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It always comes back to this… religion. My religious background is certainly not the ordinary. I grew up in a hard-core LDS community in an almost exclusively LDS town in a state founded by The Church. There were two families in the community that I’m aware of that were non-Mormon. Mine being one of them. My father grew up in the same town and decided to raise his son (me) as a Mormon, and he married a Mormon of the highest gauge. I don’t know how old I was when I first realized there were people who were not LDS, but by that time I’d been inoculated and like everyone around me, knew “This Church is true!”
I grew up in the days of the Civil Rights revolution, in a very racist community. At that time the LDS church wouldn’t allow Blacks to hold the priesthood. We were taught in Sunday School that one day Blacks (they were, of course, referred to as “negroes” or “niggers”) would become righteous and that their skin would then pale and they will then be allowed to hold the priesthood. It was this prejudice that drove me away at a young age. My father had none of the anti-Black prejudice and he would sit with me during news broadcasts of the race riots which were going on at the time, and explain the actual situation Black America was facing. Martin Luther King, Jr. often appeared, and Dad would point out the truths the man was forwarding. The hope of a racially blind society. The point of the irrelevance of skin color was driven home over and over again, amplifying the fact that The Church didn’t share that humanitarian point of view and that they were wrong. Though my faith in The Church passed away completely in time, this didn’t kill it. But did deposit a large question mark.
What remains in me is a massive hope. The ideology of Christianity holds the solution for every problem we face. Just the simple, “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” When one considers what it would require to forfeit one’s life the way he did. A way that literally goes beyond comprehension when one considers the interaction between Jesus and God in the Garden of Gethsemane. If humanity followed that commandment alone, every problem society faces would be gone. Not just the spiritual problems, all problems would be dealt with.
As much as the secularists hate it, America is a country built upon the shoulders of faith. And done so in a stunning way. The Declaration of Independence holds the root of our motivation. “to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them,” “..all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” There can be no doubt they were seeing the World through a Biblical scope.
When it comes to The Constitution, the spiritual concept is supplanted by the concept of secular control. Thus eliminating the argument of is there, or is there not a God. What it does is not imbue religion, nor control the government. Our Constitution has nothing to do with controlling the people, which is why so many of the powers that be don’t like it.
Here’s where it matters. Here’s the reason to behave as though you do believe, whether you actually do believe or not. The known history of humanity is replete, at least in the caae of Judeo-Christianity, with the stronger the faith, the happier the people. If you have a graph of America that shows belief in Christianity and another depicting the level of criminal behavior, actually, in any civilization you care to reference, the graphs will mirror opposite images. Where belief is highest, criminal behavior is lowest. Modern “behaviorists” try to deny this, but those of us who’ve acquired the years, such as myself, of 70 or so, will need no reference other than memory to expose the truth of this concept. My little town of Richmond, Ut, back in my youth, simply had no crime. There were, of course, unpleasantries, such as a child being beaten too severely or a drunk running his car into a lamppost. But no one locked the door of their home. Most folks left the car key in the ignition when they left the car. Pickup trucks had gun racks in the rear window, with guns in the rack and the doors left unlocked. Examples go on and on, but the bottom line is that Judeo-Christian ethics form a moral foundation for billions of people throughout the world.
Personally, I suffer from a weakness of faith. Ironically, I actually died and during my time in the hospital, I reported meeting with people who had passed before me. A very common report, but sadly, in my case I’ve no memory of the actual events. Those I spoke to say I was absolutely convincing, but I can’t remember, and as a highly experienced creative writer, it is easy to believe I made it all up. A frustration amplified by knowing of all those who had similar experiences but do remember. Faith would be no challenge at all. However, faith or no, the result of such beliefs is absolutely proven and is the foundation of the “Declaration of Independence,” which resulted in, although secular, the great Constitution of the United States of America. The greatest bastion of freedom the world has ever known which is under direct, open attack by the Globalists, who want to usurp our economy, and the demonicrats, who seem to revel in the destruction of personal freedom. Well… outside of the freedom of perversion. They do honor what they see as the freedom to kill the unborn, the freedom to sexually mutilate children too young to know what sexual preference is, the freedom to allow drag queens to perform in grade schools. Parents who favor removal of pornographic literature from grade school libraries are accused of banning books, as though the books chosen to be eliminated from grade schools can no longer be obtained anywhere else. Say what you will, but it certainly seems Satanic to me.
What America needs is obvious. It is the support of Jesus, the absolute master of peace!
~Bacon
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