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Post by peterd on Oct 28, 2007 4:47:54 GMT -8
While on TDY in DC, one of my team mates received a question from her niece. Can U.S. fall apart just like a Roman empire. Looking at it from the biblical and historical stand point of view, is that possible. Many scholars will argue that U.S. will not fall. Many theologians will say the opposite. History is showing us that all the great empires eventually fell. Many of them fell not because they were destroyed from the outside, but most of them fell because of the inside turmoils. If we look at the Roman empire, they fell because of internal political problems including their ways of life, such as almost anything was allowed. Sexual perversions, greed, lack of respect for human life, etc. If we compared that to today, I would say there are many similarities they way we live to the Roman Empire. The biblical question to you all is, if you look at the book of Revelation, could we fall as a nation.
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Post by FightingFalcon on Oct 28, 2007 10:35:37 GMT -8
Yes, we can and we will. No, it will have nothing to do with our social perversion.
If great empires fell because of social perversion, then Imperial Spain would never have fallen and the United Provinces would never have become a first rate power.
Of all the reasons why Rome fell, I don't think any legitimate historian has ever offered the excuse of sexual perversion and lack of respect for human life. At the height of both the Republic and the Empire, sexual promiscuity ran amok and deadly gladiatorial battles were the rage.
edit: Ironically, Sir Edward Gibbon offered the adoption of Christianity as a significant cause of the fall of Rome. The people became so obsessed with the next world as opposed to this one that they devoted their efforts to the afterlife.
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Post by dustdevil28 on Oct 28, 2007 16:26:46 GMT -8
All things will come to a end eventually Pete. There will be a day when the U.S. as we know it is no more, but I don't see it occuring in my lifetime and if it comes close I will fight to preserve it with all I'm worth. If I fail the one solice I can take and I think you and your friends niece should be able to take is that although America may one day fall, the ideals that we were built apon and stand for today, freedom, hope, and liberty are things that are in each of us when we are born and is a fire which will never burn out.
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