What has happened to us in America | Journal-news | journal-news.net – Martinsburg Journal

Lately it has become more alarmingly frightening as to what is happening in our country. At 71, I wouldnt have dreamed of seeing what Im seeing, even ten or fifteen years ago, let alone forty or fifty years ago. It is saddening and angering to think what my children and grandchildren will be faced with as a result of the conduct and decisions that have been made in recent years. It is frightening to think that the values and character of some of our fellow Americans could decline so far from those Christian and American values that have made America a bastion of freedom and the greatest nation on earth.

How did we get to this point? How can parents explain to their children that its OK for boys to use the girls bathroom, or for girls to be in the Boy Scouts? How do we justify the fairness in over-powering males competing against females from the insane notion that the male identifies as a female? How do we justify as parents and Christians that its OK for our schools to be teaching our adolescent children sex practices or gender preferences?

I remember the racial strife and ugliness of the hatred of racism in the 50s and 60s. I remember the words of Dr. King and the wisdom of his words on the content of character over the color of skin. How have we gotten to the point now where color trumps character, values and abilities? How, after two and a half centuries as a nation, have we become the antithesis of his words? How can organizations and individuals speak the vile hatred of telling children that because they were born white, they are inherently racist? How do parents explain to their children the justification of even espousing such hateful and racist philosophy?

Growing up I remember being told by my parents, my school teachers, my Sunday School teachers, my coaches, my scout leaders that if youre honest and have a good heart and you work hard, you have a good chance of living a good life. You reap what you sew was a biblical reminder for life. Now, we are pounded daily by the media and press and some politicians with the lie that everyone should have the same outcome, the same result, regardless of how much effort one puts into a goal. How does a parent tell their child, that even though their child worked hard and gave 100 % effort on a project, but others did not, that everyone will receive the same reward regardless?

When viewing the carnage and lawlessness of the rioters in Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis and other cities in America, how do we explain to our youth that those criminals will go unpunished because the politicians justified and allowed such violence, but our youth are expected to obey the law? How do we go about teaching our children that they are expected to follow the rules and obey the law, while watching criminals go free and even get rewarded for their actions and crimes? How do we help our children to understand that we are a sovereign nation under a rule of law, and a constitution that is the envy of all free nation on planet earth? How can we do that when we have politicians who are allowing millions of foreign citizens to illegally cross our borders and reap as many if not more benefits than that of American citizens? How do we explain to our children why its OK to despise police officers but admire gangsters, law breakers and criminals?

Many folks my age remember learning about the concepts of spending and saving. Even as children we were taught that you can spend some, but you have to save some too. Spending more than you make leads to disaster. How have our politicians gotten to where we are now, with a $30 trillion dollar deficit. How have we allowed our politicians to turn us from the most economically responsible nation on earth into the most bankrupt debtor nation? What will our grandchildren ask years from now when they will live the life of American paupers because of our current fiscal irresponsibility?

It is becoming more and more difficult for American citizens and parents to find the truth in what is being shown on television news, newspapers and other sources of information. TV news stations have their agenda that is now linked to their political preference rather than in reporting the news, the facts, the truth. Newspapers pay for Associated Press articles that are strewn with misinformation, deceit, and threads of socialist-driven ideologies. The internet is filled with slants on the truth and the dissemination of philosophical and political propaganda. So where are parents and citizens to go that they might help their children to understand the realities and truths of what is happening to us as a people, as a nation?

What has happened to our faith as Christians in America? Why have we allowed that God be taken out of schools, out of court houses out of sporting events? How can we explain to our children that its OK to pray at the dinner table or at bedtime, but pretty much nowhere else? How can we expect for God to watch over us when we have allowed Him to be taken out of most everything in daily public life?

I think maybe that our American forefathers are looking down on their descendants with sadness and disdain for what has become of our country. Even members of the more recent greatest generation would be appalled at what we have allowed ourselves to become. Im sure they would be disheartened to know what condition America is now in! I hope, I pray for the sake of generations to come, that reversing this downward spiral is not too late!

Read more from the original source:

What has happened to us in America | Journal-news | journal-news.net - Martinsburg Journal