Foolish Dusty Clod

Men, look at yourselves through eyes of God;
He sees you thread cavorting as the spool;
The pottery calling the Potter odd,
For expecting dolts not to play the fool!
What right, asks men, does One unseen possess,
To sway men's law, or in his schools reside?
But God sees the mess you made: The distress,
The evil, how men bulldoze good aside;
How you quit reading scripture, threw out prayer!
Earthshaking troubles rage, and riots beseige,
You ignore the only Source that can bear
The load, and the raging torrent relieve!
He sees you as a foolish, dusty clod,
Ungrateful, spurning the salvage of God.

The American Civil Liberties Union has served the role of undertaker to Jehovah God from having any influence on government, society, and schools in America; instead of adding civil liberty to Christian American citizens and school children, they have denied them those rights; but for other minorities they have won for them the same civil rights they've taken from Christians.

But it is not the ACLU's fault alone; Christians have made the funeral of God in America easier by their declining faith. There is nothing surprising about the decline of Christianity in America. The Bible has prophesied that these things would happen, as knowledgeable Christians have long known. The rank and file members in our churches constantly rail about the decline of Christian America; after soul-searching autopsies, they proclaim that America needs revival; they say we were once Christian and it is up to government, media, and social pressure groups and Christian churches to follow the prescription contained in 2 Chronicles 7:14, "if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land." After such purging sessions, nothing happens except the influence of God on America declines all the more.

You see, that promise was never made to Americans. We are not His people; we were never a Christian nation. Does our Constitution begin with the proclamation that this nation belongs to Christ? No. Were Christians ever a majority of the voting citizenry and did they elect Christians to govern according to Christian principles? No. Were the Founding Fathers mostly Christian men? Yes. Did many American immigrants come here for freedom of worship? Yes. None of this made America a Christian nation. The scripture quoted above was intended for the citizens of Judah or Israel thousands of years ago. America is not Israel.

The Bible does have a passage that applies to America.

"For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths." (2 Timothy 4:3-4)

A large part of the problem of our nation's widening gap from Christianity has come from Christians whose faith is slowly draining away. The culprit again is postmodernism, a pervasive philosophy of psychological therapy that denies truth, because truth cannot be tolerated by a people characterized more and more by a desire to "feel good" about themselves and to avoid any personal responsibility.