I certainly don’t want to seem like a downer. And I am definitely not anti-American, in any way! I love the country I was raised in, the country I was educated in, the nation with a spotted history – like every other nation – but the one that kept chasing the prize of increased freedom within the context of a moral foundation. When I look back at how I thought as a child – and I was a little weird at that – I believe that at an early age I was aware of things – and considering things that a child does not consider. The nation I loved was closer to Andy & Opie & Barney than to the shows that pass as entertainment today. In my neighborhood, just about everyone went to church. [I am not saying they all were “saved,” – just that they went to church. They recognized the value in that. My uncle was one of those as was my father, for a time. Not really believing what they, for-a-time at least considered a fairy tale, but recognizing the value of a commitment to those values. That was kind of like our Founding Fathers; Christians and Deists alike, recognizing the worth of a biblical foundation. TRUTH was acknowledged as a reality. Morality was understood as essential. John Adams recognized this when he wrote, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”[i]
In point of fact, America and the West is engaged in a form of cultural suicide. The mores that have been adopted – and the standards that have been torn down has created a situation in which faith in the God of the Bible has been made equivalent to a de-facto worship of Satan. We have embraced the trappings of satanism. The societal embrace of the LGBT agenda is the acceptance of pagan – and therefore Luciferian values. Sometimes the embrace has become more official. The enthronement of gay marriage is one example. Or this 2011 headline from the LA Times. “Air Force Academy adapts to pagans, druids, witches and Wiccans.”
America and the West then, are becoming increasingly morally bankrupt. In fact the notion of sin is dead and with it any moral standards at all. We are rejecting our own roots. Even the moral basis of identity is being denied. We see it in the Trans Movement that has swept the woke classes in our nation. Again we are leaning toward the satanic. They teach pedophilia is a concept of the past. It is just another form of sexual attraction. This decay in sexual morality was promoted by Sigmund Freud and Wilhelm Reich, who coined the phrase and became the “Father of the Sexual Revolution.”[ii] They advocated for unbridled freedom when it came to sex. Again, that was the promotion of a satanic value.
Wilhelm Reich: “The first precondition for the improvement of human and sexual relationships is the absolute break with those moral views which base their commandments either on allegedly supernatural arrangements or on arbitrary law or simply tradition. The laws of morality should also be founded on the insights gained by progressive science.”[iii] The Sexual Revolution of the 60s – which has continued in and through today’s expression of the LGBT agenda – was made possible by the decay of the standing of the Moral Law in the West. Reich went so far as to promote the perversion of children arguing that it would increase intellectual growth.
I think what we’ve learned then is that movements like the Sexual Revolution and the LGBT Agenda are an expression of the Luciferian ethic that removes morality from the culture altogether. But this did not happen all by chance. This was not the natural fruit of the American Experiment. This was rather a rejection of traditional American and Western values. was a nation founded on godly principles with the intention of advancing the Gospel and doing God’s will. Yes, there was slavery, but many believed that it was an institution that would gradually die out – until the invention of the cotton gin in 1793 made cotton growing and therefore slavery – a very profitable institution. Still, we paid the national price that price in hundreds of thousands of lives in the Civil War. And admittedly, the journey toward equality took some time after that.
The American ethic, the American experiment, imperfect as it was, periodically takes stock of itself – and re-orients and improves on the model with enhanced freedoms and increased liberty. In the last several decades however, it has suffered some grievous blows. This nation was originally founded on Judeo-Christian principles that enshrined the freedoms enumerated – (but NOT given) – in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Those rights were given by God and are the natural outworking of the understanding that we are all God’s creatures. These principles were laid down from the very beginning. At Jamestown, VA in 1607. That colony was dedicated to the God of the Bible. It happened again with the Mayflower Compact in 1620. The Pilgrims voluntarily entered into a governmental covenant “undertaken for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and Honour of our King and Country.” Our Christian heritage was confirmed yet again when President Washington’s first inaugural turned into a spontaneous prayer meeting that went on for hours. But we have drifted far from these beginnings since especially the middle of the last century.
But to use the word “drifted” is perhaps to mislead. Much of this drift was pre-planned by revolutionary Marxists that wormed their way into positions of power and influence in the American culture. There exists a line of influence that leads from the Karl Marx himself through the Alinsky-ites of the 60s to Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA of today. Our current American culture has been – to a large degree – coopted through a planned infiltration of key institutions. Many have written of the Communist goals entered into the Congressional Record by Rep Albert Herlong Jr of Florida in 1963. There were dozens, but here are just a few. “Promote the UN as the only hope for mankind… Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States…. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks….Infiltrate the press…. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity…. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.… Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as ‘normal, natural, healthy.’” [iv]
This is the new ethic that seems to be rising triumphant among an increasing portion of the American population. The destruction of American morality and the Judeo-Christian foundations of this country will serve well to move the population into the Antichrist Kingdom of the Tribulation. We have entered an era wherein we have become obsessed with self. The Apostle Paul warns, “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.” (2Timothy 3:1-4)
“In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” (Judges 21:25)
[i] John Adams Quotes, https://www.azquotes.com/author/90-John_Adams/tag/christianity
[ii] Vladimir Putin: The New World Order Worships Satan, Logos Wars, viewed January 31, 2024
[iii] Wilhelm Reich, The Sexual Revolution, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1945, pg 54
[iv] Albert Herlong Jr, 1963 Communist Goals, as entered into the Congressional Record, found on the website of the Free Republic, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1529020/posts
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