“Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.” – Santanya

Christianity and other religions as well as all western civilization, are under attack in America today.

The left wants government to be the sole authority over citizen’s lives.

Religious people, mostly Christian in the United States, face a challenge they have not faced previously in the nation’s 244 year history.

They have three choices: 1. Fight: Develop a strategy to combat the threat to individual freedom, 2. Flight: accept the fact that they will not have the choice of making their own choice of a personal faith system, or 3. Freeze: Stumble about confused about what action to take – eventually accepting whatever comes along.

Of course, those determined to remove any faith system in the nation other than an all-powerful central government hope that the majority of Americans will follow the last two options.

A majority of Americans likely still hold the opinion that America was founded on Judeo-Christian principles.

Elitists today will argue that the founders were determined that our government would have no religious principles, saying separation of religion and government was a basic principle of the Constitution.

That is the opinion of a mal-educated minority. Any reasonable person will see Judeo-Christian principles firmly imprinted in our founding documents.

The remark by Thomas Jefferson to one individual about a singular issue that there being a wall between religion and government does not mean that Christian principles – the importance of the individual – were not a part of the constitution.

Indeed, one of the major reasons most settlers came to the Land of Opportunity was to escape systems where they could not worship freely according to their own belief.

An article on “The Lid” blog site written by Wes Walker and Jeff Dunetz discusses a developing problem in government schools today.

They cite a state representative from Chicago, Illinois, who has called for state schools to stop teaching history until the curriculum is “no longer racist.”

The Illinois legislator obviously wants the New York Times’ almost totally incorrect “1619 Project” to become the textbook for history classes nationwide.

Much of that nonsense has already been inculcated in young minds, leading young people to believe our system has led to white privilege and a racist society without regard for the nation’s efforts to create a system in which all men are created equal.

Referring to his early education, Dunetz calls to mind that when he took a history class four decades ago, he learned about great Americans of all races.

“In fact, I still remember that the first man killed in the Boston Massacre was Crispus Attucks, who was of African American descent,” he wrote.

He also calls to mind such people as Frederick Douglass, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Madam C. J. Walker, George Washington Carver, and many, many others who were not remembered for their race and sex primarily … but because the things they DID that changed the world around them.

Bible burning and church burning are among the new tacks of the 2,000 or so of America’s 330 million people wreaking havoc in metropolises today.

The socialist philosophy, including the elimination of individual freedoms (Judeo-Christian tenets), are intrinsic to today’s rioting. Dunetz comments:

“The U.S. version of democracy insists that (with some exceptions), the rights of the individual are superior to the rights of the collective or the government.”

Dunetz, who is Jewish, comments also that before citizens go into the voting booth in November they should remember that socialism (which is what the protesters are actually wanting) opposes religion.

He also makes these points:

• Free will is the divine version of limited government. God picks which is the correct direction and even gives us holy scriptures as a guide book to follow, but he does not pick winners and losers—it is up to each and every one of us to choose the direction we want to proceed.

• Socialism takes away that free choice given to us by God. They believe that left to their own devices, mankind will do the wrong thing (or at least what socialists think is the wrong thing). So socialist governments take over the role of God.

• God, who instilled in us a personal responsibility to do the right thing, and also provided mankind with the choice to accept that responsibility or not. There is no room in faith for a government that forces their interpretation of the right thing down our throats.

•This commentary teaches us that it’s essential to have faith and believe God may eventually help us, but we cannot get that help until we take personal responsibility and act on our own.

Daniel Mayfield, minister at the Kingfisher Church of Christ, read Romans 1:2 and 1:22 during his lesson last Sunday.

The verses follow: 1:21 “For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

1:22: “Claiming to be wise, they became fools.”

The lesson referred to the many examples of God’s existence in the world readily available for people to see. Those with “foolish hearts” had turned to things beside God to worship and had abandoned Godly rules.

Microscopes and telescopes have provided evidence of the precise rules governing the earth and the universe and that’s on top of the visual evidence in the natural world we live in.

Dirt (soil) for instance is a miracle in that it, combined with rain and sun, provides the necessities of life. One source we read said scientists believe there is more life in one teaspoon of healthy soil than there are people living on earth (billions of bacteria, fungi and other organisms.)

An interesting point that Mayfield made was that in the original Greek, the phrase “Claiming to be wise, they became fools,” is reduced to just one word that says they became morons.

In our country boy opinion that fits rioters to a “T.”