This post has been a long time coming. It has been sitting in my drafts folder since January of 2019, just a few weeks after I first created this blog [EDITOR NOTE: Brian refers to his own blog, which you can find at the link]. I have long believed that a blind faith in the continued existence of the indivisible United States of America is a weakness that prevents us from doing what is necessary to prepare for her eventual fall. The message of this blog and podcast is not hopelessness, but preparation. Those who do not read history are condemned to repeat it, while those that do are condemned to play the part of Cassandra.
Nearly two years ago I had the idea to start a blog and a
podcast that chronicled the decline and fall of the United States as it
happened in real time. I remember reading stories about bridges collapsing and trains derailing and
I wondered how future encyclopedias would write of this era in American
history. I realized that they would sound just like our own entries on the end
of the Roman Empire, or the Ottoman Empire, or many other bygone civilizations.
I was not the first to notice this trend, of course. Aaron Clarey wrote his magnum opus “Enjoy the Decline”
nearly a decade ago, and many other pundits and thinkers have been writing
about the downward trajectory of American culture for even longer than
that. Vox Day famously predicted that the
United States will have collapsed in some fashion by 2033. I have
humbly tried to add my voice to the chorus, to create a contemporary record of
the decline and fall of a once-great nation, and to give whatever advice I
could to those who would preserve her memory when she is gone.
Every empire, every great civilization rises and falls.
Sometimes that fall is gradual, as when the Western Roman Empire slowly
collapsed, leaving Europe a patchwork of formerly barbarian tribes that
eventually grew into the kingdoms of the medieval era. Sometimes it is sudden,
as when the French Revolution toppled
the ancien regime seemingly overnight. Sometimes it is
gradual, then sudden, as when the Austrians – the successors to the
long-lived Holy Roman Empire –found themselves unable to keep pace with the
great powers in World War I and were picked apart by the victorious allies.
Sometimes a shell of the old empire remains, as with Great Britain after
World War II. Sometimes a civilization collapses, only to be reborn as
something different, as when the Roman Republic transformed
into the Empire. It remains to be seen which form the ultimate fall of America will take.
Despite these examples from history, there are many in
America who, even today, believe that it cannot happen here. The United States
of America is special, they say, and the regular patterns of history do not
apply to us. Some believe that there is an exceptionalism about the American
people that will save us from the same historical forces that have destroyed
other empires in the past. Some even suggest that there is a magical quality
in our very dirt that
makes us different. Many conservative Christians believe that the Declaration of Independence and
the Constitution are
inspired by God Himself, just a step below the level of Holy Scripture, and
that the American people are a modern-day version of biblical Israel – chosen
by God to spread the gospel throughout the world.
After all, many of America’s founders saw something
uniquely divine about the way this country was born. How else can you explain
how a ragtag band of colonial soldiers defeated the greatest military power on
the planet? By any rational account, George Washington and his army should have
been finished several times over, but they nevertheless claimed a final victory at Yorktown. How else can you
explain how the United States rose from obscurity to become the greatest
industrial, economic, and cultural power the world has ever seen? In the blink
of an eye, our country went from exploring the continent to exploring the moon. It
is clear that God has blessed America throughout her history.
In 1938, as war loomed on the European horizon, Jewish
American songwriter Irving Berlin revised
his 1918 version of “God Bless America” with some new words:
While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,
Let us swear allegiance to a land that’s free.
Let us all be grateful for a land so fair,
As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer:
God
bless America, land that I love,
Stand beside her and guide her
Through the night with a light from above.
From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the oceans white with foam,
God bless America,
My home sweet home.
One could argue that this prayer on behalf of the American
people worked. While Europe and Asia were devastated by war, the United States
thrived, coming out of the conflict with the greatest economy in the world. As
the Cold War began, America stood for Christianity and freedom, while the
godless Soviet Union stood for secular atheism and slavery. God blessed America
indeed. Yet what did we do with those blessings? We sent tens of thousands of
young men to die in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. We fomented revolution throughout the
world, ostensibly for the sake of freedom. We threw off the shackles of
Christian morality in the 1960s. We outsourced the very manufacturing economy
that once provided good jobs to millions of American families. We won the Cold
War, then imported the very socialist ideas that doomed the Soviet Union in the
first place. While the eastern European nations that suffered the most under
the yoke of Communism have come out of the crucible with renewed Christian fervor,
we used our freedom to engage in all sorts of degenerate ideas and practices.
