How To Destroy A Country

 

“One university after another is bowing before the violent demands of a small minority of radicals who intend to overthrow the existing government...The radicals fully intend to overthrow the national government and replace it according to their own fuzzy, undefined lines which they cannot explain. They have decided to seek as many confrontations with the police and university officials as they possibly can. They are using terror tactics in some parts of the country now.” This was written fifty-one years ago in the July 1970 issue of the Voice of Freedom. Following these observations was a short article entitled “How to Destroy a Country”: * Affirm man’s animal origin, nature, and functions to the exclusion of everything else, and ridicule all reference to his spiritual qualities. * Inculcate general disrespect for any kind of authority by urging people to obey their own impulses in the name of freedom. * Hamper the enforcement of the criminal code with decisions that slow down the judicial process and make it difficult to arrest, convict and sentence a culprit for an offense against society. * Import vast supplies of hallucinogenic drugs and make them available to the youth of the land; then provide the youth with plenty of money with which to buy them. * Loosen all restraint on the entertainment media so that sexual license may be presented to the public in its rawest form. * Corrupt the youth of the land by permitting pornography, obscenity, and general immorality to be indulged in freely without fear of arrest or persecution. * Soft-pedal all discussion of loyalty, responsibility, patriotism, duty, and sacrifice in order that freedom of dissent may be established. * Split the older and younger generations by encouraging them to distrust each other and to condemn each other’s institutions. * Pollute the air, the streams, and lakes, and erode the land until the environment is so poisoned that life can no longer be enjoyed. * Indoctrinate the public into believing that God is dead, Jesus Christ is a myth, Christianity, a byword for an ancient superstition, and the church an institution that humanity has outgrown. Well, here we are living a fifty-one-year-old prediction that wasn’t far off, was it.

[Psalm 9:17] In life as children of God, we are different from the world. No matter how you slice it, our world simply doesn’t measure up to the standard God has decreed as the right way to live. Whether those of the world know God’s will and don’t care, or simply have never heard, they aren’t doing what God has commanded. And as we live our lives, following the will of God in the best way possible, we can get discouraged and begin wondering if we are in fact the ones who are wrong since so many people are different from us. Be rest assured that it is in fact the worldly who are going the wrong way. Jesus said in his recorded sermon, (Matthew chapters 5, 6 & 7) that only a few people will be saved (Matthew 7:13-14). By comparison, the vast majority of people who live on this earth are not living as God would have them to and will not inherit eternal life. And no matter how odd it may seem to the world for us to live differently from them, we are doing, to the best of our ability, what the God of heaven has commanded us to do. “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers. (Galatians 6:7-10). Pray for our freedoms.