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There is an answer. If you are a man of faith you can pray. God tells us that if His people will humble themselves, He will heal their nation. It is there for the asking. It's not our governments fault this nation is in the state it is in.

Really now.

I wonder what He'd do if one of them thar prayin' folk were presently taken up with stuff like calling those they disagree with "insane".

Seems to me to be a pretty reasonable contemporary language counterpart to the phrase "thou fool".

Seems to me like there's a certain Biblical injunction that applies in such matters.

Now, I'm certainly not telling you that you're going to hell. But I will suggest that since you're obviously waving the Bible around to support your speech, you've entered the "by your own words shall you be judged" arena.

But, moving right along...

It's been well over 20 years since I first heard Derek Prince lay that Deuteronomy passage on the country (that is the original source for its current popularity, BTW), and frankly, I must say that things were a LOT better then than they are now.

My conclusion is that God's people have been doing a lot of praying, but damned little humbling of themselves.

Your recent personal attack, accusing me of insanity, because you don't like my message, is offered up in support of this theory of mine.

So keep on prayin' yer l'il hearts out, and keep on watchin' yer nation go down the crapper. Because until something else changes, the outcome is certain, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to plot the trajectory.

My conclusion is that God's people have been doing a lot of praying, but damned little humbling of themselves.

I don't think you can conclude that God's people have been "doing a lot praying". Only God knows this. But you did say one thing right so far that I can tell on this thread. There is "little humbling". I agree. Whether you believe God or not doesn't change a thing however. He will do what He says He will do.Speaking against it doesn't change the fact.
And, yes, I fall short myself; even here on FR. I wrote what I did to encourage another poster not beat anyone over the head with the Bible. I like Laz. He's been here a long time and I've always enjoyed his posts. He sounded discouraged to me.
It seems I have hurt your feelings. I called you insane and made references to your 'sanity' (I was being flippant). I apologize for calling you a name and for being flippant. sincerely sorry.