Editor:
Philip Gruber’s April 27 staff column, “Me or Our Politics,” expressed a simplistic view of the rural-urban divide.
It’s true that rural America tends to be more conservative than urban areas, and people’s beliefs are influenced by their surroundings, but the real divide is psychological.
God is the eternal and absolute source of truth. While there may be differing opinions on theology and interpretation of the Bible, there is no one who dares to ignore God’s clear natural and moral laws, substituting these laws to suit their own desires, or adapting to a changing culture. As Gruber puts it: Push the country into unfamiliar cultural territory, take away the ability to “classify people as male or female,” or face God’s judgment.
Isaiah 5:20 says: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil. Woe to those who have replaced darkness with light and light with darkness. Who has made sweet things bitter and bitter things sweet! ”
America may survive as a nation, but if freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of the press continue to erode as they have in recent times, our country will no longer be what it once was.
George Washington said, “If freedom of speech is taken away, we who are foolish and silent may be led like sheep to the slaughter.”
Abraham Lincoln said, “America can never be destroyed from without. If we falter and lose our freedom, it will be because we have destroyed ourselves.”
The United States is a constitutional republic. All members of Congress, the president, vice president, and others take an oath to support the U.S. Constitution. This takes precedence over the majority opinion.
Much more could be said, but America is primarily in a spiritual battle, not a geographical battle.
— Gerald Carlin, Meshoppen, Pennsylvania
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