The Great Divide: Morality, Not Politics

As any good historian will tell you, great nations/empires are not “born,” they arise either from lowly beginnings or they overthrow tyranny to become free.  Either way, the process is long, arduous, and problematic.  It takes people of virtue, courage, and self-sacrifice to rise from nothing to greatness.  For a civilization to do that is grueling, which is why there are so few great empires in history among the countless tribes and peoples who have populated our puny planet.

Only when virtue and hard work are superior to debauchery and weakness (which always exists, too) can a nation become strong and wealthy.  It will rise above its neighbors and often dominate them (sometimes becoming a tyranny itself, though not always).  Regardless, wealth once attained wants to be enjoyed.  So, the lesson of history is that when people “have eaten and filled themselves and grown fat,” they forget their God and the principles that produced that we …