Anna, I’d like to think that we can turn things around, and I pray for that change. Do I think it will happen, not at all. If we tried what Constantine tried, it would not work here either. The change has to come from the heart not be forced. You are correct when in your earlier post you stated” we will become the new Rome.” Rome was mired in many of the same holes we are in, that led to their demise. I think sexuality immorality being a big one. God is pretty adamant about divorce, adultery, homosexuality, sex outside of marriage, and other sexual immorality, because it destroys lives, families, and societies. We have to much apathy anymore to make a drastic change. It will take great misery among the people before this country puts God first again.
Noah Webster said “The Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government. . . . and I am persuaded that no civil government of a republican form can exist and be durable in which the principles of that religion have not a controlling influence."
"Why should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the Sacred Book that is thus early impressed lasts long; and probably if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind." Fisher Ames
"The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be aid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments. Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind." Benjamin Rush
There are many other quotes by our founders that indicate how important morals and the Holy Bible are in keeping a free and moral people along with a Constitutional Republic.
The Bible used to be used as a required text book in schools, for the purpose of teaching children moral principles to live by. As time went on, the Bible was gradually replaced by other text books such as Noah Webster's Primer. Webster's Primer taught children to spell but was also filled with moral Bible verses.This is the exact opposite of our schools today. The courts in this country have revised the First Amendment, erecting a wall of atheism around every public school in America, where God is not allowed to be mentioned. This is not the wall Thomas Jefferson envisioned. Anymore a playboy in school causes less fuss than a Bible.
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DDZ;
You put it in a nutshell, the Christian faith and it's Bible demonstrate what is necessary for good living and good government. For the first 300 to 400 years in America it did very well..even among people of other faiths..or no faith, who dwelt here.
It is interesting to note, our downward spiral into the maelstrom of sin and possible national failure, did not begin until many n our population decided to turn away from the good sense which founded this country, and the wisdom of the ages presented in God's word, the Bible...and away from God Himself.
Can we get it back before collapse? It may be possible, but not probable; we would need a turnabout with genuine repentence and an enforced, frugal buget for years...but I don't see that happening. We are now dealing with a couple self-centered generations which are for the most part, basically heathen.
Of course, there are some very fine, quality people in every generation...but so much of this generation is soaked in degrading habits and beliefs..
not of their own making...which they have been brainwashed into.
We were warned of this time ..2000 years ago..Christians know what may well be next :
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(Romans 1:24-32 NIV)
24 Therefore God gave them over
A)'> in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.
B)'> 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie,
C)'> and worshiped and served created things
D)'> rather than the Creator—who is forever praised.
E)'> Amen.
F)'>26 Because of this, God gave them over
G)'> to shameful lusts.
H)'> Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.
I)'> 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
J)'>28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over
K)'> to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.
29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,
L)'> 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;
M)'> 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love,
N)'> no mercy.
32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death,
O)'> they not only continue to do these very things but also approve
P)'> of those who practice them.
