America at a Crossroads

Introduction America is at a crossroads. The future freedoms for our families, our businesses and our nation are at risk.

A crossroads is defined as “a point at which a crucial decision must be made that will have far-reaching consequences”. I believe the decisions we make today will have significant, far-reaching consequences that will affect the freedoms, liberties and quality of life for our children and grandchildren for many generations to come.

One book of ancient wisdom, the Holy Bible, says, “When the righteous increase (or rule), the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule the people groan.” It seems to me that when leaders today attempt to lead by righteous principles and policies, the wicked not only groan, but now they also whine, cry, protest, riot and physically beat on defenseless people. They are adults in age only, throwing tantrums that only immature two-year-old’s can admire but at a level reserved for mentally disturbed criminals. They say things like, “I’ll meet you at the wall of resistance.”

I think it is time we “Resist the Resistance”. In fact, that makes a good hashtag and maybe even a bumper sticker. #ResisttheResitance That said, depending upon your frame of reference … Depending upon your emotional capacity … Depending upon your thought process … the information I'm about to share compels some people to say, “Dale, you’re just trying to make us afraid. You are a fearmonger.”

No, I’m wanting to help you get prepared so that you have no fear. Another verse from my favorite book says, “My people perish for lack of knowledge.” Let’s gain the right knowledge.

Let me give you an analogy.

I played college football. My primary position was on the defense. Any of you who played football at the collegiate level know that when you show up for training camp, it is expected that you know your team's playbook inside and out. It is expected that you show up in shape. It is expected that you show up knowing your stuff because when the season gets started and you're preparing for your next game, you're not studying your playbook. Instead, you are studying your opponent's playbook. You are studying their “tendencies”. So, what I did with our defensive unit for the week prior to playing our next game was to study and practice against the offense of the team we were going to play.

That way, every time they came onto the field and lined up during the game, no matter what formation they lined up in, we knew the two or three or four or five plays that could be run out of that formation. We were prepared. We could make instant adjustments on the field. If they changed the play at the line of scrimmage and shifted into a different

formation, we were able to make instant adjustments to counter their plan. It was imperative that we knew immediately what they could do out of any formation in order for us to do our job. Our job was to keep them from advancing the ball and scoring.

By being fully prepared and knowing what our opponent was going to do, my team and I could step onto the field of play unafraid. Preparation cast out fear. On the other hand, if we hadn't prepared, there was no way we could be ready to play. We would be on the field without knowledge. We would be confused. Chaos could ensue. We would have no idea how to stop our opponent. We would not be able to do our jobs correctly. We would play in fear. Does that make sense as an analogy? Even if you don't like football, I think you would get that.

So, this book is meant to educate and prepare you. It is to give you a deeper understanding of who we are and who we are supposed to be as a nation. It is to help you understand our enemies and not be afraid of them. It is meant to help us work together to stop America’s enemies in their tracks.

4 Key Questions There are four key questions we are going to ask which will help us understand our originally-intended American ideology, as well as the ideologies of those wanting to transform our nation into something far different than our founders and forefathers envisioned, fought for and for whom many sacrificed their lives. Each of the ideologies we will look at have playbooks, just as my college football team had a playbook. We will use these playbooks in order to help us understand ourselves and our opponents.

Here are the four key questions: 1.

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Where were we?

Where are we now?

How did we get here?

What are our options?

Question #1: Where Were We? Psalm 33:12 says, “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.” This verse from the Bible is at the very heart of what our Founders envisioned. Our Founders envisioned a Christian nation. Only in recent times has this concept been up for serious debate. Part of the problem is we have not come to an agreement on the definition of what “Christian nation” means.

In 2019, the Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) hosted Prof. Steve Green to make his presentation as part of the annual MNHS lecture series. Prof. Green is a professor at Willamette University in Portland, Oregon. His presentation came from his book,

“Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding”. I don’t know whether or not Prof. Green considers himself a professing Christian. (By “professing Christian” I mean someone who has a personal relationship with the living person, Jesus Christ, and acknowledges Jesus as the world’s Lord God and Savior. This relationship is translated into an intentional desire to follow and obey Jesus’ life and teachings as empowered by God’s Holy Spirit.) Prof. John Fea, however, the professor of American History and Chair of the History Department at Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, is a professed follower of Christ. His book questions our Biblically-principled, “Christian nation” founding from its title, “Was America Ever a Christian Nation?” And then there is Dr. Greg Boyd, a pastor in St. Paul, Minnesota. He wrote a book called “The Myth of the Christian Nation”. All of these learned men denounce or seriously question the idea of America existing as or being founded as a “Christian nation”. On the other hand, as one example, we have the late Dr. D. James Kennedy. When he was the lead pastor at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Dr. Kennedy wrote the book “What if America were a Christian Nation Again?”

So… Whom do we believe? Was America founded as a “Christian nation”? How do we know what position is accurate and what is not?

