Bonnie Alba
National identity, God, patriotism, and the ACLU
By Bonnie Alba
When murderous Islamic Terrorists attacked us on 9/11, a peak of traditional patriotism spiked on the chart of American togetherness. "God Bless America" was the phrase most displayed across our nation. Yet the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) attempted to stomp on this brief national blip on the radar by banning "God Bless America" signs. They would have had to take most of America to court! They soon recognized that they couldn't fight the "whole national family."
Like any family, children and parents will squabble but when there is an outside threat to the family, they react as one unit. So goes the United States. But there can be no patriotism, no sense of national identity, if there is no assimilation and acceptance of the underlying principles which cements the national identity.
Daily we see our national identity eroding. Recently a North Carolina Hobbton High School principal made news when he appeared unable to distinguish the difference between wearing the American flag as a patriotic symbol and foreign flag emblems worn by gang members. Exhibiting this lack of common sense serves to highlight the surge of "politically correct" behaviors that could lead to our downfall.
Pushing their secularist agenda of separation of church and state, the ACLU and other anti-American organizations have tried to stifle what makes a strong and vibrant America — under God. Anyone who has learned anything about our history knows that God was part and parcel of the whole establishment through godly men. Their intelligence and wisdom were superior to the minds of most men alive today, including many circuit court judges and U.S. Supreme Court Justices.
Despite all the modern propaganda of multi pluralism, diversity, tolerance, the end result is more division — not unity. America is fast becoming separate groups, whether different national ethnic groups or religions, rich-poor or the abyss between religious and political beliefs. The important issues that our nation needs to resolve are simmering and threatening to boil over at any moment.
What does bring us together? I would point back to "9/11" and the recognition of our underlying reliance on God and the patriotic nationalism which remains etched into our souls.
Even in the early days of the American formation and growth, the principles and truths that highlighted God and His Word, the Bible, were known as the bedrock girding the young nation. Arriving immigrants assimilated despite their own personal beliefs, knowing that somehow these believers in God were why they were able to live in freedom and liberty. There was a respect for Christianity, which had it not existed, the nation would never have developed and expanded to include freedom and liberty for all.
With the ACLU's anti-God philosophy ever threatening the heart and soul of our America, who needs any other enemy? Yet we have allowed an insidious Islamic enemy to freely enter the walls of our city-nation and reside in our midst, watching and waiting for the right time to strike and unleash their so-called 'holy war' against us.
Our leaders and people trusted legal immigrants to enter our nation, believing that they would assimilate into Americans. That hasn't happened for many decades. Many of the people residing in the USA today are not Americans and for various reasons never will be Americans.
We can only look forward to the Islamic believers coming through the back door into our political institutions, gaining a foothold and eventually killing our democratic Republic, instituting an Islamic nation under Sharia. In this way, the so-called moderate muslims help the extremist 'Jihad' extremists fulfill their obligations to Allah.
By the way, Allah does not resemble in the slightest the Creator-God of the Bible. This Allah acts much as a "fallen human" like any other man under God's curse on the Earth.
So, is patriotism dying? Is our national identity as a Christian nation, which distinguished us from all other nations, dying, because we have rejected the wisdom of our founders? Because we have rejected God?
There is no doubt that the ACLU, and those of the same ilk, involved in eliminating what set us apart from other nations will continue their efforts. They will also defend the "civil liberties" of Islamic murderers. What they don't understand is, get rid of God, we lose our freedom and liberty. Odds are that if the Sharia ever becomes the future Law of this land, then the loss of freedom and liberty will also be the ACLU's death.
© Bonnie Alba
When murderous Islamic Terrorists attacked us on 9/11, a peak of traditional patriotism spiked on the chart of American togetherness. "God Bless America" was the phrase most displayed across our nation. Yet the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) attempted to stomp on this brief national blip on the radar by banning "God Bless America" signs. They would have had to take most of America to court! They soon recognized that they couldn't fight the "whole national family."
Like any family, children and parents will squabble but when there is an outside threat to the family, they react as one unit. So goes the United States. But there can be no patriotism, no sense of national identity, if there is no assimilation and acceptance of the underlying principles which cements the national identity.
Daily we see our national identity eroding. Recently a North Carolina Hobbton High School principal made news when he appeared unable to distinguish the difference between wearing the American flag as a patriotic symbol and foreign flag emblems worn by gang members. Exhibiting this lack of common sense serves to highlight the surge of "politically correct" behaviors that could lead to our downfall.
Pushing their secularist agenda of separation of church and state, the ACLU and other anti-American organizations have tried to stifle what makes a strong and vibrant America — under God. Anyone who has learned anything about our history knows that God was part and parcel of the whole establishment through godly men. Their intelligence and wisdom were superior to the minds of most men alive today, including many circuit court judges and U.S. Supreme Court Justices.
Despite all the modern propaganda of multi pluralism, diversity, tolerance, the end result is more division — not unity. America is fast becoming separate groups, whether different national ethnic groups or religions, rich-poor or the abyss between religious and political beliefs. The important issues that our nation needs to resolve are simmering and threatening to boil over at any moment.
What does bring us together? I would point back to "9/11" and the recognition of our underlying reliance on God and the patriotic nationalism which remains etched into our souls.
Even in the early days of the American formation and growth, the principles and truths that highlighted God and His Word, the Bible, were known as the bedrock girding the young nation. Arriving immigrants assimilated despite their own personal beliefs, knowing that somehow these believers in God were why they were able to live in freedom and liberty. There was a respect for Christianity, which had it not existed, the nation would never have developed and expanded to include freedom and liberty for all.
With the ACLU's anti-God philosophy ever threatening the heart and soul of our America, who needs any other enemy? Yet we have allowed an insidious Islamic enemy to freely enter the walls of our city-nation and reside in our midst, watching and waiting for the right time to strike and unleash their so-called 'holy war' against us.
Our leaders and people trusted legal immigrants to enter our nation, believing that they would assimilate into Americans. That hasn't happened for many decades. Many of the people residing in the USA today are not Americans and for various reasons never will be Americans.
We can only look forward to the Islamic believers coming through the back door into our political institutions, gaining a foothold and eventually killing our democratic Republic, instituting an Islamic nation under Sharia. In this way, the so-called moderate muslims help the extremist 'Jihad' extremists fulfill their obligations to Allah.
By the way, Allah does not resemble in the slightest the Creator-God of the Bible. This Allah acts much as a "fallen human" like any other man under God's curse on the Earth.
So, is patriotism dying? Is our national identity as a Christian nation, which distinguished us from all other nations, dying, because we have rejected the wisdom of our founders? Because we have rejected God?
There is no doubt that the ACLU, and those of the same ilk, involved in eliminating what set us apart from other nations will continue their efforts. They will also defend the "civil liberties" of Islamic murderers. What they don't understand is, get rid of God, we lose our freedom and liberty. Odds are that if the Sharia ever becomes the future Law of this land, then the loss of freedom and liberty will also be the ACLU's death.
© Bonnie Alba
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