I am sure that nearly anyone who pays the least attention to the social climate of our nation would agree that we have been engaged in an ever-increasing cultural confrontation since the early 1960s.
This conflict centers around two very opposite worldviews. By worldview I am referring to a set of learned values and beliefs that determine how we look at life, and thereby draw our conclusions, and make our decisions. The first worldview that has become increasingly prevalent in our society is that of secular moral relativism. Advocates of this worldview believe that the world, and all that is in it consists of only matter, and that truth is not absolute or objective, but rather subjective, (that is subject to personal opinion or interpretation). However, our nation was founded upon a much different Biblical Christian worldview, not a secular one. This worldview maintains that Almighty God created not only the world, but also established this nation.
The Biblical world view maintains that human persons are unique, and of great worth because we were created in the image of God, and not as the result of mere chance. This view is clearly evident in our constitution, laws, and form of government itself.
A Newsweek article, published March 29, 1999 had this to say concerning the influence of Christianity upon our society. “By any secular standard, Jesus is also the dominant figure of western culture. Like the millennium itself, much of what we now think of as Western ideas, inventions and values finds its source or inspiration in the religion that worships God in his name. Art and science, the self and society, politics and economics, marriage and the family, right and wrong, body and soul-all have been touched and often radically transformed by Christian influence.” Unfortunately there is a relentless attempt by some to transform our nation into a totally secular society. Perhaps we should ask ourselves if we see any similarities between what is happening in our culture today, and the following words of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who suffered under the brutality of the former Soviet Union. “Communism has never concealed the fact that it rejects all absolute concepts of morality. It scoffs at good and evil as indisputable categories. Communism considers morality to be relative. Depending upon circumstances, any act, including the killing of thousands, could be good or bad. It all depends upon class ideology; defined by a handful of people…It is considered awkward to use seriously such words as good and evil. But if we are to be deprived of these concepts, what will be left? We will be declined to the status of animals.”
This secular worldview is exactly what is driving fetal stem cell research, cloning, abortion, along with our increasingly liberal judicial system. Groups like the ACLU, and The Freedom From Religion Foundation are spending millions of dollars to use the courts to systematically destroy our religious freedoms. They have twisted the first amendment to persuade us that the founding fathers actually erected a wall to keep Christianity out of government. They know they cannot achieve this through due process of the legislative branch, so they pervert justice by using the courts. If you would like to read what the founding fathers actual view of the first amendment was, then check out www.wallbuilders.com, and you will clearly see that they never in their wildest dreams intended that this nation be governed apart from a firm reliance upon Almighty God!
