America is falling apart.

            People like to say that we as a people are advancing, progressing ever so fast intellectually, and technologically… but I have to disagree. All of these advancements are great, but we as a people are losing our morality. Our ethical standards are going downhill. America has forgotten God and His word - where we get our basic common laws from. Sadly, we as a country have removed the Ten Commandments from the courtroom and public schools. What the children would read, had they been left up: “Thou shall not kill…Thou shall not lie.” If they read this, it will not likely cause a psychiatric problems, but rather these youth may rationalize their standards to the point where such Commands forbidding lying, stealing, and adultery are ignored.

In today’s world, law students at Stanford University have debated weather monkeys have the right to consent, and even if they have a right to trial and representation. We live in a nation where in New York a woman won the right to run topless because it is sexist to say that men can jog topless but for women it is considered indecent exposure. Do I even need to say that is ridiculous?! Not to mention that in Boston, federal court is trying to decide if a felon in prison for life has the constitutional right to get a sex change, by using our tax dollars to pay for it. Again: I do not see our culture progressing!

To the contrary, is digressing rapidly. It is not so much about progress; rather it is how we progress. Also, ethics is being lost in the processes. Hillary Clinton said that when President Bush vetoed the embryonic stem cell bill - which would provide federal dollars for embryonic stem cell research - it showed how he places ideology over science. This view is disturbing, to put it mildly. Science should never be held more important than our morals! Atroshice things have been done in the name of science. Take the holocaust, for example. Ethics should be placed before science; Hillary is just plain wrong! If we do not have high moral standards then what is there to say what is going to far.

Ideology shapes choices, regardless of what Sen. Clinton says. It should always be this way. Sadly, America as a nation has lost its firm hold on these ideals, which used to be solid. At the very least, we have forgotten the true way - God’s Way. Now our crumbling morals are a grave problem. “Why?” one may ask. Just look at society: we have decisions on issues like global warming (which takes more consideration for the earth rather than the effect on poor people around the globe who lack indoor pluming, refrigerators, hospitals, and ambulances). The average person on the street does not know that the third world will not be able to advance if global warming activist get their way. And that means poor living conditions and more death and all this is done in the name of save the earth. Other decisions involve gay marriage, euthanasia, abortion, and so on. For example, people who say that marriage is between 1 man and 1woman are considered radical even though it has been defined that way for centuries, and euthanasia has become a common occurrence in Europe w/ out the consent of the family or the patient.  With our ethical standards rapidly declining, our society will fall into a quagmire of sin.

The solution I propose: Christians should stand and be the salt and light of the world, as Jesus Himself called us to be. We as believers need to do all that we can to stand against the evil in this world. As the Body of Christ, we must be the ones to stand for what is right - if others follow, great, but don't worry when others oppose us. Remember, we are to be in the world but not of it - we are to stand and be firm for we are Christ’s representatives on earth.
The key is to stand for what is right, regardless of what persecution comes - and it will doubtless come! We ought not to forget that America will not change without a spiritual awakening. This is only possible if the churches across America are revived beforehand. A lukewarm church is not going to bring about much change. In fact, it will likely conform to the world more than it will change it. However, that - my friends - is a subject for a later time.