Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
America has lost her way.
America has lost her way. She no longer knows right from wrong. She has turned away from the way of truth and light found in the Bible and followed in the way of lust, wickedness, immorality and evil. She dances now to a different drummer: The God of the Underworld. Satan. She has lost contact with that Biblical moral standard - that set of attitudes, outlooks and values that the Bible represents. She has rejected God, that most high God, that God of Gods, and followed his great adversary, his antithesis, that God of Illusion and Deception. She has lost her faith in that book of books, the Holy Bible, and put her faith and confidence in the gods of this world. Dazzled by the accomplishments of modern science she has made Science and the Mind of Man her god.
New psuedosciences, psychology and psychiatry, have arisen which have challenged the authority of the Bible and she has bowed herself down to them. They are her new God and authority. The Bible is now outdated. She has left the truth of God for the lie of Satan. She has exchanged the truth of God for the false ideas, dogmas and doctrines of liberalism, secular humanism. Spiritual darkness has descended on the land. The evidence is everywhere. There can be no better or more convincing evidence of this than the way the country has condoned and embraced that great sin of sins - homosexuality. That a country in which so many people call themselves Christian, view themselves as Christian, could condone and accept behavior that is so radically at odds with the outlooks and attitudes of the Bible shows the extent to which Christianity has become twisted, contorted, corrupted and perverted in this land. A person is not a Christian because he calls himself a Christian. That doesn't make him a Christian.
He is not a Christian because he thinks he is a Christian. That doesn't make him a Christian either. He isn't a Christian because he is a member of some church or denomination, or because he, at some time in his life, complied with some magic formula for becoming a Christian. He isn't a Christian just because he "believes". Even the demons of hell believe - and tremble. Christianity is about substance. It is about what you really are. It is about a faith, a love of God, that is accompanied by serious Godly, upright living. It is about an attitude of the heart, a commitment of the heart, a commitment that results in virtuous, good, moral living. It is a mind-set, a way of thinking, a philosophy, a set of outlooks, attitudes, and values. It is a set of biases and prejudices, prejudices against sin, prejudices for goodness and virtue. God is not a God of sham.
He can't be deceived. He has warned that every man shall receive according to his works. The sin of sodomy in the Bible is big. Very, very big. A sin for which God showed total intolerance. There is great emphasis on chastity and moral purity in the Bible. We read: "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
" I Cor 6:9-10 "But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
" Eph 5:3-5 This is what Christianity is about. All else is self- deception. Honesty, integrity, goodness and morality are not something separate and apart from Christianity. They are the very heart and soul of Christianity. This is a basic truth. All else is self-delusion. A person who considers himself a Christian and sees nothing wrong in gross depravity.
A homosexual who views himself as a Christian. Oh, man and his self-deception! An ass claimed to be a lion. But he didn't look like a lion, he didn't roar like a lion, and he didn't walk like a lion. He looked like an ass, brayed like an ass, walked like an ass and kicked like an ass. So what was he? An ass or a lion? We live in The Land of the Deceived. Man is really great on self-deception. Self-deception is the conduct of a fool. America is a ship of fools. And where do you think the ship is headed?
Any person who doesn't instinctively, intuitively know that homosexual sex is wrong has simply lost his way morally. Any society that doesn't know that it is wrong has simply lost its way spiritually. It has lost its guiding light, it has lost that voice within. It has lost its morality. America has descended into a great dark age. She has forsaken God and turned to the ways, conduct and behavior of those wicked pre-Christian civilizations exemplified by Sodom and Gomorrah. God dealt with Sodom and Gomorrah.
He will deal with America, too. Consider the following passage from Romans 1: For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things. Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature.
Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.
Romans 1:18-32 (New King James Version) Isn't this America today? America. Lost in a sea of intellectual and spiritual error, of falsehood, of satanic lie. America. On that broad road leading straight to eternal damnation.
Maybe some readers will be angry with me for saying so, but I would be remiss if I did not say these things that 1. I so clearly see and 2. that many others must either not recognize or not consider important enough to discuss. This is when “if you see something, say something” must most importantly be applied.
