Reclaiming America’s Christian Heritage

Reclaiming America’s Christian Heritage by Dr. Ben Carson

A very troubling new survey just released by the Pew Research Center finds, in a nutshell, that Americans are giving up on both God and miracles.

The study identifies a massive 49-percent of those surveyed as "nones," or those who don't identify with a religious group, say they left their church because they simply "don't believe." Some said it was because they "don't believe in miracles."

As a Christian, and as an American who knows the paramount role that faith played in the founding of our nation, this is alarming. But more importantly, this motivates me.

This motivates me to show how faith can lead to a better life for us as individuals, and how embracing our Judeo-Christian values can lead to a better future for our entire nation…and it doesn’t take a miracle.

What it takes is each of us…you and me…to act. Christians have a real opportunity to actually act on our beliefs and our convictions. We must shun cynicism and indifference and exercise our voices. This is not only our right, but it is our responsibility as people of faith.

Scoffers believe that our efforts just doesn't matter, because the faithful aren't willing to follow through on their values, but the good news is that we've been seeing an enormous response to our various calls to action.

For example, this week we held another interactive My Faith Votes LIVE TeleForum -- a key feature of our 2016 strategy -- right from my living room with actor Kirk Cameron. In all, an astounding 317,000 people participated. We were thrilled.

I will not be surprised if you hear more about this new Pew survey on the news because the numbers are fairly striking. And surely, those who hope to whitewash God from our history and transform America into a more secular, European-style nation will use this to demoralize us.

But like me, I hope you see this as an opportunity and as motivation to get more involved.