Americans are experiencing the use of envy, anger, financial fears, and bigotry against Judeo-Christian values and beliefs not seen since the 1930s. Putting us on the brink of suffering the same world-wide tragic results of that decade.
Yet, the White House to city governments across our country are obsessed with what we eat—or are not to eat, including salt. Well, what we need is more salt.
"Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men."____ Matthew 5:13
The 1920's was called Americas’ Golden Age of Prosperity, also an age of America’s turning from Judeo/Christian values. It needed salt.
Prosperity ended with the 1929 crash—so did political moderation. To get votes, politicians preached envy and greed. Others preached racial hate, religious bigotry, and extremism. Seeking votes and power, all feasted on and helped feed the growing number of angry and frightened Americans. Home-grown fascists, communists, and other anarchist malcontents took to the streets and shouted for a violent socialist revolution.
Roosevelt’s financial interventionist policy and bigger government turned Hoover’s frightening recession into Roosevelt’s disastrous1930's depression—a social and financial affliction persisting for eight years. Unemployment in 1931 continued to climb, reaching 20% in1939. Our National debt more than doubled. And like today, divorce, suicide, venereal disease, drug and alcohol abuse, all reached epidemic proportions. America needed more salt.
In Europe and Asia, economic chaos altered political thought and national borders. The world changed. Religious freedom was extinguished. Socialistic systems replaced church and family with the dehumanizing state. Eastern Europe came under Soviet terror and despair. Military costs and Communism’s economic failure drove the Soviet Union into moral and financial bankruptcy. In Germany, the humiliation of losing World War l, the ravages of postwar inflation, moral collapse, turning to Adolph Hitler as savior, all resulted in National Socialism and a second world war.
Darwin's theory of evolution and survival of the fittest undergirded the Marxist concept of class warfare and Hitler’s anti-Semitism with its "Final Solution." At the same time, Japan's economic needs and a belief in racial destiny fed the expansionist policies of Japan's military establishment. World War ll and the Pacific clash led to Japan’s military defeat and their eventual economic invasion of America.
"Politics may shape economics in the short run, but economics will shape politics in the long run." In the 1930's—like today—political opportunists offered up scapegoats and share-the-wealth government programs. Those who lost faith in our inherited Judeo-Christian beliefs and values willingly turned to the collectivist state for answers and security. Many middle-Americans, however, returned to Church and traditional Judeo-Christian values. They depended on God to supply their material needs and spiritual strength. Salt had been added. America survived the aftermath of World War One, the 1930's depression, and World War Two far better than the rest of the world. Not because we are smarter nor more deserving, because of our faith—salt.
"I want my way or else."
Today, political opportunists offer up scapegoats and share-the-wealth government programs. Know-Nothing 99 percenters, government workers led by union toughs, and other neo-Marxist and secular socialist malcontents angrily take to the streets demanding, "My way or else."
From our White House on down, envy, anger, financial fears, and Marxist concepts are used to get votes, power, and political control over every aspect of our life.
Hope, new ideas, hard work, and freedom to succeed created a free and prosperous America. True prosperity does not come from massive government spending and federal debt. Nor does true prosperity come from lowering everyone’s living standard by taking from the haves and dividing it amongst the have nots.
We must stop following secular Europe’s socialistic policies of ever more debt, bigger government, and massive government spending based on borrowing and/or creating fiat money—a sure road to chaos and destruction.
To turn from that road, America needs moral restoration—salt. This can only be accomplished through the prayers and stand-up actions of those rooted in Judeo-Christian truths. Unless we do so, we will continue to descend into the social and economic chaos and resulting authoritarianism of the 1930's—or worse.
Never in our history have we faced so many, in positions of such power and influence, who vigorously seek to abolish our political, financial, and religious freedom as we face today.
We have a choice to end the corrupting influence of self-indulgence and moral decay. To replace the spiritually bankrupts who rule our public and private institutions. To fill our judicial system, public institutions, corporate boardrooms, and legislative halls with those who understand the truth of moral absolutes. Or we can remain silent.
By influencing public opinion or being involved in the political process you can replace a judge, change a school director, or elect a legislator. Through prayer you can change a nation.
"Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men."____ Matthew 5:13
Be Informed Be Involved
____ Michael E. Odell
