Editor’s note: The views expressed here are solely those of the author.)
God is dead.
Hear me out, my neo-conservative Christian friends. I grew up in the Bible Belt, Alabama to be specific, and fully understand the importance of personal spirituality and the core faith so many enjoy in the United States. Since the liberals began their all-out assault on the Republican Party, and more importantly its faithful Christian-based wing during the Vietnam War, our country has moved at a rapid pace leftwards As a result of this political movement, a secular seed was sown and has taken over the proverbial Garden of Eden.
Americans have eaten the forbidden fruit and continue to return to the tree ridden with evil. Social issues have now shaped our country and have become the battle cries screamed at any minority willing to take the pitch, rather than economic and fiscal responsibility. Abortion, birth control, fairness, gay rights, legalized marijuana; these are all terms we have grown overly familiar with during the previous election cycle. When few of these things mattered to an American populace during arguably the worst recession in our history, we chose to fight rather than deflect.
We sit and complain when the ACLU attacks religion and wants to remove God from our schools, money, and public buildings. We whine as the courts remove public prayer from our school and sporting events. Slowly and methodically, our country has stabbed God and allowed him to bleed profusely. Now the secular portion of the leftist electorate have pushed through some policies long held at bay by the religious right. The final slash to His heart may have been cast. Catholics around the country continue to vote for leftist candidates, the very folks who castigate them for their beliefs. Some protestant groups have flocked to liberal candidates, casting their votes without thought like moths jumping around an open flame.
As a result of turning our backs on God by allowing our elected officials to remove prayer and religion in public settings, and by forcing faith-based institutions to pay for contraception when it flies in the face of their personal religions, we have allowed The Almighty to become what the secular left has wanted: a myth.
Can this trend be reversed? I am doubtful that we will be able to turn this around, but it may be possible. Educating the voting base is a must! The electorate votes for the candidates, so it only stands to reason that an educated electorate will vote for someone with similar beliefs. African Americans and Latinos are ferocious Christians; yet they have flocked to Barack Obama. Many will point to race as the primary factor, but a more important factor has been our party’s inability to teach and spread our message.
Until we play a wiser and more strategic political game, however, God will remain dead in America; and that is the cold, hard truth.
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GOD is not a myth.
GOD id NOT dead.
He has arisen.
Do not ignore the 58,000,000 who voted against nobummer, sociallism, communism.
GOD WILL hear our prayers,
regardless of how loud the commie no-GOD noise is.
Pray Brother!
Standby for a later post
Mr Upton
“Hear me out, my neo-conservative Christian friends.”
You sound as if you classify yourself as a “neo-conservative”. If you do, then you’ve got a lot of justifying to do considering your article. First off “neo-conservatives” are just another form socialists or Marxists. Actually they are Fascists minus the white superiority complex. I do mean this in terms of philosophy as well as ideology. Second: Consider this; If you are of the old line conservative values of the Southern culture, Inlcuding faith and beliefs, which can also extend to some people in the North and elsewhere, then you are a “PALEOCONSERVATIVE”. Apul Gottfried coing the term in the 1980′s. Look up the credentials of Paul Gottfried and the term Paleoconservative. Then correct this in your article. Or, you can read the many articles I have wrote concerning it under my name.
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur
PS: Sadly I could spend the rest of my days here correcting the historical mistakes made by the authors and writers, not counting the posters. This says volumes about the public indoctrinational system. Knowing good English is one thing, as many mistakes are not fatal to the overall conclusion and gist of the content. Understanding good history is quiet the opposite, whereas small mistakes can be fatal, destroying the who concept and gist of any topic or subject critiqued.
This was , dear one ,the writers own way he wanted to interpriate and you are so below the march it is sad that you believe that this person that said this truly really understands and wants you to be wrong about the facts and makes his own tale of what he wants his followers that aren’t really the true meaning. So you are judging us as you think your thoughts and we will go with how it really is and not take the word of some one truly wanting to displace our values and morals as you trying to pass along some thing that was worded the way you wanted to see things and are still unfortunately . My prayers be with your lack of knowledge and missplaced direction to guide them towards your way of life… Your comments scream with muslims interest and the disolving of our countries anti colonializm beliefes. (I don’t have spell check so hope you can understand your commons aren’t factual just rantings of some one that you chose to believe)
@sloegin
You are so full of yourself and with so much self-righteousness, you deserve no further comment. Thank You Very Much!
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur
November 6 and the vote reveal the Nation and its new culture as a sensate culture. A sensate culture takes it cues from the 5 senses. Thinking has been replaced by feeling, etc. To understand the depravity of the Nation and understand the future if this trend persists, I encourage reading of Pitrim Sorokin’s “The Crisis of Our Age” [1941] and a companion volume by Harold O.J. Brown “The Sensate Culture” [1996].
