Comments on: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson Says the Best Way to Restore the Nation Is to Return God to the Top https://adventmessenger.org/speaker-of-the-house-mike-johnson-says-the-best-way-to-restore-the-nation-is-to-return-god-to-the-top/ News and commentary from a Biblical world view on current events, top stories, social trends and political and religious events. Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:07:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Tony Rigden https://adventmessenger.org/speaker-of-the-house-mike-johnson-says-the-best-way-to-restore-the-nation-is-to-return-god-to-the-top/comment-page-1/#comment-87654 Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:07:24 +0000 https://adventmessenger.org/?p=23628#comment-87654 “There was a time in American history when “returning to God” meant that individuals, of their own free will, chose to pray more, study the Bible, repent, and live out their faith from personal conviction. This approach is good and fully consistent with the principles of religious freedom, and it is something our nation urgently needs. However, in today’s political and religious climate, calls to “put God back at the top” increasingly signal something very different. A new approach is emerging that seeks to involve state and federal governments in promoting revival, endorsing church teachings, or shaping public life around religious practices. Instead of making faith stronger, this actually weakens it. It takes belief out of the heart and turns it into something politicized by secular institutions and authorities. What should be a personal choice becomes coercion, and what starts as encouragement turns into tyranny.”

You sure touched right on it there. That is exactly the difference between now and the America of the past. This is also exactly what Ellen White warned us of.

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