The Faithful Christian a blog of The Lighthouse Ministries

America, the once great nation, the lone superpower of the planet has fallen on hard times.  It’s disheartening to say the least, to see how far into the sewer this great nation has fallen in less than 250 years.  We can continue to play the blame game and point fingers at the politicians, the education system, Hollywood, etc, or we can look to the entity who is really at fault and hopefully change the tide. As an undergrad, I read Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville.  He was a French diplomat, philosopher, and political thinker who traveled all over America in 1831 searching for what made America so great.  He believed that religion played a major role in the success of any democratic form of government, but he was Roman Catholic so it’s difficult to know if he was an actual born - again Christian.   Anyway, he described America as a successful democracy, which we are not and never have been.  What America is, is a republic with shades of democracy.  What is interesting abou

French writer Alexis de Tocqueville, after visiting America in 1831, said “I sought for the greatness of the United States in her commodious harbors, her ample rivers, her fertile fields, and boundless forests, and it was not there. I sought for it in her rich mines, her vast world commerce, her public school system, and in her institutions of higher learning, and it was not there. I looked for it in her democratic Congress and her matchless Constitution, and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great!”   I read Democracy in America in college.  De Tocqueville traveled all over America searching for what made us a great nation and he found the old time church with old time preachers, preaching hellfire and brimstone sermons was what made America a great n