The song “God Bless America” became popular again after the
9/11 terrorist attacks, being sung everywhere from baseball stadiums to the US Capitol Building. As we watched foreign
agents using our own technology against us, killing three thousand people in a
single morning, we once again united as a nation to implore God to bless our
country and to keep her safe from the dark night. Yet that unity did not last
long, and it is difficult to see exactly how God has blessed us this time.
Sure, our economy quickly recovered, and we have not suffered any further
attacks of that magnitude, but now we face internal and external pressures like
never before. America needs God more than ever now, but does God still want
America? The question few on the conservative Christian right dare to ask is
“Why should God bless America?”
Despite what some conservatives believe, the American
people are not the capital-P People of God. That distinction belongs to the
worldwide capital-C Church, which is the Body of Christ. The United States
might once have been useful to God for the furthering of the Gospel, but that
utility seems dubious today. Later in this piece I will take a discuss some of
the reasons why God might not be inclined to continue blessing America as He
once did, but first, let us walk through the history of God’s original chosen
people.
The book of Genesis teaches
that the people of the world built the Tower of Babel in order to reach and
perhaps even conquer Heaven, so God scattered them by giving them each a
different language. Out of the chaos He picked one man, Abram, and called him
to come out from the pagan tribes and follow Him alone. Calling the man Abraham
now, God promised that he would be the father of many nations. Three
generations later, however, Abraham’s descendants were forced to leave the land
of the promise for Egypt due to a famine. Their Egyptian hosts eventually
decided to enslave them, and for four centuries the people of Israel toiled in
a land that was not their own.
Consider that – four hundred years of servitude. That is
nearly twice as long as the United States has been an independent country. Four
hundred years ago this year was when the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. That
is a long time. The Israelites thought God had forgotten them, but God operates
on a different timetable than humanity. The Apostle Peter said, “…do not overlook this one fact,
beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand
years as one day.” God had a plan for His people, and in due time He
used Moses to lead them out of Egypt and eventually back to their promised
land.
For several centuries, the people of Israel lived in a sort
of theocracy, where God raised up judges to administer the people, but without
a strict hierarchy. The book of Judges says it this way, “In those days there was no king in
Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” It was the
very sort of anarcho-libertarian community that many desire today, an ancient CHAZ, if you will.
Yet this form of society did not hold up. The people demanded a king who could
consolidate authority and raise Israel to the same level as other regional
powers such as Egypt and Assyria. Israel’s final judge, Samuel, warned the
people that a king would send their sons away to war, make their daughters into
servants, and confiscate their goods as taxes. He warned that, “…you will cry out because of your
king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you in
that day.”
The people persisted, so God decided to let them have what
they wanted and let them have it good and hard. Their first king, Saul, was everything a king should be – tall,
handsome, strong, charismatic – yet he ended up going mad. The second
king, David, did not initially look the part but
eventually made Israel into a regional power, despite his own personal
failings. David’s son Solomon ruled over
a golden age for Israel, building a magnificent Temple and expanding their borders to
their greatest extent. His son, however, could
not maintain control and the kingdom fell into civil war. The House of David
ruled over the Southern Kingdom of Judah after
the Northern Kingdom of Israel split
away.
Throughout the Old Testament, God continually promised
Israel that He would protect and nurture them as long so long as they did not
worship other gods, yet Israel could never seem to hold to that bargain.
Immediately after the civil war, the northern kingdom began worshiping idols due
to their isolation from the Temple in Jerusalem. God delayed His judgment for
several centuries, however, continually giving them a chance to repent, but
eventually He allowed the bloodthirsty Assyrians to conquer the northern kingdom
and scatter its people throughout their empire.
The southern kingdom fared somewhat better, but eventually
they too met the same fate. The story of the kingdom of Judah is of apostasy
followed by restoration followed by apostasy again. A wicked king leads the
people into idolatry, then a good king restores the Law of Moses and proper
worship, only for another wicked king to undo it all again. God eventually had
enough. He allowed King Nebuchadnezzar to lay waste to
Jerusalem, demolish Solomon’s Temple, and carry away the people of Judah into
slavery in Babylon.
