Is it America’s destiny that one of the foundations of our country—our faith and spirituality—be slowly eroded until we simply topple for lack of belief in anything beyond ourselves?
After reading a troubling story like this I sense that it’s time to re-read the forward to Whittaker Chambers’ “Witness,” and remember his salient warning:
… Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies… At issue … was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it. At issue was the question whether this man’s faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.
