This excellent book is very important. It clearly and powerfully explains the parallels between Germany's fall from grace in Hitler's time and the beginning of our own nation's decline. The author of the foreword is Eric Metaxas, author of Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy.
In When a Nation Forgets God, Erwin Lutzer studies seven similarities between Nazi Germany and the United States (and any nation today), some of them chilling, and warns us to respond accordingly.
It is an engaging, well-researched, and easy-to-understand book. Lutzer's writing is that of a realist, alarmed but unafraid. Amidst describing our nation's governmental messes, economy, legal pitfalls, propaganda, and more, Lutzer points to the God who always has a plan of salvation.
In the early 20th century, Nazi Germany did not look like a country on the brink of global terror. It looked like America today. When a Nation Forgets God uses Germany's sad history to warn us of a future none of us want to see for our nations. It urges us to be ordinary heroes who speak and act in favor of biblical faith.
