Forgetting God

"Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened." Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened".

Quote by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn in Edward E. Ericson, Jr., "Solzhenitsyn – Voice from the Gulag," Eternity, October 1985, pp. 23, 24

"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." -- Ronald Reagan.

The two quotes above are very simliar but they were spoken by two people from near opposite ends of the earth. Alexandr Solzhenitsyn was a Soviet author, dramatist and historian who became disenchanted with the promise of Soviet-style communism he grew up in. Ronald Reagan was a former radio commentator, actor and President of the United States who espoused, and lived from, the benefits reaped from a free, capitalist society.

America is a nation that has forgotten both God and the Christian values encased in both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. We do not heed the Word of God nor do we obey His laws. Sadly, we often don't even obey the very laws we have written in our Constitution.

We have rejected God at every turn --- we have used irreverant logic and twisted reason to justify and to support abortion, same-sex marriage, drug abuse, pornography, child abuse, corruption, and war. Instead of a Christian nation, we are a nation of immorality and decayed values. We offer our children up for sale and use them as tools in immoral social experiments. Our courts have become so twisted that they lionize the criminal and crucify the victim of crime. America is a full 180 degrees out from where it once started.  In our time, right has become wrong and wrong has become right.

America needs to stop, take a pause, and re-evaluate itself. Take a good, hard look at where we started and where we are now. We need to remember God and what he expects from us. We need to rebuild and re-enforce the morals he instilled in us for our morals are crumbling as quickly as the Berlin Wall and, if we are not careful, we will go the same way it did, as well as other nations who embraced immorality --- as relics of stone and dust.

If we forget God completely, then we have no right then to ask for mercy for whatever becomes of us.