2001 Soap Box Archives

After The Tragedy

The day after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington I was busy answering e-mail when the shock wore off enough for the enormity of the events to truly dawn on me. And I wept, bitterly wept and cried out to Almighty God in desperate prayer. I was angry, confused and heartbroken that our country had been attacked in such a cowardly and heinous fashion. The loss of innocent life and the destruction of three of America’s most recognizable icons was just almost too much to bear. I have come to some realizations concerning this tragedy and I would like to share them with you. They are my heartfelt feelings and I believe what I will tell you with all my heart. Here I will put a warning to all of you who are offended by the mention of God’s name and the defense of his proper place in American society. You’d best stop reading now. This nation has had the blessing of God’s covering which has won our wars, prospered our economy and protected our shores. We saw just a corner of that covering lifted in New York and Washington on the 11th of September, and the results were catastrophic beyond description. Why has this happened? Why has a nation which has enjoyed the blessings of God for over two hundred years suddenly experienced such a catastrophe? We’ve shaken our fists in God’s face for far too long. We have ignored His laws, belittled His son, taken His name in vain until it’s almost a national slang word. We have allowed radical groups like the A.C.L.U. to all but remove the name and reverence for God from American society. We have murdered untold millions of unborn children and tolerated an immoral president in the name of a good economy. We have proclaimed that homosexuality is just another lifestyle when the Bible clearly states that it is an abomination to God. We have encouraged illegitimate birth, and condoned living together out of wedlock, practiced racial prejudice and child molestation, followed new age religions and harebrained spiritual leaders. Some of our music is fit for nothing but a garbage can, we are surrounded by greedy opportunists who would sink low enough to use this tragedy for an excuse to raise the price of gasoline to five dollars a gallon. We allow our streets to be inundated with punks who sell death to our children in the form of drugs. Politicians tell outright lies to further their cause and waste our tax money on frivolous programs which do nobody any good. Our city streets are rampant with violent crime, underpaid, overworked, harried public prosecutors try to put criminals in jail who are being represented by attorneys wearing two thousand dollar suits. We can no longer travel this road people. This road leads to hell. We can no longer listen to the voices who preach division and unbelief. We have to eradicate the people who attacked us, not in vengeance but in justice, and there is a difference. Vengeance would be to drop an atomic bomb on Afghanistan, justice is to take out the guilty parties and everybody associated with them. We must show the world that this kind of behavior will not be tolerated by a civilized nation. But above all we must turn back to God. We must clean up our national act. God’s word says that if His people called by His name will pray and repent and change their wicked ways that he will hear from Heaven and heal their land. And this land needs a lot of healing. And I beg you, please don’t paint everybody from the Middle East with the same brush. The vast majority of the Middle Eastern citizens came to this country for the same reasons our forefathers did, to escape repression and have a better life. They deplore this atrocity just as much as we all do. We can no more hold them responsible than we could hold people of German decent responsible for the horrible things Hitler did. They are citizens of this nation and deserve to be treated accordingly. I sincerely urge you to join me in sincere prayer for our beloved nation.

Pray for our troops.

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God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

 

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