Religion, National Character and Strategic Power

摘要

This paper researches and reviews the significance of the faith of the founding leaders of this nation in God. The author focuses on the uniquely Christian character of the psycho-social values which inspired the framers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The study shows that modern, secular humanistic ideology and influence, which claim that religious values and faith in God were never, or are now of no significance to contemporary values are not only false but dangerous. The effort of secularists, during the three decades following World War II, to censor the powerful effect of Christian principles from history and form social issues, political decisions, education and the media, and to segregate religious beliefs behind an absolute wall of separation between church and state has undermined the foundation on which this Republic was built. The weakening of the psycho-social element of national power has and will continue to weaken the other bases of strategic power, the economic, technological, and military, unless we return to what General MacArthur called a spiritual awakening and moral regeneration. (Author)