God Rejected

We, unfortunately, have ignored Our Founding Fathers' Warnings. As a result, America is rejecting God's headship over our nation through the Hearts of America's People, the Leaders We Elect, the Laws We Pass, and Activist Court Decisions.

Hearts of America's People

Desensitizing of America

Things that once appalled us now have become commonplace. We have heard so much evil that it doesn't bother us anymore. Even Christians have fallen pray! Isaiah 6:9 urges Christians to use their Christian senses, lest they too become desensitized.

Accepting the Humanists Agenda

America is no longer guided by Christian principles. Secular humanism now directs the public affairs of our nation. This philosophy denies God, Christ and the Bible. When we remove God's standards, then man is free to substitute his own standards of morality and we disallow the divinity of Christ and His completed work on the cross. Then there is no longer any need for God and His atoning grace. The moral compass points to what is right in the eyes of each individual without respect to God's standards.

God's word in Judges 21:25 says, "In those days every man did that which was right in his own eyes." Is that a description of our country today? Many people today do their own thing without regard to God's will. The question is asked, "Isn't one person's values as good as another's?" Many in our society, including some Christians, believe the answer to this is, "YES".

Where Has the Church Been? Christians and the Church have been asleep!!!

Thomas Jefferson once said,

Secure in prosperity and accepting of humanist philosophies such as separation of church and state, churches have settled into perpetual states of indifference and apathy toward the public affairs of our nation. Consequentially, our government has incrementally and systematically proceeded to remove God from the fiber of America unhindered by the constraining power of God's Word or His Church.

At the same time as the soul of our nation is moving further away from God, Churches seem overly concerned with programs, buildings, meetings, fundraising and attracting financially secure churched families. Simple discipleship and evangelism are no longer supreme priorities in many churches

Community churches aggressively compete with one another for churched families through new program offerings, added services such as child daycare and improved facilities. This polarizes community churches from one another and lessens their witness in the communities they serve. Most disturbing of all, pulpit messages across America are being distilled with popular secular philosophies and ideas.

In Revelations, Christ charged that the church at Ephesus "had left its first love." Is that a valid commentary of our nation's churches today?

Leaders We Elect

Our forefathers believed that a person couldn't even serve in public office without acknowledging a belief in God and His principles. Many of the Original State Constitutions written by our forefathers shortly after their signing of the Declaration of Independence affirm this position.

Our forefathers believed that each citizen was accountable to his fellow citizens, God and his country to elect only those leaders faithful to religious principles and high moral standards. Our forefathers believed that this was the sign of a true patriot. Consider the following quotes:

Conversely, in America today, we are told that what is done in one's private life is a private matter. Private behavior should not influence our view of a leader's ability to serve in a public office.

America has embraced this untruth. Religious principle and moral standards are no longer an integral part of our nation's political process. Immoral leaders saturate our political landscape. This has resulted in the moral decay of America's political process, her laws and her judiciary.

Laws We Pass

Unbridled immoral leaders advance immoral laws and defeat moral ones. Consider the following example state and federal laws and/or bills. As you review these, ask, "Could these laws be passed or defeated with Godly leaders in office?"

• Oregon approved legalized physician-assisted suicide in 1994 and reaffirmed the law in 1997, making Oregon the first government in the world to make the practice legal.
• California law AB1785, requires pro-homosexual tolerance education at all public schools and all grade levels, including Kindergarten. AB1931 provides taxpayer funded grants to take children on field trips to teach them diversity and tolerance of homosexuality.
• Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act - an "unsuccessful" federal bill to prohibit the performance of "partial-birth," "dilation and extraction" (D&X) or "intact dilation and evacuation" (intact D&E) late-term abortion procedures, which entail (1) delivery of the torso, (2) piercing the undelivered skull, (3) collapsing the skull via suction curate, and then (4) completing delivery. This bill was vetoed and the override failed in the U. S. Senate.

Activist Court Decisions

The United States Supreme Court is charged with interpreting and defending the most fundamental of our nation's laws, the U. S. Constitution. As such, inappropriate judicial action by this body adversely influences the very essence and character of America.

For example, in 1962, the Supreme Court decided, without sighting any precedence, that the term "church" in "separation of church and state" would now mean the "exercise of any religious activity in public." This meant that the term "separation of church and state" no longer simply involved a ban on Congress from imposing a national religion but more broadly involved a prohibition against America's citizens practicing religious activities in public.

This new interpretation paved the way for other judicial actions directed at removing all forms of religion from every conceivable aspect of public life. Has America's most fundamental founding truth been crushed into obscurity? - That this nation was founded to assure its citizens "Freedom of Religion" NOT "Freedom from Religion!":

Decisions already rendered have resulted in:

• Removal of student prayer: "Prayer in its public school system breaches the constitutional wall of separation between Church and State." Engel v. Vitale, 1962
• Removal of Bible readings: "[N]o state law or school board may require that passages from the Bible be read or that the Lord's Prayer be recited in public schools or a State at the beginning of each school day." The court went on to say, "[I]f portions of the New Testament were read without explanation, they could be and ...had been psychologically harmful to the [student]. Abington v. Schempp, 1963
• Removal of the Ten Commandments from view: "If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments are to have any effects at all, it will be to induce the schoolchildren to read, meditate upon, perhaps to venerate and obey, the Commandments...this...is not a permissible state objective under the Establishment Clause." Stone v. Graham, 1980
• Removal of benedictions and invocations from school activities: "Religious invocation...in high school commencement exercise conveyed message that district had given its endorsement to prayer and religion, so that school district was properly [prohibited] from including invocation in commencement exercise." Graham v. Central, 1985; Kay v. Douglas, 1986; Jager v. Douglas, 1989; Lee v. Weisman, 1992

Lower court rulings and state and local officials have gone even further:

• Freedom of speech and press is guaranteed to students unless the topic is religious, at which time such speech becomes unconstitutional. Stein v. Oshinsky, 1965; Collins v. Chandler Unified School District, 1981
• If a student prays over his lunch, it is unconstitutional for him to pray aloud. Reed v. Van Hoven, 1965
• It is unconstitutional for a Board of Education to use or refer to the word "God" in any of its official writings. Ohio v. Whisner, 1976
• In Alaska public schools, students were told they could not use the word "Christmas" in school because it had the word "Christ" in it, nor could they have the word in their notebooks, nor exchange Christmas cards or presents, nor display anything with the word "Christmas" on it." William J. Murray, "America Without God," The New American, June 20, 1988, p.19
• Public schools were barred from showing a film about the settlement of Jamestown because the film depicted the erection of a cross at the settlement, despite the historical fact that a cross was erected at the Jamestown settlement. John Eidsmoe, "Christianity and the Constitution" (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1987), p. 406

Other Examples of Judicial Legislation

Our nation's public rejection of God has led to

America's Moral Decay