America and the downward slope

If a person were found in a bar everyday drinking heavily, and someone came in after months of this and told the person they had a problem because they were an alcoholic many of us would say the same thing. Even if the person drinking denied it, which they most likely would do, we would all see right through it. In fact, the drinker might even ask this person how they knew. When asked, one of the best answers that could be given is, because I am too. 

A while back Pravda, a Russian newspaper originally founded in 1912, had an editorial about the state of things in the United States. This was quite enlightening that a former Communist country is urgently warning the US against the path we are attempting to go down. 

Here is an excerpt...

"First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives."

How sadly true this is. If you mention a movie how many of our teens would be able to say all of the actors in the movie, but if a chapter in the Bible is mentioned how many would be able to say what story is contained there? Not many. Pop culture has replaced knowing God.

Here is another excerpt...

"Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America."

It is truly amazing that those in other countries can see through the facade of what is truly happening in our country. Equating Sunday services to circuses? I hang my head in shame for the mockery we have turned God, and to a lesser extent, church into. Christ DIED for the church, and look how we have repaid him. Just as Jesus took control and drove out the money changers we need the same spirit to sweep OUR nation, so God can give us the strength to drive out the weeds that shake in the wind, bowing to whatever blows their way.

The last excerpt....

"The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe."

If others can see the rate of our decline why can we not see it? For those who are unaware, Zimbabwe records one of the most highest employment rates in the world.... 80%. If we keep spending money we do not have for whatever reason or justification we can conjure up, we will fail. If ANY household in the US spend as the government has in the last 3 months, they would at best, wind up in court, with a very gloomy future. Is our national government any better? 

It all boils down to this. Are we going to trust our country to provide for us, or trust God to provide for us. I believe with this last Presidential election our nation has spoken. Others around the world have even taken notice. The government has become the new god of America, we have sadly left the true God.

P.S. For those interested in the article, click here to read.