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Dear reader, if we say ‘America
has sinned’, this has nothing to do with the wars she fought in Vietnam,
Afghanistan, Iraq, Korea etc like so many people may think. But when we say a
nation sinned, it has a lot to do with the relationship between such nation and
God.
If a nation, instead of fulfilling righteousness, decides to follow the
part of unrighteousness, lawlessness, we can say such nation is destined to be
punished by God no matter how great or powerful she is. Bringing the United State
into the spot light, the US
has dangerously failed to fully follow the laws of God in whom she claims she
trusts! Just like it happened in the days of old nation of Israel, America has legalized sin and
celebrating it and as a result has corrupted the rest of the world.
Righteousness exalts a nation! America
founding father founded it on Godly laws and constitutions. But today, the act
of lawlessness, poor or low reverence for the thing that concerns God or
connected with godliness/righteousness in the States has reached a climax and has
affected the United States
in a massive way. In fact, it marked a major escalation of a violent attack on America.
Nevertheless, it is an assault by an invisible force—a force that is very real,
and deadly dangerous. Devil, the hater of God himself.
But how did it all began?
On July 1, 1987, President Ronald
Reagan nominated a highly respected judge, Robert Bork, to become an associate
justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Within 45 minutes, Massachusetts Democrat
Edward Kennedy took to the floor of the Senate and demonized him. “Robert
Bork’s America,”
he said, would produce back-alley abortions, segregation, and censorship and
midnight police raids.
It was a shocking, bald-faced
vilification of a man who was obviously qualified and greatly respected, even
by many liberals. “There was not a line in that speech that was accurate,”
Bork said. Many people agreed—but
the attack still worked. Senator Kennedy and others led the way for
abortionists, evolutionists, feminists, civil-rights advocates and other liberals
to band together and defame Judge Bork’s reputation in an enormous smear
campaign. They even aired television ads denigrating him. They turned him into
an absolute gargoyle, into a beast.
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Why was his nomination to the Supreme Court turned into a witch hunt, when it
was obvious he was more than qualified? The reason was that the radical left
feared him.
And for what reason?
Judge Bork was known for one
thing more than anything else: believing in the Constitution. He was one of the
most brilliant constitutional lawyers the land has produced! He was considered
“a pioneer in constitutional thinking devoted to the text and original meaning
of the Constitution,” as Reuters put it.
He was known as a constitutional
“originalist” or “constructionist” who believed in judicial restraint. Supreme
Court Justice Antonin Scalia released a statement through the Federalist
Society calling him one of the most influential legal scholars of the last 50
years. Bork was “one of our country’s fiercest and most articulate defenders of
the Constitution as it is written.” said the society’s executive vice
president.
That’s why they hated him!
Everyone thought that when a
popular president nominated a brilliant, well-qualified man who passionately
defends what the Constitution actually says, he would be easily confirmed—even
by a majority Democrat Senate. But in 1987, radical liberals considered defending
the Constitution a ‘very bad thing’! And they had the power to get their way. It still happens today.
The Senate defeated Judge Bork’s
nomination 58-42, the largest margin ever.
Many people at the time
recognized that this was a water-shed event in American politics. One law
professor said it was “the decisive moment in politicizing the process of judicial
selection” that “poisoned the atmosphere for judicial confirmations ever
since.” In fact, it poisoned a lot more than that!
In 2005, Bork said what he
thought made a good Supreme Court justice: “A willingness to apply the
Constitution according to the principles that are actually in it, rather than what
they call the ‘evolving’ or the ‘living’ Constitution, which simply means the
judges begin to make it up.” The tide turned in a big way in 1987. Law started
to get a lot weaker. And lawlessness started to get much, much stronger in the
States including modern system of justifying sin.
This is a significant clue as to
what happened in 1986 that made such impact on the state of our world.
If America
can amend her ways, all will be well with the well blessed, glorious,
super-power nation – America.
Otherwise a huge punishment from God awaits her.
"We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!" ~ Abraham Lincoln
