What Do Americans Believe Today?
To the editor:
As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence we should ask ourselves, “How did we go from a nation rooted in faith, prayer, and biblical truth to a nation where Christianity is mocked, traditional values are under attack and faithful Americans are treated like extremists for simply believing what the Bible teaches?
It didn’t happen overnight or by accident, and our fight to preserve our liberty is bigger than politics.
Many elected representatives and American citizens have watched firsthand as the media establishment avoided tough truths concerning real news events by inserting bias and broadcaster assessments; as the education establishment distorted basic learning tools, stopped teachingAmerican history and introduced contemporary reinterpretations of history; as the judicial establishment went soft on crime, becoming antagonistic to common sense with toxic empathy toward violent protestors and criminals while projecting blame on law enforcement agencies; as the scientific establishment distorted its own facts to cater to promoting inefficient, expensive, imported energy of wind and solar to replace effective available affordable fossil fuel energy; and, as the medical community dictated unproven vaccines, ignored the evidence of dangers of gender modifications, hid behind nonexistent medical consensus and encouraged gender confusion.
Slow progress is being made in correcting these attacks on our liberties. A consistent purposeful commitment to educate and reorient the American citizen to the same freedom principles our Founding Fathers championed is required.
“America’s Founders gave Americans the framework for a free republic. Now it’s up to Americans to save it.” (The Agenda, Heritage, June 29, 2026) “Republican government loses half of its value where the moral and social duties are negligently practiced.” Education, in great measure, forms the moral characters of men, and morals are the basis of government.” Noah Webster C.S. Lewis strongly believed that education without moral values or religious grounding actually makes men more dangerous and “the idea that people could be educated for “good citizenship” without religion was deeply flawed. He argued that leaving out the religious dimension ignores the most essential and controlling elements of human character.”
“Teaching knowledge and skills without moral absolutes or a framework of objective goodness leaves people equipped to do great evil more efficiently.”
What doAmericans believe today? Do they know why they believe what they say they believe? Are your beliefs worth fighting and dying for?
Our Founding Fathers “mutually pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor” to the Declaration of Independence based on a foundation of belief in The Laws of Nature and Nature’s God. It’s time for Americans to reboot that mindset.