Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Judeo-Christian Americans Have Failed Themselves, Their Faith and Their Country
  Religion piece by Thomas D. Segel

Harlingen, Texas, May 18, 2009:  America has the largest infrastructure in the world designed to promote spirituality.  The land is filled with thousands upon thousands of churches, temples, religious schools, and religious organizations.  However, according to an extensive study conducted by the Barma Group, a research organization specializing in religious studies, the nation is still not able to advance itself spiritually.

David Kupelian, managing editor of WorldNetDaily.com tends to agree with that assessment.  He charges that even though most Americans call themselves Christians, twice they chose as their leader Bill Clinton, “a sexual predator and pathological liar who regarded the religious right as enemies…” He also claims that we came close to electing Al Gore, “another pathological liar and radical environmentalist…” 

Kupelian charges that Christians have lost a 30-year battle to protect the unborn.  Christians have also lost the war in their schools. He says they “ have been scrubbed antiseptically clean of Christian principles and traditions.” Those beliefs and practices have been replaced with “every conceivable form of propaganda an perversion.”

Along with these important losses, Christians and Jews alike “have lost their former influence in politics, in the press, in entertainment, in literature – in virtually every major area of life.”

He goes on the charge that even the churches have been infiltrated by “double agents” who are ripping major denominations apart from within while pretending to be among the faithful.

Across the television channels there has been a replaying and rephrasing of the late George Carlin’s rant that “Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man – living in the sky – who watches everything you do, every minute of every day.”

“The God Delusion” was on the New York Times bestseller list for 51 weeks, until September 2007. It is still being carried in most bookstores and sales outlets.  This book charges that the creator “almost certainly does not exist and that belief in a personal God qualifies as delusion.”

Last month the New York Times published a front-page article proclaiming the rise of atheists in America.  The article claims that in the past twenty years, those claiming to be atheists have doubled in number across the country.  Deep into the feature you discover they still make up only 15% of the population.

But all of this flies in the face of 2008 Pew Poll that has reported 92 % of Americans believe in God or a universal spirit – including one in five who call themselves atheists.  The same poll says 80% of Americans believe in miracles and most believe angels and demons are active in our world.

This was one of the largest polls on the subject of Faith ever conducted, with more than 36,000 individuals being interviewed.  For most, God is a vivid presence and more than a third of those polled claimed to have regularly had their prayers answered.

With such a preponderance of people who profess to be members of the Family of Faith, why have Americans failed themselves, their faith and their country by letting secular humanists and atheists dominate major institutions and the political arena?  It could very well be that America has a spiritual depth problem.  There seems to be no place within the faith community that one can find any unified objectives. All believers see there has been an advancement of evil and a decline of morality, but there is no clarion call to arms against what Christians and Jews alike see as actions detrimental to our country.  Thus, those of faith still turn the other cheek, while forces they cannot truly identify or lack the will to engage in battle attack everything that makes up their belief system. 

Our President and the media are proclaiming we are no longer a Christian nation. So, where will it all end? There are many who feel we are rapidly approaching the modern day equivalent of God’s wrath on Sodom and Gomorrah.

Semper Fidelis,
Thomas D. Segel

Posted by Thomas D. Segel on 5/19/09

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