As a Nation, We Have Forgotten God
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When I was a kid, there was an expression: “Stop the world. I want to get off.” Glancing at the headlines sometimes makes me feel that way.
For example, here are some stories highlighted on Drudge on Monday (8/6/18):
•A crackdown on free speech by Apple. They decide what is and what is not “hate.” Consequently, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is now denied his platform.
•The #MeToo movement continues to speak out against alleged sexual predators, and CBS is working to weather a storm of allegations swirling around their CEO.
•Canada is calling for a boycott of the US.
•Sex with robots is a growing fad.
•The president is beleaguered by allegations of collusion with the Russians.
•Calls are going out for social media censorship of climate change “deniers.”
•In Chicago, 63 were shot over the weekend in a city with some of the strictest gun control laws. 44 of them were killed within 14 hours . As a colleague noted, “It’s like Fallujah, only worse.”
•Parkland victims protest the NRA…but the former have armed guards.
•Older Americans have money woes. The New York Times (8/5/18) reports: “The rate of people 65 and older filing for bankruptcy is three times what it was in 1991.”
Why is America seemingly sinking into the abyss? We have forgotten God. As a nation, just like as individuals, we reap what we sow.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, the great Russian writer and critic of the atheist USSR (who spent years imprisoned in one of Stalin’s gulags), once said: “…[W]hile I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.”
The Nobel-prize winning writer went on to say that he had read hundreds of books on the godless Soviet state and talked with many people about the murderous disaster it was, and he said no one provided a better explanation than those simple peasants: We have forgotten God.
Not to the same degree, but something similar could be said about America. We have forgotten God, and are reaping the consequences.
About 200 years ago, Yale University president Timothy Dwight (1752-1817) warned us against forgetting God: "Without religion we may possibly retain the freedom of savages, bears, and wolves, but not the freedom of New England. If our religion were gone, our state of society would perish with it and nothing would be left which would be worth defending."
Dwight also added: "Where there is no religion, there is no morality....With the loss of religion...the ultimate foundation of confidence is blown up; and the security of life, liberty and property are buried in ruins."
Why? If there is no God, there is no one to hold us accountable. That is why so many deny God, when they know deep down, “Of course, there is a God.”
About 50 years after America’s independence, Alexis de Tocqueville, a notable Frenchman, came to these shores to assess the new nation. He wrote his famous observations in 1835 in Democracy in America, a book that is still in print, in which he noted: “It must never be forgotten that religion gave birth to Anglo-American society.”
One of the greatest American speakers in the 19th century was Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster. He’s depicted in statues in DC and is the center character in a large painting in Boston’s Faneuil Hall.
Webster once declared, “Finally, let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light, and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate its principles with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political, or literary.”
The famous orator also opined, “We live under the only government that ever existed which was framed by...deliberate consultations of the people. Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in 6,000 years cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once gone, might leave a void, to be filled, for ages, with revolution and tumult, riot and despotism .” [Emphasis added]
Revolution, tumult, and riot are becoming almost commonplace in America. We have a U.S. Congresswoman, Maxine Waters, declaring people should publically hound out and shame members of the Trump team. The minority leader in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, is wondering why there are not more “riots in the streets” against this administration.
During the days of the Civil War, our nation faced worse challenges. But Abraham Lincoln called for a national day of repentance and prayer in 1863, in which he warned us to stop forgetting God as a nation and to remember this truth: “those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.”
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How can you possibly forget what does not have any evidence of existing?
Did we also forget Zeus, Ra, and Oden?
Someone else posted this before, think it was Skrekk...
•A crackdown on free speech by Apple. They decide what is and what is not “hate.” Consequently, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is now denied his platform.
This is supposed to be a bad thing? rofl. It should have happened a long time ago.
•The president is beleaguered by allegations of collusion with the Russians.
Probably should have told his son to ignore that email.
I actually don't think God will protect the guilty in this case. Plus Trump doesn't really believe in God. In other words, God doesn't care about Donald Trump's legal problems.
... not to mention that "free speech" is not applicable to a private space like Apple. Apple may do as it pleases within its territory.
The fact that these two items are listed together? fail... LOL
As a nation we have forgotten God...
