ICYMI: WSJ Editorial: “Trump’s Defining Speech”

“The White House description of Donald Trump’s speech Thursday in Warsaw was simply, ‘Remarks by President Trump to the People of Poland.’ In truth, Mr. Trump’s remarks were directed at the people of the world. Six months into his first term of office, Mr. Trump finally offered the core of what could become a governing philosophy. It is a determined and affirmative defense of the Western tradition.”

The White House description of Donald Trump’s speech Thursday in Warsaw was simply, “Remarks by President Trump to the People of Poland.” In truth, Mr. Trump’s remarks were directed at the people of the world. Six months into his first term of office, Mr. Trump finally offered the core of what could become a governing philosophy. It is a determined and affirmative defense of the Western tradition.

But—and this shocked Washington—the speech aimed higher. Like the best presidential speeches, it contained affirmations of ideas and principles and related them to the current political moment. “Americans, Poles and the nations of Europe value individual freedom and sovereignty,” he said. This was more than a speech, though. It was an argument. One might even call it an apologia for the West.

But the speech’s most provocative argument was about our way of life. It came when he described how a million Poles stood with Pope John Paul II in Victory Square in 1979 to resist Soviet rule by chanting, “We want God!”

“With that powerful declaration of who you are,” Mr. Trump said, “you came to understand what to do and how to live.”

This is a warning to the West and a call to action. By remembering the Poles’ invocation of God, Mr. Trump is clearly aligning himself with the same warning issued to Europe some years ago by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict.

Mr. Trump is taking a clear stand against the kind of gauzy globalism and vague multiculturalism represented by the worldview of, say, Barack Obama and most contemporary Western intellectuals, who are willing, even eager, to concede the argument to critics of the West’s traditions.

It was an important and, we hope, a defining speech—for the Trump Presidency and for Donald Trump himself.

I can’t bring the names to mind at the moment, but I believe several people in England — contemporaries of Burke, but not Burke himself — were not religious, yet still pushed for the essential value of morality based on the Bible.

As did Unitarians (who too soon kind of turned Harvard into its Vatican ), but even the non religious were deists of some sort.

Joshua Charles, New York Times bestselling author and researcher at the Museum of the Bible, explains.

What were the religious beliefs of the Founding Fathers of the United States?

There's been a lot of controversy surrounding this subject. But there shouldn't be.

Because of their prominence, I will discuss George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin—our nation’s first three Presidents, and the man referred to as “the

First American”—all of whom, even if some did not individually adhere to orthodox Christianity, were steeped in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Here’s what we can say for certain about their religious beliefs.

1) All of the Founders believed in a transcendent God, that is, a Creator who exists outside of nature.

2) All the Founders believed in a God who imposes moral obligations on human beings.

3) All the Founders believed in a God who punishes bad behavior and rewards good behavior in an afterlife.

The notion that any of the Founders believed in an impersonal deity who merely created the universe and then left it to itself is false. All of them believed in a God who, as Franklin said at the Constitutional Convention, “governs in the affairs of men.”

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What you say is all true.
Also liberals/democrats hate capitalism and freedom.

In capitalism a person can own his own business his own house his own property. In socialism only 1 owner the government as in single payer(that's why democrats push so hard for government healthcare etc.).

In America 86% of millionaires started out poor ,proof:

http://www.thomasjstanley.com/2014/05/america-where-millionaires-are-self-made/

This what liberals/democrats hate the most that a person can make it on his own , make his own way and not need government. They hate that when you have money and wealth you can have freedom because then you can do what you want to when you want to and own and buy anything you want to that is produced in the market.

If you have a million dolllars or 10 you don't need government , you don't need politicians and you are truly free. So capitalism is the only way that you can make your own way and have freedom. And liberals /democrats hate hate freedom . democrats want you all enslaved to govefrnnent and them.

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