Feb 15, 2018

"In God We Trust" is our Motto..."One Nation Under God" is our Pledge

There was a time, not too long ago, when virtually every American stood with hats off, hand over the heart, or a salute, when the U.S. Pledge Of Allegiance to our flag and country as "one nation under God" was promised. But now our country has reached a spiritual black hole which is sucking what was "Christian America" into Agnosticism and Atheism. Yes, God can change all that, but you and I, as salt and light, are the influences He uses in every nation to accomplish His work. It is we who have let him down. Is our motto true with you and me ... that ...
"In God we trust"

And is our promise still real and in affect when we say...
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

Our national leaders, of the past, not only incorporated God consciousness and the Christian Bible in the nation's founding instruments, but continued that emphasis with great frequency in the early years, and to a lesser and lesser degree up to the present day. From Samuel Adams, a Christian founder, up to Ronald Reagan the decline was steadily downward with more persistence. Since Reagan, there has been almost a complete absence of acknowledgement of God and the Bible except by pretentious politicians who mention God in hopes of gaining political support from Christians. One side of our Congress, on the political right, is at least friendly toward God, the Bible and Christians, but the other side, on the left, no longer even hide their animosity toward Christians, our God and the Bible.

Reagan, quite often made such observations as ...

"Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience...without God there is a coarsening of the society; without God democracy will not and cannot long endure...If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under."- Ronald Reagan

"Government should uphold--and not undermine--those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and ... family."
- Ronald Reagan

But more and more America is losing sight of our great heritage as a nation founded on Biblical truth, and the consequences are dire: schools are failing, the divorce rate is climbing, and as a founder of our nation, Samuel Adams, said,

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!” – Samuel Adams, Christian First and always.

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