I doubt trump can spell, "God". Cheated on all of his wives, paid off porn tars, raped his fist wife, sexual assault against 19 different women... Lies constantly, has defrauded millions of people out of money....Yea, he is a GREAT representative for the, "moral right".
Every time I hear him say, "God bless America", I think, "Ok, but Donny, "God" is sending your ass to hell". My guess is that if there is a, "God", he wants NOTHING to do with trump.
Without bad examples we wouldn't know what good examples would be. lol
The nation has not forgotten gawd. Gawd has forgotten the nation when he heard "Jews will never replace us" by the 'rising cancer' in the nation.
It's really an insult to the truly spiritual when religion is used to manipulate the masses. Trump gives zero fucks about religion except how he can use it for his benefit. To imply he can repent is ignoring his entire life of not repenting, and if he does it won't mitigate what he has already done. In fact, he has repented NOTHING, so why bring it up? He lies, he is an adulterer, he makes himself the idol, he swears, 'holy day' is yet another golf day, he himself said he could murder someone and get away with it, he steals (not paying his bills, cheating many), he HAS given false evidence against someone, and he is one of the most insecure and envious people in the country. That pretty much covers breaking the commandments. Why do the religious ignore that and protect and defend him instead? He's also racist and a hypocrite. Trying to figure out exactly what you find so pious about him. Please elaborate.
Proselytizing.
No.
"We" have not forgotten God. Unless of course Dr. Jerry Newcombe 's "we" refers only to America's Evangelicals... in which case he is perfectly correct! (The doctor's website is... enlightening...
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The leadership of the Evangelical movement has been taking its flock deeper and deeper into partisan politics, for the last several decades. With Donald Trump, that leadership... and all American Evangelicals ... were faced with a choice between God and political expediency. They chose political expediency, blindly following a man who has demonstrated over and over that he does not follow Christ.
I, personally, am not part of that "we".
I certainly didn't forget god rather I came to the logical conclusion that he doesn't exist. Morals have existed since before our earliest ancestors climbed out of the trees not because god poofed them into existence but because groups, tribes, villages, societies need them in order to function.
wait... Apple is the government now ? i always thought Apple was a private entity that could do as they please in concerns to their rules on speech and if the conservative minded didn't like it then they could just stop patronizing Apple and "let the market punish them" as per the capitalistic system they revere.
do you have any stats on this ? i don't know anyone that is having "sex" with robots - of course those people could be out there but i'm skeptical on stating it's a "growing fad" unless i have more stats.
yes, we know you'll state it's because of whining or conspiracy theories etc, without ever looking further and asking "why would this be happening if the 'collusion' or anything illegal involving Russia never happened ?", then logically thinking the situation through. (btw, i'm not stating there is nor isn't any collusion or anything of that nature)
again - private entity that can make it's own rules regarding speech, correct ? there are "conservative" alternatives, so i suggest you use the capitalistic system you revere and go to those sites instead and let the "market" punish those "evil" social media companies, and you can stop seeding articles whining about it.
ever notice there are other cities with worse murder rates ?
why are they having money woes ? i thought once Trump was in charge this country would be rich beyond our wildest dreams and everyone would be doing great financially since he's "Making America Great Again" - are you telling me this isn't working ?
so far, none of these things have to do with God unless God gives people guns and tells them to kill people, or God takes away money randomly from people or God is in charge of Apple and limiting speech or that God is gifting everyone with sex robots and demanding they use them for sexual purposes ? Ever notice that most of the religious are all about being held accountable to "someone else" instead of taking personal responsibility and holding themselves accountable ?
Meh, never a big Harry Potter fan to begin with.
Don't you just love it when self-ascribed Christians, Creationists, Evangelicals and the Pro Life Holier-Than-Thous …
• Support politicians who do the pimping for profiteer energy companies that are raping God's Green Earth …
• Do not utter a word of condemnation of a POTUS who rolls back clean air and water standards
• Aren't marching in the streets in protest of children and families that are illegally incarcerated, separated from one another, caged in FOR PROFIT PRISONS, the corporate entities of which made $4 billion in 2017 and, contributed $225,000 to a Trump-supporting PAC?
… And still have the hypocritical balls … TO DECLARE THAT "WE AS A NATION HAVE FORGOTTEN GOD?"
Proverbs 11:29
Please don't spit in my face and tell me "it's raining"!