[IAMNO1]

A really excellent piece. The only thing I'd like to add is that even people who are not "of faith" hold similar concerns as yours about where we are heading as a nation. I am conservative, love my country, and know right from wrong, good from bad. I'm just not religious. I've seen way too much hypocrisy in my lifetime to believe that the answers lie only with theists. Good folks of every variation account for the moral backbone of this great nation, and together, we must fight to regain control of our country's destiny from those who are selfishly leading us into the abyss.

[MarDav]

My intention in this post was not to engage in a "religious" discussion. However, I must say that the correct historical view of America's founding finds that it was people of deep, abiding faith in the God of the Bible who laid the foundation. That being said, they were not for a theocracy. But, that, too, being said, they were not for the silencing or marginalizing of the role of faith when it comes to the health of a nation. I would go so far as to say that the America that you and so many others long for is the one that had respect for God and the Bible (and, yes, I would say that begins with those that profess to be His).