In the book “Amateur”, there is a story about President Obama calling for a meeting with all the top historians in the country. With just 5 months experience in the Oval Office, he wanted their advice on what to call his Presidential legacy. Lyndon Johnson had “The Great Society.” FDR had “The New Deal.” He floated the idea of: “A New Foundation." How eerily prescient this name becomes now that we have a better understanding of his new brand of liberalism. He is truly the Pontificator-in-Chief for the Human Secular movement. At the beginning of his Presidency, he sensed that the U.S was ripe to move off the foundational Biblical underpinnings our country was securely built on. It actually appeared quite reasonable for the President to attempt to identify “a new foundation”. Lord knows, (or Obama knows, depending on your perspective), you simply cannot have NO foundation—everyone would agree that this is patently ludicrous. It would be complete lawlessness. Or perhaps that is the underlying objective here.
In architectural engineering, it is not necessarily just the
building strength that survives an earthquake but the integrity of the
foundation. For instance, scientists
have studied why some similar structures immediately collapse while others come
out virtually unscathed during a major quake.
They found the underlying problem to be improper foundations that are
constructed on sandy soil. When the
earthquake strikes, the rocking back and forth literally LIQUEFIES the sandy
foundation whereas the firm foundation moves along with the building acting as
a strong footing or support. As a nation
we have already moved off the gold standard for our currency, now we are about
to move off the “gold” standard of the Bible for our foundational
principles. Will our “new foundation”
survive the next political or economic earthquake? Let’s take a look at the frightening new
American foundation proposed by the President:
Just as there are 7 Deadly Sins in Judeo-Christian Theology,
The New Foundation movement has its own 7 Deadly “Sins.”
1) The sin of
Racism (Played as the “Race Card”)
2) The sin of
Sexism (promoted as the “War on Women”)
3) The sin of
Environmental or Animal Neglect (Green Party/PETA Support)
4) The sin of
Economic Inequality (Entitlement Philosophy/Gov’t Nanny State)
5) The sin of
Corporate Greed (as protested by the Occupy Movement)
6) The sin of
Intolerance (Social Change Support:
Abortion/Marriage Redefinition)
7) The sin of
Worshiping any god other than Self:
or best known as The Religion of Human Secularism. The greatest commandment is:
or best known as The Religion of Human Secularism. The greatest commandment is:
“To Thine Own Self Be True."
On their face, some of these may actually look
commendable. It is upon closer
examination of these “trespasses” that we see the deeper problem. It is the underlying foundational source of
these concepts that need to be examined.
If these principles generate from an unsound footing, they will produce
instability. So, just what is the basis
of these new foundational values? Let’s
take a look:
The Sin of Racism: I
think all good people can agree that racism is evil. However, our current obsession with this
“sin” comes from fostering hatred between classes. We see blacks pitted against whites,
Immigrants stirred up against Nationalists.
We have all heard the term “Divide and Conquer.” Guess what?
An America that is divided is very easy to conquer.
The War on Women: Today “Women’s Rights” now means the
freedom to be enslaved. Have women
REALLY advanced in society over the last 4 or 5 decades? Men expect (and freely receive) sex with no
commitments. Marriage and fidelity are no
longer fashionable. Our children are
growing up in broken families with no fathers as we do double duty as single
mothers. Pornography has exploded and we
are now told that the womanly ideal is to be immodestly dressed, scandalously
unclothed or a 90 pound waif. Let’s face it:
modern day woman is now stripped down, naked and skeletal. I envision someone in a death camp. We also get to “enjoy” the “freedom” to
dismember our children right out of our womb and toss them in the trash. Sex selection is the norm in Planned
Parenthoods across the country. Guess
who is getting “selected?” Yes, that’s
right—little GIRL babies. American women
have embraced the grim reaper specter of death.
This is the REAL “War on Women.”
Mankind against nature:
Ironically, as I write this the United States is on fire—literally. For all our good intentions towards “Mother
Nature” (whomever or whatever that is)—the forces of nature seem to be
combating us. Maybe we need to realize,
it is not Mother Nature that we need to reconcile with, but Father God.
Economic Inequality:
Rich against poor. We now promote
laziness and lack of personal responsibility as a virtue. Ironically, our nation has achieved the
absolute highest standard of living EVER RECORDED on planet Earth. So…WHY are we so angry with successful
people? The only answer I can seem to
come up with is plain and simple ENVY.
There is also a complete lack of thankfulness and gratitude for the many
and multiple blessings that we enjoy as Americans. We are not only seeing the glass as half
empty—we are petulantly throwing the other half in the face of our fellow
Americans.
