Every few days a quote
comes across Facebook that always catches my attention. I have no
idea who said it or wrote it and I probably won't get it exactly
right but it gives me pause every time I see it. It says 'Yesterday
a lot of folks woke up who are not waking up today', it's point I
suppose is to live each day to the fullest because we don't know when
the end is coming. The quote makes me think every time I see it but
recently I have been thinking about it in another light.
The thought certainly
applies to people and I believe that was the intent originally, but
it also applies to Nations, churches and many other institutions we
take for granted. Recent events get me to thinking about whether we
as a Nation and more importantly as a way of life are about to wake
up on our last day of existence. We are not going to get a 'save the
date' card about when our way of life will end no more that we're
going to get one for the day we draw our last breath here. Whoever
is left is going to wake up one morning and know there will be no
services at the church Sunday or any day, there is no Medicare or
Medicaid coming this month or ever again and human rights and
universal education is a thing of the past.
Some sociologist and
economist believe that the United States started this decline when
their leaders opened voting to everyone. The theory being that the
government should be controlled by 'stakeholders', or only those who
are contributing. I really don't believe that but must acknowledge
there is some merit in the theory. I believe that universal voting
is possible but must be under girded with a strong Judeo-Christian
culture where hard work and incentive based economies can support
care and charitable giving for those unable to provide. This same
culture by its very nature will and should provide only for equal
opportunity and not equal results.
My concern for the
possible accelerated demise of our way of life comes from our seeing
the abandonment of the Judeo-Christian influence on our nation.
Without this foundation we will not have to be attacked from the
outside, we are going to implode from within. The first cracks will
come in our judicial system. Our system assumes juries decide cases
based not only on the law but on C.S. Lewis called the universal
moral law. Juries acting without the use of this universal
moral law can return any verdict they choose. We've seen this
already in civil cases where juries ignore the facts and law to
return verdicts without rime or reason. In criminal cases the
avenues of appeal for reason and equity are not available. An
electorate of morally lawless people can elect politicians and judges
who are as corrupt as the people they represent thereby no protection
from our government.
This is not a muslim
bashing effort but for an example I heard on last night's news a
female protester appearing before a school board in a city outside
our state who was demanding the board institute a religious holiday
six days away for the entire school district. She threatened the
Board by explaining her Muslim community was soon to be the majority
and when they were they would control this district by the ballot box
and when that happened not only would the day become a holiday but
their religion would become a part of the districts curriculum.
I look at the countries in
the Middle East and understand why these good intentioned people want
to escape. What I don't understand is how they think the utopia they
risk their lives to get to can continue if they change our
fundamentals to those they escaped from. The same is true to our
homegrown discontents. We have sold equal results not equal
opportunity to hard and too long.
Only thing I am certain of
as we start the last half of 2016, is that the same God that
delivered the Jews from Egypt, that walked on water and died for me
and rose from that death is still right where he's been since he got
this ball rolling and can make the Tennessee River flow from here to
Chattanooga in the blink of an eye. No politicians are going to save
this nation, I just hope my grand kids can wake up in the same nation
I have for 70+ years..
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