Hilmar von Campe, thought provoking intellectual, author, and speaker.

Home page of Hilmar von Campe, thought provoking intellectual, speaker, and writer.

Donate Online
Objectives of the National Institute for Truth and Freedom, Hilmar von Campe
keynote addresses of Hilmar von Campe, intellectual and thought provoking author and speaker.
monthly articles written by Hilmar von Campe, intellectual and thought provoking author and speaker.
Books by Hilmar von Campe, thought provoking intellectual, speaker, and writer.
Holocaust statement by Hilmar von Campe, thought provoking intellectual, speaker, and author.
new things occurring for Hilmar von Campe, intellectual and thought provoking author and speaker.

Personal history of Hilmar von Campe, thought provoking intellectual, speaker, and author.
family biography of Hilmar von Campe, intellectual and thought provoking author and speaker.

The global ideology concept of Hilmar von Campe, intellectual and thought provoking author and speaker.
dignitaries meeting Hilmar von Campe, intellectual and thought provoking author and speaker.
audio interview of Hilmar von Campe, intellectual and thought provoking author and speaker.
reviews of Hilmar von Campe, intellectual and thought provoking author and speaker.
testimonial letters for Hilmar von Campe, intellectual and thought provoking author and speaker.
links of Hilmar von Campe, intellectual and thought provoking author and speaker.
contact Hilmar von Campe, intellectual, speaker, and author
site map for Hilmar von Campe, thought provoking intellectual, speaker, and author.

Moral Meltdown, The Core of Globalism by Hilmar von Campe, thought provoking intellectual, speaker and author.

Connecting With The Power Of God, by Hilmar von Campe, thought provoking intellectual, speaker, and author.

Feigheit und Anpassung: Politikim Zwielicht by Hilmar von Campe, thought provoking intellectual, speaker, and author.

Deutschland Im Globalen Bürgerkrieg by Hilmar von Campe, thought provoking intellectual, speaker, and author.

Cobardia y Adaptacion: La Politica entre dos Luces by Hilmar von Campe thought provoking intellectual, speaker, and author.

monthly articles by Hilmar von Campe, thought provoking intellectual, speaker, and author.

Will It Be A Nation Under Or Against God?

By Hilmar von Campe

On May 21, 2004 President Bush spoke at the Louisiana State University commencement ceremony stating: "Freedom is the gift from the Almighty to every man and women in this world." He urged the students to "avoid moral relativism and be skeptical when they hear comments that truth is relative." Since God Almighty is truth, there could be no God if truth were relative. His commandments are absolute and the same for everybody regardless of religion, race or nation. In a relative world, the definition of sin would be subject to human whims. Furthermore, the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ, who defined himself as a messenger of truth, would have been an exercise in futility. Relativism would take away the foundation of the American Constitution and destroy the reason for the nation's purpose: to spread freedom across the globe, which ultimately is the motivation for our soldiers who are fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Roy Moore, was removed from office by his Republican colleagues with the help of the Republican governor and attorney general. He had placed a monument with the Ten Commandments in the Supreme Court Building to point out that God is the source of our laws. A federal judge had unconstitutionally given him the order to remove the monument, applying the Nazi philosophy that God has no saying in the rules of society.

The Canyon Ferry Road Baptist Church in Montana is subject to a legal complaint by gay rights activists because it hosted a meeting on church grounds in support of a proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage. According to the complaints, Planned Parenthood, PRIDE, and the Montana Human Rights Network consider morally perverse sexual practices to be constitutional.  The moral battle by Christian churches for the preservation of the Christian family - the core of our society - they consider unconstitutional. 

