Sacred Trust: Election Integrity & the Will of the People, by Jody Hice

Opinion
Reviewed by Stephen L. D’Andrilli with Edits by Roger Kats.
“Sacred Trust” is a good book, written by a good man, on an urgent matter affecting our Nation: “Election Integrity and the Will of the People” (the book’s subtitle).*

The author is a family man, humble and respectable, honorable and incorruptible. A devoted and loving husband and caring father, he is uncompromising in his Christian faith and unwavering in his ethical and moral convictions.

The author earned a bachelor’s degree from Asbury College, a Master of Divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and a Doctor of Ministry from Luther Rice Seminary. He then served as a Pastor in Texas and Georgia for almost 25 years.

As a United States Congressman, Jody Hice represented Georgia’s 10th Congressional District for 8 years.

Hice is an American Patriot in the truest sense of the word who loves his Country deeply and wishes to preserve and protect it in the form the Nation’s First Patriots gave to us. His book, “Sacred Trust,” reflects that fervent hope and desire.

Sacred Trust: Election Integrity and the Will of the People

The subject he writes about is of utmost concern and compelling importance to all Americans who love their Country and who, like the author, recognize it is in grave danger of faltering and want to return it to its former greatness.

The upcoming 2024 U.S. Presidential Election, only a few months away, will determine the direction of our Nation.

The stakes could not be higher. We will either have a Country in the form the Founders gave us—a “Return” to a truly free Constitutional Republic—or we will continue on our present trajectory to a full-blown totalitarian dictatorship. This is our Nation’s “Final Battle.”

Author Jody Hice points to the “threats against our culture and traditional way of life.” He makes it abundantly clear that “those elements that have historically set America apart from every other country in the world now seem to be hanging by a thread.” It isn’t overstatement when he says, “Our beloved country is in a state of emergency!”

But how and why did we come to this condition?

Did this emergency just happen, or did it happen because destructive forces at work in our Country made it happen?

Hice makes clear this is no accident. He says,

“Every issue we face is the outcome of decisions, and these choices are being made by leaders. Just as decisions have consequences, leadership also has consequences. And it is from this perspective that our current national ‘emergency’ has a degree of hope. Those leaders who have made poor decisions can and should be replaced with better stewards for America’s future. Our system of governance allows the people to elect new public servants who can reverse or alter old decisions and correct the outcome of harmful consequences. But this can only happen once a gut-check of reality and action is interjected.”

Hice continues,

“. . . [T]he ballot is the single most powerful tool Americans wield to hold their representatives accountable to policies that align with the majority, and policies that defend unalienable and constitutional rights that protect us all. If elected leaders fail to adequately represent their constituents, they should face the inevitable wrath of voters at the next election. They can and should be removed. It’s a beautiful and effective system we possess!”

Preserving our Nation’s Free Constitutional Republic is the ultimate objective.

Maintaining Election Integrity is the mechanism to accomplish that objective, and it is an ongoing process, not a one-time concern. As he says,

“America and the principles that make her great are ultimately what this book is about.” But “the intent of this book is a treatise on integrity.”

It took a revolution in 1776 to create a Nation grounded on those principles. Americans were required to remain vigilant ever since to keep their Country and its sacred principles secure from the many threats that continuously sought the destruction of both.

This remains an ongoing battle. It requires strength of will and “integrity” of spirit.

Hice points to “threats against our culture and traditional way of life. . . . People are looking for answers; they are looking for hope. America is too great and too remarkable to finish this way. The world desperately needs a strong and healthy United States, and as individual citizens, we deeply desire to pass the priceless treasure of freedom to our children and grandchildren.”

We Americans now find ourselves at a crossroads, a once-in-a-lifetime juncture.

There is measured hope for the future juxtaposed against the possibility of irreparable harm.

This tug between hope of redemption for our Nation and fear of irrevocable loss plays out in Hice’s accounts of events in his life as he relates in each Chapter.

What accounts for this dire forecast?

It is this: The dogma and cult of Secularism, promoted by the present Biden Administration, infect every institution in America.

Secularism /ˈsɛkjʊlərɪzəm/ (noun): A radical movement that aggressively rejects religion in all forms of life, particularly in political decisions, often at the expense of fundamental freedoms, integrity, and morality. This ideology advocates for the complete separation of religious influence from public and governmental affairs, promoting a worldview that excludes religious principles, which it asserts undermine the ethical and moral foundations that support a free and cohesive society.

Secularism is insinuating itself into the psyche of many Americans. Ruthless, evil people wielding vast power are responsible for this.