Let’s go back for a moment to Prof. Green’s book, “Inventing a Christian America.” He writes, “The Christian nation myth, at least the precursor to the one of today, arose in the early decades of the 19th century as the second and third generation of Americans those without direct personal knowledge of the nation's founding (italics emphasis mine) - sought to sanctify America's founding and its founders as part of establishing a national identity.” Green’s publisher describes for us that there are three critical moments in American history that actually shaped us, to drive us to this myth, this legend, that we were a Christian nation. They are: 1. The Puritan founding of New England, 2. The American Revolution, and 3. The forging of a new nation. His publisher concludes, “… and the early years of the nineteenth century, when the second generation of Americans sought to redefine and to reconcile the memory of the founding to match their religious beliefs and patriotic aspirations.”

So, he’s saying that the founders had no intention of creating a Christian-style, Biblically-principled nation. Instead, it was the second and third generation Americans who, in their patriotic, religious and sentimental zeal, imposed upon the founders a false narrative about the nation they were creating. To me, that is really an interesting thought and one I consider to be completely inaccurate. Why? Well, let’s use John Quincy Adams, 6th president of the United States, 2nd generation leader as an example.

Wasn't he there at the founding? Did he not learn the truth about the founding of our nation from his own father, John Adams, the man who was not only our 2nd President but who was also considered to be one of the three most influential founders of our nation? John Adams made it crystal clear that our nation was founded on Christian principles. Wouldn’t he have passed that along to his son, or did his son merely conjure up his beliefs based on religiously patriotic sentimentalism? There were a lot of additional people, sons and daughters, spouses and others, in the first and second

generations that were there at the founding. Any of those could refute this professor’s arguments. And many of them did. What Professor Green and others like him are doing is called revisionist history. They are taking the truth and making it a lie.

What Prof. Green really wanted to get at and emphasize in his book and his lecture was the opinion that there was no such thing as religious freedom in America and America’s founding. His basis for this argument is in calling out the differences in the ways one was treated in New England, versus say, Pennsylvania or Rhode Island, where they had a different definition of religious freedom. The point of his argument seems to be they were all “Christian,” but they had harsh rules to live by within their differing interpretations of Christianity. They were all Christ-centered and Biblically-centered, but because they were different in application, America was not founded on a basis of religious freedom, meaning the whole concept of religious freedom in our founding is a myth. And, presumably, because the concept of religious freedom in our founding was a myth, the idea that we were founded as a Christian nation is a myth as well.

Now let’s take a moment and address the phrase “a Christian nation”. What is really meant by that? Some define the term “Christian nation” as a theocracy and believe that a theocracy is what modern-day Christians want America to be. A theocracy means “a system of government in which priests or prophets rule in the name of God or a god.”

Think ancient Israel. God spoke to the people through His prophet, Moses. God established His laws, The Ten Commandments, and had them delivered to His people through Moses. It is not unusual to see murals or sculptings of “Moses, the Lawgiver” in or on the walls of many courthouses or statehouses in America today. Even our nation’s Capitol has several artistic renderings of Moses, the Lawgiver. Our Supreme Court Building has a marble frieze of Moses holding the tablets of The Ten commandments and placed in the courtroom as part of recognizing the “great lawgivers of history”. But, our recognition of Moses as a prophet of the God of Israel, perhaps the greatest prophet in the history of Israel, does not mean we were founded as a theocracy. In fact, it is quite the opposite. Our founders did not establish America as a theocracy and did not even hint that creating a theocracy was ever a part of the discussion of the type of government they would establish. Our founders settled on creating a Constitutional Republic, not a theocracy or even a democracy as some would have us believe. The highest office in our land is the presidency and it was never the intent of the founders to imply that the President was the spokesperson for God. Far from it. The presidency was to be but one part of a governmental system of checks and balances. The only check and balance in a theocracy is to check with God and find out who He deemed His prophet to be in order to balance the way we are to live according to what the prophet of God taught. America may have been founded as a God-fearing nation but definitely not a theocratic one.

What the founders meant when they called us a Christian nation, comes with the understanding that there are principles – moral, philosophical or religious principles upon which every nation is founded. In America’s case, the primary principles upon which our nation was founded are principles found in the Bible. Of all of the sources for the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, the Bible, Sir

William Blackstone's “Commentaries on the Laws of England,” and John Locke's “Two Treatises of Government” were the primary sources. Locke's “Two Treatises of Government” has less than 400 pages and, according to historian David Barton in his book “The Jefferson Lies,” his support staff counted 1500 scripture references in it.

Locke was a philosopher and his philosophies were based primarily on scripture. Sir William Blackstone's “Commentaries on the Laws of England,” named after the English chief jurist, judge and politician, were the commentaries that everybody who studied law in England and the colonies had to master in order to become a lawyer. Blackstone’s commentaries had a deeply profound impact on Abraham Lincoln. And, it was while studying the content of Blackstone’s commentaries that the great evangelist, Charles Finney, came to Christ. Imagine that! A man studying to become a lawyer transforming into a committed follower of Jesus Christ due to the content of his law books!

And so, the Bible directly and the other two sources, Blackstone and Locke, are the primary sources from which our founding principles came.

That we were founded in this principled sense as a “Christian nation” is also demonstrated in founding documents such as our Colonial Charters, the Mayflower Compact, and the Articles of Confederation of New England. Here is the statement from Articles of Confederation of New England of 1843. I want you to think about New England right now in terms of New England being a “bastion” of biblical Christianity. (It isn’t, just in case you're wondering.) But what did they say in 1843? “Whereas we all came into these parts of America with one and the same end and aim…” In other words, the very reason we came to America, the purpose for which we came, was “to advance the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ and to enjoy the liberties of the Gospel in purity with peace”.