In a verse that you often see posted on Facebook by
conservative Christians, God says that, “…if my people who are called by my
name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked
ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their
land.” Yet repentance and restoration are not something that a
people can do once and then call it good. Each generation must make their own
choice to either follow God or leave the path of righteousness. Once a people
fall into idolatry and apostasy, it is extremely difficult to return to the
narrow way. As Ronald Reagan said
in many speeches throughout the years,
Freedom
is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to
our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed
on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling
our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United
States where men were free.
Rather than using our freedom to honor our Lord and follow
His ways, we squandered it on libertinism and degeneracy. Perhaps we are not so
different from ancient Israel after all. Like America in the year 2020, God had
extended His grace to the people of Judah because of the faithfulness of their
fathers. Yet the patience of God is not eternal. Eventually He will exact
judgment. The books of Isaiah and Ezekiel depict
God’s message of doom for the people of Judah. In these prophecies, God
explains not only how His people will be punished but specifically why they are
being judged. Like an unfaithful wife, the people of Israel continually left
their first love for the temporary pleasures of the world. God gave Israel its
just deserts by allowing it to be plundered by the very foreign powers they
envied all along.
Yet the love of God is greater than we can comprehend.
Despite their sin and idolatry, God allowed His people to return to their
promised land. King Cyrus of Persia, after conquering the decadent
Babylonians, allowed the Jews to go home and rebuild the Temple. There they stayed for
several more centuries. The Persians eventually fell to Alexander the Great, whose generals ruled vast territories after his
death. Judas Maccabeus led a revolt against King Antiochus, and for a brief
time, Israel was a free nation again. In the year 63 BC, Roman general Pompey the Great was on a tour of
conquest in the east. Two rival claimants to the Israelite throne approached
Pompey, each offering bribes to secure his support against the other. This was
short-sighted, however, as Pompey besieged Jerusalem and established Roman
hegemony over the land. By the time of Christ, Israel was now Judaea: just another province of the vast
Roman Empire.
It was in this place at this time that God chose to
introduce His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. This was the event that all human
history had been building to, and it was the entire reason that God called
Abram out of the paganism in the first place. The prophets of God had been
telling of the coming Messiah, or Savior, for two thousand years. After
Christ’s death and resurrection, many Jews heard His message and followed Him,
becoming the first Christians. Yet the Jewish establishment resented Christ,
denouncing Him as a liar, a charlatan, and a rebel. They had expected a Messiah
who would free the Jews from Roman oppression, not one who would die for their sins.
They persecuted the early church, but soon had bigger things to worry about.
About thirty years after the Resurrection, the people of Judaea revolted against
the Roman Empire. Titus, son of the
Emperor Vespasian, laid siege to Jerusalem and
eventually took the city by force. Like Nebuchadnezzar before him, Titus
destroyed the Temple and carried off its riches to a foreign capital. Our Lord
Jesus had known it was going to happen and had wept over Jerusalem before
His death.
Several decades later, Simon bar Kokhba raised the remnant of
the Jews in rebellion yet
again. Some Jewish rabbis even proclaimed him to be the long-awaited Messiah
who would finally throw off the Roman yoke. Yet it was not to be. The Romans
once again took Jerusalem, this time forcibly scattering the Jews into what
would become a two-millennium diaspora that only ended in 1948 with the
establishment of the new State of Israel.
For a long time, the Christian Church believed that the
destruction of the Second Temple and the scattering of the Jews were God’s
judgment on the people of Israel for rejecting Jesus Christ, in the same way
that Nebuchadnezzar’s destruction of the First Temple was judgment for their
idolatry. This view has become politically incorrect today. After the
Holocaust, many Christian leaders have been hesitant to condemn the historical
Jewish people for much of anything out of fear of being labeled anti-Semitic.
That is a discussion for another day, however. My point is that if God allowed
such destruction to be visited upon His Chosen People back then, what hope do
we have in America? If God does not judge America for our evil choices today,
then what can we make of His justice? Ruth Bell Graham, the wife of the late
evangelist Billy Graham, once said,
“If God doesn’t punish America, He’ll have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.”
