Chapter 37 - "Eleven Short Years"
"A lie well believed is just as good as the truth."
That anonymous statement of truth is an excellent reminder of the fact that a lie repeated often enough will become the truth.
The evidence is abundant that this nation is turning away from the God of creation. Others have warned America what the future will hold if that trend continues.
One of those voices is that of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the ex-Russian who is now living in America. His words of warning are: "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 [meaning the disasters of the Communist Revolution that killed up to 42,000,000 Russians] 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.
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.'" 652
In 1832, a Frenchman named Alexis de Tocqueville was sent to America by his government to discover why America as a nation had constructed only a few prisons to house its criminals while his native France could not build them fast enough to house their growing prison population. He wrote back to his nation that he had discovered the answer. There was a reason that America did not need prisons.
America was basically good.
He wrote: "I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there. I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her fertile fields and boundless forests, and it was not there.
I sought for the genius and greatness of America in her rich mines and her vast world commerce, and it was not there. I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her public school system and her institutions of learning, and it was not there.
I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her democratic congress and her matchless constitution, and it was not there.
Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power.
America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
America is no longer great because it is no longer good.
America's churches and synagogues are no longer aflame with righteousness.
America's people are not heeding the warnings nor understanding the signs that are telling them that there are dangers ahead.
Pope Felix III wrote his warning to the world back in the early 6th century: "Not to oppose error is to approve it, and indeed to neglect to confound evil men, when we can do it, is no less a sin than to encourage them."
It is time to oppose error.
America's people must become aflame with righteousness.
America's churches and synagogues must preach against the coming "New World Order."
If they don't, it will surely come to the shores of America.
The year 2000 lies just "eleven short years" ahead.
"A lie well believed is just as good as the truth."
That anonymous statement of truth is an excellent reminder of the fact that a lie repeated often enough will become the truth.
The evidence is abundant that this nation is turning away from the God of creation. Others have warned America what the future will hold if that trend continues.
One of those voices is that of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the ex-Russian who is now living in America. His words of warning are: "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 [meaning the disasters of the Communist Revolution that killed up to 42,000,000 Russians] 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.
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.'" 652
In 1832, a Frenchman named Alexis de Tocqueville was sent to America by his government to discover why America as a nation had constructed only a few prisons to house its criminals while his native France could not build them fast enough to house their growing prison population. He wrote back to his nation that he had discovered the answer. There was a reason that America did not need prisons.
America was basically good.
He wrote: "I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there. I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her fertile fields and boundless forests, and it was not there.
I sought for the genius and greatness of America in her rich mines and her vast world commerce, and it was not there. I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her public school system and her institutions of learning, and it was not there.
I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her democratic congress and her matchless constitution, and it was not there.
Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power.
America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
America is no longer great because it is no longer good.
America's churches and synagogues are no longer aflame with righteousness.
America's people are not heeding the warnings nor understanding the signs that are telling them that there are dangers ahead.
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Pope Felix III wrote his warning to the world back in the early 6th century: "Not to oppose error is to approve it, and indeed to neglect to confound evil men, when we can do it, is no less a sin than to encourage them."
It is time to oppose error.
America's people must become aflame with righteousness.
America's churches and synagogues must preach against the coming "New World Order."
If they don't, it will surely come to the shores of America.
The year 2000 lies just "eleven short years" ahead.
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