What is happening to our nation?

Submitted by Bob (United States), Nov 17, 2008 at 10:28

Our forefathers created one nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all. These were men of high ideals, spiritually guided and inspired to create a nation and a civilization to be admired and respected, to set an example for the rest of the world. In exercising their free will under the guidance and direction of the Almighty, they created a Constitution and a Bill of Rights for every man, woman, and child, to live in freedom and in the pursuit of happiness. Over time, these high minded and spiritual men were soon replaced by others who, in the exercise of their free will, chose to put their egos and the greed for money and power before the Almighty and joust with His plans.
We seem to have become a nation further and further from the spirit and influence of God. We have created sciences and philosophies to support activities that only recognize man's earthbound realities, but refuse to recognize the spiritual nature of man himself, and refuses to recognize even the existence of Almighty God.

We have taken God out of government, out of our institutions, and out of our schools. We have done everything we can to deny His existence and now we find ourselves in a world filled with wars, hatred, starvation, and death, and we do not seem to understand why the rest of the world does not follow our shinning example.
We appear to be a nation at war with itself, filled with hatred, prejudice, crime, drugs, and murder. When we look to the Almighty and ask why these things are allowed to happen, we do not hear His answer, but are we really listening.

\ We are members of the human race, universally created by Almighty God and given individually a free will by divine right, and we would not wish to have it any other way. Look back through history and you will find that every little act of free will that was not in accordance with God's plans, multiplied in its impact and its negativity on the future of man. Simple acts of aggression multiplied into acts of war between nations and world war. Acts of greed multiplied into human suffering and starvation. Acts of destruction of the environment of earth has multiplied into destructive forces of nature, earthquakes, floods, pestilence, nuclear destruction and nuclear waste. Acts of violence have escalated into acts of murder and the extermination of ethnic people for their appearance or beliefs.

I believe that God brought about the creation of our nation of high ideals for us to survive other empires and civilizations that have crumbled into oblivion when their leaders placed themselves above God, and now they are piles of dust or buried under the waters. I also believe that the Almighty is trying to get our attention by permitting chastisements to visit us in the form of storms, earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, fires, etc. It doesn't take much imagination to realize that the pace of these incidents have quickened in recent years. Doesn't it seem logical that we, as a people and a nation, are being asked to return to the realistic and spiritual ideals that our forefathers gave us and we once had?

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