There is a deliberate, concerted effort afoot to transform our Nation into a thing unrecognizable and awful—a thing anathema to America and repugnant to our Nation’s Founders. Our Nation was founded on, and it exists and thrives because of, not in spite of, our Christian values and principles. America has become a very different nation today than it was only a few years ago.

The Cult of Secularism has infected America. It has emerged in recent years as a New Religion in America, and it has grown in influence, given the power and money behind it. The dire effects of the plague of Secularism are everywhere. It cannot be ignored. It seeks to replace Christianity and every aspect of it.

Secularists denounce Christianity and every aspect of it, and they do so vehemently.

We see the bizarre, abhorrent effects of Secularism in Government, in our public education system, in our colleges and universities, in the Press, and in the cable and broadcast news organizations.

We see the negative impact of Secularism on social media, sports and entertainment, and even financial institutions.

Nothing remains sacred, revered, untouched. This plague of Secularism profanes everything. Its proponents provoke and nurture this. They invite societal chaos in an orchestrated effort to confuse and demoralize people and to tear the Nation apart.

They do this as they must, for our Christian Nation is grounded on everything we cherish and hold dear, including, most importantly, our faith in God. Christians’ faith is strong and impervious to the hysterical cajoling and rantings of the Secularists.

Since they cannot defeat the power of Christianity outright, the Secularists try to drive Americans to pervasive despair.

Americans face many serious problems:

• Open borders and unvetted immigrants,
• Random and rampant violent crime and illegal drugs flooding our Country from outside, killing our children,
• Threats of new viral pandemics,
• Unbridled Government corruption,
• Misuse of Government power and authority,
• Heedless intrusion of Government into the rights and liberties of the American people,
• Justifiable concerns over quality education, health care, jobs, and the economy,
• Massive energy inefficiencies,
• Growing threats of terrorism at home,
• New wars and violent upheaval around the world,
• America’s military unpreparedness,
• The breakdown of the family as a cohesive unit,
• The propounding and dissemination of alien dogmas on Americans, such as wokeness, identity politics, disparate impact thinking, and transgenderism,
• The use of tools like censorship, cancel culture, shadow banning, and doxing to hurt people and to crush dissent; and a host of other matters and issues pervade and continue to trouble us,
• Continuous and cruel attacks on Christians and Christianity.

All this and other serious matters, issues, and concerns pervade and continue to trouble us deeply. All of it is either deliberately contrived or otherwise enabled.

Whether manufactured outright or simply allowed, these issues, problems, and ills are encouraged to grow and fester by the Secularists. The Country is quickly falling apart at the seams. And it is all by design.

The Secularists deflect responsibility, directing it consciously and unconscionably on the most innocent of institutions, the Christian Church, which is where they focus most of their attention and wrath.

They do this because they despise and reject the idea of “Moral Truth” as “Absolute and Eternal.” For them, there are no fundamental, eternal “Moral Truths.” There are only such “truths” the Secularists concoct. And they do so for an insidious purpose: Social and Political Control over the American people.

The Secularists perceive Morality as Relative: “Conditional, Temporal and Impermanent,” relevant only to particular people at a particular time, a particular place, and subject to revision at the Government’s whim at the drop of a hat.

Proponents of Secularism are inherently suspicious of and jealous of the idea of power and authority higher than that of the State and seek to crush anyone they perceive as an enemy—hence their incessant, vicious attack on Christians and their Church.

Despite the despicable actions of these malevolent Secular forces, they cannot dent the fact of “Moral Truth.” It springs from and resides solely in God, not the State.

Natural Law Rights, codified in our Nation’s Bill of Rights, are bestowed on and in man by the Divine Creator and rest far beyond the lawful power of the State (Government) to abrogate, denigrate, eradicate, alter, or ignore.

The Tyrannical Executive Branch of the Federal Government, along with their fellow travelers—an army of Secularists both inside and outside Government—persist in their effort to destroy America’s indomitable spirit and to eradicate the concept of “One Nation Under God.”

However, there is a notable and welcome aggressive pushback. Americans have had more than enough of Biden and the Cult of Secularism.

The results of the 2024 Presidential Election, if fairly conducted, will tell the world that Americans have rejected Secularism and the things the Cult of Secularism is inextricably tied to: Tyranny and Despotism.

Those who seek to annihilate a Free Republic and erect a despotic Government in its stead insist on dictating law and morality to the public as they wish. They see law and morality as ad hoc things that are useful agents of control. Instead of relenting during this Election cycle, they are doubling down on their efforts to impose their will on the Country and the American people. They can’t help but do this.

These Secularists are vacuous shells, empty husks because they have rejected the Divine Creator.

