I work in the downtown area of Phoenix Arizona. Like most big cities in our country, there
are several tall buildings in the downtown area. The tallest building in downtown Phoenix is
the Chase Building, which is 40 stories tall.
These tall building stand in spite of the numerous dust storms and high
winds that hit Phoenix regularly as they do all cities built in the middle of a
dessert. I have lived in Phoenix since
1964 and in that time none of the tall buildings in downtown Phoenix has ever
fallen down because they are built on a solid foundation.
Likewise, our nation was founded on a solid foundation. Not a foundation of the documents of the Declaration
of Independence or Constitution for as documents, they are merely words written
on paper. No, our nation was foundation
on the Godly principles mentioned in those documents. Unfortunately, we now find ourselves at a
time in our nation where these Godly principles are challenged and we find the
solid foundation upon which our nation was founded being weakened. Just as a tall building would fall in a storm
if its foundation is weakened, our nation is now in danger of falling as its
once solid foundation continues to be weakened.
The founders of our nation warned us frequently of the
potential fall of our nation if its moral Godly foundation crumbled. John Adams said the following:
[I]t is religion and morality alone
which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is
pure virtue. (1)
[W]e have no government armed with
power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and
religion. . . . Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious
people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. (1)
The moment the idea is admitted
into society, that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there
is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny
commence. If "Thou shalt not
covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of
Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can
be civilized or made free. (1)
John Adams understood that a people free to elect their
leaders who were not living their lives under the guardrails of Godly morality
and virtue would elect leaders to office that would not honor the sacredness
others property. They would then be able
to force people to surrender their property to government through governmental
taxation and regulation and have it redistributed to them.
For example, there are several cases coming to the Supreme
Court this year that involve whether a Christian based company can be required
to offer health insurance to their employees that covers contraceptives and
abortion inducing drugs. (2) The reason this is even an issue is because
we have a large segment of our population living immoral lives and as a result,
they have unwanted pregnancies. This
voting block is able to elect leaders that pass legislation (i.e. Obamacare)
that requires Christian based companies, and their employees, to cover their
immoral lifestyles by paying higher health insurance premiums. They see no problems with outsourcing
thievery to the government to pay for their contraceptives and abortions.
The Republican establishment always scolds conservatives
that speak up on social issues such as abortion or gay marriage. They tell conservatives to dwell on the
economy and jobs for people vote with their pocket books. I have one thing to say to the Republican
establishment, social issues do affect the economy. Faith based companies facing higher health insurance
premiums will either close their doors, raise their prices, cut wages, or cut hours
to pay for these increased expenses.
Gay marriage is also an economic issue for the main reason
gay couples want gay marriage legalized is so they can file a federal tax
return as a married couple, which carries the lowest tax rate. In addition, low-income gay couples will
qualify for a larger Earned Income Tax Credit.
In addition, it will not take long for people of the same sex who may
not be gay to figure out they can obtain a marriage license and file taxes as a
married couple. Of course this reduction
in tax revenue will have to be made up by either raising taxes or cutting
spending. With big government liberals
and RINO’s in power, which choice to you think they will make. Once again, this social issue will have an
economic effect on us all.
It does not matter what the issue is, there is always an
economic component, and usually when we determine the economic component, we
discover the truth behind the issue. For
example, the environmental movement is not about saving the planet but about
fleecing the producers in our country of their wealth and transferring it to
environmental wackos in the form of research grants. Once again there is an economic component in
their agenda.
Our country was founded and became great because moral and
virtuous leaders governed it. Granted
our leaders have not been perfect and have had problems but for the most part,
they have governed this country according to a firm moral foundation. However, as a nation we have abandoned our
moral compass and removed the guardrails of morality from our nation. This has left a leadership void in our
country that has been filled with immoral politicians interested only in
staying in power, voted in by a people that have also lost their moral compass
and are only interested in the goodies promised to them by their
government.
Fortunately, not all of us have lost our moral compass and these
are the people I am talking to now. It
is time for us to speak up for what we believe in and ignore those trying to
tell us to ignore the social issues and focus on the money (i.e. jobs and the
economy). There is nothing wrong with
money but we must remember that money is only temporary. Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount urged us to
store up treasures in heaven (Matthew 6:19-20).
We can build these treasures in heaven by giving money to our churches
but I also believe we build treasures in heaven when we point people back to
the Godly moral foundation that made our country great. When we point people back to this solid foundation,
we will begin to end this death spiral of dependency we currently are on as a
nation.
1. Wall Builder. Importance of Morality and
Religion in Government . www.wallbuilders.com. [Online] Wall Builders,
January 2000. [Cited: October 30, 2013.]
http://www.wallbuilders.com/libissuesarticles.asp?id=63.
2. Geidner, Chris.
11 Supreme Court Cases That Could Change The U.S. In The Coming Year. www.buzzfeed.com.
[Online] BuzzFeed Politics, October 6, 2013. [Cited: November 5, 2013.]
http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/13-cases-at-the-supreme-court-that-could-change-the-country.
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