When the Visigoths sacked Rome in AD 410, it was the first
time in eight hundred years that a foreign army had breached the gates of the
eternal city. A century after Constantine, many Christians had already begun
to associate the political power of Rome with the spiritual power of the
Church. Watching their holy city on fire shook their faith tremendously. St. Augustine had to remind them that the true Kingdom of
Heaven was not geographically located in a specific place on earth. God was
bigger than Rome, and the sack of Rome did not mean the end of Christianity. In
fact, it was only the beginning. Many conservative Christians, especially
evangelical Protestants, see the United States of America as the New Rome, the
modern political center of the Christian Church. We tend to ignore anything
that happened between the Resurrection and the American Revolution. Like the 5th century
Christians, however, we need a reminder that God is bigger than our national borders.
Jesus Christ is not American. The Christian Church existed before American was
founded and will endure long after America is gone. We must have the right
perspective.
What of the United States of America in 2020? What have we
done to deserve God’s continual blessings?
The great sin of the people of Israel was idolatry –
abandoning the worship of the one true God in favor of idols carved by hand. We
tend to think of idolatry as an ancient sin that does not affect us today, but
consider this: How many times have you gone to a Sunday church service and seen
men and women wearing football jerseys? How many parents have outsourced the
teaching of truth to their children to mass media? How many so-called
Christians place so-called “social justice” above the truth of the gospel of
Christ? As I speak, a new secular religion is developing in
America. This religion is based on racial division, on socialist economic
theories, and it makes government our new god. Is this new American religion
any different than when Israel turned to Baal and Asherah?
While our media makes headlines out of every death from
COVID-19, our nation is still quietly murdering more than 200,000 unborn
children per month. Even our conservative Christian elected officials find it
difficult to muster the political willpower to stop government funding of
abortion mills like Planned Parenthood, much less ban the barbaric practice
entirely. Even when undercover video revealed that Planned Parenthood
literally sells baby parts, most
of America could not care less. Since the Supreme Court imposed legalized abortion on America in
1973, more than sixty million unborn
babies have been brutally killed. That is more than ten Holocausts worth of
human beings. Do we seriously expect God to bless America after all that?
Our media and public schools are pushing sexual propaganda
on children as young as five years old. Pedophiles, homosexuals, and
transgender activists have gotten themselves put in charge of curricula in our schools and
are using their position to groom our children. Libraries host demonic-looking drag queens to
propagandize children in the name of tolerance. Even cartoons are used to
sexualize young children. One of the most grievous sins of ancient Israel was
offering up their own children in sacrifice to the pagan god Moloch. Today in America, too many Christian
parents offer up their children on the alter of inclusivity and tolerance,
allowing them to be brainwashed and turned into broken degenerates. Even some
conservative leaders tell us that transgenderism and drag queen story time are
ok, just alternate lifestyle choices that we have no right to criticize. Our
society castrates our boys and mutilates our
girls, and when we speak out, we are called intolerant and hateful. Is God
going to bless this America?
The United States could once have been called a Christian
nation. Our founding documents all paid proper homage to God as the source of
morality and justice in the world, and God was still a reality in media, in
politics, and in schoolrooms as late as the 1960s. Today, nearly any public
acknowledgement of the reality of God is denounced and censored in the name of
tolerance. The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, written to keep the
federal government from establishing a specific denominational church such as
the Church of England, has
now been used to erase Christianity from the public sphere altogether. Courts
force cities to remove crosses from public memorials, and schools go out of
their way to pretend that Christmas and Easter do not exist. We have been
propagandized to believe that traditional religion is something best kept to
ourselves, even as the secular social justice religion is pushed down our
throats at every turn. Should God bless an America that has explicitly rejected
Him?
Public morality is a joke nowadays. Before the 1960s,
people still committed fornication and adultery, and they were still covetous
and deceitful, but everyone agreed that there was an objective moral standard.
Today, not only have we erased the standard, we have inverted it. Chastity and
faithfulness are mocked. Honesty is ridiculed. Whereas Christianity
traditionally preached that there were seven especially deadly sins, the modern
secular religion has turned those sins into virtues. Pride is now celebrated, especially
pride in the most degenerate practices. Envy is at the heart of socialism,
which is becoming more popular each day. Lust is promoted all over mass media.
