Is America becoming another Rome?
Pastor Dale Morgan
Is America becoming another Rome?*
Congressman says disintegration of United States already begun
Posted: February 19, 2007
In Edward Gibbon's "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," he
theorizes that world power fell because it rotted from within. Now our
readers have chosen as their top pick asTom Tancredo's "In Mortal
Danger," which explains that the United States already is well along its
way down that same road.
Gibbons explains Rome rotted from within because of a loss of civic
virtue, its citizens becoming lazy and soft and hiring barbarian
mercenaries to defend the empire because they were unwilling to do it
themselves.
Tancredo explains in his book how America's progress is following the
same course. He believes that the incredible economic success and
historical military prowess of the United States has decayed, so that
the nation founded on Judeo-Christian principles of right and wrong is
now an overindulgent, immoral cesspool of depravity.
And without strong and moral leadership that can incorporate a sense of
purpose, without a new commitment to family and community, without
shunning the race hustlers and pop-culture sham artists, without
"protecting our borders, language, and culture," the United States soon
could be another case study in the rise and fall of world powers, he
explains.
His book also includes his prescription for halting that slide into
oblivion, and suggestions for repairing the damage already done.
Tancredo, who recently confirmed he is considering a run for the White
House, said he wants to do his duty "to do everything I can to keep
faith with those who risked their 'lives, fortunes and sacred honor' to
create this wonderful place we call America," he said.
Tancredo, whose reputation is for strong enforcement of the nation's
immigration policies and security on the borders, has been described as
one of those who are a "rare breed" in Washington.
"[He] puts principle above ego and country above party. 'In Mortal
Danger' is a clarion call for all good citizens to come to the aid of
this great nation. Our borders, culture, history and institutions are at
risk. Tancredo's lucid, passionate book shows the way to protect them,"
she said.
Tancredo's motto has been "I'm not going to Washington just to take up
space. I'm going to make a difference" and it rings loud and clear in
his writing.
Picked in second place by our readers – the same spot it held a week
earlier – was the Geneva Bible, a mainstay for Christians of four
centuries ago.
The Geneva Bible was printed more than 200 times between 1560 and 1644
and was the most widely read and influential English Bible of the 16th
and 17th centuries. During the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell issued
a pamphlet containing excerpts from the Geneva Bible to his troops.
William Bradford cited the Geneva Bible in his book "Of Plymouth
Plantation."
It arrived in America in 1620 with the Pilgrims, who carried both the
King James Version of 1611 and the earlier 1599 Geneva Bible, which was
not sanctioned by the government.
It includes marginal notes by Reformation leaders such as John Calvin,
John Knox, Miles Coverdale, William Whittingham and Anthony Gilby that
explained and interpreted the scriptures for the common people.
In third place was David Kupelian's "Marketing of Evil, which, according
to Malkin, "exposes the secular left's rotten apple peddlers in
devastating detail."
The book tells how every kind of evil imaginable is being sold to a
modern people under the guise of tolerance.
According to D. James Kennedy, founder of Coral Ridge Ministries, the
book "brings into sharp focus what many have sensed and suspected for a
long time: The effort to change America's mind on issues like abortion,
homosexuality, church-state separation, and more, is a well-thought-out
strategic campaign that uses the methods of Madison Avenue to market
rank lies."