An amazing transformation has taken place since around the beginning of the 20th Century. As America and the world have turned away from God, they have also turned away from their own happiness and replaced it with a sort of mix of guilt and self-justification, becoming hard on themselves and those around them.
We seem to have lost our sense that peace and quietness as well as happiness is God's gift to us, because we've lost sight of the Giver.
"The Christian religion, which ordains that men should love each other, would, without doubt, have every nation blessed with the best civil, the best political law; because these, next to his religion, are the greatest good that men can give and receive." Charles de Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, 1748.
Despotic government over a Christian people is impossible, a contradiction.
In contrast, despotism fits hand and glove with islam.
Agreed. This is a powerfully important insight. The mid 19th century ushered in a populist tyranny by a New Man who was not at all like the Old Man. The New Man knew how everyone else should think and act. The New Man was not new at all. He was a reversion to a far more ancient archetype.
The New Man is intellectually, morally and religiously barren. He is a throwback to prehistory. He respects only power, wealth and base instinct. He is typified by Muslims, environmentalists, evolution, abortion, homosexuality, all forms of socialism, pornography, liberalism, banking and lawyers.
The New Man is best exemplified by the cultural, intellectual and moral sloth of our current federal (read feral)administration.