America, The Bible and The Dream
I just watched a program called “The Bibles
influence on America”, which was very interesting and informative, however one
glaring question came to mind and I couldn’t help but think, what about today?
The narrator spoke of the men who established this experiment of ours and how
their lives and the bible were intertwined. You will never see any of this in
any school, not one, not ever. The origins, the people and the events that led
to the founding of this country is no longer considered required learning, it
is considered to be something that happened long ago, forgotten and not
relevant today. The men responsible are now thought to be evil “white men”.
Forget that what they gave us is a country unlike any on earth and that their love
of God translated into love of country and declared “…that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,”
So what about current day, does the bible and the
reverence of God have influence on America or the men that we now entrust with
the responsibility of protecting and preserving the ideals and origins of this once
great nation? The answer is obvious, just look around and see what is going on
and what has been going on for the past 50 years. The answer is a resounding NO,
our nation’s leaders and our current government bears little or no resemblance
to what originally defined us as a nation. Any influence the bible may have had
on our founders and the ideals they put forth as a result have long been
forgotten, replaced or ignored. Today we have few if any true statesmen,
Godlessness and corruption are the order of the day. The commandments which
were once looked upon as a standard that all Americans respected and tried to
live by are now replaced with Liberal doctrine that teaches what used to be
considered as moral and patriotic is false and not the way we should live our
lives. Our leaders and those in the public arena of influence and ideas are for
the most part immoral and shameful in the way they conduct themselves. God is
laughed at by them and those of us that do speak of God and love of country are
called kooks, radicals, and a host of other names by them, which the agents of
(mis)information use over and over to legitimize their Godless claims and their
treasonous and immoral behavior.
All one need do is look at what is happening to our
nation right now. Who are the ones trying to bring back civility, common sense,
and the values that once defined us as a nation? Who are the ones trying to
bring us together as a people so we can once again be the great nation we once
were, those so many years ago and who are the one tearing us apart, dividing us
and telling us that we have no alternative but to turn to them and the
government they have created for us. They tell us to trust them as they befool
the American people and give handouts to the very people they have been
deceiving and have kept in shackles for a generation and longer.
The American dream that once was and any hope of it
becoming a reality for all Americans ever again has been systematically ripped
from our grasp, beaten, murdered and buried.
We now have a government that is redefining and reshaping America and
our way of life. This is not so difficult to comprehend. If you can be
intellectually honest with yourself for just one minute you will see that this
has been going on for some time now and it only gets worse as the days and week
go by.
When I was a child in the 1960’s I would watch a
program on PBS called “The Great American Dream Machine”, it was a good show
and I still remember in one episode they were interviewing people in Europe
about the American dream. The segment concluded with the comment that Europeans
thought that the only difference between a rich American and a poor American
was that a poor American washed their own Cadillac. I remember thinking as a
young lad, how cool is that! Well, it may have been that way for awhile, but it
had to end. Sometimes things change for the better, sometimes for the
worse. America has turned away from the
things that once made us a great nation and a prosperous people. We have turned
our backs on God, morality, civility, patriotism, and we have turned over our
sovereignty to those who do not have our best interest in mind.
Can we get back to the Godly roots that founded this
country, the promise of prosperity and the hope of a dream?
As it is stated in the words our “Declaration of
Independence”:
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.--That to secure these rights,
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes
destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish
it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles
and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect
their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments
long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and
accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to
suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the
forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce
them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw
off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such
has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the
necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated
injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an
absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a
candid world.
He
has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public
good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing
importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be
obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of
people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the
Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and
distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of
fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly
firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be
elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have
returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the
mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions
within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose
obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others
to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new
Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws
for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their
offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers
to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of
our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil
power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our
constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts
of pretended Legislation:...”
” In
every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most
humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated
injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a
Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
This is our history and to many Americans it still
means something. It is the reason so many people throughout our short history
have risked so much and given up so much to arrive at our shores. Unfortunately
this has been forgotten and disgraced along with many of the other historical
documents that this country was founded on. Now our shores are ravaged by
molesters and we are losing our identity as Americans. Lady Liberty has been
raped and no one is coming to her defense, the barbarians are at the gate and
we have our heads down texting on our “smart phones”.
Maybe the American Dream is dead, but maybe we can
resurrect it. It will take all Americans, ALL, to work together, as one people,
as one nation under God, but it just might be possible. It might have been a
dream, but it was our dream, we fought for it and we earned it. The dream was
alive once, but now it is just a memory, maybe it can be again. Is the return
of America worth it? Is the promise of hope, Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness worth the effort? That question has yet to be answered.
