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“It is high time for us to be honest as to what’s happening in our country, we didn’t get here overnight”

Abraham Hamilton, III Examines Why America Has Stopped Believing in God

American Family Radio Host of ‘The Hamilton Corner’: ‘Almost All of It Is Attributable to Education’

TUPELO, Miss. —Abraham Hamilton, III, host of The Hamilton Corner radio program on American Family Radio, is passionate about discovering the root cause of America’s cultural demise. A grave concern and recent show topic was “Why America Has Stopped Believing in God.” Hamilton points to Lyman Stone’s American Enterprise Institute research. “Religious conservatives would probably cite the loosening of the country’s morals that began in the sixties and seventies,” says Hamilton, American Family Association (AFAwww.afa.net) general counsel and public policy analyst. “Secular progressives might mutter something about the onward March of science and reason over time. But the data seemed to show that the main driver of secularization in the United States has been an acceleration of government spending on education and government control over the curricular content taught in schools.”

 

“Now the study wasn’t focusing on American education,” explains Hamilton. “The study was based on the effort to determine statistically and with empirical analysis, how did America become so secularized? The facts drove the American Enterprise Institute researchers toward education. I have said numerous times education is discipleship. The concept of separating academic matriculation and the spiritual development is an unbiblical concept.

 

“And I know there are exceptions to this. There are godly men and women who are teaching in schools across our country. And there are people, children who have become faithful to Jesus Christ surviving these government indoctrination centers. But if we were to be honest, we would have to admit that those are exceptions and not the rule. And one of the evidences of this normalization of godlessness is that we often endeavor to try to treat the exceptions as if they are the rule, but it is high time for us to be honest as to what’s happening in our country, we didn’t get here overnight.”

 

Stone cites the seminal work of Raphael Franck and Laurence Iannaccone on this point, who meticulously tracked religious behavior over time in their own work. According to Franck and Iannaccone, “higher educational attainment did not predict lower religiosity: More and less educated people are similarly religious.” Nor did they “find that industrialized, urban life reduces religiosity: A more urban and industrialized population was associated with greater religiosity.” The link between intellectual progression/modernization and secularization is non-existent.

 

Stone’s data suggests that, by and large, kids brought up in religious households stay religious and kids who are not, do not. Consequently, childhood religiosity has been, and remains, the most important indicator of America’s religious trajectory. The story of religious decline in America is not the story of adults consciously rejecting the faith of their forefathers: It is the story of each generation receiving a more secular upbringing than the generation preceding it. What accounts for this secularization of childhood over time? Taxpayer dollars.

 

“American secularization did not occur because those who are overtly atheist and agnostic continued to proliferate in American society,” Hamilton explains. “Through the secularization of education, Satan has gained entree into the church and carried off as captives the offspring born into Christian families. Each generation in America within the family became more and more secularized among the ranks of the church attending.”

 

According to Stone, children learn more at school than reading, writing, and arithmetic. The government run education system imbibes a whole set of implied assumptions about what is important in life by excluding religious instruction from public schools. The education system tacitly teaches students that religious commitments are not a first order priority in life.

 

“We must have our eyes targeted toward the root, not merely the fruit,” Hamilton says. “What do you think the consequences will be? If generation after generation of Americans are taught that God is nothing more than a take it or leave it proposition when He himself says, ‘I am the Lord, your God, you shall have no other gods before Me.’ By excluding religious instruction from public schools, the government run education system tacitly teaches students that religious commitments are not a first order priority in life. Faith in God becomes a sort of optional weekend hobby akin to playing tennis or video games.”

 

The content of education matters, Stone reported. Evidence that education reduces religiosity is fairly weak: American religiosity rose considerably from 1800 until the 1970s, despite rapidly rising educational attainment. But the evidence that specifically secular education might reduce religiosity is more compelling. Indeed, statistically, most researchers who have explored long-run change in religiosity find that education-related variables, which Stone has argued are a proxy for secular education, can explain nearly the totality of change in religiosity.

 

“All the changes that many of us have witnessed in the moral fiber of America, the Christ receptivity versus the Christ diversion, almost all of it is attributable to education.

 

“There has been a normalized godlessness to such a degree in our country. We’ve been all too willing and comfortable to abide in that godlessness – so it’s only a matter of time to when the rebellion says, ‘Oh, so you all are comfortable with that? Let’s just push a little further.’ We didn’t get here overnight. There’s only one way out to repentance.”

 

For over 40 years, AFA has operated within the mission to inform, equip, and activate individuals to strengthen the moral foundations of American culture and give aid to the church here and abroad in its task of fulfilling the Great Commission. Visit AFA Action Alerts here.

 

AFA—founded in 1977—has long been on the front lines of America’s culture war. Today, AFA is one of the largest and most effective pro-family organizations in the country, with nearly a million online supporters and approximately 160,000 subscribers to the AFA Journal, the ministry’s monthly magazine. In addition, AFA owns and operates nearly 200 radio stations across the country under the American Family Radio banner.

 

View the media page for AFA here. For more information on American Family Association, visit www.afa.net or follow AFA on Facebook or Twitter @AmericanFamAssc.

