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Cropped screenshot of Charlton Heston from the trailer for the film The Ten Commandments. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Pastor Chuck Baldwin nails it: the entitlement society destroys morality. We are enjoying the fruits of the Stockholm Syndrome which is where the prisoners fall in love with their captors.

As a preacher, Baldwin can’t resist the temptation to reach into Scriptures to tell us that we’ve been here before:

There is an Old Testament story that parallels with what is going on in America today. The story is found in Numbers chapter 11. God had delivered His people from great bondage. They witnessed His mighty hand of power and deliverance in defeating their oppressors and leading them toward a land of promise and liberty. He even dropped “angels’ food” (called manna) from Heaven to sustain them.

But after being delivered from bondage, they began to yearn for a return to Egypt. In verse 5 of that chapter, the people are recorded as complaining, “We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick.” (KJV)

Return us to slavery! At least then we have security and predictability and someone else providing for us. This eliminates our need to