Posted by
Phillyfanatic(KGK) on Thursday, March 06, 2008 12:10:00 AM
All the polls show now that Americans are thinking about how poor the economy is. Then there is Iraq. Then the overall problem of terroism. Then there is illegal immigration. Say where are those thought about our culture? What about morality? What about educational values? What happened to all those supposed values voters? Well, they are still here but apparently they are not registering nowadays in the Presidential field as they once did. Perhaps it is because all the values candidates lost! Perhaps our culture is not filled with that Silent Majority anymore. Perhaps the Evangelicals are not registering as much as they used to do in their call for decency, morality, ethics. We now see that good and evil are defined by 'save the whales, save the environment, recycle, Global Warming and Non-Judgementalism.' The two political parties have people that many Evangelicals cannot get excited about. After all, the liberals in this nation have done all they could to drive values out of schools, have used Courts to decide against morals, have made the media arbiters of policy. One wonders whether this will go on without some tipping point being reached where we really look like Europe after all. Or even a Third World nation. Now liberals would say and write that anti-war policies, pacifism, socialism is really Godly. They would warn against American superiority in military matters or even economic matters since the rich in this nation must be penalized. Gibbons in the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire and other writers warn of nations or empires where the non-producers outnumber the producers, that society is nearing collapse or the rise of a dictator to keep the place together. One wonders as Islamofascism still raises its ugly head on a daily level all round the globe why so many of our youth spend their time at the mall. Testing scores are not improving. Murders are starting to make TV news ghastly every night. But, brother, we have stopped all that prayer in schools and stopped that patriotism stuff!! And our media is filled with slop each day and night. We have HDTV with 250 stations and yet there is little family fare there. Oh well, most people live as if this is either a replay of the Roaring 20's, the Depression, or the radical '60's. So we either are going to live it up , allow the government to run our lives and redistribute our hard earned monies or we are in for a revolution. No wonder the early Christians wanted Jesus to come back in their own time!