From Randy Moll at the Constitution Party of Arkansas website:
What’s wrong with America? What changed the nation’s course and led us down a path which makes our nation — our society — almost unrecognizable to those of us who still remember another America?
People answer these questions a number of different ways. Many point to our nation’s ills — to things like abortion, euthanasia, sexual aberrations, lack of self-esteem and respect for others and drug and alcohol abuse. But these are only the symptoms and result of a far deeper cause. And so, we need to look deeper if we are to find out and understand the reason for what’s wrong with America and what has changed the course of a whole nation and people.
If we look back on our nation and the principles upon which it was founded, we see an entirely different way of thinking — a different world view. Our founding fathers, even though not all were Christian, held to a Christian (or Judeo-Christian) world view. They believed that the world and all mankind were the creation of an almighty God, to whom all are responsible and to whom all must one day give account. They also believed that people have certain rights given to them by their Creator — rights which men and governments have no authority to take away.
The Declaration of Independence sets forth this common belief in the well-known words: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
How things have changed! Rather than believing in an almighty creator God who has given us life and all things, the view of modern society — the view taught in our public schools and espoused by our nation’s government and courts — is one of a chance existence: life and the world as we know it are the result of “natural” laws relating to mass and energy in the universe with man being the highest known form of evolving life.
Thus, instead of man being a creation of God — a person endowed with life, liberty and the freedom to own property and carry out godly pursuits before he stands before his Maker — man is now viewed as an insignificant speck on the face of the universe who is here today and gone tomorrow. His only significance and meaning in life is in the existential now, and his only moral guide is himself and the views of society’s influential and ruling elite.
Is it any wonder, then, that our nation’s highest court could legalize abortion and grant protections to same-sex marriages in all 50 states with sweeping rulings? Should we be surprised that euthanasia has been practiced and is now being legalized in a number of states? After all, modern laws are no longer based on the moral absolute of God’s Ten Commandments and the Bible; they are based on the opinions and desires of people and society. If society determines it is okay to murder unborn babies for the convenience of the mothers, it becomes the law of the land. If society thinks it is acceptable to terminate life when it becomes “unmeaningful” or “unuseful,” then it becomes the law of the land. If society determines that alternative lifestyles and same-sex marriages are acceptable, the law is used to protect these aberrations. If society determines that it is okay to have sex outside of marriage, to produce and view pornography, to allow no-fault divorces, that lotteries and other forms of gambling are for the common good, they become legal and lawful. And the list goes on!
Of course, what has happened is not new. It has just taken another form. In the Garden of Eden, the devil’s temptation was to doubt God’s Word and to become like gods, knowing good and evil (Genesis 3). Instead of listening to God and His Word, Adam and Eve made their own moral judgment and did what seemed good for them at the moment: “When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat” (v. 6).
Adam and Eve erred in the Garden and we err today when we seek to be our own gods and put in place of God’s Word our own views of what is good and evil, right and wrong. When we determine our own moral values, our values are neither moral nor absolute. They change from situation to situation and become further and further removed from the foundation of God’s truth.
Sadly, we may not have seen the worst yet in America. If a ruling party determines it to be good to exterminate people of a certain race or religious or political view, it could become law — it did in Nazi Germany. If a ruling party determines that churches be closed, presses be shut down or censored and that dissenters be sent to mental wards or labor camps, it could become law — it did in the old Soviet Union. If a ruling party determines what our children are to be taught in schools, who will receive health care and how, what is socially and morally acceptable and what is not, which religious speech and displays are permissible and which are not, it will become the law of the land — it’s already happening in America.
This is the direction America is taking today: God and His Word are becoming outlawed; man’s opinions and views are becoming the law of the land. Our nation is becoming another fulfillment of Psalm 2: “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against His Anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.”
And so, what is my point? It is just this: It will do little good to complain about the symptoms if we don’t address the root problem. We must do more than oppose abortion, euthanasia, sexual immorality and other symptoms of a humanistic, man-centered nation and society. We need to focus on restoring a world view based on the God of the Bible and His absolute and unerring Word.
That cannot be done through war or bloodshed. It cannot be accomplished through political might or gaining the upper hand at election time. It won’t be accomplished through marches on the nation’s capitol. Church programs and membership drives will prove futile. And though I often write columns political in nature, they will be of little effect.
There is only one way to change America’s world view, and that is by preaching and teaching the Word of God — the Bible — with a goal of reaching one person at a time. Only when people again read and hear God’s absolute truth will they be reminded that they are not gods. There is only one true God and He sits in the heavens and laughs at our foolishness in thinking that we can cast off all ties with Him and with His Anointed — the Lord Jesus Christ.
