Pray For Our Nation, Pray For the Families Who Lost Children in Uvalde

James Simpson tells us the Best Way to Prevent School Shootings at the American Thinker today. As he says, Joe Biden won't like the answer, but he is correct. In On June 25, 1962, the Supreme Court ruled that state sponsored prayer in schools was Unconstitutional. That did not make prayers, including prayers by teachers and football coaches and students that was voluntary Unconstitutional. That was the result of many lower courts. But the damage was done. Simpson argues that we need to return God to His rightful place in our schools, and in our lives.

Pray for the families who lost children in the horrific school shooting in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday. Their grief cannot be imagined or measured. Pray also for the families of those two brave teachers who died protecting their students. Their loss is tragic, and their families' lives have been shattered.

But pray for our nation, too. Former Trump chief of staff Reince Priebus correctly identified the problem Tuesday night on Fox when he said that we as a nation have abandoned God. Absolutely correct.

Fifty years ago, it would have been inconceivable for any young person to do such a thing. Kids could and did mail-order rifles, and their parents either taught them how to shoot or enrolled them in a program that did. These kinds of school shootings just didn't happen.

What happened?

Gaining momentum in the '60s especially, we turned from God, churches, and prayer and to strictly temporal things. No longer were businesses closed on Sundays. Church attendance became just a routine or was abandoned except for holidays, and then not even holidays, for many people.

Churches were increasingly infiltrated by leftist ideologues who no more believed in Christ than they believed in life on Mars. Families broke up. The Sexual Revolution evolved into an epidemic of divorce and moral degeneracy, where pedophiles are now called "minor-attracted persons" and we are told this should be acceptable behavior. Children were raised in single-parent households, mostly by mothers. Discipline in school and at home increasingly broke down. This snowballed into the cultural trend that now has become the deadly morass we have today.

James Madison said it fairly well. Our Constitution was designed for a moral people, and it is unsuitable to any other. Our Constitutional system assumes the people will largely be able to govern themselves. That means each of us must maintain our selves in sober mental condition, following Christ's teachings, following the 10 Commandments. The "Law" of God was designed to grant us freedom, whereas a sinful life leads to a hell on earth. Please read Simpson's piece, and then pray that for our nation.