There is more at stake than the tax exempt status for the church of Pastor B.G. Stumberg in Montana. At stake is the direction of American society, the meaning and the preservation of freedom. There are two opposing ideological forces at work in America. There is no middle ground, and only one will prevail in the long run: either un-American pagans who are out to subvert the moral order upon which America became the leader of the free world, a truly unique society as well as the richest nation on earth, or a Christian minority, that fights thousands of heroic individual battles to maintain the moral order of God, but that has no common ideology. The godless, who also call themselves Americans, are the ones who attack.  Christians on the other hand, remain on defense and are loosing ground. For as long as I have been in America I have been pointing out that you can't win a war on the defensive. We need an offensive concept and a strategy that embraces all of humanity.  America needs an ideology, but nobody wants to listen. 

There is a third group, however I wouldn't call it a force: the comfortable majority of people, most of whom go to church on Sunday, but who are only concerned with themselves and on a regular basis cut corners to achieve their personal goals. Jesus spoke of them when he said, "I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot.  I wish you were either one or the other. So because you are luke-warm - neither hot nor cold - I am about to spit you out of my mouth" (Revelations 3:15).

A nation under God is not a nation where 90% of the people say that they believe in God but don't keep His Commandments. A nation under God means a society with political, legal, and social structures true to God's Commandments and with leaders who do not seek themselves but the truth and justice of their Creator. Laws that allow gay marriages, abortion, women in combat, throwing God out of government and schools, government financing godless institutions and activities, to mention only a few aberrations, are as lawful as were the Nazi laws that I had to live under. The reasons for such laws in a democracy are politicians, who have no absolute moral standards and seek re-election before God. That leads to manipulation of power for one's own benefit, and the more values are outlawed this way, the bigger the mess we are in becomes. Church-going America with silent pastors is on the road to become a nation against God.

Two movies showed me the power of the film industry and what Hollywood could do to bring America and mankind to sanity. Troy paints a compelling picture about what drives a pagan society. Even though the Trojan War happened more than 3000 years ago, the message is relevant today. Society at that time was by no means primitive. Cultured, intelligent and well meaning people were in charge of the Trojan kingdom, but their moral and intellectual structures were locked into this world with false concepts of life, honor and self-fabricated gods, leaving everybody without a compelling reason to live. Achilles defined the reasons for war: land, power or glory. The King of Argos, Agamemnon, leader of the hostile Greek army, made it clear that his reason for the war was his own glory. Misery and death of others as a consequence of his war did not concern him. He was out for himself and that was the only thing that mattered.   

Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ shows convincingly what is missing in pagan society: linking of life and society in this world with eternity, thus giving people and nations a purpose. Jesus' motives are not self-seeking, but rather his father's will, even though he knew that it meant his own suffering and death for the life of others. He demonstrates what it costs to obey and trust God's power regardless of any human power. When he is close to breaking-down under the weight of the wooden cross, when it seems that his strength must have come to an end and his personality is close to destruction, he states "I shall make everything new!" On that promise rests our future, our liberty, the existence of free society, faith for our children. Christ wants and will make our sin-ridden, greed-driven society new from top to bottom. The only legitimate power in this world is the power of God. He works through men and women with pure motives, which is not the same as human manipulations by religious people.

Humanity stumbled along from war to war, from destruction to destruction, from hope to desperation, from futility to futility until the experiment America was born - a nation built by Christians on biblical truth, developing a society meant to be an example for the whole of the world. But we keep stumbling along. Could it be that we have the right words but not the music? And if that is so, what are you going to do about it?

Back ¦ Top

Hilmar von Campe, thought provoking intellectual, speaker, and author.

Download the printer friendly file for this article.

Get Adobe Acrobat Reader free to use for printer display format files. Download Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Hilmar von Campe, thought provoking intellectual, speaker, and author.

Home ¦ Nat'l Institute ¦ Keynote Addresses ¦ Monthly Articles ¦ Hilmar's Books

Holocaust Statement ¦ What's New ¦ Personal History ¦ Family Biography

Global Ideology ¦ Dignitaries ¦  Audio Interview ¦ Reviews

Testimonial Letters ¦ Links ¦ Contact Us ¦ Site Map

Hilmar von Campe, Zum nachdenken zwingender Autor und RednerGerman Site