We Reap What We Sow

Our nation was founded as a refuge from religious persecution. The Pilgrims left England to get away from a church which had traded in Christ's forgiveness and grace for cold ceremony, pride, and power. They believed the Bible and fiercely defended their faith. For leaving the church, they were spied upon, threatened, and jailed.
One hundred fifty six years after the Pilgrims arrived, the Framers declared independence from England. The tyranny of a king was a deviation from natural liberty and a violation of their faith. They believed this so deeply that they were willing to sacrifice all to create a new nation built around natural liberty and supported by Judeo-Christian ethics. The freedoms we enjoy today come from their belief in God as evidenced by the very words of the Founders themselves saying, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Our history is one steeped in the Christian faith. To abandon Him is madness as evidenced by the moral decay our country is experiencing. I believe Dr. Benjamin Rush was absolutely correct when he stated, "The only foundation for... a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments."
We are kicking God out of the country and look at the results. When He is absent from school, violence ensues; when He is absent from the courtroom, injustice reigns; when he is absent from government, corruption is sovereign. When all the good is gone, there's nothing left but the bad.
In 2006, according to an Internet pornography statistics website, the worldwide porn industry is larger than Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo!, Apple, Netflix, and Earthlink... combined. The number of pornographic movie titles released has grown from 1,300 in 1988 to over 13,000 in 2005. But porn is not the only problem.
Gang violence, school shootings, drug and alcohol dependence, crime, and the general breakdown of the nuclear family can all be attributed, in some way, to the secularization of America.
No matter where you look, what you do, or who you are... There is simply no substitute for God. I need Him, you need Him, and there is no doubt our country needs to rediscover and rekindle its faith-filled history.