Perilous times are ahead for America

To the Editor:

If you grew up in the '50s as I did, then whether you admit it or not -- you are old, and like the title of a movie I recently watched, America today is definitely "No Country for Old Men." One line in the movie by an aging Texas sheriff caught my attention, which I think most people of the older generation can identify with. He said, "If you would have told me 20 years ago that kids today would be walking the street of our little towns with bones in their noses, I would have said you were flat-out wrong."

But then, there are lots of things happening today that most of us seniors would have said you were flat-out wrong about, that they would never happen in America, too many to list in a few short paragraphs. Upon reflection, it seems to me that nearly all the problem plaguing our nation today closely linked to having lost our moral direction over the past fifty years. Things that we knew without question were absolutely wrong once upon a time in America are being condoned, and even applauded today. There are no absolutes anymore, anything goes.

Who, back in the 1950s, would have ever thought that a million unborn babies would be legally slaughtered in their mother's wombs at abortion clinics this year, and that it would be paid for by our tax dollars? Who could have imagined that our schools would be passing out condoms to adolescent children? Who in their wildest dreams would have thought homosexuals would be openly serving in our military and Congress, and the same-sex marriages would be legal? Who would have thought that it would ever to illegal to display the American Flag in your front yard, but not illegal to burn it in public? Who would have believed that it would ever be against the rules to say a prayer in school and at graduation ceremonies, or that it would be illegal to display Christian scenes or symbols in public places during the Christmas season? And back in the days when they wouldn't show Elvis Presley from the waist down on television, who would have thought that today there would be blood, gore, violence, nudity, sex and obscene language pouring from our TVs into our living rooms? All these things were unimaginable when I was growing up. Maybe that is why it is called "The greatest generation."

Ask yourself: what kind of future does a nation that was founded upon Christian morals and principles have, or deserve, that condones such things? The answer may be in what we are witnessing today. The precursors are all in place for the beginning of the end of America as we know it, a failed economy on the brink of collapse, hyperinflation, high unemployment, and political and civil unrest. I believe perilous times are ahead in the not too distant future, the likes of which have never been seen before in this country.

Believing that our nation is too big and powerful to fail is folly--as is believing that the same incompetent president and same corrupt, self-serving politicians in Congress who got us into this predicament in the first place will somehow get us out of it. At this late stage it doesn't really matter all that much who wins the election next year in my opinion, if we even have an election. The whirlwind is in the throne tree, so to speak. America, like "Humpty-Dumpty" broken, and all the king's horses and men can't put it together again. One can only watch and wait, be prepared, and hope something good arises from the ashes.

Bill Cox

Fairdealing, MO