In order to subjugate and enslave a Christian people, you must first de-Christianize them. You must remove from the culture that which prevents you from conquering them. You must concentrate on the children.

Only a few generations ago, Americans were anchored in concrete ethics, felt the need to instruct their posterity in biblical morality, and understood the value of the founding fathers’ labors. Lamentably, our cultures values and system of thought have drastically changed. Americans now abhor absolute ethical standards, public education now has postmodern relativism as the teaching standard, and citizens are forfeiting their role as the people in government. How did our country digress?

Popular understanding of the Constitution has degraded into a twisted mutant of what it was designed to be. Our elected officials take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, but time has proven that to be meaningless lip service. They really don’t represent us at all. They do whatever they want.

When America, Indiana, or any people, groups, or nations decide to throw off their acknowledgement of God and His authority, whether they realize it or not they are abandoning their only hope for peace and security. To break the moral laws will have the same result as breaking the physical laws. The transgressors can fully expect to find themselves…well, broken.

I knew about President George Washington’s letter to a Jewish congregation in 1790, and I also knew that it contained Biblical allusions in its language. But what I did not know, until I was listening to a recent podcast from Wallbuilders Live this morning, was just how many Biblical references there were in this letter.

How did one of our three branches of governing come down against what was so engrained within our American fabric? This wasn’t a judicial ruling of any worth, let alone of any constitutional value. It was, in fact, an intentional assault upon the religious freedoms and beliefs of the majority.

In times past it may have been true that you could lead a horse to water even if you couldn’t make him drink. Today, it may be counterproductive, politically incorrect, not trendy or just plain illegal to lead the horse to water.

If our society accepts the notion that the source of our liberty is government rather than God, then that liberty is no longer secure. What the government gives, it can take away. Thomas Jefferson rightly asked, “Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?” Every American should ask themselves this same question.

Who are the enemies of America? What is the difference between the godless and the modern unconverted church member? There isn’t one. If America goes down, it will go down in history as the nation that allowed the destroyers to do what they do, and that, at will. The men that have destroyed the West are those that stood down and did nothing.

Sometimes it feels as if we Christians are being scapegoated and ultimately driven unto the fringes of society. I am of no greater worth than my neighbor - no matter how he identifies himself. This trumped-up emphasis on sexual identity is way overblown. We are not what we desire, but rather, we are what we embrace.