Recently the United States Senate and House of Representatives passed identical resolutions approving the motto In God We Trust and the Pledge of Allegiance being incised on the walls of the new Capitol Visiting Center, located beneath the Capitol itself and visited by more than 15,000 people a day.
Enter an organization by the name of Freedom From Religion Foundation, which has filed a suit to prevent the engravings from being made. This group of atheists and agnostics is working to remove every vestige of religion, especially Christianity, from American culture.
They envision a society devoid of any spiritual viewpoint or sense of a higher spiritual reality. God, in effect, is to be treated as dead, defunct.
It seems to be a fact that fewer and fewer Americans expend energy to attend church on Sundays and Holy
Days. This is more so the case in Europe and Great Britain, where thousand year-old architectural gems are all but abandoned.
Some deny that belief in God is required to undergird Moral Behavior. They believe that human beings are innately good, rejecting the Christian Doctrine of Original Sin; the belief that we are selfish critters who find it all too easy to look out for Number One and to ignore the needs of others.
The assertion that God is Not – when it becomes Public Policy – can not only lead to violence, discord and
confusion . . . and from every evil way (to use words from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer). In effect, we become our own gods, our own ultimate authorities – which must make Lucifer happy, for that is what he had in mind when he declared War in Heaven. (Rev.12:7ff.
And there was war in heaven: Michael and his Angels fought against the dragon; and the Dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven. . . Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
It should be understood that Evil really exists as a reality, a spiritualreality. The Devil is not a funny-looking horned creature (something to joke about). That’s what he wants you to think. Above all, he is subtle, cunning.
Most Americans take pride in the so-called Separation of State and Church, which has the effect of banishing signs of Religion from the Public Square – creating a vacuum which must be filled with something, because Nature Abhors a Vacuum. Now, what do you think the Devil will do with this vacuum?