Slovak schools and many businesses close on November 17 in commemoration of the Velvet Revolution. It’s probably the Slovak holiday that fascinates me the most and something I wrote about at length a year ago. November 17, 1989, when you look at it, wasn’t all that special as an isolated day, but some historians point to it as the day that Czechoslovakia began its rebellion against its communist government.
The social experiments that Slovakia has undergone in the last 100 years are not experiments in need of repeating, because their results can be gathered even today from Slovak culture. Oppression, whether that be oppression of property rights, or of freedom of speech and assembly or other civil liberties, is destructive to an individual. As if summing up the oppressive experiments of the region, Fredrick Hayek, after fleeing his home in Central Europe ahead of the Nazi advance penned the book The Road to Serfdom
in which he denounces oppression as oppressive whether it comes from the right or left of the political spectrum. Segments of America, looking at an increasingly forceful government are starting to break out of the idea that right and left matter in the face of oppression. This would put them on course with what Hayek was saying roughly 70 years ago.
Ironically, Abraham Lincoln, a man criticized by his contemporaries and historians as America’s first dictator is credited with saying “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” Some considered the 16thpresident a benevolent dictator. Others, such as the man who assassinated him, according to legend, referred to him as a tyrant as he hobbled away on a broken leg by calling out “Sic semper tyrannis.” Lord Acton wrote in an oft quoted letter “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Looking at Lincoln’s and Acton’s quotes, it seems likely that the mere act of concentrating power is enough to bring unappealing results. Today, America faces increasingly centralized power in the hands of the government and the closest friends of politicians.
You can argue that some countries do better than others when power is concentrated in the hands of the government. I’ve heard it said “Thank God France/Germany/Russia/Slovakia was never allowed to get as powerful as America. Who knows what they would have done.” I’m not sure how to respond either for or against that hypothetical comment, so I generally just keep quiet. I don’t know if a hypothetical French hegemony in this century would be better or worse for the world than American hegemony.
You may argue that some people do not want freedom. That too may be true; perhaps freedom is not a universal value. What I know today is that so many Slovaks desire freedom. While I never stepped foot in communist Czechoslovakia, something tells me that Slovaks were quite free in their souls then just as they are today. Perhaps, about that, I am wrong. Despite knowing many people, I don’t know even a single person who can be a reliable source on that question. I base this statement instead on what I see today. So many Slovaks are too free in their souls for me to imagine that it could ever have been otherwise. It’s a lesson I hope I’ve begun to at least learn a little from Slovaks – how to ignore the world around you and still feel freedom inside. Along with that one, the country has many other lessons to teach me, including – Allan, don’t repeat the mistakes of our past.
Sometimes it’s good to listen to the advice of others, since, as one Slovak once said to me “Svoje vlastné chyby sú najdrahšie.” In one sense, it means – your own mistakes are the most costly, so you must avoid them by learning from others. If it were that easy, children would not stumble for many long years before their parents finally are able to call them adults capable of a little responsibility. A second side of that same Slovak statement is – “Your own mistakes are most valuable to you.” They both cost you the most and they end up being most valuable to you because you remember them the best. Sometimes we just need to stumble a little, or a lot, on our own. Realizing that experiencing a mistake makes it most memorable, doesn’t make those mistakes any more comfortable for me when I’m caught in the middle of a stumbling nation trying to find itself. I think the land of my birth, the United States, is now in the middle of such an identity crisis.
This winter I’ll go home to Chicago to see my family and the most regrettable moment for me each time I do that is when I step off of a plane and feel the atmosphere in the air. Because for each year of the last nine, I’ve felt something that most Americans don’t seem to feel. Gradual changes can be hard to notice. When you only visit the U.S. once a year, the changes aren’t gradual. They are clear.
I hope that I’m wrong. I hope that for the first time in nine years that it will feel more free when I enter my homeland than it did a year prior. Something tells me, this will be the most drastic return for me yet. It starts in the airport, but it continues through the rest of society on my trips home as I feel America growing less free. I think this is imposed by the government, but I also think some people voluntarily accept a diminished respect of freedom.
