a:1:{s:15:"field_blog_body";a:1:{i:0;a:2:{s:5:"value";s:3562:"<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Tahoma">The world I grew up in the 50's and 60's has long since passed. Over the last 50+ years we have &ldquo;evolved&rdquo; or &ldquo;devolved&rdquo; depending on your perspective.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Tahoma">Our once moral country is slowly disappearing under the guise of &ldquo;secular humanism&rdquo;.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Tahoma">President Washington&rsquo;s decision to not seek a third term was a clear indication that our new country would not follow the path of the European countries that were ruled by Kings.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Tahoma">Washington expressed his feelings our our new republic in a open letter that appeared in the newspapers on September 19, 1796 about where our national strength comes from and what the pillars of our country&rsquo;s founding were based upon.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Tahoma">The following is an excerpt from that open letter:</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Tahoma"><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); "><em><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&ldquo;Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens. The mere Politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.&rdquo;</strong></em></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Tahoma"><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); "><em><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &ldquo;It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric? &ldquo;</strong></em></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Tahoma">Washington and the Founding Fathers would be appalled at what our Republic has become!</p>";s:6:"format";s:1:"2";}}}