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September 26, 2006

America Ceases to be Good

by @ 11:30 am. Filed under Life, Rants. [add to del.icio.us]

I was reading Psalm 20:7 today where it says “Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.” And the footnote in my Life Application Bible said “David knew that the true might of his nation was not in weaponry but in worship; not in firepower but in God’s power.”

Alexis de Tocqueville in his travels through America was impressed by the morality of the American people, by the churches, and temples. He wrote, “America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

Whenever I turn on the TV and flip through the channels, noticing the stuff the public views as entertainment, or read the news (lately debates among politicians over whether we should be allowed to torture people, or imprison them indefinitely because someone thought them suspicious), I wonder whether that time has come: the time when America has ceased to be good.

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