With my initial shock, whatever the violation of freedom is, a good reason is always presented. Always. Without a good reason, I believe that Americans would entirely reject an intrusion on freedom. It’s all done in our best interest and it’s all done for safety we are assured. Airports are only the tip of the iceberg, but can be so glaring because the welcoming committee carries guns, batons, tazers, and acts like a bunch of gorillas. Even authoritarian Israeli security experts point fingers at us and laugh because Americans are treated like chattel in airports with no appreciable improvement in security.
Examples of people being treated like chattel and criticism that our procedures don’t actually improve security can be seen here, here, here, here, here, here, here (pdf), here, here, here, here, here,
here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here,
here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here,here,
here, here, here, and here.
Older Slovaks who lived in Czechoslovakia after 1948 and after 1968 and who saw some of the worst times, and who have traveled to the U.S. have a particularly negative response to this behavior. They say the words “policajný štát” to me about MY COUNTRY. About America, a Slovak can look me in the eyes and say “policajný štát” – “police state.” It’s a sorrowful look, but the statement is a sincere one. I hear it regularly enough to make me take note. The last time I sat down for a drink with a group of older Slovaks professionals and business owners (which happens pretty regularly) is the last time I heard that.
There’s something wrong in the course of human events when a Slovak can say that about America. That Slovak looks at his own state, he looks at America, and he sees America less free than he expected. America’s good at a lot of things, but what it’s the best at is being an unobtrusive beacon of freedom, an unobtrusive example to others. It’s sad when America doesn’t realize that about herself.
Slovaks have freedom in their souls and will allow themselves to be pushed around while protecting their own souls. I think Slovaks are generally humble and just want a little internal happiness and solitude. We Americans tend to have more of an ego and are more willing to speak out at the idea of injustice even when that injustice is committed against a total stranger. In contrast with the first sentence of this paragraph, I’d say about America – Americans have freedom inside and out and will never be pushed around. But that sentence, something I long believed to be a “rule” of American culture, is something I see myself challenging every year with my annual return to America.
Ignorant government thugs push people around on the streets and in the airports and unless I want to get pushed around as well, I had better button my lip. Is that America 2012 that I’m describing or Czechoslovakia 1989?
You can always ask the question “which country is more free?” A more important question for me for this essay, however, is “Over the last nine years has the U.S. become less free or more free?” The answer is less free. In my nine years of travelling back and forth, America has grown uncomfortably less free. The great sadness I feel over this issue is practically too embarrassing for me to admit. Once I actually even got choked up in the airport, seeing what was happening, not in some third world country that I need immunizations to travel to, but in America. As I have come of age in the world, the generation before left me a country that was less free than the one that they inherited. As my generation comes of age and finds ourselves in more established positions in the world around us, I increasingly see people my age shaking their heads and asking themselves and each other how the baby boomers could have left us the mess that they left us.
Here’s one example of several dozen that I have come across over the last few months. Thomas L. Day, author of that article, and I disagree on some details, we agree on the bigger picture – it’s up to people like he and I to debate the future that our generation has already inherited. As Day points out: “I speak not specifically of our parents — I have two loving ones — but of the public leaders our parents’ generation has produced.”
My generation has the choice of either reversing that trend of diminishing freedom or giving up on the American notion of freedom. Playfully playing it lip service is of little value to anyone as it takes so much effort and accomplishes so little. I still don’t know what the rest of my generation will decide. I know where my feeling are on this topic. Until the day I die, I believe I will have an inextinguishable burning of freedom in my soul.
Twenty-two years ago the chains of an evil empire were thrown off in Czechoslovakia. Twenty-two years is not a long enough time for educated Americans to risk forgetting what recent history was like when the Czechoslovak state took to treating its people like chattel. My only conclusion is that America either never understood or America has forgotten. Which is it?
Has America Lost Her Way? The 22nd Anniversary of the Velvet RevolutionTwenty-two years ago Czechs and Slovaks shook off the chains of a regime and a system that had failed them. Today America seems to be “trying on” similar, oppressive chains. The deeper America gets into this process of trying those chains on, the more unfamiliar she looks to me.
