New Peter Grasso has forayed into uncharted
territory with his book “In God We Betrayed”. In
God We Trust has fallen by the wayside. No doubt
Peter is going to take some hits for the stances
he took. I stand solidly behind him.
Nevertheless, the work touched me deeply.
As former CWA leader Sandy Rios said at the Gay
Games in Chicago recently “Personal repentance
must come before change on a national level.” He
makes the point up front that first and foremost
we must be assured of a connection between
ourselves and the Lord Jesus Christ. Beyond
that, all else is futile. Without a
correct moral compass aligned with God’s precept,
it is almost hopeless to expect America to realize
the depths unto which she has fallen.
He makes the point that the 1947 ruling
regarding the separation of church and state is
nowhere to be found in our Constitution. We have
been hijacked!
Early in the book he makes the same points
that David Gibbs III does in his book “One Nation
Under God”, namely, that all but three of the
founding fathers that wrote our Constitution were
Christian believers.
To any right thinking historian not
embracing revisionist history, this is a matter of
public record, as Mr. Grasso points out. Liberals
apparently go to great lengths to disguise the
true nature of our beginnings. Mr. Grasso points
out that the National Education Association has
been trying, with some success, to hijack the
proper education of our youth, trying to demonize
the Judeo-Christian values of our ancestors, who
were overwhelmingly Christian.
He quotes many Founding Fathers, who
decidedly said, and for the public record, that
they were “Christian” and believed that apart from
continuing to be a Christian nation, we would
cease to be a force for good for our own citizens
and for the world at large.
Mr. Grasso also criticizes the Church in
America at large, and this might upset some
readers.
But consider that if the “Silent Majority”
had not been so silent over the last couple of
decades, we could have changed the face of our
nation. We could have halted the ultra-Liberals
and homosexuals in there tracks. Is it too
late?
Mr. Grasso thinks not, and I heartily agree
with him.
But we must be informed (as his book more
than adequately does) and we must also act, and
his book more than properly motivates the
populace. If you’re
discourages, this book will restore your faith in
God and in His grand design for America; but only
if you’re willing to get involved.
To those who try to
convince us that the founding Fathers were not
Christians, Grasso reprints the entire prayer of
Benjamin Franklin during a stalemate as our
Constitution was being written. I urge you to buy
this book and read this prayer. It will wake you
up. It also leaves no doubt that Franklin,
admittedly a lesser believer, so to speak, still
acknowledged that the God of Abraham still rules
in the affairs of men. “Young Patriots” by Charles
Cerami, also makes this point quite clear. It is
beyond dispute, and I thank Mr. Grasso for making
this point known.
Grasso also points out how hypocritical it
is for the Supreme Court, and other lesser courts,
to open with prayer and yet still legislate God
out of America. It may at
one time looked like the right thing to do, all
that nonsense about a mythical separation of
church and state, but we are now helping ourselves
out of the very thing that can help us --
God.
He also exposes the lies concerning
evolution and the damage it has done to our
children. His
analysis is beyond reproach and is well documented
and constructed. It will do great damage to the
Left.
Remove the one true moral compass and all
else is moral relativism. Legislate God out of our
lives and there is nothing else to guide us.
In God We Betrayed
also exposes the ACLU, who in my opinion, is one
of the worst organizations to ever have been
naively embraced by the American people. We have
been scammed. We have been taken hostage. We have
come to a point in America today where we believe,
as Grasso points out, that most sin has come to be
embraced as “alternative lifestyles”. We have
failed to call evil for what it is --
evil.
All in all, In God We Betrayed is well
worth your read.
The links Grasso makes between the downfall
of our nation and its recent rejection of God and
His laws are unmistakable. Romans 1:18-24 says that
“Therefore, God gave them over
in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual
impurity for the degrading of their bodies with
one another.”
Even a cursory reading of God’s
precepts will illuminate and support Grasso’s
points.
Reject God and His ordinations and our
nation will suffer the inevitable
consequences. We are not
above God’s authority. Like the
law of gravity, even if you don’t believe in it,
ignore it at your own peril.
He concludes by showing how
our nation can still repent (a politically
incorrect word now days) and yet still be blessed
by God. It is NOT too late. Grasso
points out two verses to illustrate
this:
·
Jeremiah
18:7-11, which says “The instant I
speak concerning a nation and concerning a
kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy
it, if
that nation against whom I have spoken turns from
its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I
thought to bring upon it. And the instant I speak
concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to
build and to plant it, if
it does evil in My sight so that it does not obey
My voice, then I will relent concerning the good
with which I said I would benefit
it.”
·
2 Chronicles
7:14, which
admonishes us that
“If My people who are called
by My name, will humble
themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn
from their wicked ways, then I will hear
from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their
land.”
We therefore
must:
-
Humble
ourselves
-
Pray
-
Seek
Him
-
Turn from our wicked
ways
God is quite
clear on this, as Grasso points out. There is
hope.
There is a way out for America. But it is
God’s way and none
other.
But there is
our hope only if we meet His conditions. We must
meet Him on His terms and on His terms alone. He is the
sole architect of the universe and we must rely on
the owner’s manual that we have all been provided
with, the Bible. Grasso
gives us some sorely needed information -- and
information is power -- and he provides us with
some practical and valuable solutions.
So, In God We
Betrayed has the solution
too, it’s not all bad news, IF we repent
individually and as a nation, God will heal our
land. We have that promise from Him. Look how far the mighty has
fallen. But also look at how long is God’s arm to
save.
Grasso has a collective
prayer near the end of the book that I
wholeheartedly endorse its application.
As told throughout the book, we have
departed from God’s ways and the concepts as laid
out in our Constitution. We depart from them at
our own peril. But we can humbly entreat God to be
merciful and as we embrace His ways, the Lord of
the universe will heal and restore our
land.
That is the message of Peter Grasso’s book
“In God We
Betrayed”.
I sincerely recommend it to you. For your
sake.
