Source: Gerry Charlotte Phelps
Needed Most - An Explosion of Christianity
Europe and the U.S. are literally on the brink of bankruptcy. They are being crushed by debts too big to repay. It will only get worse, for a long time. No one can foresee how this will end. And I am writing about the need for Christianity to grow explosively? At a time like this? Why? Is there some connection? Some good reason to turn at least some of our time and energy from this unprecedented crisis to another front?
There is. In fact, it is more urgent than our present danger. In fact, we cannot solve this problem without it. So it is of the greatest urgency.
First, Governments caused this problem. They are the ones doing the most borrowing, spending money they do not have, mortgaging the future incomes of their citizens. These governments have long been slipping out of control of their populations. In Europe, the votes of ordinary citizens no long matter. The EU rules without them. In the U.S., government spending has long been out of control.
Second, these weakened democracies will not change for the better until their peoples change. We were warned long ago about this. Ben Franklin warned that the new American republic could not "be kept" without "a religious and moral people." Why not? Because democracies cannot work without morality. Even democracies with a constitution. They become more and more corrupt. And morality comes almost entirely from religion.
Why? Morals must be absolute in order to work. If not, then everyone can decide for themselves what is right and wrong, good and bad. That is chaos.
Governments cannot decide for us what is right and wrong. Unless that conviction comes from inside people, there can never be enough policemen to make us do what is right in the government's eyes. "Law and Order" stops working. For "law and order" to work, morals must come from inside people.
Only religion has the authority to say "this is right and that is wrong." We grant such authority only to ourselves and to God. And only religion is able to plant standards of right and wrong within people so strongly that they will obey those standards even when no one is looking. (After all, God sees and knows everything we do. Religious people believe that, and are more likely to behave accordingly.)
Dictatorships can exist without religion. But in dictatorships, while the ruling class prospers, most of the people are poor. Only in democracies can most of the people prosper, or even be free. And democracies cannot survive without religion. So without religion, the world would be poor and enslaved - a condition that suddenly is a possibility for the West.
If we are to have any hope of survival as a free people, or even as countries where most people are prosperous then, we must become again a "religious and moral people."
It is not too late to become Christian countries again. But it is getting harder every year. If it is ever going to happen, we have to get started. Now. It is even more urgent than fixing the economy. More urgent than the people taking back their governments. We can't wait any longer to build up "a religious and moral people."
Comment:
There is. In fact, it is more urgent than our present danger. In fact, we cannot solve this problem without it. So it is of the greatest urgency.
First, Governments caused this problem. They are the ones doing the most borrowing, spending money they do not have, mortgaging the future incomes of their citizens. These governments have long been slipping out of control of their populations. In Europe, the votes of ordinary citizens no long matter. The EU rules without them. In the U.S., government spending has long been out of control.
Second, these weakened democracies will not change for the better until their peoples change. We were warned long ago about this. Ben Franklin warned that the new American republic could not "be kept" without "a religious and moral people." Why not? Because democracies cannot work without morality. Even democracies with a constitution. They become more and more corrupt. And morality comes almost entirely from religion.
Why? Morals must be absolute in order to work. If not, then everyone can decide for themselves what is right and wrong, good and bad. That is chaos.
Governments cannot decide for us what is right and wrong. Unless that conviction comes from inside people, there can never be enough policemen to make us do what is right in the government's eyes. "Law and Order" stops working. For "law and order" to work, morals must come from inside people.
Only religion has the authority to say "this is right and that is wrong." We grant such authority only to ourselves and to God. And only religion is able to plant standards of right and wrong within people so strongly that they will obey those standards even when no one is looking. (After all, God sees and knows everything we do. Religious people believe that, and are more likely to behave accordingly.)
Dictatorships can exist without religion. But in dictatorships, while the ruling class prospers, most of the people are poor. Only in democracies can most of the people prosper, or even be free. And democracies cannot survive without religion. So without religion, the world would be poor and enslaved - a condition that suddenly is a possibility for the West.
If we are to have any hope of survival as a free people, or even as countries where most people are prosperous then, we must become again a "religious and moral people."
It is not too late to become Christian countries again. But it is getting harder every year. If it is ever going to happen, we have to get started. Now. It is even more urgent than fixing the economy. More urgent than the people taking back their governments. We can't wait any longer to build up "a religious and moral people."
Comment:
Thanks Gerry...you are sooo right!
As I've said in a commentary to another, "This country was founded upon Judeo-Christian principles and there should be nothing stopping us from practicing those principles."
As Cicero is often quoted, we are truly threatened by the enemy within...,""A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies in the heart of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear. The traitor is the plague......" Marcus Tullius Cicero, speech to the Roman Senate"
Recommended Reading...highly recommended! "Out Of The Iron Furnace" ...it's a true story!