Read that again. “Whereas we all came into these parts of America with one and the same end and aim, namely, to advance the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ and to enjoy the liberties of the Gospel in purity with peace.” Many of you reading this have school-aged children. How much of this information are they getting in school? How much of this information did you and I receive? Read it again! This is why they said they came, namely, to advance the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ! There are places in America today, including some chambers in our state legislatures that prohibit the name of Jesus Christ to even be mentioned but it was that very name that gave birth and purpose to our Untied States of America!

George Washington said it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor. If you've ever read George Washington's diary, the depth in which he talks about his personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ is rather detailed and impossible to miss. So, when he talks about the providence of Almighty God, he's not talking about a God that some say demonstrates Washington and other founders were deists. (A deist believes that there is a God, but that God is not involved in the daily affairs of the world.) These naysayers want us to believe that our founders believed God was and is not involved in daily life. They say our founders believed God

was and is not involved in daily affairs. If you read the writings of the Founders, especially Washington’s diary, you will know they believed in the importance of the regular involvement of a very personal, very active God in their daily lives and in leading our nation.

How about John Adams as another example? John Adams was considered by Washington to be one of the three main founders of our nation. Amongst his many positions of leadership and service, Adams served as the second president of the United States. He famously said, “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other. The general principles on which the father's achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. Now I will avow that I then believed (and now believe) that the general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.” (Emphasis mines) In other words, Adams was telling us that those principles upon which the founders forged our nation are lifelong, eternally unchanging principles just as God himself is unchanging. Those are the principles upon which this nation was founded. That is what our founders meant when they founded America as a Christian nation.

“The law given from Sinai, the Ten Commandments, was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.” That quote came from John Adams’ son, John Quincy Adams, who was our sixth president. John Quincy Adams, at seven years old was marching and training with the Massachusetts militia. He was marching and firing guns at seven years old to prepare to defend a nation that was not yet a nation. Here’s a fun question for you parents: What are your 7-year old’s doing today? We raised three sons and a daughter. None of ours were out marching and doing military training at age 7.

What, you might ask, were they doing? Can you say Atari? Nintendo? Game Boy? Can you imagine? Marching with the militia at age 7 was as normal to John Quincy Adams as playing video games is to our current 7 year-olds.

At 11 years old John Quincy Adams became an ambassador to Europe. He did such a good job the Congress re-upped him when he was age 14. What were you doing when you were 11 and 14? Don't answer that. Think about it… John Quincy Adams was raised to look at the scriptures just as the older founders did. It was not just so we can practice a religion. Our relationship with the Living God is such that we practice our faith in relationship to God, in the context of daily life, in the context of our daily culture.

That relationship with God provided both our religious moral code, and our civic code, that is, our laws, to govern our society.

Now I’m going to share with you a quote guaranteed to blow you away unless you have seriously studied the particular person to whom the quote is credited. This quote comes from a person most people do not believe would have possibly said it. Here is the quote: “The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they, the clergy, have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of its benevolent Instituter, is the religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science and the freest expansion of the human mind. My views . . . are very different from that anti-Christian system that's

been imputed to me by those who know nothing of my opinions. No nation has ever existed or been governed without religion – nor can it be. The Christian religion is the best religion that has been given to man and I, as Chief Magistrate of this nation, am bound to give it the sanction of my example.” Do you know who gave us that quote?

Give up? Thomas Jefferson said it. He said it when he was president. The primary author of our Declaration of Independence based his views of government on the Christian religion! It was so important to him, that he founded and attended a church, The Jefferson Gatherings, to meet each Sunday in our nation’s Capitol. At its peak, The Jefferson Gatherings had about 2,000 in attendance, worshipping with the Marine Corp band as the musicians, honoring Jesus Christ as the Lord of our nation. There were few, if any, screaming about freedom from religion or separation of church and state in those days!

Of all our founding fathers, two of them were considered to be the least religious in their personal practice. They were Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. Yet, both of them avowed to the absolute purity, rightness, and righteousness of Jesus Christ and the Christian Faith. Notice I did not say that both men were actually Christians in the way we define Christianity and being a Christian today. I did not say that. There's enough evidence that might dispute whether Franklin really was a true believer or whether Jefferson in his older life really maintained a faith in Christ the way we discuss it in evangelical circles today. The point is simply this… Our Founders saw that the truth was wrapped up in scripture and scripture taught the way a country is supposed to be run. They supported it. They fought for it. And they died for it.

In fact, “had the people during the Revolution had suspicions of any attempt to war against Christianity, the Revolution would have been strangled in its cradle. At the time of the adoption of the Constitution and the Amendments, the universal sentiment was that Christianity should be encouraged not by any one denomination. In this age there can be no substitute for Christianity; that, in its general principles is the great conservative element on which we must rely on for the purity and permanence of free institutions.” That is a direct quote from the US Congress’ House Judiciary Committee of 1854. This was our Congress standing up for the truth and the unchangeableness of the principles in the Christian faith to rule our nation. This is Congress declaring our Christian foundation even before the Supreme Court declaration of 1892 by Justice David Brewer which says, “We are a Christian nation.”

