Does America Need God?

In a word, yes.

Despite all the talk of how America was not intended to be a Christian nation, and how the Founding Fathers were not Christian, all one has to do is read the founding documents of our great country to see that those men understood just how much we need God. Read the Declaration of Independence. If not God, then who is referred to as Nature's God, the Creator, Supreme Judge of the world, and Divine Providence in that incredible document?

They called upon God as the authority which entitled them (and us) to a separate and equal station and endowed upon us certain unalienable rights. They appealed to Him for the rectitude (morality) of their intentions, and relied upon His protection for their endeavor.

Did they think they needed God? It sure sounds like it to me.

That was then . . . do we need God today?

 Here's what John Adams, our second president and one of the authors of our Constitution, said on the matter: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." 

One of the guys who wrote the law of the land said it would only work for a moral and religious people. That is a statement for all ages. He who wrote the rules, and I would argue understood more than anyone today the intention behind those rules, definitively stated that America would always need God.

Why?

Because America is founded on the principles of liberty and freedom. An immoral people cannot function under such principles. Without morality, without that inner compass guiding the vast majority of the people, freedom fails. An immoral people operating under the principles of liberty will result in anarchy. Every man for himself.


Where does morality come from? Adams declared, as did many other of the Founding Fathers and  great people throughout our nation's history, that morality comes from belief in and obedience to God. If not from God, then from where does morality come?

For America to function as America, the Land of the Free, morality must reign over our thoughts and actions. If not, then rules must be put in place to maintain order. The less morality, the more rules are needed until such a point that when morality ceases to exist every aspect of our lives must be guided by distinct rules. It is then that freedom and liberty die.

America needs God.

Not only because He sustains all things. Not only because He is the Supreme Ruler of all. America needs God because without Him, we cannot be who we are. If we do not answer, as a people, to God, then we must, as a necessity, be ruled by government in all that we do. If that day comes, we will no longer be the United States of America of the Declaration of Independence. We will no longer be the United States of America of our grandfathers. We will no longer be America.

We need God to be who we are. The Founding Fathers knew that, and tried desperately to convey that to future generations--to us. The only question is, will we heed their warning?