The late Professor Brown used the Sorokin model and gave it contemporary application in a highly readable and descriptive way.
We may fret and squirm about Tuesday’s outcome but when the exhaustion of feelings occurs, as it will, a more solid foundation will be sought. Meanwhile, we may endure hardships without any American parallel.
Mr. Upton, where does Faith come in to play? We battle not amongst ourselves, we are at war with spiritual things, such as the spirit of the air which war’s against God, earth is the battle zone, and we are the prize in which satan is trying to destroy by taking Faith in God away from us. God has asked us to pray, but with prayer comes Faith, Now Faith is the Substance of things Hoped for the Evidence of things not seen, Heb. 11-1, So, the problem, in my opinion is not that God is dead, it’s Faith in God that maybe dead, you see, it was by Faith that the Elders obtained a good testimony, and it was By Faith that We understood that the Worlds were Framed by the Word of God, by this, we know that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible, it was also by Faith that Able offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than his brother Cain, it was also be Faith that Enoch was taken away, and did not see death, and I could go on. So you see Mr. Upton, or at least I hope you Understand, God is Not dead, the lost of Faith thru Prayer that may not be stirring amongst the People, if anything. First America really needs to come Back to God (that is not seen tangibly) and that is where our Faith comes into play. America is anything has lost that Hope, God is Alive, He is everywhere, and He is in All things, one just need to open their heart and ask God to come in, this is where Faith comes in. America has lost their Belief in God, that is a main ingredient in seeing Faith become Tangible, and therefore visibly seeing that God is Not dead thru Faith. God is they Key, and God use’s circumstances, situations, and even man in order to turn Man back over to Him. God does not, and will not do anything to hurt His creation (Children, or us), if God did, that would make Him a child abuser, and that He is Not, and if anyone thinks God is an abuser, than you must remeber Jn. 3:16, where He (God) Gave His Only Begotten Son (Jesus), in so Believing (Faith) in Him (Jesus) would have ever Lasting Life, not here in this world, but in Heaven where He (God) Dwells.
Thanks to everyone who has responded to my article. I knew when I wrote it individuals would interpret it as me stating emphatically that “God is dead.” If you believe that prayer is God’s food, then I would postulate that God is dead or is dying in the United States. Without all of us spreading the conservative visions we wish the U.S. would again embrace, without each of us speading the word of God, I fear belief in God is dead. When we no longer believe in God, does it matter if he lives or not?
Naturally, this is simply my opinion.
Well, I do agree with you. Too many people SAY they believe in God, yet act as though He IS dead. He’s not, but when they figure it out, it’ll be too late for them. And, as long as I have faith in Him, He is alive to me, & to all of those who TRULY serve Him. People kept quoting that scripture ‘if My people call on Me, then will I hear, & heal their land’, but kept leaving out the part that said ‘turn from their wicked ways’. People who can vote for those who sponsor abortion, same sex marriage, etc, cannot claim to His child. America is in some serious trouble, & IS going to pay an extreme price for the wickedness. And, those who didn’t vote at all are just as guilty as those who voted for Obama.
“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind….”
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men…”
Romans 1
Even if most the people on earth stopped Praying, there will always be someone here praying for something or someone. I believe the Prayers Gods loves to answer the most are those Prayerss we say for Other people in need of Gods help, when there is nothing else We can do for them.
And Yes, I understand your point very well. Great Article
@Howard Upton,
I had no problem understanding what you were actually getting at in stating God is Dead. I read it easily as you described in your followup. I only had a problem with your understanding of neo-consrvatives. I am still wonder if you used the word with the intent that they were also believing that God was dead, as in not existing, or were you referring to them as in you being part of the of neo-conservatives, posing the Q & A to them also? I responded as if you considered yourself a neo-conservative as that was the way I read it, and if that is true then that’s where my problem/disagreement would be with you. In this day and age, people are so dumbed, even people claiming phd’s, that I can’t take their knowledge for granted that they know something under any conditions. Therefore I am forced to question the validity of some statements from time to time. This was one of those times. Pardon me if I interpreted your statement wrongly.
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur
Sadly, I have to agree with this article. Although there ARE still those that believe, we are in the minority now. But, what happened Tuesday night is going to have SEVERE repercussions. God WILL start His judgment on America, & very soon. In fact, it started BEFORE the election, but many missed it. Those who ‘claim’ His name will be the ones judged the harshest, especially those ministers who have watered down the Gospel. And, He is not going to just overlook the murders of 50 million innocents, nor the open homosexuality. America will be facing its’ on Sodom & Gomorrah punishment. All those of us who are true children of God have to be ready to help any that we can to find Him during the coming days. God help us is all I can say. And, those who voted for Obama are only fooling themselves that they are Christians.