Only when we, by the working of God’s Holy Spirit through His Word, individually acknowledge that God is God and humble ourselves before Him, trusting the promises of His Word which assure us that God desires to be merciful to us, forgive us and accept us for the sake of the eternal Son of God and our Savior, Jesus Christ, will our way of thinking change. And if, by the grace of God, enough people hear the Word of God and believe its message, America, as a nation, may also change its world view and let God be God again, before it is too late.
By Randy Moll
Gentry, Arkansas
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Good luck trying that, Anastasia.
Here’s some other quotes by our founding fathers-
“Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by the difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be depreciated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society.”
-George Washington, letter to Edward Newenham, October 20th, 1792
“If I could conceive that the general government might ever be so administered as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded, that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.”
-George Washington, letter to the United Baptist Chamber of Virginia, May 1789
“We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance for honors and power we may expect that improvements will be made in the human character and the state of society.”
-John Adams, letter to Dr. Price, April 8, 1785
“I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.”
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Elbridge Gerry, January 26, 1799
“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.”
-Thomas Jefferson: in letter to Alexander von Humboldt, December 6, 1813
“And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in shewing that religion & Govt will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.”
-James Madison, letter to Edward Livingston, July 10, 1822
“When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obligated to call for help of the civil power, it’s a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.”
-Benjamin Franklin, letter to Richard Price, October 9, 1780
From other American leaders-
“All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All separated from government, are compatible with liberty.”
-Henry Clay, Speech in the House of Representatives, March 24, 1818
“If there is one thing for which we stand in this country, it is for complete religious freedom, and it is an emphatic negation of this right to cross-examine a man on his religion before being willing to support him for public office.”
-Theodore Roosevelt, letter to J. C. Martin, November 9, 1908
And from others-
“All religions must be tolerated … every man must go to heaven in his own way.”
-Frederick the Great, note to the Religious Department, June 22, 1740
“Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.”
-William Butler Yeats, from remarks on the adoption of the Irish Constitution of 1937
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Regardless of the current moral state of man and our society, if would be better if the individual and the church and them alone dealt with this matter in a way that is respectful of the First Amendment and our country’s principles of religious liberty & plurality that we enjoy in this country, and keep government out of the problem; which would instead grow a thousand-fold and see our own constitution still get shredded under a theocratic government in the same way as it would in a socialist, totalitarian one.
The best solution is simply more individual freedom for all and keeping government & government regulation out of the matters best left to the family and the pulpit -unless one’s civil liberties and rights are infringed upon, which has happened before, regardless of people’s and societal attitudes and beliefs on religion, or lack thereof.
I trust the Libertarian Party the best and a thousand times over the Constitution Party to find a solution for and address such matters, as I have seen many individuals and whole state affiliates in the CP behave in a way that exposes their Calvinist, theocratic undertones and closet agenda as to what they intend to do once they can get the American voter to look their way and believe as they believe in large numbers.
The CP fails to understand the nature of the growing decline of religious belief in the public forum and how more and more Americans are tired of sectarianism and typical Bible-Belt fundamentalist jargon that no longer appeals to the average, informed voter, and which has in fact played a big, BIG factor in turning off more and more people to religion and making them atheist instead.
However today, this uninformed and obtuse, vain rhetoric above falls largely on deaf ears and does not do the Christian religion any good whatsoever.
With all the talk of co-opting the Libertarian Party, wouldn’t it be a hoot if a bunch of us atheists, agnostics and Pastafarians took over the Constitution Party?
Right on point. Watch: https://youtu.be/eWTYTWSsZeo
Ever wonder why it seems that our Constitution is all but gone, and the moral values of this nation continue to deteriorate, here is the answer: If we want to recover our Constitutional protections, we must recover our faith in God, and moral values, for they are intrinsically connected to each other. As history teaches us, The Republic of the United States of America was founded on the God’s Truth and Divine Wisdom. If we ignore and remove them from our nation, we destroy its very foundation, and will ultimately destroy this nation. As some great men have taught us:
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” -John Adams.
“Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.” -Benjamin Franklin.
“The First Amendment was not created to protect the government from religious values, but to protect those with religious values from government tyranny.” -Ronald Reagan.
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” -Plato. (Those who gain power through intimidation and oppression of other human beings are inferior beings).
“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” -Albert Einstein.
“The greatest scourge an angry Heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and a sinning people, was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent Judiciary.” -Chief Justice John Marshall.
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