In 2024, Hanukkah and Christmas will coincide for the first time in 15 years. The Jewish holiday begins with the lighting of the first candle at sunset on Christmas Day.
These holidays are important occasions that affirm our religious traditions.
America was founded on a Biblical worldview and cannot survive without it.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower said, “Our form of government is meaningless unless it is founded on deeply felt religious beliefs. I don't care what those are.” I did.
Icke is not saying that religious differences are unimportant; he is saying that faith itself is important.
George Washington, a fellow soldier turned politician, also warned in his farewell address that “religion and morality are essential supports of political prosperity.''
His successor, John Adams, said: “Our Constitution was created only for moral and religious people. It is totally inadequate for any other government.”
President Ronald Reagan warned, “If we forget that we are one nation under God, we will be a ruined nation.”
Today, we are a nation adrift in a sea of doubt.
According to a March Gallup poll, only 30% of Americans currently attend religious services regularly, and 56% rarely or never attend.
The number of people who do not identify with any religion (“non-religious”) has increased from 13% in 2010 to 21% today.
Is it really that surprising that an Emerson College poll found that 41% of adults under 30 found the cold-blooded murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson “acceptable”?
This comes from not teaching young people religion and instead forcing them to absorb the values of secular culture.
Our most intractable problems, such as crime, drug abuse, and depression, are all related to a weakening of faith.
Alcoholics Anonymous explains in its 12-step program that “accepting a higher power allows you to see life from a different perspective and creates a sense of responsibility.”
Religious people are happier, healthier, and more connected to their families and communities.
Leftists with a visceral aversion to religion (Karl Marx called it the “opium of the masses”) continue to search for alternatives.
The French Revolution created the cult of reason to replace Christianity and installed a Christian altar in Notre Dame Cathedral.
In 2024, Democrats tried to turn democracy (a word nowhere to be found in America's founding documents) into a religion.
In his 2022 speech at Independence Hall, President Biden denounced his predecessor as a threat to democracy.
Mr. Biden used Independence Hall as a prop without any understanding of its true meaning.
The Declaration of Independence, signed there, speaks of unalienable rights given by the Creator.
If such a document were produced today, progressives would cry that the authors had violated the mythical wall separating church and state.
Democrats viewed the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol not as trespassing or vandalism but as heresy, infidels committing blasphemy at the temple of democracy.
The failure of their attempts to deify democracy may be reflected in the 2024 election results. President-elect Donald Trump became the first Republican in 20 years to win a majority of the popular vote.
As Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, Eisenhower was more responsible for our victory than anyone else.
When our troops began liberating the death camps, the future president was so moved by the horrors revealed that he decided to record them.
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He wrote to Winston Churchill that the English language had no words to describe what he saw.
What he saw was a monument to the depravity of the only alternative to a government based on religious values: an ideology, in this case a government based on dominant race theory.
Modern times have witnessed many horrific examples of ideologically driven state power, including reigns of terror, communism, the Holocaust, Islamism (a cult masquerading as religion), and soft totalitarianism such as diversity, equity, and inclusion. Ta.
During the Revolutionary War, Valley Forge was a low point for the American cause.
A famous painting by a modern artist depicts Washington kneeling in the snow praying outside a Continental Army camp.
Such faith has sustained us in every war and national crisis.
The fight to preserve our religious traditions is far more important than tariffs and tax cuts.
Adapted from washington times.
