The Presence of God

What a foolish charade would this life be
Without God, and His call for men to soar.
Absent the good, evil would rampage free;
Without the Bible, no prophets of yore,
Where's our hope, or a cure for death?
Can nature teach mercy, or ways to love?
Do animals give thanks for having breath?
What tree is so tall as to rise above?
This would not be a kinder, better place,
If God were replaced by majority rules;
It would be Bedlam, a moral disgrace;
Lost, and no compass, a shipload of fools!
Earth has no better than Hell's grim prospect,
If here the presence of God men reject!

It is the height of irony that the only nation ever established by Godly men to insure freedom of religion forever turns about-face after only two centuries and becomes hellbent on divorcing the nation from any mention of Him. The United States was a safe haven for refugees from England, where the established church used the power of government to kill and imprison any person who professed a belief at variance with approved doctrine.

Now the great-great grandchildren of the founders of the country, together with a huge mass of immigrants, legal and illegal, do not want God or Jesus Christ to be mentioned in public schools, government facilities, or even in private yards of homeowners. This poem is written as a warning to the nation's majority; if public opinion, driven by the media and political and social leaders, has its way, God would be banished from America. They should stop their foolish initiative and think of the consequences of removing God from this society.

"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.'" (Psalm 14:1)

It is true that everyone will not believe in God, not even a majority. However, the United States, in thinking majorically, should not abolish God from our Constitution or the rest of society. A nation without the presence of God is a nation doomed to suffer increased evil.