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Glenn Beck

According to Glenn Beck, a controversial conservative political commentator, if the country is lost, it will be lost because of the Christians.

What was Beck referring to? Was he referring to the Christian church's abdication of its role in keeping the Judeo-Christian worldview relevant in the United States? Was he referring to the sorry fact that the church has failed to adequately contend for the faith in America for over three generations? Or, was he referring to Christians who've sold out Christ for the temporal pleasures of this world?

Beck wasn't referring to any of that. Rather, he was referring to Christians who refuse to support Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and help him get elected to the presidency. You see? In Beck's eyes, it's just that easy. Just elect Cruz to the White House in November and that will stem the tide of godless secularism that's been steamrolling across America for the past 50 years.

Beck continued: There will be no one else to blame. You can’t blame the progressives. You can’t blame the left. You can’t blame Hillary Clinton. You can’t blame anyone else but the Christians who are not living and voting their principles.

If Cruz isn't elected as America's 45th president, it won't be because Christians didn't vote their principles; it will be because there aren't enough genuine Christians left in the nation to make a difference. 

Beck doesn't seem to realize that the United States circa 2016 isn't the United States of 1980 when Ronald Reagan soundly defeated Jimmy Carter for the presidency. That America doesn't exist anymore. 

That America consisted of a majority of conservatives who recognized the evils of big government, godless humanism and Marxist economic principles. They recognized that the ideals of Jimmy Carter and his political party were anathema to freedom and prosperity. And they refused to send Carter back to the White House for a second term.

Not so with Barack Obama, whose presidency is so failed that it makes the Titanic look like a fender bender. You could understand why Obama was elected in 2008 after eight years of George W. Bush, and during a calamitous economic time. But 2012? Even a circus clown should've been able to defeat Obama in that election. 

But Obama was reelected because half of the nation was woefully ignorant of his character and too apathetic to bother finding out. Obama's reelection was blamed on the alleged five million or so conservatives who stayed home that year and failed to vote. But in reality, they didn't exist. Because if they did, Obama would've been a one-term president like Carter. 

If you have your doubts about the apathy and ignorance of today's Americans, then consider this:

A national survey by FindLaw.com, a legal information Web site, found that nearly two-thirds of Americans can't name any of the nine members of the Supreme Court of the United States. In fact, results show that only 34 percent of Americans can name any member of the nation's highest court, and only one percent can correctly name all nine justices.

That's tragic. Why? Because that's a barometer of the ignorance of today's American voters. But wouldn't Beck argue that he's trying to overcome such ignorance by informing the voters? If that's his argument, then it's a misguided one.

Ignorance is the first cousin of apathy. If people possess a debauched worldview that makes hedonistic pleasure sacrosanct and the only thing worth living for, then they won't have any use for patriotism or Christian values or moral decency. Rather, they'll embrace politicians who promise to protect their "freedoms" while punishing those who would deny those freedoms.

Glenn Beck wants to elect Ted Cruz as America's next president so Cruz can select a conservative Supreme Court justice to replace the recently deceased Antonin Scalia, who was a staunch conservative. However, conservatism and the return to a prevailing Judeo-Christian worldview in America doesn't begin with SCOTUS or the presidency.

It only begins when the Christian church in America wakes up from the spiritual coma it's been in for the past 50 years. As the apostle Paul so aptly wrote: "No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in civilian affairs, but rather tries to please his commanding officer. Similarly, anyone who competes as an athlete does not receive the victor’s crown except by competing according to the rules." (2 Timothy 2:4-5)

If Glenn Beck and other conservative Christians who are concerned about America's slide into moral depravity would heed those words, then they wouldn't be wasting their time with ballot box evangelism. Rather, they'd be trying to change a culture that's been contaminated by the rot of secular humanism for an awfully long time.