NEW YORK - In his new documentary "Monumental," actor and devout Christian Kirk Cameron goes in search of the "secret recipe" that has made America the "richest, freest nation the world has ever seen," ultimately unveiling to viewers his belief that God was uniquely involved in the nation's founding and wants to be involved in its continued growth.
"I'm retracing the footsteps of our Founders from England to America in the hope of discovering our true 'national treasure.' I want to listen to them, to learn from them," Cameron wrote on his official website.
"Because I suspect our Forefathers knew we were a forgetful people, that someday we would lose our way as a nation. So they left us a map that would guide us back to the source of America's success," he added.
That source, according to Cameron, is God, whom he says in "Monumental" welcomed a faithful, modern-day America with open arms. Furthermore, the actor believes that the difficulties the nation is facing today can be healed if Americans return to relying on God, and not the government, for salvation.
"Today, most people are looking to the government to take care of them. Help me with my education. Help me buy a house, and get a job, give me my healthcare, give me my benefits and my government handouts, and take care of me and my family," Cameron recently shared with The Christian Post.
"What people are actually doing is looking to the government to be their savior […] and when you do that, you give all of the power to the savior that you are depending on," he added.
Cameron, sharing his reasons for pursuing "Monumental," said he is convinced that America has gone down the wrong path, economically, culturally, and morally because Americans are losing sight of what it means to be a person of character and conviction.
Cameron, who began his acting career as a teen starring in the hit 1980s family sitcom "Growing Pains," began questioning how America could turn things around.
"I made the documentary not as an actor or a politician, but as a father," he told CP, stating that "when you have kids, it just really changes the way you think about the world."
The actor, a married father of six, has grown tired of Americans playing the blame game, and wants to seek a logical solution for what he says is something "sick in the soul of our country."
He feels that many Americans have developed a pessimistic, "there's nothing we can do" attitude toward the fate of the country.
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