America is a Judeo-Christian nation. This is important, because this is what all our laws are based on. This is what our Constitution is based on. This is where our basic rules come from: don't lie, don't steal, don't cheat, don't covet your neighbor's wife.
It is from this that our basic values and morals come from. It is from this that the founding fathers conceived the idea of
natural rights, or those liberties that we are born with, or those liberties that were handed down from a higher power: God.
Everything that our nation was founded on is based on the fact that we are, at the core, a Judeo-Christian nation. It is by reading the Judeo-Christian Bible that our children learn the basic values that are essential to holding this nation together.
It is from this that we learn to be kind to other people, and to respect other people. It is from this that we learn to respect ourselves. It is from this that we learn to take responsibility for our own actions. It is from this that we learn to resist temptations, such as the temptation to steal, or the temptation to covet your neighbor's wife, or the temptation to consent to mutual sex before marriage.
These are all behaviors, or actions, that lead to controversies. They are actions that the Bible preaches against in order to create a better world.
When you teach about God, when we read the Bible, we are learning the very values and morals that hold this nation together. It is only when we get away from this does our nation start to fall apart. It is only when you ignore the Bible do evil things happen, things that the Bible teaches are sins.
It is only when we get away from the Bible does evil occur. Lacking a Judeo-Christian upbringing, children are more likely to have children out of wedlock. Lacking the two-parent structure, studies have confirmed (again and again) the age old suspicion that children are less likely learn the Bible, and therefore less likely to become good, honest, and productive members of society.
As a nation we have learned to tolerate such behavior. We have learned to tolerate the fact that atheists do not want the Judeo-Christian Bible taught in public schools. And there's this old saying: "What one generation tolerates the next embraces."
Today we tolerate households where children are brought up by only mothers. The next generation will just accept it as the way it is. Today we tolerate abortion, yet the next generation will just accept it as the way it is. Yesterday we tolerated atheists attempts to remove Bibles from schools, and now it is just the accepted norm.
By becoming increasingly tolerant we are becoming openly hostile to our own nation; we are becoming increasingly tolerant to the morals and values that set us up as a nation. We have learned to tolerate, and sometimes even embrace, principles that are the antithesis of our founding principles.
Today we have learned to tolerate certain behavior because we are afraid of causing controversy, or because we want to shut them up. We have learned to tolerate. We have become a politically correct nation in our attempt to not make waves, or to take the path of least resistance.
Surely it sounds good when you are a teenager to marry the first person you fall in love with. But when this happens you set yourself up for a lifetime of misery, as you do not have a job, you will not be able to provide the kind of security your child needs. How could you? You haven't even finished your education yet.
But more and more we have become tolerant to this sort of behavior. Look at Bill Clinton as a perfect example. He was married, and yet he gave in to the temptation of another woman. Chances are he did this more than once. Because what he did was against Judeo-Christian values, it did nothing but cause controversy for Mr. Clinton. It tarnished his reputation.
Yet for those lacking Judeo-Christian values, Mr. Clinton's actions were acceptable. Many of the people who liked what he was doing as president simply tolerated his actions. They said things like "that's just what men do."
The best way to reverse this trend is to start with yourself. Live your life as Jesus would. Read the Bible every day. Live by the values taught by the Bible, and set a good example for others to follow.
