Remember those

items you used to see placed on the walls in places like court rooms and

federal buildings?

It has always

been interesting to me how groups like the ACLU are so against anything

that is righteous or decent or good for America. Yet they will take on

the most bizarre, unhealthy, unnatural, and filthy cause imaginable and

go to court time after time to insure that total sleaze and the degradation

of any value we have fought for is totally erased from the American scene.

They are definitely

irreligious and especially to Christians. I want to go on record to say

that they will one day face an angry righteous God who will judge them

for their continuous tearing down of a nation that was founded on His

principles.

While I'm riled

up here, I need to go on and say it. America was formed as a Christian

nation from the git go. It was not formed as some pluralistic "anything

goes" hodge podge. If this sounds foreign to you, do a little research

on your own into the early "faith statements" of our greatest

institutions of higher learning in America.

Check out Harvard,

Yale, William and Mary for starters. Not the current statements, because

they have been watered down so much you wouldn't recognize them. Go into

the historical statements and see how many times the name of Jesus Christ

was mentioned and that the very reason for the institution was to promote

Christianity.

I have traveled

to 36 countries and seen the way a large part of the world lives. Has

it ever occurred to you why you go into any American supermarket and you

will see a whole aisle of nothing but dog food? There is food for overweight

dogs, and young dogs, and dogs that need special diets. There is dog food

that is needed for good teeth and sweet breath and the list never ends.

I was talking to a lady one day where she was taking her dog for chemo

therapy. The list is long.

My point? God

has blessed our nation beyond our wildest dreams; pressed down and overflowing.

Are Americans smarter than other nations? Is it our natural resources?

Is it our location on the planet? Is it the size of our armies? Is it

our technology? Russia has more natural resources than we, they have good

scientists, they had a much larger army than we did but, they forgot and

fought God. Could this ever happen in America as we chip away every vestige

of our Christian roots?

Don't think

I live on another planet here because I am very aware of how things have

changed and where we are today and I totally realize and support the idea

of the rights of any faith group to live and worship here. But it irks

me to see the way that we bend over backward to insure that no one, nowhere,

ever accuses us of being remotely connected with Christianity. Then we

go into total absurdity with groups like the ACLU to dismantle any vestige

of Christianity as to attempt not make someone of another culture or faith

group feel a shred of uneasiness.

If someone

feels uneasy about what you are reading, ask yourself, "Where would

you go to find better?" If you do find a place, let me know and we

all know that "Delta is ready when you or I am." But you might

just find it a little difficult to find another country that is so blessed

and where you are the most free.

I know I'm

going to catch flak over this, but the reason people want to live here

is because it was founded as a Christian nation whether they know it or

not.

It was Christ

who first liberated women and believed in the dignity of man and the worth

of the individual. It was the Bible that gave us the Ten Commandments

that any society should live by. They are the foundations for any civil

society to thrive. The lack of the Ten Commandments is anarchy which we

see all over the world today.

If we let go

and lose our Christian roots and why we were formed as a nation, we will

flounder into letting groups like the ACLU determine who we are as a nation.

Once the dismantling of every vestige of our Christian roots has taken

place, there will be hard fought battles ahead to return to the greatness

God has thus far allowed.

I was reading

where a very liberal part of the country had passed ordinances to not

allow prayer at public sports gatherings. Right before the game a young

student stood up with several thousand spectators watching and started

saying the Lord's Prayer out loud. Thousands stood up and joined him.

If we get complacent

and roll over and play dead on these issues, we desecrate the graves of

the martyrs and all who have died for these freedoms. Don't let it happen!

Sorry, but

these were some things I feel needed to be said! Fight the fight of faith!

Time is short! Don't wait until six strong men carry you to church! Listen

for the trumpet!

The Rev.

Dr. Knox Herndon is pastor of His House Community Church (SBC). The Rev.

Greg Mausz is senior associate pastor. The Rev. Dr. Lydia Herndon is the

Sunday School superintendent, Bible study coordinator and teacher. The

church is just below Fayetteville, on Ga. Highway 85, a mile south of

Ga. Highway 16, just below the fire station. Visitors welcome. Church

office and prayer line 770-719-2365; e-mail [email protected]. The church's

new Web site is www.hishousecommunitychurch.com.

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