The American "Wilderness"

We have heard about the Israelites 40 year wandering through the wilderness before God brought them into the Promised Land, and we in America have been wandering in a “wilderness” as well.
The 40 year wandering in our American wilderness may become longer as three Alabama lawyers represented by the ACLU, the Americans for Separation of Church and State, and by the Southern Poverty Center sued Alabama’s Chief Justice Roy Moore for his display of the Ten Commandments on a granite monument in the rotunda of the Alabama Supreme Court. The ACLU demanded the monument be immediately removed, stating that their display in public classrooms and courthouses offends them. The truth is the Ten Commandments represent the moral foundation of American law. Plain, and simple.

Forty years of moral decay, and man made laws have removed from many of us the acknowledgement that we are accountable according to the moral Law our laws came from.

The battle for the display of the Ten Commandments is not about Roy Moore, or about the monument, or about religion, or politics. It is about the acknowledgement of God. If the ACLU, its cohorts, and its deep pockets have their way, we will soon see any vestige of God completely removed from the American way of life. “In God we trust,” “One nation under God,” “So help me God,” and any other mention of God will all disappear from the public landscape of America.

Justice Moore courageously and boldly fought for our right to acknowledge God, and the monument is an example for us to follow. Judge Myron Thompson bowed down under the pressure of the ACLU, and ruled that the monument was an unconstitutional endorsement of religion by the state, and ordered its removal. Chief Justice Moore stood accused not only of breaking the “rule of law,” but he was even suspended from the bench for refusing Judge Thompson’s ruling. To make matters worse, the ACLU even asked the Federal Court to sanction his attorneys for simply telling the truth. A federal appeals panel upheld Thompson's order, and the monument is no longer on public view. The truth is, Alabama's constitution permits the acknowledgment of God by the state, and the federal court has no jurisdiction to order for the state to act otherwise.

The atheists are not obligated to worship God in this country. They have the freedom not to worship if they don’t want to. God gave them that right when He allowed the temptation, and fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Why do they in turn want to remove from the rest of us the right to worship, and acknowledge God, and practice our religion? In fact, all persons in America, are given the right to practice their religion; WHY CAN’T Christians have the same right?

The monument is not an endorsement of religion. In fact, the federal court cannot even give definition to the word religion under the first amendment. How do you define sodomy, abortion, and all the other things that have made their way into to the legal tapestry of this country? That is how they became laws; through the back door.

When you consider the rule of law, do you think Martin Luther King broke it? His "I have a dream" speech given to an impressive turnout of 250,000 made a difference, and Lyndon Johnson's civil rights legislation was enacted the next year. What about Rose Parks? When she decided she’d no longer take the back seat in the bus, she broke the Jim Crow segregation laws. What about Abraham Lincoln when he abolished slavery? What about the forefathers, when they disobeyed British Law? Yet, all these people are considered heroes. Roy Moore is trying to defend our right to worship God in public, yet, he is the subject of scorn, and mockery even by people who consider themselves Christians. I can see our “wilderness” wandering going on and on and ….

Do we want the moral foundation of our Law given to us by God who gave birth to this country, or should we just use the name of God when it means nothing to us? The Foundation For Moral Law, Inc. has made a statement, “The federal courts have now made it clear that we can acknowledge God only when it doesn't mean any thing - and when it does, it becomes unconstitutional. This gives new meaning to ‘Thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.’"

What did we do when prayer was taken out of schools in 1962? What did we do when the Ten Commandments were removed from a schoolhouse in Kentucky in 1980? When abortion was made legal? I remind you that those laws were made to satisfy a minority or people contrary to majority rule; why? Because when you remove morality from the essence of law, you remove the bond that holds it together, and keeps it from crumbling and becoming a sordid immoral mess.

We may differ in our opinions, and our actions, and in many other ways, but that does not remove from me the long standing mandate from Jesus Christ, to love, and respect you as a fellow human being, created equal, in the image of God, and with the same rights I enjoy. Still, if I see you traveling on your way to destruction, I am also mandated by Christ to tell you in a loving way, to look and reflect in what you are doing – is that something God would approve of? - Before it’s too late? Kind of what parents do for their kids.
God wants our worship to mean something (John 4:23-24).

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