[betty boop]

For almost one-hundred years, the Left has been busily engaged in stealthily undermining and gutting our founding documents and America’s social, political, legal, and cultural infrastructures. Toward this end, they’ve managed to marginalize the Declaration of Independence—the charter document—and to cleverly infiltrate new and alien meaning into our Constitution. Whereas originally, the individual’s right to liberty was viewed as God-given---thus fixed and unchanging---God has been declared dead and subsequently replaced by a quasi-divine State, while group privileges are increasingly sweeping away individual rights. And where each and every human life possesses an ‘inalienable right to life’ was held as an immutable truth and a universal moral good, the ‘enlightened’ politically correct view holds that truth and morality are irrelevant and human life is without value, dignity, or purpose. Taking the place of our inalienable right to life is politically correct choice. In reality, choice is an elitist eugenics mentality in disguise, hence it views procreation of undesirables---such as the common man---as bad, therefore all population control schemes such as euthanasia, abortion, and the abomination called partial birth abortion---which is tantamount to infanticide---are ‘good.’

You really nail it here, spirited irish!

With God "dead," so is any universal standard of the Good (public or personal) — or Truth for that matter.

Or of morality, private or civic (i.e., morality as it extends to the welfare of the whole public life — the public Good).

Under this mindless regime, everything becomes a matter of "opinion"; and given some deranged concept of human "equality," all opinions are held to be equally valuable — at least as long as they are not equally despicable! Talk about the perfection of irrationality!

Plus ethics becomes "situational"; morality, "relative." Thus law itself becomes unhinged from any basis in a fixed principle, a ratio, criterion, or standard that can validate or invalidate the truth of statements (bye bye logic!) and proposals.

And yet this what it takes to get us a "rule of men," and why the American rule of law, the Constitution, must go.

If folks don't wake up smell the palpable danger to the American republic in all this, and start putting up a resistance to it, we shall lose our country.

Yet few seem to notice that this is a critically serious problem that has been cultivated and primed to undermine and abolish the Constitution — and thus the liberties of the people — by irrational, manic people who make a whole lot of senseless noise. Certainly they are people who hate God, and being thoroughly, bitterly unhinged from Him, have lost not only their humanity, but their minds as well.

I've just finished reading David McCullough's magnificent biography of John Adams, in which I found this choice item: "I know not what to make of a republic of thirty million atheists [then the total population of the U.S.]".

He was speaking in response to the enthusiasm of one political party of the time (i.e., the Republicans under TJ) for the French Revolution. Even before the horror stories from France began filtering in, Adams perceived (correctly as history testifies) that enshrining Reason, elevating it to the status of God (as the philosophes so attractive to TJ argued), was a sure prescription for tyranny, social breakdown, and ultimately war.

Adams well understood the necessity of an unvarying, fixed moral code as the only true source of the citizen virtue it takes to maintain and defend a constitutional republic. It was his lifelong conviction that the two truthful, faithful sources of morality personal and civic were (1) the Holy Bible — first and foremost; (2) as the model of American citizen virtue, the Roman Cicero.

Americans don't spend a whole lot of time in public schools contemplating such things these days, thanks to the wonderfully "creative" pedagogical models of the likes of William Ayers.

spirited irish, I don't know what the answer is. All I can say is I'm praying a lot these days. That God will not forget America, and that He will forgive us for not defending her — or His truth. That He may give us yet another unearned blessing!

Thank you ever so much for your beautiful essay-post spirited irish!

p.s.: Somehow we folks have to draw the line at any undercutting of the Second Amendment. That would be the final usurpation against the true sovereign of this country: We the People. Then it would be a case of: The king is dead! Long live the king! After that, our circumstance would be little different than that of supine cattle.

[hosepipe]

[ I don't know what the answer is. All I can say is I'm praying a lot these days. That God will not forget America, and that He will forgive us for not defending her — or His truth. That He may give us yet another unearned blessing! ]

AFter a couple of nukes go off in American cities..
The "people" might give God a re-think..
Or devolve into to total anarchy..

[joanie-f]

Thank you, irish, for your insightful, eloquent post -- every word of it painfully true.

And, betty, I can do no more than reiterate the beautiful intent of your heartfelt prayer:

All I can say is I'm praying a lot these days. That God will not forget America, and that He will forgive us for not defending her — or His truth. That He may give us yet another unearned blessing!

Amen.

~ joanie

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you oh so very much for your outstanding essay-post, dearest sister in Christ!

Yet few seem to notice that this is a critically serious problem that has been cultivated and primed to undermine and abolish the Constitution — and thus the liberties of the people — by irrational, manic people who make a whole lot of senseless noise. Certainly they are people who hate God, and being thoroughly, bitterly unhinged from Him, have lost not only their humanity, but their minds as well.

Thanks to the liberal's hold on public education, the only way they will learn is by our speaking up!

I join in your earnest prayers for our country!

[spirited irish]

I don’t know what the answer is. All I can say is I’m praying a lot these days. That God will not forget America, and that He will forgive us for not defending her — or His truth. That He may give us yet another unearned blessing!

Spirited: As I stated previously to Dirty Harry, the battle that rages is not of flesh and blood, but of opposing
ideas, that is, the thesis vs the antithesis.
The battle then, is a metaphysical battle made immeasureably more difficult by the fact that many Americans no longer believe in the reality of the metaphysical. Hence they are truly blind to the forces that have captured their minds.

We are witnessing the awful tragedies and realities of spiritual blindness, for as the mind is the citadel of the soul, its capture means the capture of the soul.

We must become more effective at articulating the right ideas in a manner understandable to every person. We must do this simultaneous to exposing the illogic, inner contradictions, and consequences of the opposing ideas, or antithesis.

The Bible tells us that as a man believes, so he is. We now know—for we can see the evidence everywhere we look-— the profound meaning of this truth.