[DJ MacWoW]

“To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys…whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be over thrown, our present republican forms of government, and all blessings which flow form them must fall with them”
Jedediah Morse (1761-1826) Patriot & “Father of American Geography”

[bamahead]

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. ---C.S. Lewis