God or government?  It’s a question that I think we as a nation must ask ourselves as we stand at the crossroads of decisions that will have historic impacts on the very nature of our country for a generation or more. 

Although I admittedly lean toward less government, I don’t hate government—I just believe that it functions most efficiently and effectively in a smaller form.  Lately, however, with the struggling economy and high unemployment it has become clear to me that many of our citizens view government (perhaps subconsciously) with reverence usually reserved for our Creator.  Not as a holy entity and not as a source of salvation, but certainly as the all-powerful provider here on this earth.

Consider the cultural shift over our nation’s two-hundred-thirty-three years of existence.  When this great country was founded, the majority of our founding fathers were (more)

I read a very interesting statistic a few weeks ago.  In Bernard Goldberg’s book “Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right”, he quotes a pretty startling statistic:  if you 1) graduate high school, 2) don’t have kids until you’re married, and 3) don’t get married until you’re 20 then you have only an 8% chance of living in poverty.

Before I go any farther,  I must first declare that I am extremely hesitant to believe statistics that aren’t easily verifiable, and I will readily acknowledge that I haven’t made any real effort to validate that statistic.  But because it ties so perfectly into a belief system that has served me well for most of my life (and has thus been verified to me), I’m going to use it as a launching point for this article.

Take a look at those three requirements again.  Graduate.  Don’t get pregnant until you’re married.  Don’t get married before you’re 20.  They’re pretty basic.  They (more)