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 about Tocqueville is that, as a Roman Catholic, he saw that the old time churches that dotted the American landscape with the old time hellfire and brimstone preachers was what made America so great.
He was a staunch advocate of democracy and the whole majority rules form of government, but he also noted that the greatest danger he saw was that public opinion would become an all-powerful force, and that the majority could tyrannize unpopular minorities and marginal individuals.
That’s sort of laughable now if you look at what’s happening in America today where the minorities and marginalized individuals are the ones tyrannizing the majority and shaping public opinion in their favor. It’s ridiculous and it shouldn’t be that way.
I’ve said this a thousand times, if we who call ourselves Christians would pull our heads out of the sand, stand up and live the way we are commanded to live by God, and stop worrying about offending people or hurting peoples feelings, and stop worrying about what this wicked world thinks about us, we could turn this world upside down again just like the first century Christians.
Stop compromising with ungodly people and call sin what it is…evil and wretched. I see on social media every day all this garbage about how love is love and promoting homosexual relationships, transgenders, abortion, and everything else that God calls abominable.
This is the reason why America is under gods judgment now…and we are. We have both feet in the grave and we’re hanging on by our fingernails. This country is full of spineless, weak kneed, jellyfish that call themselves Christians, while refusing to obey Gods word. Honestly, I’m surprised that God hasn’t wiped us off the map already.
Let me remind you of what God says…
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons. 1 Corinthians 10:21
Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. James 4:4
He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad. Mathew 12:30
Think about that…
Yes, the government, Hollywood, public education, and a myriad of other entities share in the blame, but the Christian community has the majority of the blame in this. If you look at the Christian community that existed 248 years ago and compare it to the Christian community today, we aren’t even in the same dimension with those Christians. There is no comparison.
Things need to change…now. It’s probably too late to save this great nation, but we need to at least try.
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