“No thanks!
“That makes no sense.
Who made the atoms?”
Need to read the whole thing. It is good account of history that leads up to a righteous ending you would both like.
In this case your knee jerk firewalls are mistaken.
The end of the article (aaahhh, yes—much better!):
In a speech he delivered in Philadelphia, July 5, 1926 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Coolidge tried to call American’s back to their Christian heritage. He told Americans that the Declaration’s principles of liberty arise from man’s God-given inalienable rights. And these are found, said Coolidge, “in the texts, the sermons, and the writings of the early colonial clergy…” The clergy preached equality “because they believed in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.” Sanctity of life, the right to self-defense, and all the rest of our individual liberties were justified “by the text that we are all created in the divine image, all partakers of the divine spirit.” God’s children therefore, have no “superiors;” there are no modern-day “divine rights kings” who possess “any right to rule…over them.” Americans are free to choose their own leaders.
The Declaration, continued Coolidge, is “a great spiritual document.” Its principles are not material but spiritual. “Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man—these are not elements we can see and touch. They are ideals(whose) source and roots (are) in religious convictions. They belong to the unseen world.”
President Coolidge cautioned Americans that, “unless the faith of the Americans in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish. We cannot continue to enjoy the result if we abandon the cause.”
Coolidge ended his speech with a stark warning, “We must not sink into a pagan materialism…” (Back Fired, William Federer, pp. 269-271)
Ideas have consequences, but worldview ideas can have tremendous consequences for good—humanity, freedom, and rights—or for evil– aggregates of matter, slavery, and genocide.
This nation was founded on Christian presuppositions that allowed for the most enlightened, freest civilization in the history of the world. The usurpation of our founding worldview by Progressivism’s evil matter in motion worldview, the so-called scientific Darwinian materialist worldview, is sending our homeland over the edge of the abyss into hell.
Linda Kimball
Our Founders unfortunately failed to include this last little bit:
Christ is King.
Linda Kimball.
I can’t tell you how many efforts to address subjects of interest I abandoned (not more than three ;^) for sure) after I came across the name Linda Kimball who addressed them first and much, much better. Thanks.