It would be one thing if Americans were simply falling short of a moral ideal –
nobody is perfect. However, today we glory and boast of our great sins. Do you
expect God to bless an America that calls good evil and evil good?
Charitable organizations take your money to make their CEOs
rich. Government taxes us to death in order to fund foreign wars and promote
gay rights in Africa. The conservative movement could not even conserve the
women’s restroom. Churches skip the gospel in favor of meaningless pablum and
social justice nonsense. Tens of thousands of young people are dying from
hopelessness in our cities and rural towns while we send missionaries to China.
American Christians are too busy watching sports on television to care that
their nation is rotting away. Young people are leaving American churches
because they see through the façades, never realizing that that the capital-C
Church is more than this pale imitation, and that the real Jesus Christ is more
than they can imagine. Why should God bless an America that has allowed all
these things to go on?
Thomas Jefferson once
said, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his
justice cannot sleep forever.” Do you expect God’s justice to sleep forever,
and His grace toward the United States to remain in place for all time? If God
judged Israel, then surely God will judge America.
If you are wondering what God’s judgment might look like in
the future, I have some bad news for you: It is already happening.
In the book of Isaiah, God warns his people what judgment
will look like: “And I will make boys their
princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one
another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the
elder, and the despised to the honorable.”
Sure, we can see some of this in every generation, but it has certainly
intensified in America over the last few years. Just look at the immature
spectacle of Congressional Democrats haranguing Attorney
General William Barr the other day as an example of this verse. This is the
scriptural version of the saying that strong men create good times, good times
create weak men, and weak men create bad times.
Dr. James White of Apologia Church mentioned
in one of his recent livestreams that one of the effects of being under God’s
judgment is the placement of weak and unscrupulous judges over the people. Look
at what our courts are doing today: District court judges are making things up
as they go, abusing their authority to turn this country away from its
traditional legal foundations. Rich, powerful, and politically connected people
get away with most anything, while the average Joe is punished. Anarcho-tyranny
reigns in this country, from the highest levels of government down to the local
district attorneys. Over the last fifty years, the Supreme Court has foisted
upon us abortion, gay marriage, and transgender rights.
Just last week they ruled that the
State of Nevada could open casinos while closing churches. Is being ruled by
such capricious judges a sign of God’s blessing or of God’s judgment?
The culmination of God’s judgment upon Israel was when He
allowed Assyria and Babylon to carry them away to exile, far from their
promised land. In America today, the opposite is happening. Rather than being
carried off to foreign lands, our lands are becoming foreign to us. The
posterity of America’s founders is being drowned out by new immigrants who have
no loyalty to our fathers or their philosophies. In fact, many new Americans
are outright hostile to the heritage of the very country to which they came.
The Israelites had to watch as pagan foreigners tore down their monuments, even
the glorious Temple of Solomon that was the center of both their religious and
cultural life. Here, we too are forced to watch pagan foreigners tearing down
our monuments. The statues of Robert E. Lee, Christopher Columbus, and Teddy Roosevelt are only the beginning,
mind you. It will not be long before the woke faithful are sandblasting Stone Mountain and Mount Rushmore, toppling the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, and bulldozing Mount Vernon and Gettysburg.
The United States of America was the greatest nation in the
history of the world, which makes our fall ever more tragic. The gospel of Luke
says that, “Everyone to whom much was given, of
him much will be required.” In 1630, Puritan preacher John Winthrop looked ahead to the
potential greatness of America, and how God would hold them and their children
to account:
The
Lord will be our God, and delight to dwell among us, as His own people, and
will command a blessing upon us in all our ways, so that we shall see much more
of His wisdom, power, goodness and truth, than formerly we have been acquainted
with. We shall find that the God of Israel is among us, when ten of us shall be
able to resist a thousand of our enemies; when He shall make us a praise and
glory that men shall say of succeeding plantations, “may the Lord make it like
that of New England.” For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a
hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with
our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His
present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world.
We shall open the mouths of enemies to speak evil of the ways of God, and all
professors for God’s sake. We shall shame the faces of many of God’s worthy
servants, and cause their prayers to be turned into curses upon us till we be
consumed out of the good land whither we are going.
