Dr. Couch, I appreciate your stance on what you call "Illegal Foreigners" coming into our country by breaking the laws. Why don't others see what you are saying?
ANSWER: It is because most Americans today no longer are appreciative of this nation, how it got here, the Christian base of the nation, etc. We now are a consumer nation, spending, consuming, and just out for "fun"! We have taken this land and its blessings for granted. We do not understand the cultural, social Christian orientation in its beginning history, even though it is true that such spiritual roots are now almost completely gone from the present moment of our existence.
It is not politically correct to argue that the nation was founded on European, Calvinistic, Reformation roots. The secularists and humanists are ignorant of history. They are revisionists who are out to destroy the memory of our European, Christian original values. They have done a great job of it. The illegal foreigner issue comes out of the historic destruction of how our nation was founded. There is an agenda in our secular universities to degrade our nation's heritage and its spiritual beginnings.
By the way, remember what happens in England and Europe will in time arrive in America. The Europeans have decades ago repudiated their Christian heritage. It is a statistical fact that eighty percent of the people of Denmark are now atheists! You may have read recently that the Archbishop of Canterbury has called for England to accept Islamic laws for the Muslims in that country. In other words, Britain would become a nation with two different legal systems! This is madness but it is part of the spiritual blindness and apostasy that we dispensationalists knew quite well from the Bible was coming!
There are some interesting immigration statistics you need to know. For example from 1820 to 1978 the vast majority of immigrants were from Calvinistic or Protestant countries, minus Italy. Ten percent of the immigrants during that period were Catholics from Italy with eighty-three percent from basically Protestant influenced nations. Because the numbers were so low Latin American countries are not mentioned in the figures.
Another fact must be mentioned. The people arriving in America were free to worship as they pleased but they knew they were coming to a Protestant-oriented country. They accepted this and as they settled in this country were blessed by that fact.
Interestingly, the majority of those coming from Russia were Jews. They were being persecuted by the Czar and immigrated to America. The number rose to 81,000 by 1892 and peaked at 258,000 in 1907. In my opinion this furthered the blessing upon America. This nation became a haven for many of God's earthly people!
Historians note that after World War I the country turned against massive immigration. Revisionists look at this as some sort of prejudice but I have a problem with that. We were not there and living at that time! The people of that generation knew something that we don't now know or have forgotten. Immigration remained basically European until the presidency of John F. Kennedy. He opened the flood gates which began to mix and match cultures and societies, which I believe began a further destruction of the Christian and Protestant base of this nation.
Something else must not be forgotten. America cannot absorb the entire world within its borders. We cannot be the dumping ground for all the poor of the world. We have traditionally reached out with charity to poor nations, and exported technology and industrial help when able.
I am in no way arguing that all of the folks coming in from Europe were believers in Christ but their laws, mores, cultural affinities, were basically Reformation and Protestant. My Ph.D. dissertation was titled: "Public School Textbooks: Pre-Civil War." In that work I proved that early America was Christian and this was cited even by our Supreme Court. "America is a Christian Nation," said the judges.
The more we open the floodgates to cultures and societies that are not European and Protestant based, the more our nation will become something else. I believe we will not be able to stop this trend because people coming out of our government schools and universities just "don't get it!" They have been brainwashed by communist and socialist professors to believe the lies about how terrible this nation is, with the result they are turning this nation's younger generation in another direction. But the open repudiation of America's Christian values will play a role in bringing on the judgment and the apostasy I have been teaching from the Bible for decades!
It is dangerous for me personally to write the truth as I have stated it above. I will be labeled a bigot and prejudicial. But I have many personal and life-long friends who are minorities. My concerns are not aimed at the individual but my concerns are about a mass immigration of certain cultures and societies that will destroy what we have. And anyone who knows me understands that I believe all people stand before God equal (as sinners and as redeemable), but this does not mean that for the survival of this nation we can open the flood gates to all cultures without regard for the consequences. All cultures are not equal morally nor do they look at family and legal issues with the same biblical orientation! Time will certainly prove what I am writing is correct, if it has not already begun to show the truth of this argument.
