GOD BLESS AMERICA--WHY?

By DELL ARTHUR 

            Rummaging through my files a few days ago I came across an article I had put away and forgot about written by an unknown author that, for me at least, had an enormous jarring impact. It gave pause to reflect about has happened to our society as a nation and as a people. What has happened to our moral compass? Rereading the article made me reflect about and where we are heading.  The article sharpened the incredible difference between what had value before and the lack of value now. The piece is worth reprinting. It is simply titled “God Bless America. Why?”

            “We have ridiculed the absolute truth of God’s Word in the Bible and it called it moral pluralism;

“We have worshipped other gods and called it multiculturalism;

“We have endorsed perversions and called it alternative lifestyle;

“We have exploited the poor and called it lottery;

“We have neglected the needy and called it self-preservation;

“We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare;

“We have killed our unborn and called it choice;

“We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building esteem;

“We have abused power and called it political savvy;

“We have coveted our neighbor’s possessions and called it ambition;

“We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of oppression;

“We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.”

Why Should He Bless America?

The recent Supreme Court legalizing sodomy between homosexuals, (called Gay marriage), is an example of how indifferent we, as a people, have come. It all seemed to have come to fruit at the beginnings of the 1960’s when the “flower children” took over in San Francisco, California. I recall at the time when I was with a central California newspaper, the Merced Sun Star, covering the 1960 Chinese New Year festival. It had been some time since I had visited the Bay area and was astonished at how much it had changed.

Young people with flowers in their hair sat along the sidewalks and grass park areas asking passersby for donations, smoking marijuana and strumming guitars. I had taken my wife and children with me to enjoy the holiday when we passed a beautiful young girl who appeared to be in her late teens sitting on a door stile. Her expression was of a despondent, unhappy child who had no home, no family and no hope. As we passed, with my little five-year old daughter Beth’s hand in mine, this child of nowhere looked and gave a mournful smile at my little girl. I wonder what has ever happened to this broken child that someone somewhere must have suffered their own hurt at her disappearance.

At the time the most common expression of the “hippie” movement was, “If it feels good do it!” This included everything from “sexual liberation” to the use of narcotics.

Where has all this led us?

The blame for this degeneration can’t be easily explained, but there are some reasons that may afford an answer. And the start is the unknown authors’ piece on “Why Should God Bless America.”

For the atheists their answer is simple. There is no God therefore man has the right and opportunity to forge their life anyway they wish. There are no set values or laws or boundaries’ so every person, according to their individual belief, has their own right to practice whatever they want. But the catch is everyone must believe as they do.

As an example the atheists have proven successful in the removal of the Ten Commandments from public property, praying in school, celebrating religious holidays by school children as Christmas or anything that taints of religious significance. They pretend that all of the above is an affront to the people and should be prohibited. And so it has become. And we have now reaped what we have sown.

The atheist’s position is interesting to say the least. They say, “…prove there IS a God!” The answer is simple. “Prove there is NO God!” At this the secularist and atheist usually will cite everything from the “big bang theory,” to how the mixture of chemicals miraculously came together and formed life and how the earth has been around for billions of years and so on and so on.

A primary question is; can something be created from nothing? The big bang theory is exactly that; a theory. As for the combining of chemicals to form life this position is also illogical. All of these chemicals are a physical property therefore requiring creation.

Nothing can be created from nothing.