The fact of the matter is clear. America was founded as a Christian nation insofar as our form of government, our laws and our values came primarily from biblically Christian sources, often the Bible itself. That is where we were.

Where Are We Now? Things have changed. Dramatically.

Today there are primarily four worldviews, four ideologies, four philosophies, fighting against our Judeo-Christian heritage. These four world views are working together to tear apart and seek to replace our Judeo-Christian heritage in an effort to remake our nation into something it was never intended to be. Anyone educated in these ideologies would likely wonder how they could work together. Think about it. If you’ve ever heard the phrase, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” you will understand. The common enemy of all four is anything that has to do with our Judeo-Christian heritage. Our Christianity. Our Judaism. Our belief in our Sovereign God. So, this is where my blood pressure gets going up a little bit. This is where the defensive football guy in me comes out. This is why studying and understanding the opponent’s playbooks are necessary. I am now going to walk you through at least some of the hallmarks of these four enemy ideologies of a free, Godly America. The four are: Secular Humanism, Marxism/Socialism/Communism, Fascism/Neo-Nazism, and Islam.

Ideology #1 – Secular Humanism Let’s start with Secular Humanism and it's naturalistic, atheistic philosophy.

Secular Humanism is a particular belief system that states humanity is capable of morality and self-fulfillment without a belief in God. It is a system that, at its very core, is diametrically opposite the Judeo-Christian view in which every person finds his or her humanity, morality, purpose, meaning and fulfillment in a personal relationship with the God of the universe. A Judeo-Christian view says, in essence, “None is righteous, no not one . . . All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God . . . But, God so loved the world that He gave His only son . . . God did for us what we couldn’t do for ourselves . . . God sent His Son to pay for our sins (our lack of morality) while we were still sinners and still His enemies.” Simply stated, it was God’s Son, Jesus, who paid the legal price for our immorality, for our falling short of God’s perfect requirements, which allows us no longer to be considered hostile enemies of God but instead be fully at peace with God and become His friends. This was the position of our Founding Fathers.

In addition to the morality issue, everything in Secular Humanism has to be verified by the scientific method. The scientific method says, first, you make an observation. Then you ask questions about what you observe. When you ask enough questions and get enough answers, you form a hypothesis. Once you have formed your hypothesis, you design and form experiments to prove or disprove your hypothesis. Your experimentation forces you to accept or modify your hypothesis and you repeat this process as many times as necessary in order to create a law or a theory. Finally, you declare your law or theory to be “true”. That's what Secular Humanism requires. Very simplistically speaking, Secular Humanism grew from Darwin's theory of evolution and his book, their 1859 playbook, “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection”.

Let’s be clear: Darwin gave us a theory based on a hypothesis. Why is it a theory?

Maybe we should be asking, “Why are there still monkeys?”

This theory became the foundation of a new American legal system that was no longer based on timeless, eternally true principles, but by the whims and shifts of culture. This was the beginning of the end of Blackstone’s influence, a system based on an immutable God and the laws of God. The Darwinian system, based on natural selection, naturalism and secularism began to prevail. But, let’s stop and think for a moment.

Based on this argument, based upon the ability to repeat, observe, test, repeat, observe, etc., one cannot prove that Ronald Reagan existed or served as our 40th President. One cannot prove that Barack Obama was the 44th President of the United States. One cannot prove it using the scientific method because today it cannot be repeated. One cannot even prove that George Washington was the first president of the United States. Why? It's not observable. It can't be tested and repeated. Ultimately, one cannot prove that Jesus Christ was the One who came from Heaven, lived a sinless life, was vindicated by the Holy Spirit of God, died on a cross, rose from the dead, was seen by over five hundred people after His resurrection and was witnessed to ascend into heaven by His closest friends with a promise that someday He will visibly and physically return. You cannot prove much of anything about the topic we are studying by the scientific method. This is why Secular Humanists will tell us Christianity isn't true and why God doesn’t exist.

The fact of the matter is they are arguing something that can't be argued with the scientific method. The problem is this: They are using the wrong method. Instead, the proof is to be found in using the historiographical method which is the historical evidence. There are many excellent books written from the perspectives of law, science or even atheism seeking to disprove the accuracy of the Biblical message. All use historiography, archeology and written documents dating back to the first century offering what I consider to be incontrovertible evidences. But, Secular Humanists will not concede. Their attitude is “Don’t confuse me with the facts. My mind is made up.”

Ideology #2 – Marxism/Socialism/Communism The Secular Humanist view is but the first of the four major anti-God, anti-American views prevailing today. Now let’s review the second and much stronger prevailing view: Marxism/Socialism/Communism.

In 2013, as I was wrapping up my first term as a pastor at our state capitol to some of our state legislators, we started receiving quite a bit of intelligence regarding the role of Marxism/ Socialism/ Communism within our government. A few years later, a white paper was written about the state of Minnesota as the location for the national headquarters for the American Communist Party and the role of Marxism/Socialism/ Communism in the European history of Minnesota’s founders which made its way here from across the Atlantic. That influence continues today.

