Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
In Bible times, the LORD, “the Judge of all the earth” (Gen. 18:25), kept an account with nations and empires, and judged them on the basis of the light He had permitted them to see in their corporate nationhood. He judged cruel Babylon accordingly, then Medo-Persia. The pagan Roman Empire was finally judged for its cruel “teeth of iron, and his nails of brass,” being “exceeding dreadful” (Dan. 7:19).
The Northern Kingdom of Israel was what we would call today “post-Christian” in that it was in apostasy from truth God had permitted them to see; He judged them by letting the Assyrians snuff them out of nationhood. The Kingdom of Judah was likewise in judgment; God did not personally harm a hair of the head of the people—He stood back and permitted the Babylonians to capture them likewise for their “post-Christian” apostasy.
The United States has known a Christian conscience; its president once confessed the divine judgment against the awful corporate sin of slavery and in the president the nation bowed consciously beneath the divine lash.
We acknowledge the judgments of Almighty God against Nazism.
Now will God judge us for our post-Christian “culture”? We who once were known worldwide for speaking “as a lamb” in defense of civil and religious liberties are becoming known for speaking “as a dragon” (cf. Rev. 13:11). Is it “Christian” or post-Christian to acquire the reputation of the world’s outstanding (that is, most prominent) nation that tortures?
A thoughtful Christian essayist has seriously suggested that our national response to 9/11 should have been inspired by the Amish. Our “tooth-for-a-tooth” response has not yet brought us closure nor an enhanced world image. Yet we claimed to have the “Christian” response.
Now comes U S News’s latest sober editorial chronicling our national moral descent into widespread “cheating.” There is visible progress again in what can only be honestly labeled as “national apostasy.”
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