“I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
The original Pledge of Allegiance was written by Francis Bellamy. He wrote The Pledge for a popular children’s magazine The Youth’s Companion as part of the National Public-School Celebration of Columbus Day. It originally read like this,” I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” It stayed this way for 66 years until a man named Louis A. Bowman saw the need to add “under God” to the pledge. He knew that a nation that lacked God was a nation heading for troubled waters. Louis knew that it was not the United States government that governed America; it was God himself who set our laws into place and more importantly hardwired morals and absolute truths into us.
You see a government isn’t here to necessarily make new rules, just enforce them. The reason is simple, God has already given us our rules that we need to live by! These rules were molded into us when we were created as humans. And if that’s not enough has God flat out told us how we need to live our life’s. It’s called the Ten Commandments! If Americans actually picked up and read their bibles they would know this! So that leaves us with this question: what would happen if God is taken out of our country? The answer is a simple one: all hell would break loose! After all, what is a nation without morals?
Let’s imagine use our imaginations for a second. Imagine you are on a cruise of the Atlantic ocean. While on your cruise, you are going to stop at ten completely separated and isolated islands. In fact they have no communication between other islands or the rest of civilization. When you stop at the first one you start to notice something: their pnly laws are those of their morals. Its illegal to steal, cheat ,lie, kill ect… After island one you go to number two. After getting off you begin to see an eerie resemblance to the first island you visited. They have the same basic laws! After number two you go to three and notice the same thing, 3 to 4,4 to 5, and on you notice the exact same thing. Now why is this? God is the reason. He put these truths into them. If they are taken out, there would be no differential between good and bad! Black and white becomes an endless gray. A murderer would be looked at the same as a hero; Hitler would be at the same level as George Washington. Could you imagine? Without morals people could murder their neighbor, steal a car, bake cookies for their kids, buy a present for their spouse, all this in a days work!! They wouldn’t know that they did anything wrong at all!
America need to realize that we are governed by God and that He is the one who makes our rules and laws. As Americans it is our reasonability to pick up our Bibles and realize what right and wrong is. And not only will our morals be clearly defined, we will find Life. Life that only Jesus Christ our Savior can offer. Life that was paid for through the murder of an innocent Man.
~ John 3:16
So true. Intelligence is one of the biggest threats to atheism because it is direct evidence of an all-powerful being.
I was watching Glenn Beck today and he briefly touched on this topic! And your right! even common sense. Every creation, has to have a creator. Its really basic logic.
thanks for the great post