Happy Birthday President Reagan

February 6, 2012 | By BoomerJeff In Christianity |

In August 1984 Ronald Reagan spoke to an ecumenical prayer breakfast in Dallas, Texas.  Here’s an excerpt:

We’ve been hearing a lot about religion and it’s role in politics, its place in the political life of the nation.  I think it’s appropriate that this issue be addressed.  I don’t speak as a theologian or schollar, only as one who as lived a little more than his three score and ten, which has been an annoyance to some…

We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever.  We command no worship.  We mandate no belief.  But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings.  We court corruption when we leave it bereft of belief.  All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to practice a faith or not.  But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief, to apply moral teaching to public questions.

I submit to you that the tolerant society is open to and encouraging of all religions.  And this does not weaken us; it strengthens us…

Without God, there is no virtue, because there’s no prompting of the conscience.  Without God, we’re mired in the material, that flat world that tells us only what the senses perceive.  Without God, there is a coarsening of the society.  And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.  If we ever forget that we’re One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

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1 Comment so far

  1. Drew on February 7th, 2012

    I’m afraid that there is, and will ever be, only one Reagan.

    Woudth that the lord would give me the wisdom and strength to be him in the current environment. In that void, let us all hope that governor Romney may be the nominee and approach the governance ideals that Reagan would have espoused.