1 simple reason we’re experiencing increased national chaos – wnd.com

“These quotes from notable people show why it is important as a nation we honor God. Unfortunately we have been doing just the opposite and it has resulted in an increasingly divided and chaotic nation. Jesus says in Mark 3:25 if a house is divided against itself it cannot stand, if we continue on our present path how much longer will we as a nation stand.” Admin

On Nov. 18, 1992, the New York Times printed Mississippi Governor Kirk Fordice’s statement: “The less we emphasize the Christian religion the further we fall into the abyss of poor character and chaos in the United States of America.”

Jefferson acknowledged the “best support” of good government was the “liberty to worship our Creator,” as he stated to Captain John Thomas of the Newhope Baptist Church, Nov. 18, 1807: “Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that … of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable in His will; a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support.”

This sentiment was echoed by one of the most popular preachers in America during the Civil War era, Henry Ward Beecher, whose sister, Harriett Beecher Stowe, wrote the anti-slavery novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” 1852.

Pastor of Brooklyn’s Plymouth Church, Henry Ward Beecher stated Nov. 18, 1869: “In the unity of the nation … we hope much from religion; very little from sectarian churches; much from the Spirit of God blessing the Truth of his Word to the hearts of individual men; much from the individual men that are nobler than their sect; much from free men whose adhesion to forms and ceremonies is the least part of their existence; much from religion as it exists in its higher forms in individual nature and in public sentiment; very little from dogmas; very little from theology as such. …”

Henry Ward Beecher concluded: “Let us implore the God of our fathers, by his own wise providence, to save us from our wanton passions, from impertinent egotism, from pride, arrogance, cruelty, and sensual lusts, that as a nation we may show forth His praise in all the earth.”