Well, dear brother in Christ, it's time for a good housecleaning. Personally, I can't believe that the majority of Americans are "corrupt." (Though maybe I'm wrong about that.)
This nation was founded in the idea that God Himself (and nobody else, certainly not the State — which can rescind any "right" it grants at its pleasure) endows human beings with unalienable rights by virtue of God having created each and every one of them in His Image. Inalienable rights are such that cannot, in principle, be violated or infringed by any subsequent political order, or State, that pretends to be "legitimate."
On the other hand, I feel that Plato was absolutely correct when he said that no corrupt People (no society) can hope to have a just State to remediate the wrongs the members of that political State perpetrate on each other. That is, if the People themselves are thoroughly corrupt, then so will be their "form of government," ineluctibly.
So what we need is uncorrupt people — who have been, down through history, the "saving remnant," the "salt of the earth," as the Bible puts it, of just, flourishing, and peaceable societies.
A great pain and sadness of the culture that I now live in is this: A tiny minority of the populace has brought itself into the position of successfully being able to determine and dictate to the majority — especially of what it thinks and believes — and enforce, compel, such determinations by means of unjust statutory law, with the help of like-minded courts of "justice." The Bill of Rights is no protection for ordinary people here, against the depredations of a State determined to usurp the God-granted rights of the people it is supposed to represent and defend. For the BoR is concerned with defending minorities from majority-imposed oppression.... Our practical situation today, under this Thug Regime, is quite the opposite.
Another great pain and sadness to me is that, seemingly, people don't really care all that much anymore about little things — like truth, and the good character of so-called "public servants." Nobody nowadays in public office is penalized for blatant lying to the public. If Obama were to be caught in the act of outright murder of a fellow human being, I gather most People would be non-plussed by this.
So why should they notice that he is murdering our country, our Nation?
Too much trouble in that!
Which is WHY we need the "saving remnant," the "salt of the earth," to stand up and be counted, right now.
I pray constantly that the Holy Spirit will continue to abide with those who live in America who love their Lord Jesus Christ, Logos Alpha–Omega, Savior, and Final Judge. I pray for nothing less than a third Great Spiritual Reawakening in America which (it seems to me) only the "saving remnant" can advance at this time....
These Spiritual Reawakenings have been exceptionally powerful, transformative events in American history. The first presaged the American Revolution; the second, the Emancipation and the Civil War....
We live in extraordinary times. I pray those who love the Lord will rise to the challenges by standing firm in God's truth as revealed to us in four revelations, in loving faith and trust in Him....
The Son is Truth incarnate in the World. He is of one Substance with the Living God, His Father; and God's Name is: I AM.
It is impossible that people will be ruled by a government more moral than they for any length of time. Governments, whether democracies or dictatorships, rise from out of the same soil and culture as the people they rule. Even the worst of dictators and the most corrupt of democrats rely ultimately on the support of the people who outnumber them millions to one, which means ultimately the people themselves are thoroughly complicit.
Security services, bureaucracies, school systems, all are made up of ordinary people who are either moral and brave and wise or they are not.
I pray for nothing less than a third Great Spiritual Reawakening in America
You and me both.
There are still isolated "salt of the earth" enclaves in the good ol' US of A!
A timely event:
Last night, our small, unincorporated rural community of Huffines, Texas [You may find it listed as "Huffins", also] met to vote on a completely new set of bylaws for our community organization. Among other things, the organization administers our local community center (former Huffines Schoolhouse) and holds frequent social events such as pot luck dinners, fish fries to raise funds for the volunteer fire department, etc... We also provide gathering space and, frequently, food, for families who are holding funerals at the cemetery across the road, as well as hosting and supporting the local quilting club.
With no input from me, (although I heartily approve) the first article of the bylaws is:
Article 1. "Whereas the Community of Huffines is a grateful beneficiary of the mercy and grace of Almighty God, and whereas the Club wishes to follow the example of our Nation's founding fathers and act 'with a firm reliance on Divine providence", all club activities shall begin and end with prayer."
With that reverent beginning, the rest of the by-laws followed suit, and the meeting was both congenial and joyous, with not a few "AMEN!"s mixed in with the "YEA"s for the final, unanimous vote of acceptance.
And, praise be, ol' TXnMA was blessed by being called upon to offer up the closing prayer...
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Maybe it's apparent why we still call our neck o' the Piney Woods, "God's Country" -- and why this physical chemist chose to retire here among farmers, paper mill and tire factory workers, timber folks and other assorted working and retired "overhaul" wearers -- when I "escaped from my 20 year 'exile' in Massachusetts"... '-)
These Spiritual Reawakenings have been exceptionally powerful, transformative events in American history. The first presaged the American Revolution; the second, the Emancipation and the Civil War....
We live in extraordinary times. I pray those who love the Lord will rise to the challenges by standing firm in God's truth as revealed to us in four revelations, in loving faith and trust in Him....
The Son is Truth incarnate in the World. He is of one Substance with the Living God, His Father; and God's Name is: I AM.