Thanks for the Reminder Glenn
By Michael Reagan
Glenn Becks remarkable rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial Saturday was a wake-up call for his beloved America.
This nation he reminded us is and has been since its founding a nation under God. Failure to recognize our absolute dependence upon God he said has put this nation in peril.
His warning echoed that my father once delivered when he told Americans When we stop being a nation under God we will be a nation gone under.
For a long time we have been slowly drifting away from that reality acting as if our destiny were solely in our own hands -- its as if we were saying to the Almighty Thanks for the ten suggestions and such trivial admonitions as the Sermon on the Mount but wed rather do it our up-to-date modern way.
I dont need to remind you that doing it our way: slaughtering the innocent unborn by the tens of millions; now defying the integrity of marriage that most ancient of institutions; allowing our government to be profligate not only with our own resources but those of generations to come has led us down the road to ruin for us and our children and our childrens children.
We have allowed our government and our representatives in Congress to squander not only our financial resources but those of future generations of American so that we can enjoy all those wondrous benefits Washington offers us now and allegedly free of charge.
We have replaced the old adage that God proposes man disposes. Now its solely man proposes. And what a mess weve made.
In his book The God that Did Not Fail (Encounter Books) Robert Royal warns that the movement toward progressive irreligion encourages ignorance of religions unparalleled importance in the development and maintenance of western culture.
Glenn echoed that explanation of our current condition.
Prior to the Glenn Beck rally Saturday our newest deity the all-knowing mass media predicted that Beck would rant and rage about politics and the current administration and perhaps provoke violence on a frightening scale.
It never occurred to the atheistic media that Glenns message would be about Gods love and our solemn obligation to love one another even as we love ourselves.
Much to their astonishment instead of dwelling on the political differences that divide is Glenn beseeched us to acknowledge our absolute dependence upon the Divine will and our obligation to love God and our neighbor no matter who he is.
A friend of mine complained to me the other day that when he went to confession the priest told him that he was obliged to love his neighbors all of them. When he almost jokingly asked if that meant he even had to love Barack Obama the priest said an emphatic yes.
Sometimes he complained God demands the impossible. The priest reminded him that with Gods help all things are possible.
That in a nutshell is what Glenn Beck was telling us last Saturday: Love of God and love of neighbor not political rhetoric and dissension is the sole solution to our
national woes.
My Dad Ronald Reagan warned us that a nation that shuns God is on the road to ruin.
Thanks again for the reminder Glenn.
Michael Reagan the eldest son of Ronald Reagan is heard daily by over 5 million listeners via his nationally syndicated talk radio program The Michael Reagan Show."
