IN REMEMBRANCE

SEPT. 11: BEGINNING OF AMERICA'S DECLINE

Exclusive: Joshua Charles laments, 'Our nation has been on a precipitous slip since that day'

I remember this day 14 years ago like it happened yesterday. I was in eighth grade, but it represents the moment in my life when I became more “aware”: I remember most of what happened after 9/11, not as much what happened before. It was my life’s BC/AD moment.

I remember being a very scared boy that day. But I remember President Bush’s speech, and regardless of your politics, I know that night that a very scared little boy went to bed a little easier as a result of our president’s words of grief and comfort. Then the pitch at Yankee Stadium a few weeks later at the 2001 World Series – I will never, ever forget it.

I think most of us were hoping 9/11 would change us for the better. For a few months, I think it did. For those of us who remember it, there was something palpably different in our country for that brief span of time: We were truly united; we saw our fellow citizens as brothers and sisters; we reached out a helping hand to our neighbors, co-workers and colleagues. We were, for a moment, a truly noble country.

Today is about remembering that awful day, and the sober reflection that necessarily comes with such remembrance.

But I must tell you, though I cannot say for sure, there is an aching feeling in my soul that makes me think 9/11 represents the beginning of our decline as a nation, rather than the beginning of our rise, as many of us were thinking it would be in the months afterward. In nearly every way, our nation has been on a precipitous slip since that day.

I’m not a cynic. I do not believe declines are necessarily inevitable. Human choice has a profound say in the matter.

But when I compare where we are today, where we have been for a long time, it is very different than the highest hopes many of us had for our country on Sept. 12. It might as well be two different countries. 

What many of us hoped would be the American catharsis has been nothing short of the American regression. In retrospect, 9/11 feels like the sack of Rome in 410 AD. It was not fatal, but only a few decades later in 476 AD, the mightiest empire on earth up till that point was no more – a husk of its former self.

I hope, and fervently pray, that America is different.

But as of now, we have seen no indication that it is.

So that’s why, particularly on 9/11, I no longer ask God to bless this nation. To do so now feels absurd almost beyond belief. 

He has blessed us, it is us who have made those blessings a curse.

So I merely ask: God, have mercy on our country. Show us that which we do not deserve. Lead us out, and awaken within us the desire to return to you. For there really is no other way.

Joshua Charles’ new book is now available for pre-order at the WND Superstore: “Liberty’s Secrets: The Lost Wisdom of America’s Founders”

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/09/sept-11-beginning-of-americas-decline/#yyhDVjA5ow3chyVP.99

My comments: Christians should understand the everything the God does is Redemptive. In 911 God gave America a Redemptive moment and America chosen to Squander it on more godlessness--The election of a godless, Socialist, Secular Humanist President who came to TRANSFORM America into something the Opposite of the principles she was Founded upon. Today, practically everything the Nation does is SUICIDAL. But that is what a godless nation does.