Since inauguration day, we have seen an onslaught against our freedoms not seen since the aftermath of 9-11-2001. In 2009, American banks and automakers have fallen victim to US Federal Government takeovers. Only a short time ago people were outraged over Hugo Chavez nationalizing the oil industry in Venezuela. During that time, I got lots of emails suggesting boycotts of Citgo gas, as that is one owned by Chavez. I even forwarded them on to others and refused to buy gas at the Citgo only blocks from my house.

Today that seems minuscule in comparison to the over-reaching socialism taking America by storm. Freedoms are going out the door by the truckload. People exercising their First Amendment rights are being either ignored or demonized by their elected representatives. The embedded video is one small example of the shifting attitudes toward our Bill of Rights. First, we have seen the freedom of religion being stripped away in the courts under the guise of “Separation of Church and State,” now we are seeing the freedom of speech being removed as we continue on the same slippery path to despotism.

Watch this video, taken on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 at Rep. Jim Moran’s (D-VA) Town Hall meeting on Obama Health care held at South Lakes High School in Reston, VA. It speaks for itself. The videographer said “Many people were left outside when the school filled to capacity. School security officer Wesley Cheeks, Jr. did not like my anti-Obamacare poster which used one of the gone-viral ‘Joker’ graphics. When I said to Officer Cheeks, ‘This used to be America!’ his response was: ‘It ain’t no more, OK?’”

Did you catch that? The videographer had a sign with Obama as the joker, and a message against socialized medicine. What is astonishing is what is said by the police officer and another gentlemen, presumably a school official. The officer said “It ain’t [America] no more, OK?” and the other gentleman said that [public] “schools have very different 1st Amendment rights.” Oh really? When was the Bill of Rights altered? I missed that in civics class.

If anyone doubts that America is very near totalitarianism, then they are either asleep or wilfully ignorant. This video is just one of the signs of the times. Proverbs 14:34 says “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.” Yet again Psalm 33:12 comes to mind” “Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people he chose for his inheritance.” America has winked at sin so long, we no longer recognize it for what it is. Vance Havner said it this way “They tell us now even in some evangelical circles that we ought to hobnob with Sodom and get chummy with Gomorrah in order to convert them…and these dear people are not turning the light on in Sodom, they’re just getting used to the dark.” That is indeed what has happened to “Christian America.” Havner also said “We’re suffering from a believism that never has believed and a receivism that never has received and it leads to deceivism.” Indeed, many, if not most, churches suffer from some form of that affliction. Havner’s prescription was succinct: “The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the Christianizing of the church.”

I understand the frustration of the videographer and millions more who may share that frustration. The answer lies at the feet of Christians. We have a duty and a calling to fulfill. I firmly believe that until America repents, and gets back to being a Christian nation she set out to be, the video above will become commonplace. Vance Havner had it right when he said “The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was ‘Repent.’ He said that to five out of seven.” Amen. Christians, pray and share the Gospel while you still can… openly.