Posted on 05/22/2006 9:15:43 AM PDT by WinteryDays
Libralism leads to a police state and eventually the very destruction of our country.
This is part of a book that I'm writing...not a quote but an abridgement. Your feed back is welcome.
When our country was founded there were few laws required to govern the civil population. This was made possible because of the existance of the unwritten laws or social pressures which held individuals to a high standard of conduct.( Christianity )
The librals in our country have for decades sought quite successfully to unravel those standards. They have fought in the courts via sympathetic judges to remove all public displays of Christian symbolism. Not even the 10 Commandments may be displayed on public grounds.
The two subjects are very much related. 1) Social standards and conduct as relating to Christianity. 2) The libral assertion of the division of church and state.
Can you see the problem? I would bet that most people can but they don't know how to put it into words. Kind of like the matrix, you know something's wrong but can't explain it. Well... let me try to put it into words.
The basic problem is this: There is nothing in secular humanity that inspires men to do good.
This is a simple concept but it is enormous in scope. When we devalue Christianity by refusing to allow public displays, references, and even prayers by government employees we also devalue the standards taught by Christianity.
In other words, the value we put on Christianity publicly is in direct proportion to the value the public puts on the standards taught by Christianity.
It is that inspiration, those public reminders, that public emphasis that help people govern themselves. That inspires men to go above what the law requires them to do and go further. This inspires men to move into the realm of morals and ethics. To follow the golden rule. To help your neighbor because it's the right thing to do. To forgive your enemies. To do the right thing.
But unfortunately that inspiration no longer exist for the average person. And what's worse...it's not there for our children. The parents can't teach what they themselves don't possess.
Currently there is no "right thing" for the average person. Only the law. Again unfortunately, when people aren't chosing the "right thing" but chosing "what we can get away with", new laws dictated conduct must be inacted in order to maintain civility.
Librals, in undoing our emphasis on Christian morality (and our letting them do it)will bring about a police state. And we will welcome it. We don't won't it obviously. But we will have no other choice.
Doubt me?
Are we not debating in congress a constitutional amendment to define something which a couple decades ago was a simple concept; marriage.
How long is the list of new laws governing individual conduct?
Von Hayek has already done it.
Conservatives - those who are in charge of (responsible for) their own lives/destiny.
Liberals...the opposite
& they believe the remainder of population is equally ill equipped
that's why they're constantly relying on govt., etc intervention/control in daily life
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