# Deceivers ![rw-book-cover](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81BtCGNZ2kL._SY160.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[Terry James]] - Full Title: Deceivers - Category: #books ## Highlights - America was a great nation because God, Himself, set it upon a solid foundation of biblical construction. He did so through inspiring the Founding Fathers, in presenting this phenomenal experiment in liberty, to employ Judeo-Christian precepts. ([Location 104](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BH8RZWB&location=104)) - Everything seemed to change when a certain point was reached. I believe that point was when the higher education system — the university — was sufficiently infiltrated by anti-God, anti-Christian thought. It was a process that began much earlier — in the late 19th century and even before. By the time of the presidential election of 1960, America had turned the corner and headed into the free-thinking, philosophical stratosphere of academia. No moral absolutes, values clarification, situational ethics, and the inculcation of evolution as a guiding scientific rationale for living replaced biblical morality. Man, the thinkers of the neo age of enlightenment held, was no longer bound by the chains to a God who, at best, was no more than existential in His interest in the human race. ([Location 110](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BH8RZWB&location=110)) - More than $22 trillion has been spent on welfare since Johnson’s War on Poverty began. The national debt continues to grow exponentially minute by minute. ([Location 125](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BH8RZWB&location=125)) - Today, it is my contention that pro-Israel support in the American Church is poised to go right off a cliff within the next generation. No less than the director of Christians United for Israel, David Brog, has said as much. That is sobering coming from the head of the largest grassroots pro-Israel group around. ([Location 5230](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BH8RZWB&location=5230))