After getting beyond her never-ending Bush-bashing, she makes the obvious observation, "Who we are now is not who we were. American culture is barely definable anymore."

She is correct. However, her analysis of how this lamentable situation came to be is flawed. It is not faith, but lack of faith, that has brought us to this point. When this nation was guided by faith in God and biblical principles, we knew who we were. We knew the basis of law, we knew the importance of family; we practiced responsibility toward our neighbors. Regarding health care, did Ms. Blumner ever notice how many hospitals were built by people of faith?

In our culture, we traded love of God for love of things. We traded freedom for license. In school, we traded God for sex. In our hearts, we traded humility before God for a prideful human rebelliousness that leads to self-destruction. Poof! The culture is gone.

Faith in God creates communities that strive to serve Him and love our neighbors. Those are His commandments. Those commandments were the basis of our culture. What is the basis now? How well is it working?

James A. Hoffman

Moab