Although sometimes we don't want to admit that America can do wrong, it's important we look at our country's flaws in order to amend them. Some of the things that seem good and healthy for America are really hurting our country.
"Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values.
We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.
We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.
We have killed our unborn and called it choice.
We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.
We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem.
We have abused power and called it politics.
We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.
We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression
We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.
Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free.
Amen."
-Bob Russell
Sometimes things can really get twisted and distorted from their original purpose. Free choice doesn't justify murder. But murder doesn't justify murder either. Self-esteem is important, but so is discipline. Politics was once a way to change the world by using your power for good. Nowadays it is often simply a way to exploit. Ambition, freedom of expression, "enlightenment", how far can we take these things before they turn into something else entirely?
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