Where Has All Our Greatness Gone, Long Time Passing?
I find it hard to proclaim that
To say that
This was a whole different country from its founding, through the period of the Industrial Revolution, and all the way to about 1963. During all that time,
Back in 1835 Alexis d’Tocqueville, a French statesman, came to
So, what went wrong between 1835 and today? In the early 1960’s, our schools decided throw out the non-sectarian prayer that the students started each school day with. The prayer, which asked for the blessings of Almighty God on our country, our government leaders, our teachers and our parents, was deemed to be a violation of the Constitution, so we kicked the Almighty out of our schools. As a result, those of us who were alive at the time, got to witness the most violent and bloody assassination of a
All of this led to the next warning to America, when we witnessed the burning of our country as the result of the worst race riots in the history of our country spread from city to city all across America. Still we refused to mend our ways and get back to the decent moral values this country had been founded on. Rather than turn back to decency and morality, our Supreme Court legalized abortion and instituted “No Fault Divorce” which led to the further erosion of the traditional family and the respect for human life. Our public schools began teaching “Values Clarification”, which led to the further breakdown of the family and in respect for parents and all authority because the schools were teaching kids in the 8th and 9th grades that their parents had no right to instill their moral values into their children, that the children had the right to set their own moral values. Along with this, the students were taught that there was NO right or wrong. If something seemed right for you, then it was right for you to do it. As a result of this, we began to witness our children get more and more out of control and educational standards began to slip even further.
As the morals of our society eroded ever more, God slapped us with another warning to try and get our attention, and that was the rapid spread of HIV/AIDS with people becoming infected and dying by the hundreds. Our society denied the fact, despite indisputable evidence that AIDS was introduced and spread in this country, first through the abomination of homosexuality (in the beginning and for the longest time, it was called the homosexual disease) and then it entered the general population through infected blood supplies and sharing of infected needles of those doing illegal drugs. Instead of speaking out against homosexuality, our society began to embrace those who practiced and lived such a vile and unnatural life-style, to the point that today, homosexuals, transvestites, etc., are held in high esteem, while those who speak out against such abominations are treated with scorn and are accused of being hate mongers.
A large part of the problem is that our churches have lost their way. They have allowed themselves to fall victim to the pressures of political correctness that was put on them by the secular progressive, humanist liberals. The Church of Jesus Christ (All denominations and sects) has become timid about its witness and message. Today, one is hard pressed to find a church that preaches repentance, personal responsibility or even right and wrong, good and evil and morality. Today, the churches, in order to keep their pews and collection plates full, have turned to preaching “feel good” motivational messages, a false gospel, instead of the word of God. Instead of repentance the vast majority of Protestant churches preach a “name it and claim it” message that has people believing that God owes us the best of everything just because we are here.
The Catholic, Anglican (especially the Anglican) and even some Orthodox Churches are drifting so far away from the true Gospel teachings, so that today there is very little resemblance to the Church that was handed down to us from Jesus Christ and the Apostles. Today, abortion, homosexuality, lesbianism, adultery, promiscuity, etc., have all become acceptable. Just last week, when Dennis Miller, a Roman Catholic and self-proclaimed conservative, appeared on the O’Rielly Factor, he chastised the Pope for calling homosexuality an immoral and unnatural life-style, stating: “How can the pope say such a thing in this day and age that we live in, when homosexuality is widely accepted.” So I guess that if immoral, sinful behavior becomes acceptable, then it is no longer sin.
Today, we are witnessing our once great nation decline into a cesspool of moral and ethical corruption. As large corporations and our elected officials push for more and more globalism and one freed trade agreement after another, we lose more and more of the manufacturing jobs that made this country great and that gave us a high standard of living. Then our government refuses to secure our borders against the millions of illegal immigrants that are flooding into our country every year, many of them being aided and abetted by our own citizens, including our own churches. Our elected officials along with many priests and ministers then tell us that these illegals are entitled to free education, free medical and dental care along with lower in state college tuition, low income housing and food stamps, and that it is the duty of the American citizens to pay for it all through their tax money.
