Safe in God

By Julian Krasta

Norman Cousins said: “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”

In a recent issue, Newsweek magazine proclaimed that Christianity in America is dying. One need not read the entire article (unless you’re obsessed with propaganda). The title of the article, “The Decline and Fall of Christian America,” is sufficient to get the writer’s point across in full – like the blinking neon sign outside a sleazy strip club: you don’t need to go through the doorway to know what’s happening inside.

Today, at this moment, it is the enduring faith in God which is alive and well within every believer that will ensure America’s survival, not the neurotic assumptions of implacable doubters that Christianity is on the endangered list.

Americans who believe in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit – and who stand in humility, joy and awe before Christ’s altar to receive Him in Holy Communion – have never been more lucid in our faith. Listen to a young cowboy named Logan. He reached out to God for comfort after a heartrending experience. God heard Logan and came to him, and He helped him through that crisis.

Read the words of John Quincy Adams, the most incorruptible and distinguished man of his age, in a letter he wrote to his son: “I advise you, my son, in whatever you read, and most of all in reading the Bible, to remember that it is for the purpose of making you wiser and more virtuous.”

John Quincy Adams was one of America’s finest sons whose life was devoted to service, not to entertaining his fellow countrymen. He was a man who, by virtue of his unwavering faith in God, lived his life calmly, yet boldly, and completely without defiance. And he was entirely devoted to human rights, to the equality of all men, and to the construction of the unparalleled freedoms by which Americans have since lived and flourished.

The fuel that set his destiny in motion sprung from his devotion to God’s laws, and it was upon God’s commandments and the moralities set forth therein that the greatness of America was conceived.

As in centuries past and all over creation, fanatics are attempting to control hearts and minds away from God. Such attempts always coincide with social and financial upheavals. Today’s economic blight is just such an upheaval – a monumental affliction caused by underhanded politicians and their equally devious followers (whose names, alone, are anathema to righteousness).

The obsessive media, without regard to decency, are using this turmoil to take yet another crack at seizing what they consider productive ground into which to plant their destructive seeds. They are on tenterhooks that their infertile progeny will, at last, develop to choke the life out of our belief in God. History has proven again and again that this will never happen, because it is they, not Christians, who are on the hook with their shriveled opinions.

Emperor Nero failed, as did the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust. Saddam Hussein and his hero, Josef Stalin, gave it their best shot. They and each and every other madman dictator were eventually crushed under the weight of their own actions when they attempted to go head-to-head with God.

Call it fair warning to any and all who are pushing the outside of the sacred envelope. If you mess with God’s children – Christian, Jew, Muslim, et al. – you’re also messing with God. He teaches that we must love one another, which isn’t as difficult as it sounds. Peace on Earth is not unattainable; it’s only being ignored. But, if the Faithful are again being victimized because of our belief, God’s vengeance, which is His and His alone, can and will outdo the destruction of a million nuclear devices.

It always has been with God’s blessings that this great country and its equally great peoples have been protected and defended, albeit with the sacrifice by its sons and daughters of their own lives, for which our gratitude to each of them and their families can never be fully expressed.

With the unfaltering belief in Him throughout America, indeed across this planet, God’s beacon will be our guide and we will survive the tests put before us by atheists, hostile aggressors and egomaniacal world leaders.