Famous actor Chuck Norris recently outlined how the increasing number of unhappy Americans should be pointed to God. Norris pointed out research indicating that a shocking number of Americans don’t even know what it means to be happy.
“In 2022 research by Oracle, at least one-third to one-half of Americans have outright confessed they have forgotten what it means to be ‘truly happy,” … “27% of Americans surveyed said they couldn’t remember what it meant to be ‘truly happy,’ [and] 45% of Americans surveyed said it had been more than two years since they last felt ‘true happiness,’” he wrote.
Norris spoke about studies that indicated that rampant dissatisfaction is driven by economic factors. The actor pointed out Gallup’s research, which said, “Americans are currently less satisfied with their personal lives than they have been since 2011, whether that is based on the percentage satisfied or very satisfied. This lower satisfaction level coincides with weak economic confidence.”
In light of the economic complications, Norris added, “That’s why I honestly say it’s a mystery to me why someone would vote for another four years of the Biden administration policies through Kamala Harris, who will give us what type of economic plan? You guessed it: more of the same. In fact, financial analysts are saying it could be even worse than Biden’s.”
Norris added in his writing a point made by the author Randy Alcorn, who claimed, “I argue in the book the problem isn’t they’re trying to be happy. God wired us to seek happiness. The problem is we seek happiness in the wrong places.”
The Christian actor also drew attention to a quote from the historical American figure Thomas Brooks, who spoke about God and happiness. “Nothing can make that man truly miserable that hath God for his portion, nor nothing can make that man truly happy that [lacks] God for his portion. God is the author of all true happiness; he is the donor of all true happiness; he is the maintainer of all true happiness, and he is the centre of all true happiness. … He that hath him for his God, for his portion, is the only happy man in the world,” the quote read.
Directly drawing on biblical wisdom, Norris offered advice given by scripture which says, “Do not put your hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God who richly provides us with all things to enjoy [or be happy].” Norris concluded, “America’s founders understood that spiritual fact. That is why they stated it among our unalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence: We are ‘endowed by [our] Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.’”
Earlier this year, The Christian Tribune reported on comments from Norris where he disputed the common leftist argument that America was not founded on Christian values. “Of the 39 signers of the Constitution, 37 were professed Protestant Christians (though at least one of those, Benjamin Franklin, was probably a deist), and two, Daniel Carrol and Thomas Fitzsimons, were Roman Catholics,” Norris said. “They were a diverse group of men in some respects, but they were united by their belief in a Creator God.”
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