2010 Soap Box Archives

A Nation In Jeopardy

For the first time in my life, I am seriously worried about the future of the United States of America, and not just about the wars we're fighting, the economic and ecological disasters we're currently going through, the shrinking dollar or swelling entitlement rolls.

While the combination of the aforementioned are definitely sources of deep worry for me, they are only symptoms of an even a deeper and darker reason for my anxiety, and that is the bottomless precipice the U.S.A. keeps inching closer to.

This country has been blessed above any other in the recorded history of mankind. Our geographical location, our fertile farmland and plentiful water supplies, the exceptionalism of our people, the bounty of our oceans and the sheer beauty of this land combine to express the blessings a benevolent God has showered on this land for over two centuries.

Though some people refuse to admit it, it doesn't change the absolute fact that this great nation was founded by God-fearing men on Judeo-Christian principles and it was their intention for it to remain that way.

It has become fashionable in the elitist class to only honor Almighty God with a wink and a nod and to interpret the Constitution and the other federal papers as strictly secular documents, without any reference to the God our founding fathers believed in and made sure to include in their writings.

In this nation that once included prayer in the everyday curriculum of its schools, the very word of God and Jesus Christ are shunned, actually outlawed. We take his name in vain without even a thought.

The Ten Commandments are banned from public places and anything that can be remotely construed as a Christian symbol is attacked by the A.C.L.U. and an ever increasingly liberal Supreme Court.

We elect politicians who don't even acknowledge the exceptionalism of America but go abroad and inform the world at large just how bad we are.

We send the people to office, not because they will preserve the greatness and security of America but those who we think will give us the most money or the biggest advantages from an already bankrupt federal treasury.

In the name of "choice" we murder millions of unborn babies every year, claiming that they're just blobs of flesh anyway, not really babies, even though their heartbeat is audible after just 18 days in the womb.

We fall for grandiose hoaxes like global warming and stand idly by while the wealth of our nation is pillaged and raped by presidents and congressmen whose only interest is the next election and their continuing hold on power.

Teenaged pregnancy is common as children have babies they're ill equipped to care for, and society is rife with absentee fathers who are too shiftless to help support the children they're responsible for bringing into the world, leaving the innocent children to be cared for by the welfare system, many times going on to repeat the mistakes of their fathers and mothers, bringing more children into the system to live off the state.

We legitimize same sex marriages and condone public schools giving condoms to kids who are too young to even understand what they're for.
We refuse to defend our borders and foolishly damn any state that takes the problem into their own hands.

We have a government that sends young men and women into battle that don't even have the decency to call the wars they fight and the enemy they're fighting by their proper names.

Political correctness has taken the place of common sense and the lion's share of our media report the news according to their political agenda.

Gang violence and child predators roam our streets and justice has come down to just how much money you have to hire the right lawyer.
Men call good evil and evil good and sell their American birthright for the empty promises of politicians.

If you condemn somebody of a minority race for wrongdoing or stand up for the immigration laws to be enforced you're called a racist.
Our homeland stands in danger of destruction while a weak president, a corrupt congress and an out of control bureaucracy sit on their hands and issue platitudes and excuses for not urgently pursuing terrorists in our midst.

We are drifting away from Almighty God as a nation and we are beginning to reap the whirlwind.

Hold on folks, it's going to be a bumpy ride.

If My people, which are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. - 2 Chronicles 7:14

That's our only hope.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops, and for our country.

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

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