By Kenneth O. Peterman
At the turn of the last century G. Campbell Morgan, one of England's greatest preachers, stated that, "a nation must recognize the importance of God or come to ruin." I paraphrase his thoughts further when he said if God is taken out of the national life of a nation, it will have no moral standard at all. When a nation has lost its moral standard, it has lost its strength of individual character and with it the concept of social relationships. If you don't think this is true, just read today's headlines. Let me give one current example of the validity of these stages. Several states in the U.S. have recently passed laws legitimatizing same-sex "marriage." New York is the lastest to do so. When the governor signed the bill into law, those around his desk applauded. Such events show just how far we have fallen in our social relationships in this country. If Dr. Morgan is right, the degenerated social relationship of same-sex marriage demonstrates the loss of individual godly character signaling the abondonment of God's moral standard. Just how important is God in America?
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