In 2013, when I was invited as a guest speaker to churches, business clubs and civic organizations, I couldn’t even talk about Marxism/Socialism/Communism. People would have considered me to have been a few french fries short of a Happy Meal to think that

Marxism/Socialism/Communism was even an issue. However, I could talk about the common thread of Marxism/Socialism/ Communism. That common thread is atheism, the belief that no God exists. So, I would talk about the 45 written goals from the American Communist Party as presented to Congress in January 1963. But virtually nobody would have listened to the idea that there were any American politicians who believed enough in socialism that they would try to turn us into a socialistic nation. That was 2013, a mere seven years ago. But now it is 2020. Can anybody say Bernie Sanders? Can anybody say Elizabeth Warren? Maxine Waters? Joe Biden? Kamala Harris? AOC? The Clinton’s? The Obama’s?

According to one reliable source, Trevor Louden and his well-researched documentary “Enemies Within,” about 20% of our current American Congress is made up of committed Democratic Socialists, aka Marxists/Socialists/Communists. That makes these politicians enemies of the state. 20% of 535 is 107. So, according to one of the leading experts in the world on the ongoing Communist threat, over 100 men and women who have pledged to support and defend our American Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, are actually Marxist/Socialist/Communists! They are actually our enemies and they create legislation to destroy us from within! Think about that.

So, what is so bad, what is so wrong with Marxism/Socialism/Communism? Why are so many buying into this failed ideology?

Are you aware that the number 1 killing machine of the 20th century, not only of its enemies but also of its own people, were the Marxist/Socialist/Communist nations? Did you know that? Are you aware that the thugs leading Marxist/Socialist/Communist countries have no interest in you as a valuable human being or your freedoms to live life as you choose? Do you know that under Marxist/Socialist/Communist regimes you do not always get to choose where you live, where you work or if you get to go to a college or university? Do you understand that they don’t care about unborn babies, the elderly or whether or not you receive a “livable” wage? There are no Targets, Walmarts, grocery stores or shopping malls filled with tremendous varieties of food, clothing, toilet paper and other necessities. Many food shelves in grocery stores, filled to overflowing in our American system, lay bare in a Marxist/Socialist/Communist society. The economic conditions for most people are detestable. There is no distribution of wealth when only a selected few are allowed to be wealthy. There is no free education. There is no free lunch. Sometimes, there simply is no lunch.

Nicely put, you and I are simply pawns to a godless, totalitarian governmental system that exists only to use you and me in a utilitarian manner as long as “they” consider us useful, productive persons contributing to the collective whole. Not so nicely put, you and I are what Lenin called, “useless idiots”. That is what the Marxist/Socialist/ Communist “elites” really think. They are the embodiment of the book, “Animal Farm,” written by George Orwell in 1945, which famously stated, “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

How offensive, how degrading, is that? How did it feel if during the COVID pandemic you were not considered an essential worker? How long did it take before you realized you weren’t even considered an essential human being?

For those of you who value your religious, political and economic freedoms, you must understand that the heart and soul of this warped ideology comes from Karl Marx, who said, “The object in my life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.”

The object of his life!?!

Marx is talking about the very reason for his existence. What a horrible existence it must have been!

Joseph Stalin said, “America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.” From Germany, Communist Willie Munzenberg said, “We're going to make the West so corrupt, it stinks.” And Vladimir Lenin said, “Give me your children for four years and I’ll have them for life.”

So, in other words, we give up our freedoms for a system hellbent on destroying our morality, our spirituality and our patriotism by using the schools to indoctrinate our children with a thoroughly morally-corrupt system? Is that what we want our nation to become?

My point is simply this: Our founders created America to be a moral, righteous, free enterprise, free market, capitalistic, God-honoring nation. It was this mindset that allows you and me to pursue our dreams, get an education, own a business, own a home, create the lifestyle of our choice and build a legacy for our families. It was this mindset that acknowledged we weren’t perfect, but we could be the shining light of liberty, freedom, goodness, hope, opportunity and prosperity for the world. We were to be the place of opportunity and hope for people who had little of either. We were to be proud patriots living freely and raising the bar of freedom for all the freedom-loving people of the world. We were to be the ones helping others to become free as well. It is a fundamental doctrine of our Declaration of Independence. Read it. Read what is said about your rights, your God-given rights.

Marxism/ Socialism/ Communism strips all of that away. Their leaders do not want you to live the life of your dreams. Your dreams do not count. Your rights do not come from God. Your rights, if any, come from the State. You have no freedom, no liberty, except what the government allows you to have. Marxist/Socialist/Communist leaders are the epitome of envy, greed, condescension and totalitarianism. They want to convince you and me that we are incapable of self-government. They want to convince you and me that we are incapable of taking care of ourselves. They want to convince you and me that they “are from the government and they’re here to help”.

They don’t want to help. They want to rule. They want to rule you. And they want to rule you with an iron thumb.

They are making significant progress.

I can point to four bills that became law in Minnesota during the 2013-2014 legislative sessions that correspond directly to 18 of their 45 goals to make America a communist nation and strip us of our freedoms. I can point to one bill being pushed in multiple states today that corresponds directly to at least 9 of the 45 goals that harmfully targets our children and our families.

