Monday, May 26, 2025

Memorial Day Memories

It is a good thing for people to remember their past, particularly the heroes in that past. Robert B. Charles recently wrote an article recommending a return to faith, family, freedom, and history as the way to regain the cohesion that is missing from American culture. We are divided politically and culturally right down the middle. When we forget, ignore, or rewrite our history as many do today, we cast off one important anchor that should keep our ship safe in the storms of life.

On Memorial Day, we remember the men and women of our armed forces who served to protect our freedom to establish faith and family as we choose. Those who served, and especially those who died in that service deserve our highest honor. Were it not for their sacrifice, we might well be living in a communist ruled country where the rights of faith and family would be controlled by the government. I believe it is partly because we have forgotten or rewritten the history that made America what it is that we now have a large segment of the population who want to impose a communist/socialist type of government on America. It has been wisely said that to forget the past is to doom one to repeat it.

The consequences of forgetting the past are not just political. It is particularly important for Christians to remember the past because we have a solidly historical faith. Our faith is propositional, meaning it is based on a set of propositions or facts which establish its foundations. True Christians believe what is written in the Bible; it is a history of God’s dealing with His creation. Throughout the Scripture, God repeatedly calls His people to remember His works on their behalf and His standards for the maintenance of order. When we take time to remember those who fought for our freedom, if we are honest about God’s sovereignty, we must thank Him for His hand in keeping us free.

For two centuries, the experiment that is American government relied on Judeo-Christian principles for its foundation. This is not meant to suggest that America is a Christian nation; it was originally founded precisely to prevent the government from dictating a certain religion. That said, the founders recognized that absent a moral and religious population, the experiment they began could not succeed. This is a part of the history we have largely forgotten or rewritten in WOKE America.

Many of those who trumpet the separation of church and state have no idea what it means. The Founding Fathers never intended to abandon religion with its moral structures. They envisioned freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. Many on the political left today are lobbying for what is essentially a state-imposed religion: secular humanism. When humanism reigns, theism is outlawed. History teaches what this leads to (when history is read correctly). From 1945 to 1989, the Soviet Union demonstrated what happens when a society abandons theism. When humanism reigns, faith, family and freedom collapse.

I don’t want to beatify those who died defending America’s version of freedom. However, the fact that they were willing to give their lives for something they believed in marks them as true heroes. I think it is worth noting that enlistment in our military was drastically reduced during the years when the left controlled the levers of power in Washington. Now that a more traditional, conservative hand is at the controls, applications to serve have soared. Draw your own conclusion from that.

I will admit to being a sappy American patriot. I tear up at the passing of a flag on parade. I stand with my hand over my heart during the National Anthem. I try to say thank you to every veteran I encounter. I don’t do these things because I think America is a Christian nation. I do these things because I believe the American form of government as originally envisioned is the best way for my freedom, faith, and family to prosper. I do these things because I shudder to think what a WOKE version of America would do to those things.

God calls us to remember His deeds, the most important deed of all being Christ’s death on the cross which set us free from the wages of human sin. On a much smaller scale, each death we remember on Memorial Day is a sacrifice on behalf of our freedom. I honor all those men and women who were willing to die to secure my freedom. We must not forget or rewrite the history, either political or religious, that reminds us what our freedom cost. May God bless all those who paid that cost. And may God remind America how blessed she is to live in the freedom they bought.

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1 comment:

  1. WW2 ended 80 years. If you didn't live in it and through it, you don't know what it was like, you cannot even imagine, not even a little bit. I was born into it, over there, IN IT. In an OCCUPIED country by the NAZIS. I was not harmed, my mother was not harmed, but untold numbers of people were affected even so. When I came to America after the war ended, I came to realize what the Allied Forces had accomplished in less than a year after storming Normandy. Yes, there was a lot of preparation the 3-4 years before, back then this country WAS 'United', people working for just one goal, to finish off the ENEMY. Ask yourself, could we pull that off today? Have you awakened? Do you realize WE have allowed 'THE ENEMY' to invade our country, not only in the city streets, but in our own government! We have HATERS of freedom, people who call for our destruction, in the Congress of the United States, in the Judge's Chambers, everywhere. Pray hard to your Lord and God that this current administration can 'Clean Our House' if it is not already too late.

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