We are a country that has lost its faith. When I was young, we were a nation of great faith, and that faith is what made us great. It was our unwavering faith that helped put a man on the moon. It was our unwavering faith that conquered polio. It was our unwavering faith that men could still dream. It was our unwavering faith in our fellow man that made us feel there was nothing we couldn’t overcome if we worked hard enough together. We have lost our faith in science. When I was a teenager, we put a man on the moon. When I was six, I remember standing in line as we conquered polio. We conquered the Chicken Pox, Measles, and the Mumps. Medical scientific research is now under attack. Today, we turn our backs on the medical research that can save people's lives. Today, we are cutting much-needed research that in the future could save millions of lives. I remember when the only way we could talk to someone on the phone was by using a hard-wired device that was in our homes. Today,...
Never once have I ever read in the Bible where Jesus said, “God bless the Roman Empire”. Never once have I read in the Bible of Jesus standing to pay homage to the symbols of the Roman Empire. Never once have I read Jesus combining his teachings with the Rule of the Roman Empire. I began thinking of that when I was watching the 4 th of July celebration on PBS, and there was a guy waving an American flag, and wearing a red hat that said, “Make America Pray Again”. That struck me as so anti-Jesus because that was what Jesus was not about. That is the last thing that the man that we call Christ would have been doing, in my opinion. Patriotic to a Government, whether it was Roman, Israel, or Jerusalem, was not what he was about. We have patriotic songs like the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and “Onward Christian Soldiers,” and I have asked myself many times, would Jesus have marched off to war leading an Army? He was the man who let himself be tried by the Romans, did not offer any ...