"One Nation (Without God)?"

United States District Judge, Lawrence Karlton today determined that the Pledge of Allegiance is un-Constitutional (again) because it includes the words “one nation under God.” This is one more step, even if it is reversed at the Supreme Court level, down the road of secularism. What is just as much of a concern is that a God-free or God- neutral culture seems so reasonable, even to many believers. When we see the increased distance our culture places between it and God, it becomes harder to understand why so many would question why God would allow a Hurricane Katrina to pound the Gulf coast. This is not to say that God is necessarily responding to our actions, though I do not think I could rule that out. Rather, why would a secular society care? They care because those who have been changed by the power of God, and who maintain an active witness in the world, daily demonstrate that reality is not bound to secularism. Reality is bound to God. Without God everything is blind chance, purposeless and irrational. No understanding exists without God. Not even of the destruction of a hurricane. A nation that gives up on being “under God” places itself square in the middle of a mad-house of events that cannot be accounted for, nor in which one can find peace.