CORRESPONDENT OF THE DAY
How Can God Still Bless America?
Editor, Times-Dispatch: World War II Gen. Omar Bradley said that by the end of the 20th century, we would be a nation of "technological giants and moral midgets."
Did he know that we would be putting men in outer space, but that back at home we would be killing babies by the thousands, while quibbling over waterboarding terrorists?
Did he know that we would deny our children the right to pray or read the Ten Commandments, but give them cell phones to "sex text" at will and allow them to absorb violence and smut 24 hours a day via TV?
Did he know that we would refuse to allow our schools to teach our teens abstinence and responsibility, but instead we would teach them about homosexuality and how to have safe sex -- and if they do accidentally get pregnant, they're free to have abortions without notifying their parents?
Do you think he knew we would encourage children to read the fantasy Harry Potter series but discourage them from reading Bible stories because they're only fairy tales?
In our culture, truth has become whatever we want it to be and right and wrong are whatever we judge them to be -- although we're not really judging because we have no basis with which to judge.
And lest one think I am pointing a finger at those outside the church -- immorality and confusion are as rampant within the church as they are without. How can God possibly bless America?
Betty Gray.
Williamsburg.
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“Hypocrites will not inherit the Kingdom. The King said this.“
Looks like the vast majority of “Christians” are out of the running, then.
Thank you… thank you very much….
Lot of “we’s”. It was the we’s after opening comment that resonated with me the most. I thought of “we” as individual families who are primarily responsible for praying WITH their kids and studying the Bible WITH them, along with discussin sex ed WITH them. That comment “teach our teens abstinence and responsibility, but instead we would teach them about homosexuality and how to have safe sex—and if they do accidentally get pregnant, they’re free to have abortions without notifying their parents”...WE, as in parents might consider teaching their kids well before the first teen year of 13, like several years earlier, unless parents feel the human body and sex are dirty topics.
Some parents have much to learn and teach well before their kids get into school, even first grade. As a former foster parent with 16 teenagers over 12 years, I know once they hit age 13, if their natural parents have not established their life-time base, 90% won’t change much there after.
Excellent letter, Mrs. Gray!
Also, we require teens under 18 to get parental permission to get their ears pierced but not to have an abortion!
I also see more and more tattoos on teens I know to be under 18. (Leviticus 19:28)
G-d will be more merciful toward unbelievers because they have an excuse for their behavior!
Hypocrites will not inherit the Kingdom. The King said this.
Mrs. Gray: Nothing to add but God have mercy on us.
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