I can also point to governmental executive orders that penalize 99% of our population with a false narrative about taking care of the 1%. In what world does it ever make sense to completely paralyze the lives of 99% of a nation for the sake of the 1%?

Shouldn’t we be looking for ways to compassionately and lovingly provide and protect the 1% without harming the lives of the 99%? What is the real agenda here? This Marxism/Socialism/Communism agenda is like an octopus with 100 tentacles of destruction. Every time we cut off one tentacle, two seem to grow back. Maybe it’s time to strike the beast at the head, at the control center, and rid our society of this scourge forever.

Because of these evil people, we have to deal with attacks on our children and our educational system with issues such as comprehensive sex education legislation. We have to deal with issues like a conversion therapy ban, legislation based on two pillars that have been scientifically and medically proven to be patently false, which has also been ultimately demonstrated to really be a Bible ban. Yes, you read that correctly. The evil intent against our children in this legislation is bad enough but it goes much deeper.

There are a great number of bills that are attacking our children. Why are they attacking our children? Because they firmly believe if they get our children now, and if they get them for the next four years, (according to Vladimir Lenin) they believe they'll have them for life. And those children will become the next generation of godless, purposeless, manipulative, totalitarian leaders, unless they are held down by the elitists who raise them up as the next generation of useless idiots. Now you understand better what we're fighting for. We’re fighting for the lives of our families, our businesses, our homes, our places of worship. We are fighting for the life of our nation.

Maybe Winston Churchill said it best when he said in multiple speeches, “Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy . . . The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries . . . I do not at all wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries, that what used to be called the ‘submerged tenth’ can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their level . . .”

Make no mistake about it. Marxist/Socialist/Communist propaganda promoters do not want to lift you up. They want to tear you down.

Our founders also valued our religious liberties. For them, that meant we all have a personal right to worship or to choose not to worship. That is why it is called the freedom of religion, not the freedom from religion. In fact, we had leading founders consider anyone who was against religion (Christianity, to be specific) to be nonAmerican, non-patriots.

Allow me to interject something here for those of you under the age of 40. One of the questions your group asks regularly is along the lines of, “Why do we continue to push the viewpoints of a bunch of dead guys who lived nearly 250 years ago? Our culture has changed. We need fresh thinking for today!”

If all my generation and I are doing is sending a message of following the viewpoints of a bunch of dead guys who lived nearly 250 years ago, I would agree with you completely. But, that is not the case. The case is not about following the dead guys. The case is for following the God of the dead guys, the God Who provided timeless, eternal principles that inspired the dead guys to create a nation with documents based on those timeless, eternal principles. Those dead guys pointed us to God Himself and gave us a nation unlike any nation in the history of the world. Are we perfect? Of course not! But, by following those ancient, Godly principles those men gave us a nation that has been the most prosperous, most generous, most influential, most productive nation in the history of the world. Because of God, His principles of government and people committed to following Him, this nation became the leading nation of the world unlike any nation at any time in history. People from all over the world still get on boats, rafts, planes or they walk through treacherous territory to get here because they still believe in the American Dream that Marxists/Socialists/Communists despise.

Apparently, that attitude has shifted. Today in America, we seem to publicly honor and support those groups who are anti-American patriotism, anti-morality, anti-faith and antireligion, especially in the public square. The so-called tolerant anti-bullies have become the viciously intolerant bullies. It’s time to treat them as we teach our children to treat any schoolyard bully. It’s time to stand up to the bully.

Our Marxist/Socialist/Communist enemies have written goals and a written implementable strategy. They have a playbook. One primary piece of the playbook is called “Rules for Radicals”. It was written by Saul Alinsky back in the 1960’s. He was a Marxist/Socialist/Communist instigator and activist. His two most well-known protégés were Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. His book is dedicated to Lucifer. To satan. The philosophy of Marxism/Socialism/Communism is dedicated to satan.

I mentioned already there are 45 goals from the American Communist Party to turn America into a godless society. Maybe it would be more accurate to say that, based on the playbook, there are 45 goals to turn America into a satan-serving society. Some of the 45 goals overlap and deal with multiple issues. I break them down this way: 38 deal

with government, 16 deal with education, 10 deal with the family. 10 deal with church and religion. 6 deal with arts and entertainment, 5 deal with business/commerce, 5 with media.

Now, consider this: Norman Matoon Thomas, a Presbyterian minister, ran for President of the United States 6 times as the candidate from the Socialist Party of America. In 1944 he said, “The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. America will be a socialist nation without knowing how it happened. I no longer need to run as president of the Socialist Party. The Democratic party has adopted our platform.”

1944. That’s what, 76 years ago? There has clearly been a long, patient implemented strategy from the left that continues to claw away at undercut our nation.

This is where I sometimes get asked, “So, Dale, are you saying that the Republican Party is the Christian party?”

Allow me to give a very clear answer to that question.

NO! However, I would remind the questioner that it is the Democratic Party that keeps working at the convention level to take God out of their platform. At least Christians still have a voice in the Republican Party. But, again, no. The Republican Party is not the Christian party. In my opinion, the Constitution Party has the most Biblically-principled platform. But, I’ve been told by former members of that party whom I respect that the party is a train wreck. Maybe so. In the meantime, whether we like it or not, we have two major parties and both of them have taken huge shifts to the left in my lifetime. And the further left you go, the more God gets driven out and the more freedoms we lose. It’s time to put the brakes on the leftist movement.

