Do you really love America? Do you even know what it once was, and what it is becoming today? Do you even care?
Pat Buchanan wrote yesterday that we are in danger of no longer being "one nation" but "Balkanized into ethnic enclaves." It's probably not the first time that he inferred that our bond as Americans is disappearing and many others have commented on the same thing as did I in the following post from 2009. We are disintegrating at every level! What does it mean to love America and how can you love something that is only a faint shadow of what it once was? One would first have to know what it once was and few today remember it, were even taught it in school and have scant interest in all the fuss about losing it.
The following post was written over five years ago and our downgrade is now spiralling out of control! Our only hope....our only....hope...is that God's Spirit would move over our collective hearts and minds as harvest winds over fields of grain, yet our political class is only intent on threshing the grain of these fields with the winnowing fork of electoral pragmatism then collecting only the chaff to feed their own livestock.
April 15, 2009: America The Beautiful
"America The Beautiful" expresses the wondrous bounty God had bestowed upon this country. "Spacious skies, amber waves of grain" and "purple mountain majesties" surely describe this land. I appreciate the beauty of the land and also the liberty that was built upon it, but I love this country for other reasons.
When I talk about America, I'm talking about it from its beginning when small ships carried whole communities across the ocean. I love it for its diversity. We have problems but we have overcome bigger ones. We have new challenges that almost seem insurmountable but it's not the first time. We have been bonded together through a concept that demanded diversity of background but became unity as Americans. I love America because of the hope it has given the world and the stability. I can write my opinion and speak it. I can pass out books without fear of intimidation. I can oppose iniquity and protest tendencies that are too close to tyranny for comfort. I love it most because God has used it to spread the gospel to every corner of the world. Everywhere I go, in the workplace, in the recreation and shopping areas, vacation spots and at preserved historical landmarks, there are Christians. I can empathize with them, enjoy their fellowship, share my needs and pray for theirs. Our son will find them at college, my wife and I will work with them and many of our representatives will govern with Christ as their head. God has raised this nation and used it mightily, this is why I love it so.
I write this blog because these things are in danger. The bond is disappearing. European immigration is occurring again but this time it is an immigration of philosophy. Illegal immigration, sponsored by politicians for political reasons, does a great disservice to the legal immigrants who continue to bolster and favor us as they become one with us. Our corporations are becoming more international than American. Our activist courts look to international law, for American law will not suffice the paradigm change they envision. Our media is failing its calling and most importantly the faithfulness of our churches to the gospel is at low ebb.
Previous to revisionist history, we were taught that Americans were a special people who could do almost anything. The Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville thought this people special enough to travel here just to observe. He wrote, "Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power." Ignoring these problems and the historical tendency of many nations to collapse from within... is not love.
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