Posted on 10/16/2017 10:29:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON — The judge who famously fought to keep the Ten Commandments monuments on state grounds in Alabama says America needs to be made "good" again and that God is the source of our morality, but Americans have forgotten Him.
In a Friday afternoon speech where he made occasional rhymes and references to America's founding fathers before hundreds assembled for the Family Research Council's annual Values Voter Summit at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, Roy Moore, twice elected Supreme Court Justice in Alabama, decried the state of affairs in the nation.
"[God] has given us a window of opportunity," Moore said of Trump's election last year, "a time when we can bring our nation back or see it suffer the consequences"
He expressed enthusiasm for President Trump and his agenda, but said that some things have not moved quickly enough.
"We're seeing a stagnancy in Washington D.C.," he lamented, later calling the Federal city not just a swamp but "quicksand" and bemoaned that "we don't have leadership" there but a "followership."
Moore, who defeated Trump-backed Luther Strange in the state primary election in late September, believes that the slow pace of the Republican-led Senate is going to affect the 2018 mid-term elections, fueling an even more conservative class of new people elected to Congress.
But aside from policy matters he supports, he said, "we need to make America good again," playing off Trump's campaign slogan, "make America great again."
Making America good "is easier done than said," he said to laughter, "and that wasn't a mistake. It's easier done than said."
"We return the knowledge of God to our land and God will heal our land," he said to cheers and applause.
He recounted that someone asked him "How can we do this?" to which he replied: "It's simple. Recognize God again. It's not complicated." Americans have forgotten that the inalienable rights outlined in the Constitution come from God, he asserted, and "we've got to go back to the basis of our morality which is in God not man."
Politicians do not talk about this today because they have lost that connection, he went on to say, and then read from a King James Version of the Bible from Hosea 4:6-7:
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame."
"We need to go back to recognizing that God still has the same message to America today," Moore said, reiterating, "our foundation has been shaken. It has been shaken to the core because we have forgotten the source of our morality."
Moore is expected to win the seat vacated by Jeff Sessions, who is now the Attorney General, on December 12 where he will face Democrat Doug Jones.
THAT is a WINNING message!
Because it is TRUE!
Bravo!
couldn't resist...
WE NEED TO GET DOWN ON OUR BENDED KNEES, LOOK UP TO HEAVEN AND THANK GOD FOR RHE MANY BLESSINGS THAT HE HAS BLESSES US.
I love that reference to the DeToqueville quote “America is great because she is good. If she ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.”
Moore is exactly right. Goodness and Greatness all tie in together. Trump has been proclaiming and claiming the Covenant with and under God which we made as a people in our Founding, and great majorities of We the People have been ratifying it. THAT is how it is done.
God may allow a challenging roller coaster ride, but I firmly believe He WILL preserve us a Nation at the end of it all.
Roy Moore is correct.
MAGA and MARA— Make America RIGHTEOUS Again.
I love it, too. Democrats try to quote de T., and it blows up in their faces because of quotes like this. de T. was MAGA before anybody else.
"Let us see what it is that makes us so great; wherein lies our strength. What has made us one of the greatest powers of the earth, politically and intellectually? Have we come to the conclusion that it is Righteousness that exalteth a nation? We have met to-day at the request of the President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, and also the Governor of our beloved State, Rutherford B. Hayes. For what? Why call us from our homes? Why come to the house of God? Why not go to the hall of mirth and to the places of amusement to-day? No that is not what they want us to do. We are commanded to go to our 'several places of worship, and there offer up thanks to Kind Providence which has brought our nation through the scenes of another year, and blessed the land with peace, plenty and prosperity.' Then as Americans we have reason to rejoice and congratulate ourselves on the greatness of our beloved country; at this the close of the first hundred years of experimental government of the people, by the people, and for the people. To be a citizen of this vast country is something, and to share in its privileges and duties is more than something." - Dr. Benjamin W. Arnett, 1876 "Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon" - Library of Congress - African-American Section
10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. 11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. 12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:10-12)
“Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: ‘Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.’ Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: ‘Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.’”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (Edward E. Ericson, Jr., “Solzhenitsyn – Voice from the Gulag,” Eternity, October 1985, pp. 23-4)
Chilling, thanks for quoting that. Solzhenitsyn writings, though the man himself has passed on, are still a powerful voice for freedom.
Thanks for posting. It is all as simple as that.
LOL! Good point about the Dems trying to use dT! It does blow back on them!
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