God is always there, it is us who turn from him. There are those of us who inspite of our loosing this election know there is a reason. No one could repair the damage Obama has created. The selfish people still want their handouts. The Politians want to get re-elected. No great ideas would be accepted because it may take
away from those with their hands out. So Obama got re-elected he will not improve anything. He never told us he would. So we do not expect anything from him except more debt, less freedom, less jobs, more crime, because they cannot find jobs. So I hope, you, who are the ones who put him back in the office he failed so badly at the first four years, enjoy what you have done.
Well, your Partly Right. The God of the Israelites DID DIE. He Died on a Roman Cross. Yes, the man Jesus, had to give up His God Personage to be born in a Human body. And Yes he has a Father who is THE GOD above all Gods, but He was not the God of the Israelites.
However, that being said, All the Death and Destruction has a Price, and those who died before getting to know the man Jesus, had a chance to meet him after they died. What was in their Heart when they died, either gave them a chance to be saved, or to be Damned. Sorry to sound Contradicting, but what I’m saying is actually in some what cryptic form in the Bible. When Jesus says they will be Judged by the Laws that are in their own hearts. If the Heart is Full of Evil and Hate, they would be lost. If full of good, then their soul would be saved. However, They, would not be allowed to Participate in the Preastly Anointing Jesus has for those of us who Knew him BEFORE we Died. They would not have been laying up Treasures in Heaven as the believers in this world do now.
Those of us who Die with Jesus in our hearts, will have an Inheiritance in Jesus, where those who’s souls are simply saved from being destroyed because there was enough good in them not to throw their soul away, will Not have any inheiritance, but at least their souls will be saved.
As for the Bad things we suffer in this life, those are Training videos for us, so we know what to look out for when we are children of the Most High, and keeping the Masses who will be alive on this planet during Jesus rein on this planet, we will be in charge of keeping them in line, should they desire to slip back into the Evil ways that they may have known before Jesus took over. In Other words, as the Bible says, we will be Kings and Priests over the people of this world, and maybe a few other worlds, So what we have experienced in this life will serve to help us follow not only our Hearts, but Gods word as well, and Teach Rightiousness to All.
I know many of you will think I am Crazy, or who knows what, but before you Judge me, consider this. Many people have had near death and dead experiences, and been brought back. I had something like that when I was a small child. And when your in the spirit, you know all things, and everything is Hyper drive, compared to this world. So understand that there is a lot more going on in the Spirit world then you may know.
Mr. Upton,
Regardless of the point you are trying to make or the others who agree with your article, you may be a Christian but you ought to be ashamed to even utter those words, “God is Dead.”
Why? Because it shows me that you know little about the true nature of God as revealed in the Bible. The only ones who are “dead” are those who “are dead in trespasses and sins”, and “The god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ should shine unto them.”
God never died anywhere or at any time. He is everlasting – always was and always shall be.
Oh, I know what you are trying to get across – that we have become a godless society, but to describe it as though God is dead is a very poor choice of words both theologically and literarily.
I disagree. Read what Mario Murillo has to say about it: http://mariomurilloministries.wordpress.com/
To you maybe,but I have had enough hardships to know that he is alive and well! The younger people has no training how to grow up a man! Most grew up getting everything they point at . Others were brought up on walfare,all they know is the goverment will give them everthing they point at! They do not have to study to go to college the goverment will send them if they learn or not. Most or more stupid when they get out of college than the were when they went in! So the young has never had to neal down and to pray for one more weak of food for your family,pray that you get a job to have a place to live,or pray to make enough money to put your kid in hospital.Thats why they think god is dead,only thing they knoe is the goverment will pay any problem they get!
Dude, You are Absolutly Right.
GOD may be Dead in your eyes but he is very much alive in mine, GOD gives people a choice unlike Satan who choices for you, this last election proved that , people would rather listen to a lie than the truth and they will flock to the untruth as sheep to the slaughter. Don’t blame GOD for anything. Satan is loose and he is in control of people right now. If you remain faithful to GOD Satan can not touch you no matter how bad it gets. Remain in GODS hand and Satan will be afraid of you.
I have to agree with the auther of this piece. 2nd Chronicles 7:14.
Mr. Upton, I am going to challenge you with this:
If you were in the presence of the Almighty God and have the humility that those in Bible times had, would you be able to utter those words, “God is Dead” in any shape or form?
Guess what! God is omnipresent and omniscient, so you are effectually in His presence at all times.
A wiser and more strategic political game begins with the fear of the Lord who is the beginning of wisdom. Without the right foundation the house will surely fall. Our founding fathers understood this principle very well and we should heed it to. The problem is we people of faith have compromised our principles for political power and influence or we have been silent while building our little fortresses and enjoying the decietfulness of riches. Perhaps, as I read from another commentator for WCJ say, this may be God’s plan for bringing His people together. After all, judgement begins in the House of God.