We live in a day of multi-culturalism where everybody's culture is to be viewed equally.

It’s now considered arrogant to say America is the greatest country.

"There is no greatest country—every country's equal,” argued a caller to a radio talk show recently.

“Are you saying then that Syria, for example, is equal in its value systems with America?" responded the radio show host.

“Absolutely,” said the caller. “Their system's just as good, it's just different."

Of course, this is the fruit of all the anti-God ideology that says truth is relative and there is no absolute truth.

As my pastor, Richard Jordan (Shorewood Bible Church, Rolling Meadows, Ill.), says, “The thing that stood against that kind of mentality for the last 500-600 years has been what we call Western civilization. It's been the social impact of God's Word. Especially since the Protestant Reformation, when the Word of God was liberated from the shackles of religious tyranny it was bound in by Catholicism.

“Multi-culturalism says, ‘We have our tradition and we'll respect all men's traditions because all traditions are equal.’ They aren't, I'm sorry. You find this stuff even in the evangelical church. They’re touting the head of the National Evangelical Association as the ‘modern ecumenical evangelical who believes in the free market of the faith.’

“Doesn't that just sound wonderful? I believe if you just let the truth get out there, and give it a fair hearing, it will win, but that's why it can't get a fair hearing. The truth can't get a fair shot at people, because Satan knows that if the truth gets a fair shot, he loses, and so ‘the god of this world blinds the minds of them which believe not, lest the light shine in.’ ” (II Cor. 4:4)

One of my favorite statues in Manhattan, which I pass by nearly every time I go jogging in Central Park, is of 19^th Century U.S. Statesman Daniel Webster. Webster, regarded as one of the greatest orators of his generation, is located near the stairs of the Bethesda Fountain.

His bronze frame stands perfectly erect, with his hand covering his heart inside the lapel of his coat. He has the most respectful, authoritative stare. Underneath him are his engraved words (taken from the famed Webster-Hayne Debate in which he defended the union), “Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable.”

Webster was a well-known Christian who also once said, “Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.”

Think of how that compares to the statues of Saddam Hussein our soldiers tore down.