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For the run-up to Independence Day, one of the many quotes from a Founding Father on the necessity of Christian morality to the stability and longevity of a Republic.
1 posted on 07/01/2019 7:40:42 AM PDT by Antoninus
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To: Antoninus

Morals are the enemy of today’s Democrats. They instead celebrate human values which are abominations. Sexual deviancy, class envy, and outright godlessness.


2 posted on 07/01/2019 7:46:07 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: ebb tide; Salvation; Mrs. Don-o

Catholic Ping.


3 posted on 07/01/2019 7:54:32 AM PDT by Antoninus ("In Washington, swamp drain you.")
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I fear that of the numerous wars on traditional spirituality, morality, education and sanity, the war against the attention span is winning out. Less and less people, particularly among the Twitter generation, have the patience to handle such challenging food for thought. Of course, that is part of the Rat agenda as well. What a shame.


4 posted on 07/01/2019 7:56:20 AM PDT by bluejean (I'm becoming a cranky old person. It really annoys me.)
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From John Courtney Murray SJ

1) We are a nation under judgment, because God is sovereign over nations as well as individuals
2) All just governance exists by and with the consent of the governed
3) “The state is distinct from society and limited in its offices toward society.” Society exists prior to the state, and the state exists to serve society, not the other way around.
4) Freedom can dissipate into license, private license into public decadence, decadence into chaos, and chaos into authoritarianism. Therefore, only a virtuous people can be free.


9 posted on 07/01/2019 9:05:20 AM PDT by PGR88
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And apart from a transcendent God you cannot have an objective morality. All that’s left is personal preference and social convention.


10 posted on 07/01/2019 9:06:59 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Antoninus

He’s one of my ancestors on my mother’s side.


11 posted on 07/01/2019 9:12:29 AM PDT by Boogieman
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Without Christianity, we would not have the Declaration and Constitution.

Without a Creator, we could not have any Unalienable Rights.


13 posted on 07/01/2019 2:25:32 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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We’ve been an empire for 100years, empires DGAF about morality.

Rome is our future


16 posted on 07/01/2019 4:28:38 PM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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