‘Low-energy’ Jeb Bush said during the
Republican debates in 2016 that America’s best days are ahead of her. My
initial thought when I heard him say that was either he either smoking the
crack, or he was incredibly clueless. Why has America declined from a nation of
rules, laws and civility to a nation today full of violence, hate and
ignorance? There are multiple reasons for that, but it simply comes down to one
thing. The major issue in America today all falls back to the moral collapse of
America and people turning their back to God. Many Americans now believe that
God, and specifically Jesus Christ, is not relevant anymore in American
society. The actions of our government beginning in 1962 are what set forth a
chain of events that have lead many Americans becoming bankrupt both morality
and spirituality. It is obvious to everyone, both to devout Christians and the
pagan left that our country is experiencing a great polarization and anger between
the right and left. The Supreme Court since the 1960’s have changed the law of
the land that has destroyed the fabric that our founders have outlined for
every American. Below is a summary of those US Supreme Court cases.
US Supreme Court decisions
These
are just some of the court cases in our nation that steady erosion of religious
rights imposed by the courts in recent years and its lasting effects. Kudos
must be given to pastor Dr. Missler providing the summary on these court cases.
Engle
vs. Vitale (1962)
Landmark US Supreme Court case that determined that it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose
an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools.
Abingdon
School District vs. Schempp (1963)
US Supreme Court case in which the Court declared school-sponsored Bible reading in public schools in the
United States to be unconstitutional.
Since Engle
vs. Vitale, and Abingdon School District vs. Schempp, decisions in 1962 and
1963, which banned teacher lead prayer and Bible reading in public school, the
US Supreme Court has laid the foundation where everyone has an open invitation
to be hostile to people of faith people and traditional moral values. It is my personal belief that almost
immediately once the courts removed the Bible from our citizens and educational
system, our nation began a state of moral decline that we will probably never
recover from.
Southern vs. Jubinsky- (1965)
Freedom
of Speech and Press is guaranteed to students and unless the topic is
religious, and then such speech becomes unconstitutional.
Reed
vs. Van Hoven- (1965)
If
a student prays at his lunch, it is unconstitutional for the student to pray
aloud.
DeSpain
vs. Kalb County School District- (1967)
It
is unconstitutional for Kindergarten students to recite, “We thank you for the
flowers so sweet, we thank you for the food we eat, we thank you for the birds
that sing, we thank you for everything”. The word God isn’t even in that, but
someone may THINK it’s a prayer.
Lowe v. City of Eugene- (1969)
It
is unconstitutional for a war memorial to be erected in the shape of a cross.
State
Board of Educ. v. Board of Educ. of Netcong- (1970)
It
is unconstitutional for students to arrive at school early to hear a student
volunteer to read prayers offered by the Chaplains of the US House of
Representatives and Senate.
Roe
vs. Wade- (1973)
US
Supreme Court legalized the killing on unborn babies, resulted in the death of
60+ million defenseless infants. Most in 1973 considered abortion to be a
violation of every standard of morality and decency. The court disregarded
completely the will of the electorate.
State of Ohio vs. Wishner- (1976)
Unconstitutional
for the Board of Education to use or refer to the word God in any of its
official writings.
Florey
vs. Sioux Falls School District- (1979)
Unconstitutional
for a kindergarten class to ask during a school assembly whose birthday is
celebrated on Christmas.
Stone vs. Graham- (1980)
US
Supreme Court prohibiting public schools from displaying 10 Commandments on
their bulletin board, despite these 10 Commandments are on the wall of the
Supreme Court building.
Edwards
vs. Aguillard- (1987)
US
Supreme Court rejected a Louisiana law that required schools that teach
evolution to also teach Creation Science. Evolution is a conjecture with no
evidence to support it. Creationism is an alternative conjecture. So the
Biblical view is NOT allowed but the make-believe view is allowed to be taught.
Roberts
v. Madigan - (1990)
It
is unconstitutional for a public schoolroom library to contain books about
Christianity, or for a teacher to be seen with a personal copy of the Bible
while at school.
Lee
vs. Wiseman- (1992)
US
Supreme Court said that public schools officials could not include prayer as a
part of a graduation ceremony and cannot specifically select a religious
participant to say a prayer during a graduation ceremony.
Romer vs. Evans- (1996)
Struck
down the initiative passed by the people of Colorado that would have prohibited
the passage of special rights (as opposed to civil rights) to homosexuals. US
Supreme Court gave special rights to homosexuals. Justice Kennedy said that
homosexuals should receive special rights over everybody else. These
homosexuals have given special rights that have succeeded from the electorate.
The court trivialized a moral convictions held by Jews and Christians for
centuries. The minute you start giving special people special rights, they have
seceded from the electorate.
Even those considered to be respected Christians are making anti-Biblical statements. Check this out:
In
October 1996, The Pope’s declaration to the Pontifical Academy of Social
Sciences “new knowledge is confirmed that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution
is more than a hypothesis”. He eludes to a growing scientific consensus of
evolution. There was a day when the Pope was the social voice on the planet.