Maybe some readers will be angry with me for saying so, but I would be remiss if I did not say these things that 1. I so clearly see and 2. that many others must either not recognize or not consider important enough to discuss. This is when “if you see something, say something” must most importantly be applied.
Slovak schools and many businesses close on November 17 in commemoration of the Velvet Revolution. It’s probably the Slovak holiday that fascinates me the most and something I wrote about at length a year ago. November 17, 1989, when you look at it, wasn’t all that special as an isolated day, but some historians point to it as the day that Czechoslovakia began its rebellion against its communist government.
The social experiments that Slovakia has undergone in the last 100 years are not experiments in need of repeating, because their results can be gathered even today from Slovak culture. Oppression, whether that be oppression of property rights, or of freedom of speech and assembly or other civil liberties, is destructive to an individual. As if summing up the oppressive experiments of the region, Fredrick Hayek, after fleeing his home in Central Europe ahead of the Nazi advance penned the book The Road to Serfdom
in which he denounces oppression as oppressive whether it comes from the right or left of the political spectrum. Segments of America, looking at an increasingly forceful government are starting to break out of the idea that right and left matter in the face of oppression. This would put them on course with what Hayek was saying roughly 70 years ago.Ironically, Abraham Lincoln, a man criticized by his contemporaries and historians as America’s first dictator is credited with saying “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” Some considered the 16thpresident a benevolent dictator. Others, such as the man who assassinated him, according to legend, referred to him as a tyrant as he hobbled away on a broken leg by calling out “Sic semper tyrannis.” Lord Acton wrote in an oft quoted letter “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Looking at Lincoln’s and Acton’s quotes, it seems likely that the mere act of concentrating power is enough to bring unappealing results. Today, America faces increasingly centralized power in the hands of the government and the closest friends of politicians.
You can argue that some countries do better than others when power is concentrated in the hands of the government. I’ve heard it said “Thank God France/Germany/Russia/Slovakia was never allowed to get as powerful as America. Who knows what they would have done.” I’m not sure how to respond either for or against that hypothetical comment, so I generally just keep quiet. I don’t know if a hypothetical French hegemony in this century would be better or worse for the world than American hegemony.
You may argue that some people do not want freedom. That too may be true; perhaps freedom is not a universal value. What I know today is that so many Slovaks desire freedom. While I never stepped foot in communist Czechoslovakia, something tells me that Slovaks were quite free in their souls then just as they are today. Perhaps, about that, I am wrong. Despite knowing many people, I don’t know even a single person who can be a reliable source on that question. I base this statement instead on what I see today. So many Slovaks are too free in their souls for me to imagine that it could ever have been otherwise. It’s a lesson I hope I’ve begun to at least learn a little from Slovaks – how to ignore the world around you and still feel freedom inside. Along with that one, the country has many other lessons to teach me, including – Allan, don’t repeat the mistakes of our past.
Sometimes it’s good to listen to the advice of others, since, as one Slovak once said to me “Svoje vlastné chyby sú najdrahšie.” In one sense, it means – your own mistakes are the most costly, so you must avoid them by learning from others. If it were that easy, children would not stumble for many long years before their parents finally are able to call them adults capable of a little responsibility. A second side of that same Slovak statement is – “Your own mistakes are most valuable to you.” They both cost you the most and they end up being most valuable to you because you remember them the best. Sometimes we just need to stumble a little, or a lot, on our own. Realizing that experiencing a mistake makes it most memorable, doesn’t make those mistakes any more comfortable for me when I’m caught in the middle of a stumbling nation trying to find itself. I think the land of my birth, the United States, is now in the middle of such an identity crisis.
This winter I’ll go home to Chicago to see my family and the most regrettable moment for me each time I do that is when I step off of a plane and feel the atmosphere in the air. Because for each year of the last nine, I’ve felt something that most Americans don’t seem to feel. Gradual changes can be hard to notice. When you only visit the U.S. once a year, the changes aren’t gradual. They are clear.
