America must have morals

It never ceases to amaze me that the liberal left thinks that the Christian right shouldn't have a voice in politics. Sometimes I wonder if they think the Christian right shouldn't have a public voice at all. The long-known liberal media bias has finally been exposed and that has made way for "new media" such as talk radio and the blogosphere to be the outlet for the Christian right. The old-school media tried to shut down the blogs by calling them "unprofessional" and "unreliable" but those claims have been proven false. Recently, legislation has been proposed to give "equal time" on the radio waves since it is largely dominated by conservative talk shows. This is just another ploy to silence the Christian right by taking air-time away.

I say all this to get to one point. Without the Christian right and the morals that come with it, this country would not exist as it does today. If you are on the left, you are probably thinking that I'm right. But you think it would be better off today if the Christians were gone. However, you are sadly mistaken. If the Christian right decided today to remove itself from our society in all facets of life, America would look like Europe. And have you looked at Europe lately? Frech riots are burning over 100 cars every day. European unemployment rates are pushing 10 percent with some regions exceeding 30 percent. More people are emigrating from Germany than are immigrating to it. Europe's reproductive rates are alarmingly low and it threatens to dismantle the whole economy. It is literally a mess over there and that is the model the liberal left would like America to emulate.

But I will tell you this: Without Christian morality as the backbone of our country, America will begin to spiral downhill in all facets of society. Our morality, economy, education ... you name it. Without Christians in the public arena forming the backbone of our culture, America will lose its title as the great "city on a hill."

Our founding fathers knew that America needed Christian morals in order to thrive.

In his “Farewell Address,” George Washington reminded the nation:

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness. . . . The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them.

John Adams reminds us:

[W]e have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. . . . Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

John Adams also stated just two weeks before signing teh Declaration of Independence:

I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.

Fisher Ames, framer of the First Amendment, said:

Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart, and on the influence all these produce on public opinion before that opinion governs rulers.

Benjamin Franklin said:

[O]nly a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Franklin also stated in his appeal to open every session of Congress with prayer:

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that "except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest.

Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence, said:

The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.

And finally, my favorite quote, from Robert Winthrop, former speaker of the House of Representatives:

Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled either by a power within them or by a power without them; either by the Word of God or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible or by the bayonet.

Our founders were very concerned that our great nation would one day remove God, and specifically Christianity, from all of public life. They feared that if that day ever came, there would be no more liberty, no more peace, no more prosperity, and no more freedom. I hope that day never comes as we Christians fight to preserve our freedoms. It really is a shame that those people who profess to be proponents of tolerance, are so intolerant to Christianity.