Corporate Greed: This
pits companies against individuals.
Remember the statement--“Corporations are people too?” Mitt Romney got slaughtered in the press for
this comment. However, it happens to be
the plain truth. Take note of how corporations
are doing very poorly in Obama’s economy.
Unfortunately, for the “little guy” this also translates into lack of
employment opportunities, loss of pension funds and declines in their stock
market portfolio. The suffering is
widespread. While I am certainly not
defending grievous actions such as Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scam, suggesting that
we discard our historically successful Capitalistic society and exchange it for
Socialism does not advance the cause of the middle class.
Intolerance: This
sets social “progressives” against people of faith. Suddenly you are a “homophobe” or at “war
against women” because you refuse to sanction a particular behavior. Why is it OK to ask a person to abandon their
FAITH but not OK to ask a person to abandon their harmful LIFESTYLE? Very strange reasoning. The only intolerance I see today is
intolerance towards people who won’t adopt the human secularist position lock,
stock and barrel. Almost ANYTHING or ANY
type of behavior is tolerated today EXCEPT—God forbid—saying something is a
SIN (ssshhhhhhh!). That simply will not be tolerated. You will be tarred and feathered and run out
of town. The Scarlet Letter we brand
today is not “A” for adultery, but “A” for Anti-American if you don’t acquiesce
to the human secularism standard. Our
1st Amendment right to freedom of religion should at least afford us the
protection of not having to endorse something we find morally
objectionable. It is no longer an issue
of “tolerance”. It is complete and total
intolerance to any other position other than the new one being promoted by
human secularists. You will either
comply, or they will MAKE YOU comply.
The HHS mandate forcing the Catholic Church to pay for aborti-facients
is a clear example of this. This is not
about birth control. Birth control has
been readily accessible and easily obtained by every single person in America that
can walk into a drug store. This is
about complying with the new religion of Human Secularism. Even if it violates the most closely held
tenet of your own faith—such as “Thou Shalt Not Murder." All the arguments pretending that these are
not equivalent are patently false. It is
the same arguments given by the German people during the execution of 6 million
Jews. “Well, I didn’t put the Jews in
the gas chamber. My only function was to
cut the lawn at Dachau. I really had no
clue what was going on there. What
smoke? What chimney? I don’t know why people went in but never
came out. I just minded my own
business”. Before you know it, you are
promoted to Director in Charge of putting the people in the oven. The really, really, evil guy is the one who
actually turns on the gas. You had
nothing to do with it. Go home and have
dinner with your family while you assuage your conscience.
This is the same justification of paying for
abortifacients. You say: “Well—I didn’t make the women take them.” No, you just supplied the murder weapon. If this was a court of law, you would be
getting a hefty sentence as an accomplice.
According to the Obama administration, all we need is a little
“accommodation” to shut us up.
Unfortunately, the “accommodation” is an adjustment of your morality and
conscience.
And then the ultimate:
Humanism: Man against
God. As we slowly and insidiously remove
any mention of God from our public sector, we can almost feel the blanket of
darkness descending upon our nation. The
light recedes and the darkness advances.
Ironically, we call this “enlightenment”. The atheist movement now calls themselves
“the Brights.” I have a scripture for
them:
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put
darkness for light and light for darkness.
~Isaiah 5:20
~Isaiah 5:20
So…if Americans want to embrace more tension, strife, class
warfare, weather related disasters, economic failure, global chaos or simply
enjoy seeing Maletov cocktails thrown at innocent businesses by the Occupy
movement,--we should immediately adopt these new principles. Anarchy is the net result of the doctrines of
Human Secularism. If the Judeo-Christian
ethic is replaced by these new Presidential ideals, they will become the
cracked and shaky foundation for our next Brave New World.
The next “earthquake” is coming. What will our foundation be? Pray for the U.S.
On Christ the solid Rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand;
All other ground is sinking sand.
~Words: Edward Mote circa 1834; first appeared in Mote’s
Hymns of Praise, 1836.
If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?
~Psalm 11:3
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~Reprint of Blog Posted on June 30, 2012
~Posted by permission of Pastor Jeffrey N. Daly
Pastor Jeffrey N. Daly is the author of Repentance—God’s Strategy to Bless a Nation and Zeal to Repent!—A Key to Personal and National Restoration
Pastor Jeffrey N. Daly is the author of Repentance—God’s Strategy to Bless a Nation and Zeal to Repent!—A Key to Personal and National Restoration
–Both are available for FREE at The National Day of Repentance website: www.dayofrepentance.org
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