Posted on 07/03/2022 12:25:06 PM PDT by Perseverando
Edmund Burke is considered the most influential orator in the British House of Commons in the 18th century. Born January 12, 1729, one of his first notable writings was an anonymous publication A Vindication of Natural Society, 1756, which was a satirical criticism of the intolerant "woke" deism promoted by Lord Bolingbroke: "Seeing every mode of religion attacked in a lively manner, and the foundation of every virtue, and of all government, sapped with great art and much ingenuity ... the same engines which were employed for the destruction of religion, might be employed with equal success for the subversion of government."
Burke criticized how in the deist "cancel-culture" of his time: "... every day invents some new artificial rule." He described his own belief that there were fixed: "... unalterable relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other. These relations, which are truth itself, the foundation of virtue, and consequently, the only measures of happiness."
Burke wrote in the tradition of Jonathan Swift, author of the satire Gulliver's Travels (1726). Swift had written in 1712, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, in which he defended Christianity against deists, freethinkers, atheists, anti-trinitarians, and socinians (unitarians).
Edmund Burke stands out in history because as a member of the British Parliament, he strongly opposed the slave trade. He also defended the rights of the American colonies.
New York University Professor Emeritus Patricia U. Bonomi wrote in her article "Religious Pluralism in the Middle Colonies" that "... the colonists were about 98 percent Protestant."
When America's Revolutionary War began, Burke addressed Parliament with "A Second Speech on the Conciliation with America," March 22, 1775:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanminute.com ...
Everyone just needs to keep repeating the current pledge of allegiance:
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
Bkmk
The real problem is that by the time the “just leave me alone” crowd, decide to engage, it will have gotten so bad that the leave me alone crowd will go overboard in their response.
Everyone sure you want good men to do something?
My fav is his March 1775 speech to Parliament on reconciliation with us colonials.
While I haven’t read it in years I recall the gist as “thanks to American trade we’re growing rich beyond imagination. Let’s not ‘eff this up.”
And in a oh so gentlemanly way, he so much as called the king and his ministers a bunch of idiots.
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