Ideology #3 - Fascism Fascism. Nazism. Neo-Nazism. Far-right totalitarianism. It was Hitler. It was Mussolini.

It’s Antifa.

This movement is carried out by vicious thugs marked by beliefs in extreme racism and authoritarianism. These might be the most useless of Lenin’s useless idiots. They contribute nothing of positive value to our society. They make their mark by hating others through senseless beatings and violent, destructive demonstrations. They are lawlessness personified.

And, they’re getting away with it.

In 2018, I spent a week in “the jungle” undergoing intense counter-intelligence training.

It took about 100 hours of preparation before I went and countless hundreds, perhaps

thousands, of hours since. During our training we were told that there would be an incident in 2020 that would serve as an incendiary incident launching an internal insurrection against the United States. We couldn’t have known at the time what that incident would be. That incident turned out to be the very publicized death of George Floyd on the street of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

This is not the place to discuss the George Floyd case. The point here is when that very public arrest took place and the manner in which it traveled through a variety of social media, a call was made, a text was sent, some form of communique went out that launched the attack on America. That this was a pre-planned attack became more and more evident as pallets of bottled water and bricks “miraculously” began showing up on city streets around the country. I remember receiving word of pallets of water and bricks lining the streets of Washington DC. These pallets covered about ½ block in length.

That’s a lot of bricks. And they were not going to be used to build anything.

Who were the bricks for? To whom were they being delivered? We know now they were delivered for Antifa and the communist-backed Black Lives Matter organization.

As bad as those initial riots and demonstrations were, many believe they were merely a precursor to the next round of attacks. Antifa and the BLM organization hate America.

What will set off the next round? What is the next incendiary event? Some think it won’t take an event, but it will occur before the November 3rd elections because of their hatred for a President who loves America. They hope another round will take him down. Some think it will be the elections themselves, especially if our current President is re-elected.

Some think the first round of attacks was simply a test to get a feel for how law enforcement and the military might act during a pre-planned, ready-to-go second round.

Some believe that a lack of justice in the George Floyd case will set it off. I’ve been on the street where George Floyd died. I’ve talked with the people. I’ve asked them what they wanted. Virtually 100% of the people said they wanted justice. When I asked them what justice might look like, they gave reasonable, well thought-out responses. The biggest question is how they will respond if they believe justice has not been served when it is all over.

Unfortunately, we probably haven’t seen the last of this ilk. It is my hope that military action will not be required against these despicable people. But, if that’s what it takes to restore order and lawfulness in our nation, it is my hope that those on the right side of the law, including military, will show up and squash those determined to wreak havoc in our land.

These types of groups creating these kinds of destruction must be shut down. Now. Ideology #4 - Islam Islam is not primarily a religion. Islam is a geo-political system with an intense religious component.

To understand Islam, one must get a grasp of Shari’ah law. Shari’ah law is a complete way of life. That is to say, there is no separation of any area of life from Shari’ah including one’s personal faith, one’s business, one’s family, one’s education, one’s leisure and recreation, and maybe especially, there is no separation from government.

Every area of life, every sphere of life must fall under Shari’ah because, in Islam, Shari’ah is God’s law. It is the law of Allah.

In a nutshell, according to Islam, every human being is a Muslim and is to live under Shari’ah. As God’s law, Shari’ah is the only perfect law and it was delivered to the world through the world’s most perfect man, the prophet Muhammed. Every other religious system in the word – Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism – every other religion, is a false religion imperfectly teaching its philosophy based on a false god.

There is no “we all serve the same god” in Islam. There is no “COEXIST”. It is Islam only. Its targeted teaching is to wage war against all non-Muslims. It is a fundamental teaching in the Quran.

It is because of Shari’ah that a compliant Muslim cannot assimilate into American society under American laws and the American Constitution. Instead, Islam’s goal is complete world domination under a Shari’ah-compliant Islamic Republic. For the USA, that means the goal is to create the Islamic Republic of the United States.

The primary playbook in Islam for the takeover of America is called “An Explanatory Memorandum”. It proved to be a significantly valuable piece of evidence used by the US government in its 2008 trial against The Holy Land Foundation (HLF). The HLF was thought to be a philanthropic group for Islam. Instead, in addition to any legitimate philanthropy (if any), it was a money laundering operation funding the Muslim Brotherhood’s attempted takeover of the United States, as well as being a funding arm for Islamic terrorism around the world.

Another key piece to the playbook puzzle is the book “Milestones” by Sayyid Qutb.

“Milestones” is to Islam what “Rules for Radicals” is for the Marxist/Socialist/ Communists. This book gave new birth to the Muslim Brotherhood movement.

Below is a screenshot of what the Muslim Brotherhood network in America looked like just a few short years ago.

One can assume the network has grown substantially, especially during the Obama years in the White House, since this was originally mapped out. What you see here is an incursion against the United States of America.

I live in Minnesota. According to the Minnesota Council of Churches website, there are about 150,000 Muslims in our state. Some intelligence sources tell us the number is probably closer to 250,000. Let's use the 150,000 for an example of an important point.

