A Time to Fight the Good Fight: Part 2

I ended my last post with this question:

Why aren’t most Americans familiar with the rest of the 27 grievances but seem to be taught grievance number 17 more than any other of the 27 grievances?

We started to see a shift during the 1920’s, 30’s, and 40’s which brought about new historians that would begin a “revised” version of American history. The names of these men are not limited to but include:

• Charles Beard– He authored, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, argues that the structure of the Constitution of the United States was motivated primarily by the personal financial interests of the Founding Fathers. Beard was a leading liberal supporter of the New Deal and an intellectual leader in the Progressive Movement. He did in fact have Quaker roots as he attended a Quaker School growing up as a young boy.
• W.E. Woodward
• Fairfax Downey

These “revisionist historians” began only looking at American history through an economic standpoint. It would seem that they believed that the only motivating factor in life would be the almighty dollar. They had taken an economic approach to teaching American History. These so-called historians completely disregarded our American Heritage from a spiritual standpoint and began to focus solely on our history based upon economics.

Charles Beard wrote a book titled “The Economic Basis of Politics.” This book had taken a look at our Constitution and the Revolution from an economic perspective. So, to boil it down for you economics became the basis of what students for generations to come would study regarding the Constitution and the Revolution even though the “only” economic clause in the Declaration was “taxation without representation.”

This is the one clause that has been hammered and drilled into our brains over the last half-century as the sole reason for going to war with England.

So now as a result after having two generations learn that economics, money is the only thing that matters, we now see the behavior of our younger generations reflect these teachings.

Take the issues at the ballot box for example. What issue is most important to you when election time comes? When you are looking at the qualities for what a candidate stands for what issues do you hold most important?

Pro-Life/Pro-Choice?

Traditional Marriage/Same-Sex Marriage?

Moral Issues in general?

Evangelical Christians were polled and asked these questions on which issues were most important? The answer: Economic issues.

Their pocketbook. Whether or not this candidate could help secure their finances trumped moral issues identified in the Bible.

Our leaders today on a national scale are judged not on the notion of their moral character, personal integrity, their empathy, their faith but rather solely on the basis of how the economy is performing, the unemployment rate which ties into the economy, or how the stock market is performing, also ties into the economy.

Money over morals. Economic health over spiritual health.

1 Timothy 6:9-10 King James Version (KJV)

9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Our nation is reaping the benefits of us primarily focusing on pursuing our own pocketbooks:

Many sorrows.

If you were to crack open an American history textbook prior to what Charles Beard wrote, you would find a completely different version of American history taught inside the classroom. Just read the 27 grievances that our founders had with King George and these grievances alone present a different viewpoint as to what is taught today.

There were more important issues that concerned and motivated the Colonists than just economic stability.

When you go all the way back to 1762 America had its very first missionary society. The Society to Propagate the Gospel among Indians and Others in North America.

Many Americans were united in this effort but King George quickly put a stop to this movement as he was convinced that wit would compete with the work of the established Church of England. So, he vetoed it.

This is the type of action that had sounded the alarm through the American Colonies many of which had contended for religious freedom including their own right and ability to start Bible Societies, Churches, Missionary Societies, and Sunday School’s.

Both Charles Carroll and Samuel Adams, who would both become signers of the Declaration, stated that it was “religious freedom” as the reason they both became involved in the American Revolution. But you probably won’t read that in a textbook anywhere.

I will say that America is no longer a Christian nation. Am I saying that we as a people were not built on the idea that no nation should be rightly governed without God and the Bible? No, I am not saying that. When you read my writings and listen to my podcasts I will always hold fast the notion that we were a nation built on the idea that we have a Creator and that every man, woman, and child should have that God-given right to freely worship that Creator without the interference from the Government.

America was set apart from the rest of the world because she was different. People have always come from all over the world because there truly has never been a nation like her. Our forefathers battled those stormy seas on that long journey across the Atlantic and got their first glimpse of Lady Liberty holding that torch high and proud symbolizing the start of a new life, a new beginning for them and their families.

America now is unrecognizable and is on the verge of death. On the verge of no longer being set apart from the rest of the world. On the verge of completely losing forever what has made her great. She’s nearly extinct and as President Ronald Reagan said: “America is the last great beacon of hope to the rest of the world.” As a Christian I know that the only true beacon of Hope in this world is Jesus Christ but I’m afraid that one day as I stare across the vast ruins of the United States, I will have to explain to my children what it was like to live free. What it was like to watch my fellow countrymen not live in a constant state of fear. Now we are tearing each other apart with our actions and most importantly with our words.

These are not easy things for me to say because I love my country so much. It breaks my heart to speak on these subjects but these are areas of discussion that need to be addressed because the spiritual health of our nation is reflected by the spiritual health of our communities and the spiritual health of our communities is reflected by the spiritual health of our churches.

It is the difficult subjects that need to be spoken of and then prayed on. The Bible says in the book of James that faith without works is dead so then we must put our prayer into action. You know what prayer is also action.

The power of prayer is the greatest action and greatest weapon against Satan and the enemy. Its what holds everything together even though half of our politicians have thrown it out, its still the most effective weapon against the enemy. We don’t fire with fire but with prayer because as it states in the book of Nehemiah 4:20- “Our God shall fight for us!”

The walls are caving in and America must cry out to God or she will be destroyed. Not from the outside but from within.