How did America, the land of the free, reach the crisis point we now face today? The Father of Our Country would have an answer for us: “boundless ambition” and “corrupted morals.”
Child mutilation, baby murder, no consequences for violent crime, election fraud, money laundering, mainstream sexual perversion—this describes not some ancient tyranny or Communist banana republic but our current state in America, once a beacon of Judeo-Christian values and liberty. The tide can be reversed but only if we are honest about the root causes of this crisis and willing to heed George Washington's warning.
In a discarded draft of his First Inaugural Address, Washington reflected on how even the brilliance of our Constitution — on which he had himself labored — could not permanently ensure America’s prosperity. No, if we abandoned biblical principles, if we allowed our leaders to exercise overweening ambition and lack morals, then the Constitution would be overwhelmed and crushed.
As Washington’s fellow founder, John Adams, noted, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” As we see our most sacred constitutional rights under attack from the very leaders who are supposed to protect them, we can see painfully and clearly how right Adams was.
Washington, in the undelivered address, reflected, “The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institutions may be abused by human depravity; and that they may even, in some instances be made subservient to the vilest of purposes.”
Now, even men and women who consider themselves Christians and/or conservatives justify the brutal murder of unborn babies. Donald Trump, while talking about his gratitude to God for miraculously protecting him from a deadly shooting, is compromising more than ever on abortion (even though most Americans believe in restricting abortion), and the main result is Trump’s own base taking offense.
Can we expect God to bless us when we have a multitude of excuses, in defiance of the natural and moral laws and ample scientific evidence—and in spite of abortion never being necessary to save a mother—as to why we should crush babies’ skulls and rip off their limbs? The Founding Fathers were pro-life, and they would have replied, “No.”
Of course, abortion is just one example of America’s moral and political decline. Transgenderism, the divorce epidemic, and the assault on free speech are other examples. As Washington prophesied:
Should, hereafter, those who are intrusted [sic] with the management of this government, incited by the lust of power and prompted by the Supineness or venality of their Constituents, overleap the known barriers of this Constitution and violate the unalienable rights of humanity: it will only serve to shew, that no compact among men (however provident in its construction and sacred in its ratification) can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchm[ent] can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.
How painfully true. Americans are less religious, less individualistic, more lustful, more selfish, and more ignorant of the past than ever before. We have a choice: Will we be part of the problem or part of the solution?
