Do you remember the 60’s song about Alfie, the lyrics of which begin, “What’s it all about, Alfie? What’s it all about when you sort it out, Alfie? The Christmas holiday season in the United States generally inspires one’s thoughts to that question, “What’s it all about?” I say it’s about the mystery of something greater than us. It provokes that thought today, and it did at the time of the Founding Fathers of this nation.
.” The Declaration of Independence makes four explicit references to our nation’s reliance on God.
- “…the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God.”
- “ all men are …endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights…”
- “ to the Supreme Judge of the world…”
- “ with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence.”
Yet, God has been removed from public life by a few who argue that God intrudes upon their “rights” not to believe. The author, R. L.Bruckberger, who lived the French resistance of World War II, and came to love and adore America, wrote:
“Without this foundation in God, Creator, Providence, and Judge, everything – the political order, the fundamental rights, men’s equality with one another, and ultimately all political justice – crumbles.”
It is unfortunate that the lofty character that our Founding Fathers designed for this country is being eroded by what one theologian (John Paul II) described as “The eclipse of the sense of God in our society.”
The Conservative Party seeks to recapture and re-establish the Founders Fathers’ principles in order to return our Government to a healthy, constructive, and Constitutional condition for its citizens. I believe that prayer is a useful exercise to be added to our work ahead. So, I leave you with a few words from the Christopher Prayer for Government.”
Inspire us, O God, with such a deep love of country
that we will be actively concerned for its welfare as well as that
of our fellow countrymen for this time and for eternity.
May God bless America?
And a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and a Prosperous 2010 New Year,
Sam Gallo, Chairman
