Letters: Return to God to save country

As we contemplate the coming elections, we should seriously consider our severe problems with national debt, entitlements, the economy, education, jobs, taxes, regulations, illegal immigration, big government, etc. Even more important, however, is the moral deterioration of our country.

Our Founding Fathers wisely fashioned our Bill of Rights and Constitution after God’s Ten Commandments, and the United States became the most blessed, prosperous, powerful and respected nation on earth.

In the middle of the 20th century, however, America began officially removing God: Prayer and scripture were removed from public schools and the Ten Commandments from public view. We now have idols of money, pornography, sexual immorality, same-sex marriage and assisted suicide. Abortion, the murder of innocent, defenseless babies, has killed more than 50 million of our children.

Because we have defied God and his commandments, he has withdrawn his protection and blessings. Without this protection, national tragedies, such as 9/11 and the election of Barack Obama, who is at odds with many of God’s laws, have befallen us. The lord has been warning us with increased drought, forest fires, tornadoes, floods, etc., of worse calamities if we do not repent and return to his laws.

Returning our country to the right track will require electing God-fearing, trustworthy leaders, repealing bad laws and each of us doing our best to redeem our country, while saving our own souls.

We mock the lord at our own peril.