**God and Country
By: Bill O'Reilly May 28, 2023
Many Americans believe their country is going to hell, and
it's hard to refute that. The internet has changed social mores,
our leadership is mediocre at best, corrupt at worst, and personal
narcissism is rising fast.
Plus, there's deep political division among the people.
The United States was forged using Judeo-Christian philosophy
as a baseline. So what exactly is that? I can't fault any American
for not knowing because the public school system has largely
banished "J-C ethics" from the classroom.
Well, time to get out your notepad.
In researching my upcoming book "Killing the Witches," we
found that the brutal religious-based murders in Salem had a pro-
found influence on the Constitution. Franklin, Jefferson, and
Madison fought against any definition of the new America as a
"Christian" nation, while Patrick Henry and others wanted that
description in writing.
Ben, Thomas, and Jemmy won the debate, but it was close.
However, the brilliant secularists well understood that democracy
would not survive unless there was a clear vision of "justice for
all."
That's when Judeo-Christian philosophy kicked in, the con-
cept of right and wrong based on the Ten Commandments. If you dis-
pute that, visit the Supreme Court building in Washington, where
a sculpture of Moses and the Commandments dominates the ground
floor.
In a 1983 case, the Supremes found that state legislatures
could pay a "chaplain" to conduct prayers "in the Judeo-Christian
tradition."
Today, J-C tenets are under massive assault from the pro-
gressive left, which controls the President of the United States.
The primary reason is moral judgments about abortion and "alter-
native" lifestyles, plus the fact that following any kind of "high-
er power" diminishes the influence of the state. Stalin, Mao, Hit-
ler, Pol Pot, et al., all persecuted religious faith. That conti-
nues to this day in totalitarian regimes.
In America, the corporate media largely sides with progres-
sives and casts deep suspicion on religious expression. The inde-
fensible child abuse crimes committed by some Catholic clergy have
devastated Christian influence.
A recent study out of the University of Chicago indicates
Judeo-Christian ethics are absolutely under siege in the USA.
Thirty-four percent of Americans never attend religious services,
the highest number ever recorded.
The decline of theology in the U.S. is apparent. Those iden-
tifying as Evangelical Protestants have fallen from 23 percent in
2006 to just 14 percent today. Catholics have sunk from 16 percent
of the population to 13 percent, despite millions of new migrants
who come from Catholic cultures.
The result of the secular intrusion is vividly apparent. In
many places, laws are not enforced, and criminals are not punished.
Intoxication is encouraged (legalized pot, acceptance of public
hard drug use), people of faith are openly mocked on social media,
and attacks on churches, like the L.A. Dodgers honoring an anti-
Catholic group, are largely ignored by the corporate media.
Presiding over all this is Joe Biden, a weekly Catholic mass
attendee. But instead of embracing Judeo-Christian tenets such as
all life is sacred and the rule of law must be upheld if "justice"
is to prevail, Biden rejects that and strives to make things like
abortion and illegal entry to this country easy.
The result is a kind of brutal anarchy that once held sway
in Salem, Massachusetts. Emboldened criminals kill thousands of
innocents each year. Abortion on demand for any reason destroys
thousands of unborn in places like California and New York.
Fearful of his far-left base, Mr. Biden, like Pontius
Pilate, washes his hands of any responsibility.
The Founders well understood the dangers of imposed theo-
logy. But, equally, they knew that the elimination of right and
wrong would severely damage this Republic.
And that's what is happening.**
Bill did an excellent job of explaining how the founding
fathers concluded the direction this new country should go to
avoid the pitfalls of where the people came from.
America needed a country founded on good principles but it
had to shed the mandatory rule of the land they fought so hard
to escape.
Over 70% of Americans are Christians. 15% identify as
Baptists. About 22% claim no religion. And yet 90% of Americans
believe in God, 74% believe in Heaven, and 60% believe in Hell.
So ask yourself, "Do you have a soul?" and where will it
spend eternity?
Also, what kind of life do you want to endure if that many
turn your backs on the Lord?
Conservatively,
John
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