I am saddened and sickened by the constant news of the killings in Chicago. If we want this madness to stop, we have only two real alternatives.
The first is to tightly control everything that goes on in our society: police on every block ’round the clock, frequent random searches of cars and persons, numerous traffic checkpoints in higher crime areas, and surveillance cameras everywhere.
But our country started with a war over liberty. And liberty will not work if the people do not have the restraints within themselves to do what is right.
Since our country was first colonized in the 1600s, through its official birth at the end of the 18th century until the middle of the 20th century, our public schools taught about God and our responsibility to Him and each other. The Bible was taught, and prayers were said.
Then in the middle of the 20th century, this was found to have all been unconstitutional, though it had been in common practice for about 180 years after our country’s founding with the full support of our country’s founders, the ones who wrote this First Amendment that apparently now forbids it.
Our country has worked hard to scrub all mention and sign of God from our culture, and then we wonder why people act with so little self-restraint or regard for others.
The Bible taught us to love our neighbors, and now we are taught to merely tolerate them. Which is another way of saying to ignore them.
Without God, we have to keep making more and more laws to try to stop the actions of people who live only for themselves because they have little reason to care for others. And where laws make certain actions harder to act out, intent malevolents will only seek out new ways to perpetuate their violence. We worry about guns. In other parts of the world, the weapons of choice are explosives.
The guns are the symptoms and not the real problem. Until we return to “one nation under God,” we have no hope of stemming the violence without becoming a police state.
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America must turn back to God in prayer and reparation. If we don’t correct the crimes we have committed against God, man and nature, God will correct them for us. And that means He’ll strip us of all our God-given rights/liberties. “The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.”
I agree with the writer. We must put God back in our lives if we ever hope to have a better life. The path that obama has us on is the path to hell. I was doing some reading and came across information that said Hitler and Karl Marx practiced satanism. The Communist Manifesto is opposite the biblical teachings. This is a rebellion against God. No wonder that communism has killed more people in peaceful times than all wars put together. Socialism, Marxism, communism are all evil. Any leadership that comes from the far left is evil. If people don’t learn to recognize what is bad and what is good, we will continue to decline as a nation.
Most men will go to any link to protect their family or property from those that would steal, destroy or pervert what they can’t have. However most men are also fools not understanding the truth of God’s WORD. The vast majority claim to believe in God but they have no real concept as to who God really is. They think that just the mentioning of believing in God is all that is needed. Many will say they are Christian or speak a message of Christianity and still not know or understand the true message of Salvation through Grace.
Our forefathers were God fearing men, men of honor and integrity who fought and many died that this nation should be one nation under God, a free nation with a government of the people, by the people and for the people, but today it seems as though those that want to steal, destroy or pervert have now become the majority.
In all of history there has been a struggle of good vs. evil and in the last 40 years or so even I, one with very little education can see how evil has flourished here in America. In these 40 years we have made advances in every category that man has put his hand to, but one…. We have failed greatly in the advancement of man’s faith in the One and only True God.
The Bible was used as an instrument in our public schools for many years but those that want to steal, destroy or pervert our Christian heritage to advance their evil desires succeeded in banishing the Bible and prayer from our schools. The appeasement of these godless individuals has also brought about great loss of liberties, freedom and even loss of lives.
We in America have all failed to protect the liberties and freedom of the most innocent of all life by allowing the slaughter of over 56 million lives through abortion in the last 40 years and in allowing this we have turned our backs upon God. If man fails to protect the lives of the most innocent, then he is no man of honor and he certain has no integrity as is with many that are in Washington today. Thus, this sin of abortion and the tuning away from the godly attributes taught to us in the Bible is why we see the moral decay of our society today and it will continue to spiral out of control until God’s prophecies of America’s destruction are fulfilled. America will be destroyed but Christ will save those that will come to Him.
Quite obviously you’ve never read the Constitution.
“freguent random searches” are strictly forbidden by the Constituion.
(those in WashDC have illegally passed legislations, such as the Nazi-istic “Homeland Security” which were designed to erase numerous Constitutional rights….which automatically voids the legislation)
The Constitution intended no religious presence in its activities: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion”. If Bible quotations were plastered all over WashDC, as you seem to suggest, this would both imply credibility to ‘your’ religion while seemingly demeaning every other or those who choose to not practice any at all.
And quite frankly, would you even WANT your religion linked with those of low morals/no integrity who populate our capital???
No….let those so inclined to ally themselves with one religion or another or another or some other do so in their personal time.
Several comments were made to my article that I should briefly respond to. I should write longer articles at some point to explain more fully and support what I touch on here.
First, the First Amendment forbade CONGRESS from making a law respecting the establishment of religion. The fact is that the states were free to do so and they did. Read the early state constitutions. All of them. I believe without exception they speak boldly on behalf of Christianity. Many or all of the 13 colonies had state religions, all Christian but various denominations of it.
What the First Amendment was intended to forbid was the national religions of Europe, the Church of England, the Lutheran Church of Germany, the Roman Catholic Church of France.
The first act of the first Congress was to call for a national day of prayer. The first Congress even published an edition of the Bible to be used in the public schools.
As for Biblical quotations all over DC, actually it is quite true. The top of the Washington Monument has the words Praise be to God (in Latin) on the top. The Liberty Bell (in Philadelphia) has a Bible verse on it. The Supreme Court has a large picture of Moses and I believe the Ten Commandments prominently displayed in its courtroom. And there are many, many others.
Thanks for writing.
I am kinda, I mean not just kinda, but what is going on people? There are 22 veterans a day committing suicide
The $2 billion DOD budget item for for psychotropic prescriptions indicated for treatment of PTSD.could provide a clue. Records from Ft. Carson NV for the last two years clearly show 150% rise in their use to a 75% suicide increase. Ignoring the involvement of a $4 billion public market for six different SRRIs in mass murders, suicide and serial killings is simply government edited TV media agenda to promote more public sympathy for unconstitutional law and executive orders to usurp control of first, second, fourth amendments Many of the elect are ignoring both their oaths of office and public demand by refusing to bite the other hand that feeds them. All others are refusing to blow the whistle on the biggest government fraud of the twentieth century after the two unconstitutional financial acts in 1913.
If the PSTD / psychotropic killing in Texas today does not provoke the question then no diversion from their agenda can be expected. The only difference between those prescribing the drugs and those taking them is just that. Nothing is apt to change so long as those pushing the prescriptions are not held accountable for complicity in crime under the RICO act. There are none without guilt after the fact since the creation of their profession by a cocaine addict interpreting his own dreams in early twentieth century history.
Just a few questions…
How can a gun that is illegal to own in a state be register?
Why hasn’t there been any information released about Adam Lanza’s Internet history?
Adam Lanza smashed his hard drive but why is information found on the Internet under his ISP number?
The kid was an avid xbox gamer. Why isn’t there any information about his xbox live account or user name? Also, a former classmate said he had a website dedicated to Satan. “Classmate” probably doesn’t exist.
Why can’t you find the school nurse’s registration as a nurse?
Why was the only teacher killed not an American citizen supposedly from Canada?
Why can’t you find any job or school records for Psychologist that claimed he found children in his driveway?
http://www.uvioo.com/video/?m=paidtosave&so=yt&v=WV2cinZ3tzs
Sorry it should read…
Adam Lanza smashed his hard drive but why hasn’t any information under his ISP number been released as promised by the media?