We Have No Boundaries (the decline of American culture)

When God created man (meaning humankind)He gave them one rule [law]. Do not eat of this tree.

When God gave His people His Laws He gave them 10.

Cain committed the first murder-of his own brother.Jesus summed up the 10 in 2. Love your neighbor, love yourself.

Now in our own time we have removed prayer and God from our schools even though our founding documents mention God several times.

Our culture was based on Judeo-Christian principles. Our founding documents spelled out our God given rights and set up the government to protect them.

George Washington led the American Revolution and when it was over he went back to his home in Vermont. He didn't seek power.

The founders asked him to come back and become our first leader. He could have taken any title but the title of his choosing was President and he limited his time to just 2 terms; setting the stage for the future of our country.

Thankfully our government was set up so that power could check power. It was formed by the 'consent of the governed.' We let those 2 things go we're in big trouble.

Our founders were great but flawed people. We've had great but flawed leaders. We've had terrible and really flawed leaders.

It's dependent on how well protected our most fundamental and important institution is; the family.

The family goes to hell the country goes to hell.

My generation was fortunate. Our parents were part of the greatest generation.

They survived the Depression & WWII. They survived all the hardships of their generation. World War II gave our country the baby boom. They came back from the war, started their families, had children.

Our parents wanted us to have everything they didn't. Our parents wanted our lives to be better than theirs. Our parents wanted to pass down all the values that served them in their generation.

Most of us were raised in a 2 parent family. It was the majority. Our communities were tightly knit. We went to school together. We had plenty of friends. Everyone i knew attended church on Sundays.

I can't speak for everyone but i think most of us,regardless of economic status, had a happy or at least stable childhood.

What's the story now? I think we've lost the boundaries we used to have. It didn't happen all at once. It's happened gradually and began with the destruction of the nuclear family.

We made great strides in our country with the Civil Rights movement of the 60's under the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. On the other hand we took a lot of steps backwards.

For a long period after that we didn't have the great leaders like Dr. King. We didn't protect the nuclear family like they did in our parents generation. We had intellectual activists like Saul Alinsky who wrote Rules for Radicals.

How did we go from a book called Common Sense by Thomas Paine to a book called Rules for Radicals? How did we go from a beloved leader like Dr King to a race hustler like Al Sharpton?

We were definitely ready for a President that decided it was America First, protected our religious freedom, had policies intended to support the family and wanted to root out the corruption that had settled into our government institutions.

Donald John Trump.

He was proud of country, wanted us to be proud of country and wanted to give us a country we could be proud of.

Here we are. We have a LONG ways to go. We have a lot of boundaries that were torn down that need to be built back up. You only have to watch current events to knw what i'm talking about. I don't necessarily mean Trump's border wall [ though thank God it's there]but the color in the lines boundary of a functioning society.

Re-read my opening paragraph.