This is a recommendation for the book, not a review.  I cannot NOT speak out about the present crisis in the United States.   In fact, I consider it my duty to condemn the immorality of a government (both Republican and Democrat led) which confiscates the wealth of its people, devalues the currency, trashes the constitution in the name of providing equal outcomes for all people, and accumulates a massive federal debt that must be paid for by our children and grandchildren.

All the while, the legislators in Congress who pass the confiscatory policies that threaten our very freedoms are living in luxury and are exempt from much of the burden that the average taxpayer has to bear.

I am recommending Glenn Beck’s Common Sense not because I like him or agree with all of his views.  I am recommending the book because it sounds the right note at the right time and for the right reasons.  

I read the book - just 111 pages plus 50 pages of the original Common Sense by Tom Paine - after I returned home from visitation tonight.  It’s a quick read.  But it is heavy stuff.  I recommend that every American read it.

In this column I speak only for myself.  My justification for addressing these issues includes the following axioms (my thoughts, not Glenn Beck’s):

1. Political liberty is directly tied to the economic liberty of a people.
2. Economic liberty requires that people, not government, determine how much of their earnings they will keep and how much they will entrust to government.
3. Religious liberty is inextricably tied to political liberty.
4. The secularizing and socialistic principles that now guide our nation’s leaders of both parties are inimical to religion in general and to Christianity in particular.  (I don’t mean that any of our national leaders have expressed this sentiment; I simply mean that the inevitable result of the current policies will be a gradually intensifying hostility to Christian values, as seen by the current policies regarding marriage and family, homosexuality, and the environment.)

If you are concerned about where we are headed as a nation, read this book.  Then do something.

Pastor Alan Day