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LaDonna Loss: I fell into QAnon’s rabbit hole of deceit

One of the biggest things I miss from my full-time days in radio is interviewing people, letting them share their story with the world. I feel that is one of the greatest things we can do is let others tell their story unedited. I do miss live radio. I have had in the past women who would go on the radio and tell their story of abuse, abortion, men would share on drug addiction and so on. People would share with me on how much it meant to tell their story and listeners would say the interviews would inspire them. I do not say this for myself, I say it for God’s Glory Alone, in the fact God gave us that time at KKIM to interview people, to help bring others to Christ. I remember a lovely mother who sent me a letter saying her son accepted Jesus because he heard the message of salvation on KKIM. Her son was in prison at the time and was allowed to listen to the radio. I always say radio is great because it pernitrates the walls of hell. Here at FGGAM we also hear many stories of how people are moved by the sermons and postings from all over the world.

 

Beware people of God! QAnon is a cult, it is not of JESUS! These poor folks have become blinded by Satan. QAnon also has seeped into many Churches here in America, very dangerous. I am very concerned by what I have been told by these folks and I have had to cut off some friendships because they kept calling, texting, and messaging me all sorts of crazy and nasty stuff. Minds that are not focused on Jesus become minds of Satan. As I have said for years politics is the playground of Satan….just look at Washington D.C. All this is such a bad example for our youth of today! Many do not go to Church because of people who call themselves Christians that spew hate and crazy conspiracies! My goodness! Grow up in JESUS for heavens sake!

QAnon shows an unbelieving world what it wants to see from crazy Christians.

Words of Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) President Russell Moore:

The sight of “Jesus Saves” and “God Bless America” signs by those violently storming the Capitol is about more than just inconsistency. It is about a picture of Jesus Christ and of his gospel that is satanic. The mixing of the Christian religion with crazed and counter-biblical cults such as Q-Anon is telling the outside world that this is what the gospel is. That’s a lie, and it is blasphemous against a holy God. 

I have become dear friends with Scott and LaDonna Loss. They are from Albuquerque and they are on fire for JESUS! They are pictured at the very top of this post. Yesterday I posted much on the cult QAnon, I took some heat as usual. I do not argue with people on Facebook or messenger, or by text and email. I do not engage with foolish behavior. The Bible tells us that we should not engage with fools. Proverbs 23:9 Don’t waste your breath on fools, for they will despise the wisest advice.

Hi Pastor Dewey, here is my experience with Q and how the Lord pulled me away from it. Feel free to use whatever you want. Thank you for allowing me to share my testimony.
Instead of reading my Bible, I was reading “Q drops.”
Instead of praying and talking to the Lord, I was chatting with other Q followers online. It was like trying to solve a riddle, constantly looking for updates and watching videos about it. I was utterly obsessed. When I look back, I was getting so sucked into the Q’s rabbit hole that I was idolizing the Q movement and Trump…any day now, the darkness would be exposed, Trump would save us all, and everything would be fuzzy bunnies again in the USA. Instead, there’s been nothing but hate, discord, violence and betrayal. There haven’t been any big arrests, the darkness remains, and it will remain until the second coming of Jesus Christ. Period.
Colossians 1:13
“For He (Jesus, NOT Trump or Q) rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son…”
Did Trump love the world so much that He was physically nailed to a cross in order to restore our country? Has ANYTHING happened that Q promised? Proverbs 20:17 says, “Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.”
Are Q followers mouths not filled with gravel, now that Biden has been inaugurated?
The Bible warns us many times about falling into the web of deceit and chasing after man’s ideas.
 Titus 3:3-7
“For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.”
Colossians 2:8
“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”
I fell into Q’s rabbit hole of deceit. I’m so grateful that the Holy Spirit warned me, loud and clear, before I got into it so deeply that I completely forgot about Jesus Christ, what He has done for me, and my hope of eternal life with Him. Perhaps I would’ve ended up at the Capitol riot on January 6, who knows? Only God knows.
Thank you LaDonna Loss for sharing with us! God Bless you and Scott! We love you both so very much!
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From Dr. Jim Denison:

Did the NFL arrange for Tom Brady to play for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and for his team to play in their home stadium in Sunday’s Super Bowl to hike ratings? Did the league arrange for the Kansas City Chiefs to play in the game for the same reason? Has Tom Brady been colluding with NFL referees for years? Do some teams lose on purpose to improve their draft position?

If you believe any of these conspiracy theories, what evidence would convince you that you’re wrong?

From football to the real world: devotees of the QAnon conspiracy theory have been arrested for murder, kidnapping, terrorism, vandalizing churches, derailing a train, and threatening public officials. Protesters claiming that coronavirus is not real and that vaccines are dangerous recently shut down a mass vaccination site at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

According to a new study by Lifeway Research, 49 percent of Protestant pastors in the US say they frequently hear members of their congregation repeat conspiracy theories. Today, we will examine one such theory, then we will use it as a case study to emphasize the urgency of reason for our culture and our faith.

Interesting poll………..

AP-NORC poll: Few in US say democracy is working very well

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