LETTER: Insidious scheme
The insidious scheme to allow beer to be sold in grocery stores in Pennsylvania seems to be picking up support. Many “respectable” citizens are backing it. One of the leading television stations in this area recently came out in favor of it.
I guess this is to be expected in “The Decline And Fall of The United States of America,” in our insane plunge into complete spiritual bankruptcy, and moral anarchy. In a land where parents take their children to Sunday school, and then go back home and expect the kids to grow up to be good Christian citizens. Or just lie in bed Sunday mornings and don’t even both to get up and take the kids. Where Sunday has become a holiday instead of a holy day. In a land where people are more concerned with material things than their eternal destiny. Where the things that made America great, and made possible the blessings we enjoy are considered stupid and outmoded. When the road we are traveling is strewn with the skeletons of nations who have traveled it before us, and yet we plunge madly on.
I have spent some time in states where alcoholic beverages were sold in grocery stores, and I never failed to experience a feeling of shock and shame when shopping in those stores. Is there to be no place where those who oppose this terrible curse can shop without openly contributing to the destruction of the moral fiber of our nation?
One of the darkest days in America’s history was the day the 18th Amendment was repealed. When one of Satan’s most potent tools was given respectability. We hear the perverted arguments that the 18th Amendment only resulted in illegal traffic, etc. If the American people had had the spiritual and moral strength they should have had, this monster could have been decisively defeated and much of the $11 billion spent on it annually could have been spent to help alleviate hunger, pain and spiritual darkness.
Will this be another milestone in the complete moral collapse of our country? We’d better see that it isn’t.
Clarence Brautigam
Hickory