Stand up! Not as your enemies stand up in hatred as they hope to deny you "your" freedom, but as the True God would have you stand up with kindness, consistency, compassion . . . and not in silence.

I was reading an online news story about the battle raging in the Gaza Strip and came across a video clip of a Muslim woman protesting on the side of a road in Florida. She was screaming at Jews across the street, "Go back to the ovens! Go back to the ovens!"

I felt sick to my stomach. I realize that we live in America where we have free speech, but did this woman really understand what she was saying?

It was the same sick feeling I got when I watched the news story about the gay man in California who hung Governor Palin in effigy from his rooftop because he did not agree with her political views. Do you think an effigy of a gay man hanging from anything would have lasted for more than one second? There would have been a mad public outcry! A hate crime captured on camera! Injustice!

I would place links to these clips in this article, but you already have the visual pictures ingrained in your head, don't you? Is a video clip necessary to understand how evil people can be? It's the same evil that's been around since the beginning of time; it just has a faster way of forcing its ugly, pathetic head into the world. But we don't watch these video clips to gain understanding. We watch them for the sensationalism. We want to see ourselves spewing hatred on a screen and call it "communication."

Today we have the grandest communication tools known to mankind, and yet human beings still cannot communicate with any sense of grace or empathy when it comes to difficult issues. In fact, our fancy tools have helped us become less humane:

• We drive around in our cars with cell phones attached to our ears and pretend it's the other guy's fault when we fail to yield the right of way . . . and then give him the finger.
  
  
• We walk around in malls with earphones stuffed in our heads, wrapped up in our own little worlds, communicating with ourselves so we don't have to be engaged in the one around us.
  
  
• We're barraged with email forwards containing half truths that come to us under the guise of "communications" that help divide countries, communities and friendships.
  
  
• We scream at each other within online blogs and commentaries over news stories that we swear are completely true. "Our Party never lies; it's the other side that's screwed up 100 percent of the time."

If we, the silent majority in America, are faithful to the words "In God We Trust," then why aren't we trusting God to give us the right words to say? The right reaction to hate? The right action to take when we see evil?

Trusting in God does not mean we should be wimps. On the contrary. We must champion and defend God. But we cannot believe he is just "our" God, because he is the God of all people . . . IF people so choose Him. If they fail to choose Him, should we react in hateful terms? Will that help our cause? We might as well be without God if we're going to act like those who do not know Him. We are called to be firm in our convictions without ripping people apart. We need to state Truth plainly—so plainly, and without personal malice—that the seed of the Truth of God's reality is bound to take root and grow.

The founding fathers of the United States of America understood the importance of communication, trusting in the One and Only God, and the freedom to choose Him, or not. They communicate to us still, to this day and into the future, through the Constitution and many other official documents, letters, prayers—even sculptures on and in our government buildings, that there IS a God who wants us to be "free" to choose Him. They went as far as to protect God in the Constitution. Yes, you read that correctly— they protected God from Man by writing a constitution that guarantees freedom "of" religion, which is altogether different from the current-day interpretation of freedom "from" religion. Read the first sentence of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; . . . "

Our forefathers never wanted a nation without God. Read the actual writings of these people, as opposed to the interpreted history of their lives, and it is undeniable that most of them loved and worshiped God and counted on Him for a direction for a young America.

Our Constitution guarantees the right of every citizen to believe as he chooses, which means it also protects those who believe in God from those who do not believe in God at all. Why are we, as a nation, not getting that?? Why isn't anyone defending the amazing history of this country that glorifies God??

Stand up! Not as your enemies stand up in hatred as they hope to deny you "your" freedom, but as the True God would have you stand up with kindness, consistency, compassion . . . and not in silence. A non-answer is an answer in itself. Communicate plainly. Communicate honestly. Communicate with all the love, empathy and conviction that you can muster.

We must communicate that God IS and always should be integral to American life. America was born with God. America will die without God.

If we can talk for hours on our cell phones about nothing, email millions of useless words a day, rage online . . . how can we be silent in this area?

Let the world hear this crucial communication! Place it on your mailed envelopes, car windows, in your homes, in your businesses . . . in the deepest crevices of your heart: "In God We Trust."

We can't afford to be the silent majority.

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