Minnesota has the nation's largest Somali community. The Cedar-Riverside area of Minneapolis is now referred to as “little Mogadishu”. There are men there who are known to be Shari’ah cops. They wear Shari’ah-identifying police uniforms. For many members of the Minneapolis police department, it has become a “no go zone”.

Minnesota not only has the largest Somali population of any state in the nation, it also leads the nation in recruiting ISIS terrorists. Knowing this, we have to be prepared for the 5-10% who are jihadi extremists. This means we need to know how to defend against roughly 7,500 – 15,000 trained jihadis who are being prepared to lead the 150,000 in the takeover of the state.

Willmar, Minnesota has roughly a 17% Somali population. 6% is considered to be critical mass for an Islamic takeover. Saint Cloud and Rochester are both heavily Somali-populated. I recommend that you read Articles 1-4 of The Constitution of Somalia. It will take less than 5 minutes and it will help you better understand the Somali Muslims who have come into the state. Why is this important? It is important because all these people know about is from their culture, their homeland, Somalia.

Islam is the religion of the state. No religion other than Islam is even permitted in the country. And no law can be enacted that is not in compliance with Sharia law. So, it makes perfect sense why so many Somali’s want Shari’ah law enacted in their communities here in the United States.

One of the means by which these jihadi’s carry out their jihad is through a deceptive practice known as Interfaith Dialogue. A significant number of loving-though-gullible “Christians” have bought into the Interfaith Dialogue lie. Christians have large hearts of compassion especially towards the “refugee”. We must to get to a point where we not only maintain the heart of compassion towards people, but we also still have to filter information through a brain cell. We still need to think. We need to have the accurate knowledge if we are going to effectively protect our children and if we're going to effectively take care of our nation.

Part of what we need to think about is the necessity of discerning the difference between true “refugees,” which make up 75-90% of the Muslim population in Minnesota.

For sake of discussion, let’s say 90% or 135,000 Somali Muslim refugees are legitimate, peace-seeking, family-loving human beings who simply escaped horrible conditions in Somalia and want to settle in “America, the land of opportunity”. Many of these are “Muslim in name only” because they came from a country that only allowed Islam to be taught. But, here in America, primary faith and principles are Judeo-Christian. Jesus’ command to Christians was and is to introduce Him to those who do not know Him. From a Christian missions standpoint, the “lost” world is moving to Minnesota! It is our opportunity to lovingly assist these people with the love of and in the name of Jesus. It is our opportunity to introduce them to the Lord of the universe, Jesus Christ.

On the other hand, that means there are 15,000 Somali Muslims who came here with evil intent. They have made it clear that part of their strategy is to use our 1st Amendment against us as a means by which they can take political office and create legislation compatible with Islam and Shari’ah law. What they cannot do through politics, they plan to do by force. Why? Because they understand better than we Americans do that Shari’ah law is not only incompatible with Christianity and Judaism, it is also incompatible with the Constitution of the United States. They cannot exist under our Constitution for the long haul. They can exist under it as long as they continue to advance the cause of Allah and, when they have advanced far enough to gain control, then they can shred our Constitution and effectively make us an Islamic Republic. That is their plan and they are very patiently playing the long game with it.

This has serious, if not obvious, ramifications for all Americans and especially for the American Christian church.

As I stated above, Shari’ah law is a complete way of life. It governs everything. A practicing Muslim follows Sharia law as fully as possible in every area of his or her life, just as Christians are supposed to follow the Lordship of Jesus completely in every area of our lives. But, Christians worship a different God than Muslims. The god of Islam is not the God of Christianity. The god of Islam denies the deity of Jesus Christ. For Christians, everything rises and falls on the Lordship of Jesus. It is the absolute plumb line for truth.

The god of Islam provided a whole chapter and more in the Quran on how to lie effectively for the cause of Allah. Now, let’s think this through. According to the Holy Bible, who is the father of lies? Satan. (The same evil being to whom the Marxist/Socialist/Communist, Saul Alinsky, dedicated his playbook, remember?) You just identified the god of Islam. He is not the same god as the God of the Christians.

So as Christians, as Patriots, we choose either to get serious about our faith and about our convictions in the public square or we do risk losing our freedoms. We risk losing our country. We risk losing our nation. We risk losing our children to those who are hostile to our constitution.

I've had legislators and legislative staff in our state’s capitol in St. Paul tell me that inclusivity is more important than the First Amendment. The exact words were “inclusivity trump's the First Amendment”. Well what's in the First Amendment?

Freedom of speech. Freedom of worship. Freedom of religious expression. Freedom of the press and freedom to peacefully assemble. Inclusivity trump's all of that. No, it doesn’t. But if we don't stand up, it could.

It's time we learn what it means when God instructed us through the Apostle Paul to behave as citizens worthy of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Because that phrase if you remember correctly also means do politics worthy of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. So, we’re at a crossroads in 2020. A point in which we're going to have to make some decisions that will have far-reaching consequences and we're going to decide whether the righteous increase so that we rejoice, or whether the wicked rule and the people groan. It's up to us. May we bless God and be guided by Him in the decisions we make.