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[Written in 2014]
What difference can 100 years make? 100 Years have passed since the days of President Woodrow Wilson and World War I. Beginning in 1914 with the World War Era, Americans rallied to fight evil and bring the hope of the Gospel to those across the seas. Armed with a strong faith in God and the life-changing power of an Almighty Saviour, Americans not only led the fight against oppressive communist dictators, but freed those imprisoned and supported democratic, free societies established upon the same Christian principles America was built upon. The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library continues today to highlight the purposeful agenda, set forth by our American government during the World War era, to strengthen democratic views, specifically in China, through the appointing of Bible believers to state posts. The Library exhibit reads, "Wilson became president at the height of missionary influence in China. The President and his Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan, shared an evangelical attitude that hoped to see China become Christian and democratic. Many state department posts were filled by former missionaries and their children." In The Foreign Missionary at Home Enterprise:
...missionaries and their children molded both the conceptualization and the implementation of U.S. foreign policy until well into the twentieth century. Especially in the Middle East and the Far East, for most of the first half of the twentieth century, the State Department would have been poorer in personnel but for missionary offspring. Some extended families such as the Luces in China and the Blisses and Dodges in the Middle East influenced the U.S. policymakers at a high level for generations. The Presbyterian Henry Winters Luce built Yenching University, and his son Henry R. Luce, born and reared in China exerted remarkable influence on public opinion and diplomacy through his Time-Life empire from the 1930s to the 1960s. In the Middle East, the tangled skein of missionary ties with foreign policy was even tighter. The descendants of Daniel Bliss, founder of Syrian Protestant College (later the American University of Beirut), and of his close associate, W.E. Dodge, a third generation member of the Dodge family (which had been involved in education missions in Constantinople and Beirut for many years), distinguished himself as Wilson's college classmate, life-long friend, and trusted advisor on Middle Eastern affairs. Dodge clearly influenced Wilson's views of Turkey and its oppressed Christian minorities, especially the Armenians. At the highest diplomatic posts, Woodrow Wilson tried to appoint missionary statesman John R. Mott as ambassador to China, and Franklin Roosevelt did appoint missionary educator Leighton Stuart of Yenching University to that post in the 1940s.
Now, today, in 100 years, that progressive agenda has sprung forth like a persistent weed through the cracks in a foundation and is choking out all that is right and true. The solid, Christian foundation was jackhammered by anti-God organizers in the 60s as God was taken out of the schools. The new agenda has now been willingly voted into office by a generation deceived and duped by a corrupted education. Presently, during Barack Obama's administration, eleven openly-homosexual judges have been appointed, in which five of these judicial appointments were unanimously confirmed while the appointees introduced their same-sex partners as their families to the seated committee. Six states have their first homosexual U.S. district court judge. The National Law Journal stated in July 2014, "Obama appointee Michael McShane in Oregon became the first openly gay judge to strike down a state's same-sex marriage ban....(McShane stated) 'Generations of Americans, my own included, were raised in a world in which homosexuality was believed to be a moral perversion, a mental disorder, or a mortal sin.'" Yet today, even many "duped Christians" believe the mantra that an "alternative lifestyle" is a civil right. This changed agenda has now opened the flood gates to home-grown terrorist, school massacres, and laughable foreign policy that sends homosexual tennis player, Billie Jean King, to represent America in Russia while our President chats with Putin and passenger airlines are shot down with Russian arms in the hands of rebels.
What will be in the next 100 years?
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