{"id":1902,"date":"2020-10-29T11:10:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T15:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2020-10-29T11:10:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T15:10:56","slug":"joe-biden-calls-voters-to-join-him-in-uniting-one-nation-under-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/2020\/10\/joe-biden-calls-voters-to-join-him-in-uniting-one-nation-under-god.html","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Calls Voters to Join Him in Uniting “One Nation Under God”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A week before election day, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden used scripture to encourage his voters at a rally in Warm Springs, Georgia. He spoke of Ecclesiastes 3, and said that God is calling the nation to heal from the coronavirus pandemic, racial unrest, and political division. Biden says he is ready to make America one nation under God again.<\/p>\n

\u201cI run to unite this nation, to heal this nation. I\u2019ve said that from the beginning. It\u2019s badly necessary. The Bible tells us there\u2019s a time to break down and a time to build up, a time to heal. This is that time. God in history has called us to this moment and to this mission,\u201d Biden said to voters.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith our voices and our votes, [we] must free ourselves from the forces of darkness, from the forces of division and the forces of yesterday, from the forces that pull us apart, hold us down and hold us back. And if we do so, we\u2019ll once more become one nation under God, indivisible, a nation united, a nation strengthened, a nation healed. That is my goal. That is why I\u2019m running.”<\/p>\n

Biden continued with his speech by arguing was due to the deep wounds in the political division. He commented, \u201cI know this country. I know our people. And I know we can unite and heal this nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are historic, painful crises. The insidious virus, the economic anguish, the systematic discrimination, and one of them could have rocked the nation. Any one of them. Yet we\u2019ve been hit by all three at once. But if we are honest with ourselves, the pain striking at the heart of our country \u2026 goes back years,\u201d he insisted.<\/p>\n

Biden believes we have stopped seeing the love in one another, and that politics has far too long become “mean and bitter and divisive.”<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve stopped seeing dignity in one another. We\u2019ve stopped showing each other respect. Too many among us spend more time shouting than listening, more time fighting than working together, more time demonizing and denigrating others than lifting them up. The divisions in our nation are getting wider. \u2026 Anger and suspicion are growing and our wounds are getting deeper and many wonder, has it gone too far? Have we passed the pointed of no return?\u201d he asked. \u201cHas the heart of this nation turned to stone? I don\u2019t think so. I refuse to believe it. I know this country. I know our people and I know we can unite and heal this nation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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