"Are We As Free As We Once Were?"

Today is Veterans Day, and I am sincerely thankful to all of those who served and sacrificed to keep America free. I might not be able to share the following opinions, were it not for the brave men and women that we honor today!!

But all day long I've been thinking about two questions.  1.) Is the America of today what so many fought and died for? And 2.) Though we ARE still free, are we as free as we once were (spiritually speaking)?

I think the answer to both questions is NO, based on the way our nation is going downhill spiritually.

And, there are three major "culprits," three sins America seems ENSLAVED to, which are responsible for our declension over the last several years.  Here they are.

1.) UNBRIDLED COVETOUSNESS.  If you regularly watch TV like we do, (any channel that has commercials), you've hopefully noticed, and been upset, that Christmas-y commercials have been airing for about two weeks now.  Bad enough when they started doing it before THANKSGIVING in recent years but now it's happening before VETERANS Day, even!!

More and more, our society doesn't want to honor those who make the freedom we have POSSIBLE (Vet's Day), and we don't want to thank GOD Who has blessed us with such bounty (Thanksgiving), but we just want to advance to "Covetousness in the Name of Christ," which is ALL Christmas is now to these people, and it's sickening. The Madison Ave. advertising people were apparently upset that Thanksgiving (which is somehow now become "the kickoff to Christmas" instead of a separate holiday, like it once was) is LATE this year (Nov. 28th...last year, it was Nov. 22nd.)  So, they started EARLIER THAN EVER plugging Christmas and "Black Friday Sales"...and it troubles me to see even professing CHRISTIANS going along with this materialism.

2.) THE LUST TO ABORT BABIES.  When soldiers came home from VietNam 50 years ago, many were called "Babykillers" because of what happened in My Lai and other places. Yet, how many of these "hippie-crits" who slandered our Vets are now DEMOCRATS who support legalized abortion-on-demand?? Abortion IS "Babykilling," people!! Why is it okay now that we kill AMERICAN babies, in the WOMB?? Since 1973, Roe v. Wade, we have been engulfed, more and more, in a Culture of Death in America. And it troubles me to see even professing CHRISTIANS going along with this by their supporting of the Democrat Party. The propagation of Abortion is one of the DISTINCTIONS of the Democrat Party, you see....and Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were its champions.

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3.) THE PROMOTING OF THE LGBTQ "PRIDE" AND LIFESTYLE.  Did you know that, in many places in America, there are now TWO WHOLE MONTHS devoted to celebrating the sin of Homosexuality?? (June and October.)  Yet only two DAYS, Memorial Day and today, EXCLUSIVELY honor our Vets.

We've become The Land of the Freaks and the Home of the Gays, people.  I am not advocating HATING or PERSECUTING the LGBTs, mind you, but why on earth are we (mostly the DEMOCRATS) PROMOTING this sin??  And as with the other two sins, our ACTIONS reflect our current, godless PRIORITIES.

America as it is today, I daresay, is NOT the America many fought and died for in the past.

And we as a people are NOT as free as we used to be, spiritually speaking.

We need to RETURN TO THE LORD and repent of our national sins of unbridled covetousness, the lust to abort babies and the promoting of the sin of LGBTQ "pride" and lifestyle. It was not this way in America only a few decades ago!!