[TheRealThing]

You are absolutely correct, TheRealThing. And, I believe the passive reaction of alleged "good Christians" and their willingness to sit back and let those in charge raise and indoctrinate their children will eventually destroy the country as we know it.

All this emphasis on inclusiveness, diversity, and acceptance of all "lifestyles" without any judgment whatsoever now saturating the government schools and the cheapening of human life under the guise of "women's health care concerns" should remind one of taking a lethal poison in a tablet flavored with peppermint.

From the "quality" of students being produced by our government schools, it is painfully obvious that they aren't teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic. The majority of high school graduates are nearly illiterate and are ignorant of basic learning skills. If you doubt it, ask one of them to do a long division problem without a calculator, cellphone, or computer. Or, ask them to write a short paragraph using correct grammar. The truth is that most can do neither. However, they are well schooled in liberal social thought.

Someday soon, those "good Christians" may wake up and wonder what happened to our country. It will, of course, be too late and not even the perpetual grins of Joel Osteen and the lovely Victoria spin of the "prosperity preachers" will be able to pacify them and stem the tide.

Well, I agree with you except that our short falls and failings are more than passivity. I'd say it's likely in fact, that we are responsible for the whole mess. We haven't been involved in self governance. Most Americans are woefully ill prepared to offer an opinion on what American exceptionalism is, or the cost of freedom or what freedom even is for that matter. Instead of learning how to reproduce and getting a crash course of graphic and over the top exposure to everything there is to know about sex organs. Kids ought to be learning about the sacrifices and heroic actions of our founding fathers and what is has cost us as a nation to remain free.

Christians were totally sound asleep at the wheel when Madeleine Murray O'Hare and the ACLU were making inroads into our schools and national court system, in an effort to liberalize America. People like that were just dismissed as kooks back then.

Boy are we paying for it now. And that is why I often quote scripture in conversation, realizing that many hardly ever hear any. We could never make up for our failings. We can only ask forgiveness and present ourselves a "reasonable sacrifice".