These foul beings would dare to instill their innate depravity on all Americans and the rest of the world as well.

Secularists are incapable of recognizing a spiritual, timeless dimension to life and consciousness. They only perceive the physical and transitory.

The author of “Sacred Trust,” Jody Hice, finds this predilection of Secularists deeply troubling and is urged to say, “. . . although it is not the focus of this book, America is facing a spiritual problem.”

Hice has this exactly right.

How do Americans successfully wage war against the unholy forces of Secularism? They must infuse themselves with the virtue of “Integrity.” If Americans embrace integrity, they will demand the same from government servants and all their institutions, including the Electoral System.

The notion of integrity as a virtue is the central theme of Hice’s book. That concept is not distinct from but integral to God as the embodiment of Moral Perfection. This is tied to spirituality—things beyond the physical.

Any serious discussion of integrity necessarily embraces spirituality.

Integrity, as a virtue, is inextricably linked to the subject of morality and the concept of “Good” and “Evil.”

God imbues man with the gift of Morality, with the knowledge of Good and Evil as opposites.

If our people are virtuous, our Nation will remain true to the precepts upon which it is grounded, the U.S. Constitution. If not, the Nation will fall and disintegrate. It is beginning to disintegrate from within.

Americans must take a stand against the dangerous nonsense the Secularists proselytize. They will be able to do so at the Ballot Box this November.

Hice is forthright when he says, “We live in the greatest country in the world.”

“These United States of America are worth fighting for, and unless people take a stand, right now, there is so much that will be lost. And once gone, it will never be restored.

America, and the principles that make her great, are ultimately what this book is about. We cannot sit idly by while the foundations of the country are being tampered with and gradually destroyed. But, for our efforts to succeed there must be election security, and election security’s most fundamental component is integrity.”

Hice is correct.

He says emphatically, “Without integrity, elections cannot be secure. Without integrity, neither the government nor any other sector of our society can long avoid corruption and abusive behavior. Indeed, integrity is essential for any civil society.”

Jody Hice sees all of this and wishes to do something about it.

His “Sacred Trust: Election Integrity and the Will of the People” serves as an incisive weapon of truth against the flurry of lies and deceitful actions of those in Government and outside it who hate our Nation and wish to tear it apart and bring it down.

A Country that has no firm moral footing in God is doomed eventually and inevitably to annihilation from within, as the people of that Country will take on themselves the inherent moral flaws of that Country as they become indoctrinated in the falsehoods and propaganda perpetrated on them by the Government and by groups with personal agendas antagonistic to the well-being of our Country, its Christian principles, and its people.

The author’s message is clear, categorical, and unequivocal. A truly moral man will seek to act according to that morality and stay true to the virtue of “Integrity.”

And, if men are imbued with integrity, their institutions will reflect that virtue as well, and the Country will be Fair and Just, and both Country and people will prosper. Otherwise, they and their Country will fall.

Integrity must, therefore, pervade every institution of the Country and must be fixed in every American’s being if the Nation is to prevail against the forces of darkness that, at present, have the upper hand.

If more of the Electorate embraces Integrity, they will see through the evil of the present Biden Administration. They will not be duped into voting for Biden for President in 2024 but will reject him and his Administration. They will vote for Trump.

But will the Americans’ vote for Trump be enough? It will, but only if the Presidential Election is fair.

The present evil leaders of our Country intend to stay in power.

They will try to manipulate the 2024 Presidential election to remain in power. No one reflecting on this would seriously doubt it. Trump is doing more than simply maintaining a small lead over Biden in recent polls. He is pulling further and further ahead of Biden. See the recent article in “The Hill.” Even the New York Times is forced, if grudgingly, to concede Biden is flailing and failing according to the latest polls, especially in the crucial swing states.

The Biden Administration and the Secularists are becoming frantic. They will attempt to manipulate the ballots if that is what it takes for the Secularist agenda to continue and the Republic to fall.

Americans must stop all illegal and unethical attempts to manufacture a favorable result for Biden.

Hice makes clear that the American people must take an active part in preventing this. They must insist the Election is conducted fairly.

The author ends the important book Sacred Trust: Election Integrity and the Will of the People with this plea:

“So the calling is clear, and the responsibility is undeniable. We cannot simply talk about election security; we must be involved to ensure that it is protected at all costs. I plead with you, jump into the arena!”

To preserve the promise of the American Revolution of 1776, Americans must defeat Biden and the Secularists. Don’t sit this election out.

Don’t assume Trump has this election in the bag. You must vote and encourage family members, friends, and “fence sitters” you encounter to vote and cast their votes for Trump!

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