Our standard of living is going down as more and more American citizens lose good paying jobs, and more and employers of what few good jobs we have left, are hiring more and more illegal and legal immigrants because they are willing to work for far less money and no benefits. Then we are lied to by our elected officials about how unemployment is at an all time low and how we need millions more legal and illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that Americans won’t do. Sure Americans won’t do them because the employers either don’t want to pay a living wage or the employers just won’t hire Americans at all because they can get the immigrants to do the jobs for little or nothing. The number of unemployed Americans is NOT down. Only the number of Americans who are still eligible for unemployment insurance benefits is down.
Today, we have thousands upon thousands of these illegals flooding our country with violent street gangs and illegal drugs from coast to coast. We have them raping and killing our children and our police officers with impunity, turning our prisons and our borders into revolving doors, while the majority of our elected officials and religious leaders remain silent. Our government officials allow atheistic groups to bash Christianity through art and despicable immoral displays, often even forcing the taxpayers to foot the bill for these displays by offering grants to these groups. And as anything Christian is allowed to be bashed and/or banned, many of our publicly funded colleges and other institutions are bending over backwards to accommodate Muslims in this country so that they can have their prayer time in our public schools, while the Christian and Jewish taxpayers are forced to pay for the Muslims foot washing basins to be installed in our colleges, elementary schools and even places of business. And while this is happening, our president(s) and other elected officials are holding secret negotiations with foreign leaders to sell out our national sovereignty and rush us headlong into a One World Government without the consent of WE THE PEOPLE.
As a result of all of this ungodliness, our country is losing its national identity and our American way of life. Yet our churches remain silent. Our President and his Secretary of State are forcing
As our government turns more and more against God, and as it and our society continues to elevate immorality, homosexuality, abortion, divorce, adultery, promiscuity and the pornification of our society and the degradation and sexualization of our children to a place of prominence and respectability, God is removing more and more of His blessings and protections from this land. You don’t believe it? Just take a look at the sorry state of education in this country, take look at the drastic loss of jobs, and take a look at the ever increasing ferocity and number of storms and natural disasters hitting this country every year, from floods, tornados, hurricanes, and drought, forest and wild fires to landslides. Not to mention the ever increasing recall of foods due to contamination along with the sudden spread of the antibiotic resistant viruses.
If you look at
In our smug self-righteousness, we try to kid ourselves that the same thing could never happen here. How wrong we are.
As we lose hope in any kind of bright future, we lose our very identity as human beings and when this happens, life itself loses its meaning and we sink into moral depravity. This in turn, leads to depression, just look at the number of people in this country today who are on all kinds of medications because of anxiety, bi-polar disorders, attention deficit disorder, etc. When depression, anxiety, fear, poverty or whatever, robs us of hope, it also robs us of our very identity of who and what we are, beings created in the image of God. God never intended for us to live without hope. It is the Christian faith that gives us hope and it was this message preached in our Churches that led Americans to be good, which in turn led
Some how, the churches have allowed, slowly at first, humanism, secularism, pluralism, multiculturalism, diversity, acceptance and political correctness to gain control. This control has become so complete that the churches, through fear and intimidation, no longer preach the gospel of hope and love through repentance of sin and acceptance of Jesus Christ and His gift of salvation. Instead we are taught that all religions and religious practices are equal for the salvation and edification of mankind. The end result of all of this has been the loss of hope in a brighter future, a loss of our true calling to bring hope to the world. As long as we maintained that calling, we were guaranteed that as individuals, as families and as a nation, anything we set ourselves to do would be accomplished, and not even the very gates of hell could prevail against the Church, the people of God.
But since the very Shepherds of Jesus Christ decided to stop teaching the TRUE Gospel of Jesus Christ, and since they decided to make deals with the Evil One, we have lost our calling, we have lost our hope, we have stopped being good and America has lost her greatness and now we are on the verge of losing America.
“Abouna” Gregori
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