart felt when said. There was no doubt that those chanting it
believed in those words. But what about today? When at
one time we were a nation “under God” and God was at the foundation of that
which our founding fathers sought to preserve and promote through freedom of
its uninhibited worship, we have systematically slammed the door on the very
principles our country was founded to represent. Consider what we have done
over just the last fifty years alone and take a few minutes to think about what
we are becoming. Where we are heading. Then ask
yourself, do we have any right at all to even ask God to bless
Our political representatives (they who
represent you and I through our vote) as well as our
judicial system have pursued the complete removal of any audible or visual
expressions of prayer to our Lord and God in schools and public buildings to a
degree that it is against the “law”, an infringement on others. The separation
of church and government was a large part of the premise behind this movement
but it was distorted in order to accomplish this. In the founding of our
country, this separation was meant only to keep government from adopting
one faith and forcing that faith on all citizens as it was in
A bit of irony
Listen To The Words Of The Late Red
Skelton, Christian, WWII Veteran and World Famous TV Celebrity
Where are we going? Well let’s see. We
have enacted laws and given our approvals for abortion, the
selective elimination of the most vulnerable of human life. Some call it the
“right to choose” but that sentence rarely seems to go any further verbally. We
are working diligently to eliminate the words “In God We Trust” from our
currency. Is it that we no longer trust Him? Or is it we no longer believe in
Him. We are, in a growing number of our states, supporting the legalization of
“same sex” marriages and some barbaric means to pursue stem cell research. We
have “drive-by” shootings and assaults performed against our youths by our
youths; We discipline children for outward signs of affection when they so much
as hug a friend; We produce serial killers who can select people at random,
look down the sights of a sniper rifle while hidden and end a life for
amusement; We have school massacres performed by our children gunning down our
children; fathers and mothers not only killing each other but killing their own
infants and children before committing suicide; We have families destitute and
living in cardboard boxes under bridges while some corporate executives receive
hundreds of millions of dollars in bonus money in one quarter (not
including their regular income). Many institutions including commercial
businesses will not allow employees to say the Words “Merry Christmas” as a
greeting. But it still represents the Celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ
whether some like it or not. And on it goes as if the time will never come that
we will have to answer for the transgressions of the society we created.
So the time to raise the question is now,
Let us pray daily on it.