What would you say has our country gone from bad to good or from good to bad?

I was born a few years after the first automobile rolled through the streets of America’s cities and in a time where the first covered outside toilets were commonly used, but before the first jet airplane flew the sky’s taking travelers around the world.   I rode in one of Henry Ford’s model T Fords, used the outhouse and took my baths in the creek that ran by our house or in a galvanized tin wash tub for many years and as an adult I flew a few times on jet airplanes.

Since then I have seen science and technology cause swift changes in our society and way of life, I have seen how Radio, Television, Telephones and now Computers, Cellular phones and the internet have changed us even more.

But the big question in my mind is, has all these modern continuing changes really been good for us?   Have they really benefited us?   Or have they hurt us badly?

Remembering my child hood and the honest simple life people lived in those days when a hand shake settled contracts and the crime rate was such that one could leave their doors and windows unlocked open  and never think about someone breaking into their homes harming them and stealing their possessions.   Comparing those days with the fast paced modern instant communications, fast travel stress filled hurried living practices of people of today.

The answers for me is No all these modern inventions and devices have not really bettered our society instead they are becoming our down fall.   Because of the desire to have more of them and the greed to get more of them and the leisure they give us to pleasure ourselves in all the things we should not be doing.   Most have no time to have close relationships with family and friends.   Mothers and fathers have no time or desire to train their children how to become sensible common sense adults any more.   Between all the hours that both have to work in order to have all of these modern day computerized electronic adult toys and gadgets and the little free time they have left, caught up in and spent in their own pleasuring, American families are separated from one another and true family relationships has nearly become extinct.   Because they have lost the meaning of what close family means to our society and themselves.

Remembering the days of my teenage years when American families were patriotic enough to fly proudly the American flag on almost every home in every town, city and state across America.   Most were Christians and not ashamed to confess Jesus Christ as Lord and savior, they attended church services on a regular basis, they taught the Bible and ten commandments to their children at home at church in schools they were not ashamed or afraid to set them as examples for children to follow posting them in the class rooms and hall walls in the school building for all to observe.   In those days the Holy Bible and the American flag were honored respected and expected to be seen in our schools, court houses and government offices both state and federal.   Today they are not allowed on the premises of schools government buildings and many homes that still have them never open them or read them.   

What would you say has our country gone from bad to good or from good to bad?

Our country was in those days proud to be called one nation under God.   Today it is fast becoming one nation without God, America has taken and enjoyed all the blessings of God these many years and now they want to remove God from their lives and our country.   Which America will soon find is a fatal and tragic mistake turning from the God of our blessings to the gods of technology and science is to remove our God given blessings in exchange for His wrath and curse.

In the days of my growing into adult hood times were simple people lived free simple lives the only stress they had was from hard work from daylight until dark.   In today’s world people are all stressed out because they can’t pay the bills resulting from all the stuff they think they can’t live without and trying to live above their means

High school and college education was encouraged but training in the Holy Bible was stressed more important.   Parents wanted their children to be well versed in the Holy Scriptures and wise in the word of God they wanted their children to become adults with common sense rather than worldly college educated idiots.     “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,”.   Romans 1:22

Here is a word picture of the time we are now living in you compare what I have said with these words and decide for yourselves.   

Are we better off today than we were then?   Has science and technology changed America and the world for better or for worse?   Or are we destroying ourselves with these things?   Are we not abandoning what was good for America and accepting what is bad for the health and prosperity of America?   Is our American schools and colleges turning out better educated children without God and the Bible?   Or are we not seeing our beloved country overflow with college educated fools having neither wisdom nor common sense?

But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.   People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,   without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,   treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—  having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.

They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires,   always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.   Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected.   But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.

2 Timothy 3: 1-9 (NIV)

You do what you will!   But, “See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction”.   Deuteronomy 30:15

America may consider herself to no longer be One Nation Under God or the Christian nation she once was but for me and my house hold we remain and always will be one family under God we will remain a Christian family left standing by the love and power of God while todays America is falling into destruction because of her choice to push God from their lives and our country.

C.E.Lee 9282014