Posted on 05/03/2016 8:58:18 AM PDT by inpajamas
When the people turn to man as the answer rather than God, failure and bondage will always be the outcome. It is the process we see in motion with Obama who has a pharaoh complex, and it will continue when Obama is gone regardless of whether we have a Democrat or Republican president if salvation is looked for from the greatness of a man. We have been given a historic example of this phenomenon in the story of Nimrod and the Tower of Babel. Nimrod (meaning: rebel, or, let us rebel) was the first renown tower builder who united the people promising greatness and security based upon his personal power and greatness. He deceived the people into trusting him and turned them from a reliance upon God to a belief that it was by his leadership and abilities that they could attain security and property. However, his kingdom came to an abrupt end, ambitions were never realized, and the people were scattered and the kingdom came to naught. So it is with all Nimrodic characters who awe people into servitude with their great towers and feats of earthly achievement.
History repeats in cycles. There are too many Americans who have forgotten, yea, never even really leaned or comprehended that is was the moral principles and values first given in writing to the Israelites that later found their way into the hearts of those who built America; that is what made America great. Behold, we go the way of all other nations and empires that were built upon the perception that the greatness of men is greater than the goodness of God. We have become a nation of proud and arrogant children who don't need no God, or to ever ask forgiveness from no God, as evidence by the popularity and rise of such characters to the highest places power. I weep for America. No man will "make America great again" who does not possess the virtues that made America great to begin with. It is a lie to believe otherwise; it is the often traveled historical path of destruction by those of a haughty spirit who think it cannot happen to them.
Yes, morals .. religious morals at that .. ARE a part of our American fabric, but we have never (as best as I can remember) never elected a pastor
We once elected a Baptist Sunday school teacher ... how did THAT work out for us ?
No ... We should stop trying to mix a religious element where there probably never was one and be satisfied with a man determined to save the country that blessed him ... and he knows THAT
Trump Tower, Tower of Babel? Just a coincidence?
Nahhh ... subliminal (failed) effort
Putting politics aside I agree. The goals in the Communist Manifesto include the break down of moral systems.
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