Friday.....America.....Battle Of The Books

One would not have to read very far back into these blogs to see that I believe that America's only hope is in a humbling of itself before God and a general awakening should God bring it about. You would also see that I feel that we have a lot of work to do in the temporal realm. A fundamental change has taken place over the last few decades in Americans perception of their own country. It didn't start in the 1960s but students on our campuses were protesting the war in Vietnam, waving the flag of our enemy and chanting Ho Chi Minh. We did have the bicentennial in 1976 but the decade was not a patriotic one as we saw the ignominious end to the Vietnam War, and Nixon's resignation. Time Magazine didn't help with its cover proclaiming Is God Dead?. We rallied around Ronald Reagan in the 80s but Ayn Rand came in on his coattails. The American effort in the first Iraq War was almost flawless but when it came to electing a president, we held up our pocketbooks and chose the Gordon Gekko of politics in Bill Clinton. I knew that we were in trouble when Al Gore was named as his running mate. Tipper had written a best selling book Raising PG Kids In An X-Rated Society, which was very popular in Christian circles and we did not have the discernment to see through this. The 1994 congregational elections were another surge in the right direction but short lived. Terrorism was flexing its muscles but it was essentially too late when George Bush took office. Meanwhile, a global mentality in economics established itself and has since taken on powers that only governments previously had. The economies are so intertwined that you could not protect or isolate your own economy if you wanted to. I have dual citizenship, one in this world mediated through the United States of America, and the other in Christ's kingdom which dictates the limits of my American citizenship. I will not forget the sacrifices of 233 years. I will not discard a constitution that gave me 59 years of liberty and the freedom to search for truth, accept and proclaim it to others. I will not forget how totalitarianism kills the body and socialism destroys the mind. I won't worship the word patriotism, nor will I distort it and I will not let the megalomaniac manipulators of culture give me a new, convoluted definition of diversity. America wrote the book on it! It took well over a century but every ethnic group that came here took the flag of their birth country down and sewed a beautiful configuration of stars and stripes on their sleeve. O.K., a lot of pious words here, you want at least one tangible answer to our problems....here it is...READ!!! I'll give you an exercise that you may want to try. Search the Internet, it won't take long to find the three most recommended books supporting the politics of today's liberal establishment. Purchase or borrow them and read them carefully. You will enjoy them and even tend to agree with their arguments. Then...get the three books that I have recommended on a number of occasions, those being Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism, Mark Levin's Liberty and Tyranny and Senator Jim DeMint's Saving Freedom. I am confident that you will be floored in reading them. You will be angry at yourself for not being able to see these things before, and you may just become a fanatic because you will realize how the future of those whom you love is in jeopardy. How do I know that this will be your conclusion?It's because the written word gives information and in an honest search for truth, falsehoods become exposed and truth is discerned.