But will never get:
Proclamation for a National Day
of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer
"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven.
We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity.
We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown.
But we have forgotten God.
We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied
and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness
of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and
virtue of our own.
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the
necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!
It behooves us, then to humble ourselves before the offended Power,
to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness."
President Abraham Lincoln
April 30, 1863
In fact, the majority of Americans would laugh at any such proposal. Hard. Which is why we are losing all the core values that made America great and the country that goes along with them.
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