And here he is joining the voice of this nonsense. This is the Pope saying
these things!
The American youth have been disenfranchised from their Christian heritage. We now have now three generations of graduates who have been subjected to the Godless philosophies of our schools. Children from this background are becoming the parents, teachers, political leaders, the main stream media, actors, entertainers, business people, and they are ignorant of the great moral and religious strengths of our country. Therefore they are unable to impart these facts to the next generation. What are the results? One of the most disturbing things about this is the duplicity of our media. Our main-stream media, aka, #FAKENEWS, takes pride in the ability to form public opinion rather than to inform it; they are prostitutes. CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, and to an extent even FoxNews are all guilty.
Quotes from our Founding
Fathers and influential leaders:
In
1772, Samuel Adams said: "The rights to freedom being the gift of God
Almighty, the rights of the Colonists as Christians may best be understood by
reading and carefully studying the institutions of The Great Law Giver which
are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament."
In
1776, The Declaration of Independence said: We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal, and 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. There are two points. First, men’s rights
come from God our creator. Our rights are not given to us by government.
Second, the purpose of the government is to preserve those rights given to us
by God.
In
1777, the first Continental Congress appropriated funds to import for the
people 20,000 Holy Bibles as “the great political book of the Patriots.” Can
you imagine our government spending money for 20,000 Holy Bibles today? I
didn’t think so either.
Let
us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in
the hand of God." - George Washington (1787) Constitutional Convention.
"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever. – Thomas Jefferson
“I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this Truth — That God governs in the affairs of Men.” - Ben Franklin (1787) Constitutional Convention.
“It
is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of almighty God to
obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits and humbly to implore his
protection and favor.” – George Washington (1789) Thanksgiving address
“This
nation was not founded by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions,
but on the gospel of Jesus Christ” – Patrick Henry
“The only book that
deserves international attention is the Bible.” - John Quincy Adams
“It
is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to
select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” - John Jay (1st chief Justice
of the United States)
“The
Bible is the rock on which the Republic rests.” – Andrew Jackson
“There
are things in the old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully
accept it as the infallible word of God, and receive its teachings as inspired
by the Holy Spirit. … I am
nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.” - Robert E.
Lee
Supreme Ct 1892- Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of The Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian… These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation.
Now that we have a good idea of what our early American leaders thought, what is the result of government and judges and other government leaders actions removing God from our lives? In a period of 30 years through to the 1990s’ from when the Bible was removed from the public schools, there were a total of 84 indicators that are going the wrong way. Here are just a few:
·
The
rise of teenage pregnancy up 556%,
·
Rise
of venereal disease up 226%,
·
Family
divorced had declined for 15 years prior to 1962-63. It has increased up to
triple every year since.
·
SAT
scores were stable but the federal government had to change the standards to
mask the embarrassing results. The thing that audits them are the
homeschoolers. Homeschoolers are always the top 10-20%. Of the
homeschoolers within that group, the ones that do the worst are the ones that
have state certified parents.
We
have a moral decay in this country. Bill Clinton, Barack Hussein Obama are not
the cause of moral decay, they are the symptom and sad consequences of it. And
as our country continues to turn further away from God, perverted politicians
will only continue to be elected by due to generations of lost souls who have
no idea why they are here and that believe we are here by accident. These same
groups unlike ever before see devout Christians as the moral compass of the
country as the enemy. It used to be that people hid their sin; now people are
prideful and boastful of it. When a group of five lawyers have changed the long-standing
law for political objectives over someone’s constitutional rights, and rights
that our endowed by our Creator, and someone gets arrested over it, you know our
nation has problems.
America
needs a wake-up call or our time as a world power will be gone. Politicians
today need to follow the righteous path of what Jefferson, Washington, Adams,
Franklin, Henry, Jay, etc by keeping the inherency of God’s word within our
government. We need to move past this secular agenda that was started in the
1960’s, and get back to Christian principles this country was founded upon. The
courts and godless politicians continue to destroy the fabric of this country
that it was built on. From having Founding Fathers that were fearful of God and
a government that supported these principles, to now having a government that
is grossly disobedient and a government that erases these God given rights is
despicable. The reason this country was founded was because a group of
individuals wanted to preserve their rights as Christians and to enjoy
religious freedoms. Today not only will our government deny our rights to pray
and spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but our former President denies to the
world that we believe we are a Christian nation. He even has gone to great
extent to mock Christians. Therefore if
you have ever wondered why we have so much divide in this country that we have
not seen since the War of Northern Aggression, you now understand that God
gives us a free will to choose Him giving us great benefits, or ignoring Him
which results in destruction both presently and for eternity.
In
conclusion, we must ask the question, is this specific Bible prophecy from Isaiah
given all of the perverted behavior being promoted by the media and all of that
hate pointed directly at Christians being fulfilled today in our lifetime? Per
Isaiah:
“Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put
bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter- Isaiah 5:20
