One Nation Under God!

"...the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth."

The United States has certainly changed in just 234 years. we have gone from a nation, founded on the principles of God, to one being forced to expect Allah. How did this happen? It is based on statements like this...

The common definition of “religion” as belief in a divine or superhuman power to be obeyed and worshiped, or the expression of such a belief, is not expansive enough to deal with the breadth of religious experiences and spiritual endeavors in contemporary America. Today religion is increasingly likely to be defined as any system of belief or practices resembling, suggestive of, or likened to a religious system; or perhaps even simply “any object of conscientious regard.” Religion has become whatever a person declares to be the object of regard or pursuit. Some commentators on American religion are offering a slightly different formulation of this same phenomenon. The last twenty-five years, they suggest, have witnessed a growing number of Americans who completely reject the word “religious” and in its place use the word “spiritual.” Often they choose to live apart from established religious institutions, “indifferent to organized religion or even hostile to it.” These individuals see the cosmos as pulsing with spiritual energies which can be tapped through various spiritual disciplines. These newer expressions of individual and vernacular forms of spirituality are part of the story behind Harold Bloom’s judgment that “Western nation is as religion-soaked as ours.” Only a very fluid definition of religion can do justice to the multitude of different “religions” and forms of spirituality that exist in contemporary America.

LET US NEVER FORGET WHERE WE CAME FROM; FOR ONLY BY REALIZING THAT FACT CAN WE TRULY LOOK TO THE FUTURE AND WHAT GOD HAS ASKED US TO DO! GOD IS STILL ON THE THRONE NO MATTER WHO IS DIRECTING TRAFFIC IN WASHINGTON, DC. LET US STAND WITH THOSE WHO HAVE DIED FOR THIS NATION AND NEVER, EVER TURN OUR BACKS ON OUR RIGHT TO FOLLOW HIM!

ROLLING THUNDER - 2010