Our Republic

Here lately, I have been laughing out loud at comments made on various web sites. Sometimes I wonder if some of these folks ever went to school. I even wonder what they must be teaching in school in the subjects of history and civics. I am amazed that they can twist fact into meaning what they want, when they want and when it best suits them.

I have to wonder what America will look like in just a few short years. Senator Phil Graham was recently ridiculed in the press for calling Americans "a nation of whiners". In reality, that is exactly what we have become. We have the greatest of all blessings here, but yet we have become obsessed with ourselves, our own individual feelings and best interest.

I grew up during the Cold War era and in that time, Russia, the former Soviet Union, said they would destroy America without firing a shot, from within. Look around, what does it look like to you?

Our "Christian Walk" looks more like a drag. A lot of us have to look in the table of contents in our Bibles to find the book of John or Luke, or Romans. We haven't and don't take a moment out of our day to teach the very basics of our faith to our children. So what has happened? We have lost our sense of right and wrong, good and evil.

Do you believe in Heaven and Hell? If so, how do you get to either? Is Jesus the only way? Can works get you there? I know everyone doesn't believe as I do, that the only way to heaven is by the blood atonement of Jesus Christ. But I believe these numbers from Barna show us a lot. In 2007, Barna reported there is tendency to believe that if you do enough good things then you will go to heaven. The results show that in 2007, 54% agree with that statement and 38% disagreed. Even though there has been a slight decrease since 1993 when 56% agreed with this statement, it still shows how we have fallen well short of teaching and convincing folks of the truth. Have they failed to listen or have we failed to speak? I hope it is the former.