By Fr.Richard Heilman
There is no doubt we are living in troubled times. This, while Godless leaders in our nation have usurped the phrase, “This is a battle for the soul of America,” as they seek to enact laws for unrestricted abortion up to birth; as they refuse to protect life even at birth; as they seek the expansion of euthanasia; as they espouse a complete denial of God’s creation of male and female as based upon biological fact and natural law; as they seek the indoctrination of our children in our schools and libraries; as they seek to remove all of our religious freedoms.
So aggressive is this campaign, that we are seeing very open and hostile verbal, legal and even physical attacks on those who oppose these evils based upon millennia of biblically based religious beliefs. Believers in God’s absolute and undeniable Truth are under attack as never before. No longer is religious persecution something that happens only in other countries; it is being manifested in our own nation.
At the close of his First Inaugural Address, President Abraham Lincoln eloquently proclaimed:
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Swell the chorus of the Union until the nation was touched by “the better angels of our nature.” Yes, this is a battle for the soul of America! Satan and his legion of demon angels – the worst of angels, the angels of death – look to kill off the soul of America. God’s angels – “the better angels of our nature,” the angels of life – look to revive the soul of America. We are at war!
