Plucking the Eagle's Wings

Plucking the Eagle's Wings

I believe that if they could, Washington, Adams, and most of the Founders would have kicked their way out of their tombs to object to the removal of the Bible and prayer from public schools. Washington said in his Farewell Address in 1796: "Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail to the exclusion of religious principle." In 1963, the Supreme Court Justices might as well have said to God, "We are rejecting the covenant our fathers had with you." In ancient Israel, when the people rejected their covenant with God, He allowed His hedge of protection to be removed, thus causing great trouble to come upon the land. This was His way of getting Israel's attention. He wanted them to see that they needed to repent and turn their hearts back to Him. Let's look at some of the things that have happened since God removed His hedge of protection from America: Political Assaults: Five months after the Murray vs. Curlett decision, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. America, previously victorious in every war, was humiliated in the Vietnam War. We never won it. We merely pulled out our troops and went home. Racial tension festered. Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King was assassinated. The downward spiral continued with the oil embargo, and Richard Nixon's resignation from the presidency. Iran later took Americans hostage for 444 days. A former Israeli intelligence agent told me that Israeli officials told President Carter that they would send a special team into Iran to help release the hostages. President Carter decided to execute a secret mission to free the hostages before the ensuing presidential election. The mission failed and so did Carter in his re-election efforts. Our majestic eagle was wounded over and over again! An Assault on Values: The removal of the Bible from schools undermined the ability to teach moral absolutes. Rejecting the Bible meant rejecting its principles. Values like honesty, perseverance, faithfulness, and kindness became subject to debate and individual circumstances. For example, if honesty depended on one's situation, the immature students were essentially taught to determine for themselves whether it's right or wrong to live by Godly standards. Talk about having the inmates run the asylum! Here's an example for a class to discuss

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