Thanks for asking.
Dr. Mal Couch
ANSWER: It is because most Americans today no longer are appreciative of this nation, how it got here, the Christian base of the nation, etc. We now are a consumer nation, spending, consuming, and just out for "fun"! We have taken this land and its blessings for granted. We do not understand the cultural, social Christian orientation in its beginning history, even though it is true that such spiritual roots are now almost completely gone from the present moment of our existence.
It is not politically correct to argue that the nation was founded on European, Calvinistic, Reformation roots. The secularists and humanists are ignorant of history. They are revisionists who are out to destroy the memory of our European, Christian original values. They have done a great job of it. The illegal foreigner issue comes out of the historic destruction of how our nation was founded. There is an agenda in our secular universities to degrade our nation's heritage and its spiritual beginnings.
By the way, remember what happens in England and Europe will in time arrive in America. The Europeans have decades ago repudiated their Christian heritage. It is a statistical fact that eighty percent of the people of Denmark are now atheists! You may have read recently that the Archbishop of Canterbury has called for England to accept Islamic laws for the Muslims in that country. In other words, Britain would become a nation with two different legal systems! This is madness but it is part of the spiritual blindness and apostasy that we dispensationalists knew quite well from the Bible was coming!
There are some interesting immigration statistics you need to know. For example from 1820 to 1978 the vast majority of immigrants were from Calvinistic or Protestant countries, minus Italy. Ten percent of the immigrants during that period were Catholics from Italy with eighty-three percent from basically Protestant influenced nations. Because the numbers were so low Latin American countries are not mentioned in the figures.
Another fact must be mentioned. The people arriving in America were free to worship as they pleased but they knew they were coming to a Protestant-oriented country. They accepted this and as they settled in this country were blessed by that fact.
Interestingly, the majority of those coming from Russia were Jews. They were being persecuted by the Czar and immigrated to America. The number rose to 81,000 by 1892 and peaked at 258,000 in 1907. In my opinion this furthered the blessing upon America. This nation became a haven for many of God's earthly people!
Historians note that after World War I the country turned against massive immigration. Revisionists look at this as some sort of prejudice but I have a problem with that. We were not there and living at that time! The people of that generation knew something that we don't now know or have forgotten. Immigration remained basically European until the presidency of John F. Kennedy. He opened the flood gates which began to mix and match cultures and societies, which I believe began a further destruction of the Christian and Protestant base of this nation.
Something else must not be forgotten. America cannot absorb the entire world within its borders. We cannot be the dumping ground for all the poor of the world. We have traditionally reached out with charity to poor nations, and exported technology and industrial help when able.
I am in no way arguing that all of the folks coming in from Europe were believers in Christ but their laws, mores, cultural affinities, were basically Reformation and Protestant. My Ph.D. dissertation was titled: "Public School Textbooks: Pre-Civil War." In that work I proved that early America was Christian and this was cited even by our Supreme Court. "America is a Christian Nation," said the judges.
The more we open the floodgates to cultures and societies that are not European and Protestant based, the more our nation will become something else. I believe we will not be able to stop this trend because people coming out of our government schools and universities just "don't get it!" They have been brainwashed by communist and socialist professors to believe the lies about how terrible this nation is, with the result they are turning this nation's younger generation in another direction. But the open repudiation of America's Christian values will play a role in bringing on the judgment and the apostasy I have been teaching from the Bible for decades!
It is dangerous for me personally to write the truth as I have stated it above. I will be labeled a bigot and prejudicial. But I have many personal and life-long friends who are minorities. My concerns are not aimed at the individual but my concerns are about a mass immigration of certain cultures and societies that will destroy what we have. And anyone who knows me understands that I believe all people stand before God equal (as sinners and as redeemable), but this does not mean that for the survival of this nation we can open the flood gates to all cultures without regard for the consequences. All cultures are not equal morally nor do they look at family and legal issues with the same biblical orientation! Time will certainly prove what I am writing is correct, if it has not already begun to show the truth of this argument.
Thanks for asking.
Dr. Mal Couch
