One Nation, Under God

All right, so God exists. Most people believe in God anyway. So what’s the point of going through all of that in the previous posts?

The point is exactly this: there are reliable, rational reasons to believe in God—not just a religious-feeling heavenly idea of God, but an objectively real and relevant God with real and relevant rules. And if we do not include God in our attempts at self government, we will fail.

Human beings do not naturally lean toward God’s instructions; this is why nearly all people who have ever lived have spent their lives under the heels of tyrants and murderers. Indeed, we often go so far as to ban from government and public discourse anything that even appears to spring from God. Citing separation of church and state, we actively choose public policies that are the opposite of God’s commandments. We give condoms to children, dismember babies in their mother's wombs, and legalize same sex “marriage.” We have so thoroughly accommodated the imagined rights of the depraved that we have all but destroyed the culture necessary to raise noble, wise, and happy children.

With the exception of slavery and the resulting Civil War—both glaring departures from God’s instruction—the nation flourished for 200 years while following God’s commands in the Bible. In the 1960s, the effort to ban God and His instructions from government began to gain traction. Since then we have seen an explosion in violent crime, our children have come to behave like self-absorbed animals, and our national debt has grown so enormous that it will almost certainly crush us. Beyond those, our social ills are legion; the list is as lengthy and frightening as our list of sins.

The solution to many of these problems is as easy as sending our children to Sunday School. We know that God’s instructions work because there was a time when we more frequently obeyed His rules and did not suffer from these same social malignancies. God has told us how to live, and it works remarkably well. We ignore Him at our imminent peril. He has warned us that He won’t remain silent forever.