Nearly four centuries since Winthrop’s sermon, we look back
and see the truth of what he said. America did become the city on a hill, an
example of greatness and godliness to all mankind. Yet it also has become the
“by-word throughout the world” that he feared. “God is not mocked,” the
Scripture says, yet America is mocking God every day, and there will be a
reckoning.
President Ronald Reagan invoked Winthrop’s sermon in
his Farewell Address, suggesting that America was
still a shining city on a hill. However, Reagan’s “morning in America” was only a brief respite
on the road to judgment. Like King Josiah of Judah, who rediscovered the law
and rededicated his people to the proper worship of God, President Reagan might
have bought us a few more years of grace. Nevertheless, he could not stop our
inevitable decline and fall. Perhaps the tenure of President Trump will be seen
in the same light someday.
Roosh V, the former pick-up artist turned
Orthodox Christian, said on Twitter this week that,
“It is coming to an end that we live with ease and comfort from the inheritance
of the greater men who lived before us.”
America is already under judgment. It is too late to go
back and fix things now. Empires rise and empires fall and asking God to bless
America in her current state is farcical. The same God who allowed Israel to be
wiped off the map is not going to save an even more decadent America. If God
would not stop the Goths and the Vandals from sacking Rome in the 5th century,
why should He stop the ongoing sack of America in
the 21st?
There is a silver lining to all of this, however, and that
is that God always saves a remnant of His people. When Babylon sacked Jerusalem
and carried the people of Judah off to exile, a remnant returned and rebuilt
the Temple. When the Romans sacked Jerusalem and scattered the Jews to the four
corners of the earth, a remnant believed in Jesus Christ as the promised
Messiah. When the Muslims overran nearly all of Spain, the tiny Christian
kingdom of Asturias survived and began the long Reconquista. When God finishes judging the
United States of America, be assured that a remnant will survive to continue living
out the gospel of Jesus Christ. This remnant will be purified by the fires of
judgment – they will not be lukewarm like the modern American church has
become. Following the zeitgeist is always the easier road than standing up for
eternal truth, but a reckoning is coming. “Enter by the narrow gate. For the
gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter
by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life,
and those who find it are few.”
Pray that you and your family will be part of the remnant.
Raise your children in such a way that they will be prepared to lead that
remnant back to the hard and narrow way. Do not let yourself become too
attached to creature comforts, cheap trinkets, or nostalgia about the America
that was. Do not be like the Jews who were looking for the wrong Messiah
because they longed for a return to the golden age of yesterday. There is no
going back, only forward. Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war; with
the cross of Jesus going on before.
We have grown soft over the past few decades. Our future is
not likely to be so. It has been incredibly easy to be a Christian in America
up until now. Think about the life of a Christian in 2nd century
Rome or 8th century Spain. Picture the life of a Christian in
Communist China or Iraq today. That is the future that surely awaits the
Christian church of America in the coming decades. Last weekend, Pastor John MacArthur of Grace
Community Church held services against an explicit ban by the
governor of California, who threatened to shut off their water and power if
they proceeded. It was a bold stand, but it is nothing compared to the courage
that will be needed in the future. Yet it is in persecution that the Church is
forged and refined. At the close of his sermon on Sunday, MacArthur proclaimed
that, “This is not a problem to be feared. This is a triumphant hour for the
Church to be the Church.”
Let us close with a prayer that God bless America once
again. Remember, though, that America is not just a place, and it is not merely
an idea. America is a nation; it is a people – specifically the people who came
to these shores hundreds of years ago. Remember that one of the reasons our
fathers came here in the first place was to worship God outside the constraints
of both Rome and Westminster. Let us pray that God bless our families and our
communities, that God bless our children and their children, and that God
preserve in us a remnant of Western Civilization and the America that was, and
perhaps will be again. May God will find us faithful when having faith is
difficult. May we be the remnant that will endure the hard times to come.
May God bless you all.
Brian
Almon is a writer and entrepreneur. In addition to Men of the West, you can
find his work at The Decline and Fall of the United States of America and The National Pulse. Brian lives with his wife and three
children in Idaho.
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