Situations such as this have occurred at least as far back as the 1960's when you had the "hippies" burning flags and being involved with other such disruptive activities as that.
Sad to say that many of those hippies have never changed their intense hatred for societies that value such goals as life, liberty, and freedom. In fact, many of these spineless cowards now occupy positions of power and influence in many governments in the so-called "developed[?] 'First World'" nations.
Case in point--the USA itself.
We've got people in all three branches of our Constitutionally-established federal government who are determined to destroy what few remaining freedoms we have into some kind of Marxist-Stalinist "big-brother" collectivist slave society.
You don't have to read or listen to the mass media very long to realize that this nation is on the very slippery slope to total destruction.
I don't believe that the USA was ever really that much of a so-called "Christian" nation in the very strictest Biblical sense.
OTHO, even those folks who probably wouldn't identify themselves as "Bible believers," at least had a measure of respect for the basic principles that God's Word reveals to us.
For some half a century or more, our schools have eliminated such things as prayer and the posting of the Ten Commandments. In their place we see armed guards patrolling the hallways. Faculty and staff are discouraged in many schools to even so much as to place a Bible on their desks.
And, in the so-called "Public" workplace it's often times even worse.
There was a time where we as a society were proud of our national accomplishments that were the products of individuals' hard work.
When we were challenged with such things as the Great Depression and the subsequent World War that followed it, we rose to and were victorious over them.
Now, if a person attempts to aspire to lift him or herself up by using their God-given talents and grit, he or she is disrespected by those who those think that our government deserves to supply them with money, food, housing, education, etc., simply because they live here, breathe, and otherwise take up space.
I'm not saying that this nation doesn't have any problems because it does.
But I'd rather spend my days here in this nation--with all of its problems--than a lifetime of misery somewhere else on this planet.
I think that most of you all (That's a good Bible expression that the Apostle Paul often used, BTW!) would probably agree with me on this.
Let's be grateful for what opportunities we still have to live for and serve our Lord, and to thank and praise His Holy Name that He chose to love us and call us His own dear children!
