Yet, in a way, we do share responsibility for the 9/11 atrocities. The Bible says that if we behave a certain way, we will receive blessings; if we behave another way, curses.
Deuteronomy promised that if the Israelites kept their covenant with God, they would be blessed with rain in its season, abundant crops and victory over their enemies. If they violated the covenant, they would suffer disease, drought, famine and death at the hand of their enemies and eventual exile from the land God had given them.
Our conduct as a nation shames me – abortion up to the moment of birth; turning mothers who murder their children into celebrities; the mutilation of adolescents in the name of our latest idol, transgenderism; pornography pushed to schoolchildren; the streets of our cities turned into open sewers; recreational drugs; and accusing a nation of Holocaust survivors of genocide.
What kind of shining city on a hill is this?