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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 97
of God not even in half of them. This can be seen in the lifestyle and culture of the United States,
in the churches in America and in our public schools.
This change in the beliefs and morals of our nation is not without consequences. George
Washington warned in his farewell address that a nation cannot continue to prosper without
religion and morality: “Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity,
Religion and Morality are indispensable supports….”
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President Washington further warned that morality can not be maintained without
religion:
And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be
maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of
refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both
forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious
principle….
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James Madison, America’s fourth President warned that our Republican government rests
and depends upon people who governed themselves according to the Ten Commandments: “We
have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us to
govern ourselves, to control ourselves, and to sustain ourselves according to the Ten
Commandments of God.”
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President John Quincy Adams went a step further then President Madison. President
Adam stated in an address to the military in 1798 that our form of government is inadequate to
be controlled by an immoral Godless people: “We have no government armed with power
capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion…Our
Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the
government of any other.”
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As a people who profess to believe in God and who profess to accept his Son as their
savior, we are a mockery to the world and to the God we profess to serve. Our nation is breaking
down as Presidents George Washington, James Madison and John Quincy Adams warned. Our
Constitution and our Republican form of government is wholly inadequate to govern a nation of
immoral and ungodly people. The freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution guarantee social and
moral decay among a people who refuse to conduct their lives in accordance with God's
Commandments. This is what we see in America today.
The United States now has the highest rate of social breakdown in the industrial world
including: The highest divorce rate, the highest murder rate, the highest violent crime rate, the
highest illegitimacy rate, the highest rate of sexually transmitted diseases in the world,
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and not
only do our youth have little or no morals but our high school seniors tested near the bottom on
the 3rd
international tests series for science and math.
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