I hope that I’m wrong. I hope that for the first time in nine years that it will feel more free when I enter my homeland than it did a year prior. Something tells me, this will be the most drastic return for me yet. It starts in the airport, but it continues through the rest of society on my trips home as I feel America growing less free. I think this is imposed by the government, but I also think some people voluntarily accept a diminished respect of freedom.
With my initial shock, whatever the violation of freedom is, a good reason is always presented. Always. Without a good reason, I believe that Americans would entirely reject an intrusion on freedom. It’s all done in our best interest and it’s all done for safety we are assured. Airports are only the tip of the iceberg, but can be so glaring because the welcoming committee carries guns, batons, tazers, and acts like a bunch of gorillas. Even authoritarian Israeli security experts point fingers at us and laugh because Americans are treated like chattel in airports with no appreciable improvement in security.
Examples of people being treated like chattel and criticism that our procedures don’t actually improve security can be seen here, here, here, here, here, here, here (pdf), here, here, here, here, here,
here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here,
here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here,here,
here, here, here, and here.
Older Slovaks who lived in Czechoslovakia after 1948 and after 1968 and who saw some of the worst times, and who have traveled to the U.S. have a particularly negative response to this behavior. They say the words “policajný štát” to me about MY COUNTRY. About America, a Slovak can look me in the eyes and say “policajný štát” – “police state.” It’s a sorrowful look, but the statement is a sincere one. I hear it regularly enough to make me take note. The last time I sat down for a drink with a group of older Slovaks professionals and business owners (which happens pretty regularly) is the last time I heard that.
There’s something wrong in the course of human events when a Slovak can say that about America. That Slovak looks at his own state, he looks at America, and he sees America less free than he expected. America’s good at a lot of things, but what it’s the best at is being an unobtrusive beacon of freedom, an unobtrusive example to others. It’s sad when America doesn’t realize that about herself.
Slovaks have freedom in their souls and will allow themselves to be pushed around while protecting their own souls. I think Slovaks are generally humble and just want a little internal happiness and solitude. We Americans tend to have more of an ego and are more willing to speak out at the idea of injustice even when that injustice is committed against a total stranger. In contrast with the first sentence of this paragraph, I’d say about America – Americans have freedom inside and out and will never be pushed around. But that sentence, something I long believed to be a “rule” of American culture, is something I see myself challenging every year with my annual return to America.
Ignorant government thugs push people around on the streets and in the airports and unless I want to get pushed around as well, I had better button my lip. Is that America 2012 that I’m describing or Czechoslovakia 1989?
You can always ask the question “which country is more free?” A more important question for me for this essay, however, is “Over the last nine years has the U.S. become less free or more free?” The answer is less free. In my nine years of travelling back and forth, America has grown uncomfortably less free. The great sadness I feel over this issue is practically too embarrassing for me to admit. Once I actually even got choked up in the airport, seeing what was happening, not in some third world country that I need immunizations to travel to, but in America. As I have come of age in the world, the generation before left me a country that was less free than the one that they inherited. As my generation comes of age and finds ourselves in more established positions in the world around us, I increasingly see people my age shaking their heads and asking themselves and each other how the baby boomers could have left us the mess that they left us.
Here’s one example of several dozen that I have come across over the last few months. Thomas L. Day, author of that article, and I disagree on some details, we agree on the bigger picture – it’s up to people like he and I to debate the future that our generation has already inherited. As Day points out: “I speak not specifically of our parents — I have two loving ones — but of the public leaders our parents’ generation has produced.”
My generation has the choice of either reversing that trend of diminishing freedom or giving up on the American notion of freedom. Playfully playing it lip service is of little value to anyone as it takes so much effort and accomplishes so little. I still don’t know what the rest of my generation will decide. I know where my feeling are on this topic. Until the day I die, I believe I will have an inextinguishable burning of freedom in my soul.
Twenty-two years ago the chains of an evil empire were thrown off in Czechoslovakia. Twenty-two years is not a long enough time for educated Americans to risk forgetting what recent history was like when the Czechoslovak state took to treating its people like chattel. My only conclusion is that America either never understood or America has forgotten. Which is it?
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