Let's come face-to-face with the reality that America is embracing a culture of death. Our youth are not taught to respect life.

Rather, they are taught that life is a "choice;" that they can simply sweep it away if it is somehow unwanted or inconvenient. What will it take to recognize that then you remove God from society, you get a godless society?

I wrote Salt and Light because I am deeply concerned about the kind of America in which my grandchildren will grow up. Will they enjoy the blessings of liberty and the opportunity for prosperity that accompany a society built on God's social order? Or will they live under the oppression and tyranny of a statist government that inevitably and invariably grows from social chaos?

We still have a choice. We can live under the world's system violence and death, or we can live under God's system of peace and life. Deuteronomy 30:15 says, "See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction." Which will you choose? In Deuteronomy 30:19 God says, "Now choose life..."