Requiem For a Republic

"What good fortune for governments that the people do not think."--Adolf Hitler

Edgar "Sonny" Campbell, the leader of Philadelphia's Fourth Ward, gives us the defining statement concerning the Triumph of Obama II on Nov. 6: "In this election, you had to point out to the people what was at stake. And in many cases, they felt that the (Mitt) Romney doctrine was not going to favor the working man." articles.philly.com/2012

Never mind that Barack Obama's doctrine doesn't seem to favor the working man either. At least not African-American working men and women who have suffered immensely over the past four years under the Obama Doctrine. According to the latest statistics published by the United States Department of Labor, the unemployment rate for African-Americans in the U.S. is currently 14.3 percent, which is nearly double the national average of 7.9 percent. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

Nevertheless, Obama still received nearly 99 percent of Philadelphia's African-American vote despite the woeful unemployment numbers. One question that begs to be asked of Campbell and his ilk: Just when do they expect the Obama Doctrine to start producing real jobs and stop delivering real hopelessness and despair? Or more to the point: When are Campbell and his ilk going to wake up from their extended excursion to fantasyland and rejoin the real world?

And so, back in the real world, the numbers from Nov. 6 tell the story: American Muslims for Obama, 85 percent. Jewish Americans for Obama, 70 percent. Hispanics for Obama, 78 percent. African-Americans for Obama, 96 percent and Roman Catholics for Obama, 52 percent. Despite Obama's open support of gay marriage, unfettered abortions, federally-funded contraception and a blanket amnesty for millions of illegal aliens, America's people of faith whose faiths condemn such things as gay marriage and abortion ignored the tenets of their faith and voted for an enemy of their faith.

Nearly 2,000 years ago, the apostle Paul recorded this grim prophecy concerning the last days on earth: "But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God--having a form of godliness but denying its power." (2 Timothy 3:1-5)

America indeed has a form of godliness with ample churches, synagogues and even mosques. But that form of godliness has absolutely no power, as evidenced by the recent election results. When people who claim to believe in God reject his transcendent moral laws and commandments to choose evil, then they are following a different God who is honored only in the dead, liturgical religiosity of hackneyed rituals. Certainly, the decline of Judeo-Christianity in America has been happening for many years, going back to the sellout by many Protestant seminaries in the 19th Century to ecumenism and secular humanism.

And the results of that were realized yet once again on Nov. 6 when America chose evil over good. I've often said that a nation's leaders are a mirror reflection of the people who elect them. Moral people choose moral leaders who legislate according to God's laws, while wicked people choose immoral leaders who will pander to their depravity. Consider that despite the impending collapse of America's economy, 60 million Americans were more concerned about same-sex marriage, unfettered abortions, a manufactured war on women and free contraception than they were with the economic health, freedom and future of their nation. Shame on them.

Before America can recovery economically, she must recover morally. A nation is only as strong as its moral foundation. Once that foundation becomes rotten because of sin, laziness, apathy, indifference and sloth, then it's only a matter of time before the end invariably comes. And tragically, the end usually comes sooner rather than later.