Culture warriors are getting their asses kicked by the political process, and as a result we're losing the country.
That's it in a nutshell.
Now, to anticipate all the replies: America needs a Christian revival, or she will perish. I would rather be governed by a Congress and a Judiciary composed of Human Life International and The Family Research Council than by the current Parliament of Whores.
But since our leaders are selected by universal franchise voting (and our judges are chosen by them), and since the population is now ruled by its crotch rather than by its heart, looking to the political process for revival is foolishness, and leads to misallocation of resources.
I think the root of the next revival is going to be that of gender i.e. God is going to re-align the male-femaale relationship back to health so that the myriad of social problems which have occured because of the dysfunctions in our society can be fixed. So When God's hand is seen restoring male-female love, revivial will occur IMO.
Rush and Coulter are not that out there...even though I am not one of them, there are many conservatives for civil unions (Coulter, I believe, has not said she backs gay marriage). But Beck's position is way wacko. Laura Bush too.
It shocks me that so many conservatives are for gays actually getting married. Something's wrong with their psyche.
“America needs a Christian revival”
America need limited government revival and a return to self reliance.
This is all about tax breaks, insurance coverage, and social security.
Limit government, limit the scourges that government enables.
Our political system is efficient in that the political leadership generally reflects the underlying values of the populace.
We as social conservatives are for the nost part wasting our time and resources with the political process. At a certain point you call it the second dark ages, acknowledge that the end results are predictable, and strategize accordingly.
Now, to anticipate all the replies: America needs a Christian revival, or she will perish.
That is pretty much a given:
1 Kings 14:22-24 And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done. For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel
So we see history repeating itself then, and we are following in those exact same footsteps today. What is puzzling is here we have Beck claiming we need a Revial, and then gives blessings to the Perverts who have historically raised God's Wrath not just against Israel, but against every nation that indulged Sodomites.
If Beck was saved and wasn't a Mormon, then he would have simply read a few paragraphs more:
1 Kings 15:11-12 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did David his father. And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
Q: What do you call a bus full of lawyers going over a cliff? A: "a good start". Likewise, Ada loaded up a lot of buses but it wasn't until his son Jehoshaphat where they finally purged them all out (22:46). Moral of the story: Perverts are like dandelions, it takes a lot of repeated work to finally evict them from the lawn, but once removed becomes the envy of the neighborhood.
So Jehoshaphat, except when aligning himself with his evil neighbor Israel, brought peace (defeating the powerful Edomites) and prosperity to Judah that continued on through his son Jehoram. During Jehoram's reign, he got mixed up with the Ahab/Jezebel bunch, sunk into deep idolatry and was later brutally killed by the reinvigoraed Edomites.
During this time, the dandelions came back and it wasn't until Josiah, who "did that which was right in the sight of the LORD" (2 Ki 22:2) and "brake down the houses of the Sodomites" (23:7) evil that was going on for at least seventy years. During this revival of Josiah, the Asyrian empire totally collapsed with the fall of Ninevah (612BC), freeing Judah from Asyrian vassalage.
This is sort of a wierd 8/28 connection here, but when King David impressed upon his son Solomon to build the temple AND to revere the Law, it was custom at that time to preserve highly important records and documents into the cornerstone of an important building - which the Temple was. Over the span of time from Jehoshaphat until Josiah, the Temple pretty much went into ruin, particularly through the profoundly wicked rule of Manasseh. So the high priest Hilkiah was encouraged to restore the Temple. As workers were digging through the place, they came upon the only surviving copy of the Pentateuch. This was later presented to Josiah who was shocked at how far away the people and government had strayed from their Founding Documents. This caused Josiah to seek a spiritual revival throught the land so that God would restore Judah. It is probably safe to say that the prophet Jeremiah and Josiah worked close together in this endeavor, yet it seems that the people weren't on board because it required royal orders to be issued to make this reformation come about.
Nevertheless, this attempt to restore Judah back into God's graces was insufficient to cover the Wrath that Judah managed to earn for itself over the three hundred years of idolatry and, as we read Nebuchadnezzar's troops wiped out Judah shortly after Josiah's death and successession by the worthless Jehoiakim, under whom perversion and idolatry were promptly restored.
The point to all of this is this: Sodomy will destroy your nation, it corrupts the people and is sufficient cause for the land to Vomit out its inhabitants.
“America needs a Christian revival, or she will perish.”
In our home, every day we pray for revival in America. We certainly don’t deserve rescue by God considering how we’ve stood quietly and let things get this bad, but God can show mercy. Maybe He will.