we should do what makes us feel
good. Soon unbelieving members
warmly welcomed this concept into
the Church’s shaky foundation. The
forces of evil were determined to
establish a fragmented foundation
upon the above three deceptions.
the 1960s, the seeds of various
“movements” and “revolutions”
began to sprout.
Firstly, when the theory of evolution
questioned the biblical account of
creation, many began to ask, “Is the
Bible really the Word of God?”
Secondly, since the Bible was based
upon the first five books of the Bible,
faith in the Torah had to be torn
down.
Thirdly, as in the time when Moses
had been away from the Israelites
for so long, people began to
worship foreign gods, who satisfied
their fleshly lusts. Thus, Freudian
psychology approved human lusts.
In 1925, the “Scopes Monkey Trial,”
became a turning point in America’s
spiritual history. From its birth the
United States of America had built
its constitution upon the idea that
God was the Creator of the universe,
and its citizens’ sovereign king.
The Scopes trial in a Tennessee court
highlighted this nation’s foundational
philosophy. State law at that time
prescribed that only “the story of the
Creation as taught in the Bible” could
be taught in public schools. Those
who held the literal interpretation
of the Bible were struggling against
modern ideas that were creeping into
theology and science.
The nation watched as John T. Scopes
was convicted of teaching evolution.
Soon, however, on a small legal detail
the verdict was overturned, and Bible
believers were mercilessly ridiculed.
Prior to that, after World War 1,
from the 1920s and into the 1930s,
a subtle revolution had begun in the
behavior of women, both in dress
and manners. The gradual decline of
American culture saw women begin
to dress like some of the actresses
and prostitutes of those years. By
In the 1920s and 1930s also,
John Dewey vigorously opposed
authoritarian, strict pre-ordained
structures in modern traditional
education. As an educator, he led
the revolution against God in the
school system, proposing that
children should be removed from the
traditional setting of home schooling
and Church schools and placed
in the care of a state that rejected
God. This subtle move supported
humanism, a philosophy based on
the idea that people are basically
good and that problems can be
solved not by religious faith, but by
human reason. In this way, children
would develop a self-confident view
of the world. This move directly
opposed the injunction of Scripture
that a child should be taught to
“remember its Creator in the days of
its youth.”
Therefore, a fourth outcome of the
decline of religion in America was
the targeting of the next generation.
Is there ever a time when God is not
aware of everything taking place
both in heaven and on earth? The
prophet, Isaiah, once asked, “Do
you not know? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God, the
Creator of the ends of the earth. He
will not grow tired or weary, and His
understanding no one can fathom.”
And Scripture declares, “For every
matter there is a time and judgment,
though the misery of man increases
greatly” and “God will bring every
work into judgment, including every
secret thing, whether good or evil.”
Yes, America’s judgment has begun.
A more dreadful one now awaits. p
April - June 2017
By C Richard McCaw
author, music teacher
and many years as a
Bible teacher
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