America The Undecided!
How can we, as a nation, be expected to pray for peace, or anything else for that matter, when our own government and the likes of the ACLU constantly remind us, and warn us, NOT to trust in God?
In the 18th and 19th centuries immigrants poured in from other countries to escape the oppressions of dictate rulers; to escape theocracies that demanded a belief in their God… or die. Weary of living in fear and poverty the peoples packed what they could and headed for a promise land called the new world… now known as AMERICA! A nation that, over the centuries, became respected and feared… a nation of ingenuity and freedom… a nation of GOD!
And now… And now a bit of a joke to the rest of the world, and it’s not because of political leaders that makes fools of them in the public arena or become overzealous in their pursuit of power. No, it’s not the politicos that have made the United States look like buffoons to the rest of the world, although they have greatly added to the circus known as our public persona, it’s the Nation itself, the populace, the people, whatever you want to call us, we are all responsible for what the world thinks of us. We are thought of as arrogant, buffoons, cowards and the list goes on... but most of all… the undecided.
The root of this problem is America’s inability to make a decision; for the last forty years we’ve been a Nation divided, at odds against itself. Twice, in my memory, we’ve went to war to defend freedom and democracy, both times walked away looking like… oh, someone you wouldn’t want at your back, for lack of a better term.
Want more? We’ve, (so it would seem), pulled together and elected presidents, senators, congressmen, and so on, and so on; only to turn around and attack these same people with venom. We’ve passed laws only to fight over those same laws for years. We went into combat, (Iraq), in response for 3,000 dead, just to start whining that it hurts, and, at the same time some insist we should send our armies into another, (Darfur).
Our inability to make a decision, and stick to it, is going to destroy us as a world power, hell, we won’t even be looked upon as a friend if we continue this way. Americans are at each other’s throats constantly; we spend so much time bickering amongst ourselves we forget the world is watching. And their thoughts, and opinions, are not all that good… and I don’t blame them. Sure, we give out money to both, the deserving and the undeserving, but the world doesn’t care about that; they look at Uncle Sam like he’s a senile old benefactor, take his money and laugh at him.
One of the most prominent items we have wavered on, as a country, is God. We started, (proudly I must say), as a Nation Of God, of the people, for the people and a people for God. Our trust in God was displayed in our buildings, on our money, on monuments… every place and everywhere, we were proud of our faith in God, proud of our religious freedom. And now… and now this freedom is being taken away from us. Once again we are becoming an oppressed people for our belief in God. We can’t just decide on God, can we? We fear the politically correct! It’s a bad thing to say a prayer in public… why, it’s just not right! We wouldn’t want others to think we are bad people because we believe in God and feel that it should be a public cry of faith. It seems to me that it has become more acceptable to say you follow Wicca than it is to say you believe in God… and that truly is a sad state of affairs.
“In God We Trust” is slowly being omitted from our national currencies; the Pledge of Allegiance has been revised to say “…On Nation, Indivisible…’ omitting “Under God”. Some day I expect to the “America the Beautiful” rewritten to say, “America… America… we shall crown thy good with siblinghood…” Omitting “God Shed His Grace On Thee…”
To make it more ridiculous we can’t even decide anything about God! We can’t decide if God has a gender, we can’t decide what color God is, all in the quest for public correctness, (I hate the term ‘politically correct. I’m not running for office.) I for one prefer the answer of something I read once, (and I really wish I could remember this lady’s name), that God is the color of water. I know that’s not what she was referring to, but it fits.
If we don’t start making decisions as “One Nation… Under God” we will discover that, yes indeed; we will be “one Nation, divisible!” And it will happen soon if we keep turning our backs on God. Don’t get me wrong when I say this, I am a Christian, born and raised… evangelical. And I will always be a Christian. But, many Muslim countries have a faith-based government and it stays that way. Whether, or not, I agree with their particular faith isn’t important, what is important is that they are a nation under God. It is time that the United States of America remembers that this was a faith-based country in the beginning, a Christian-based Nation. Somewhere along the road a few people of this, once, great nation forgot its roots, and they are leading the rest of us around by the nose and because of this we’ve become a nation of… I don’t know. What have we become?
Sometimes I feel as though I am alone when I want to say this, and I, honestly, hope I’m not. “In God I Trust!”
No, that doesn’t sound right. That should be “In God We Trust!”
Amen.
