DEAR EDITOR:

So why are people not coming back to the classical forms of church denominations to worship our God who has given to us as a country and personally everything? It’s just one hour a week to give God all the glory that our divine God rightly deserves.

These beautiful, religious, physical, places called “church” have been built with the blood, sweat and tears of our own ancestors. These people knew firsthand who to worship and continue their lives in faith. They were the greatest generation ever, surviving WWI, WWII and the Great Depression.

Why have we let down our God and our ancestors by letting these beautiful churches crumble and be torn down or repurposed? Are we really that stupid? Most of our churches cannot maintain the structures and survive on a skeleton membership.

God has not asked for retribution in regard to this over the years. However, I am afraid when it is too late and we really need his protection and divine intervention, he will not even recognize us, and rightly so.

Over many centuries and this is based on evidence in the Bible, God has shown his love for humankind, but only when people wake up and ask for repentance — meaning changing their ways to worship and love our creator, keeping the golden rule of loving others as we love ourselves.

Society’s deterioration has begun. Have you ever wondered why people show so much animosity to each other in simple daily living, so many with gun violence, youth music full of foul language heard on the street from their car radios, disrespect for children who should be nurtured, and the elderly, veterans, or mentally ill that are homeless and government officials breaking standard rules and laws tearing this country apart? These are all the signs of a deteriorated society.

Wake up Americans, and not as a group, but each and everyone as a personal commitment to our creator. We will not be on this Earth much longer and we will have to meet him face to face one day, whether you want to or not. It is called death — but not really — more like everlasting life in Christ.

DIANE NEMETH

Lowellville