OPINION:
Between 2008 and 2018, the level of religious “nones” in the United States — those absorbing to no particular belief in a higher power — has risen from just more than 22% to nearly 30%.
That explains much.
Like what?
Like how come socialists in America have come to political power. Like how come groups like antifa and Black Lives Matter have been able to maintain their violent ways absent mass arrests and incarcerations. Like how come the younger generations in this country seem completely ignorant of the exceptionalism of America, utterly willing to shutter everything from the First Amendment to Thomas Jefferson monuments to, yes, even the very basis of American government, the Constitution and its noble precursor, the Declaration of Independence.
Like how come Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a card-carrying socialist, has a congressional job.
As founders warned: Our democratic-republic could only last so long as its people were moral and virtuous.
Absent a moral compass — absent godly governance — the whole system would crumble, like Rome, in decay, in rot. The more society devolves into chaos, the more the people turn to government leaders for redress — the more government grows in both numbers and power.
Voila. Remove God from society and government comes like a beast to justify the stealing of individual freedoms for the greater good of society’s welfare.
From data from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study comes this finding, as reported by the Christian Post: “In 46 states and in Washington, D.C., the nones have grown the most. In Hawaii, the nones grew by 22% in 10 years. In 22 states, nones increased by double-digit percentages. … Self-identified nones made up 22.2% of Americans in 2008. … Today they comprise 29.5%.”
Unsurprising.
Want to know why America is a political hotbed of socialist influence right now?
Look to the pews. Look to the increasingly empty, vacant, unoccupied church pews.
Without God at the helm, America the free will not last.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley.
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