Posted on 10/23/2019 3:35:35 AM PDT by Kaslin
Last week, U.S. Attorney General William Barr told a University of Notre Dame Law School audience that attacks on religious liberty have contributed to a moral decline that's in part manifested by increases in suicides, mental illness and drug addiction. Barr said that our moral decline is not random but "organized destruction." Namely that "Secularists and their allies have marshaled all the forces of mass communication, popular culture, the entertainment industry, and academia in an unremitting assault on religion and traditional values."
The attorney general is absolutely correct. Whether we have the stomach to own up to it or not, we have become an immoral people left with little more than the pretense of morality. The left's attack on religion is just the tiny tip of the iceberg in our nation's moral decline. You say: "That's a pretty heavy charge, Williams. You'd better be prepared to back it up with evidence!" I'll try with a few questions for you to answer.
Do you believe that it is moral and just for one person to be forcibly used to serve the purposes of another? And, if that person does not peaceably submit to such use, do you believe that there should be the initiation of force against him? Neither question is complex and can be answered by either a yes or no. For me the answer is no to both questions. I bet that nearly every college professor, politician or even minister could not give a simple yes or no response.
A no answer, translated to public policy, would slash the federal budget by no less than two-thirds to three-quarters. After all most federal spending consists of taking the earnings of one American to give to another American in the form of farm subsidies, business bailouts, aid to higher education, welfare and food stamps. Keep in mind that Congress has no resources of its own. Plus there's no Santa Claus or tooth fairy that gives Congress resources. Thus, the only way that Congress can give one American a dollar is to first, through intimidation and coercion, confiscate that dollar from some other American.
Such actions by the U.S. Congress should offend any sense of moral decency. If you're a Christian or a Jew, you should be against the notion of one American living at the expense of some other American. When God gave Moses the Eighth Commandment -- "Thou shalt not steal" -- I am sure that He did not mean thou shalt not steal unless there is a majority vote in the U.S. Congress. By the way, I do not take this position because I don't believe in helping our fellow man. I believe that helping those in need by reaching into one's own pocket to do so is praiseworthy and laudable. But helping one's fellow man in need by reaching into somebody else's pockets to do so is worthy of condemnation.
We must own up to the fact that laws and regulations alone cannot produce a civilized society. Morality is society's first line of defense against uncivilized behavior. Religious teachings, one way of inculcating morality, have been under siege in our country for well over a half a century. In the name of not being judgmental and the vision that one lifestyle or set of values is just as good as another, traditional moral absolutes have been abandoned as guiding principles. We no longer hold people accountable for their behavior and we accept excuses. The moral problems Attorney General William Barr mentioned in his speech, plus murder, mayhem and other forms of anti-social behavior, will continue until we regain our moral footing.
In 1798, John Adams, a leading Founding Father and our second president said: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." I am all too afraid that a historian, writing a few hundred years from now, will note that the liberty Americans enjoyed was simply a historical curiosity. Then it all returned to mankind's normal state of affairs -- arbitrary abuse and control by the powerful elite.
And he’s absolutely right.
The decline is profound. If not reversed, we will be conquered by someone.
Drugs are flooding in and ruining families.
Like Rome before us, we've let the barbarians inside the city gates. Unless we stop, then reverse that flow, we're done.
That and AGs who refuse to have lying murdering traitors indicted.
We have already been overtaken by our own Corrupt American Oligarchs.
HERE HERE.....Spot on
That and AGs who refuse to have lying murdering traitors indicted.
You hit he nail dead center.
It can't be fixed. If America collectively has an epiphany, it's going to come down to determining which states are so far gone as to be excised, and which states are salvageable.
Because the way liberals are progressing, they've moving into, and infecting, the metropolitan areas of decent states. In a few years, there's not going to be anything left.
We are getting set to be run by a bunch of people who were abandoned by their mothers in infancy to day care
Academia raised the gem with a sense of hating ‘this country, at least no knowledge of its history, no value placed on ideals.
What could go wrong?
Ya think?
“We must own up to the fact that laws and regulations alone cannot produce a civilized society.”
True. Historically, laws have been used to enslave society.
Go to the 13:20 mark...fascinating and scary at the same time because it's happened and its irreversible until new generations of kids are properly educated -
The amount of available drugs is irrelevant, what matters is personal responsibility and self-control.
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I’ve often said we have become a very sick society.
And it isn’t so much that morals have disappeared, but that morals (rules for living) that have worked for so long have been with a new untried, untested morality based on whims rather than the test of time.
Civilizations fall because of internal moral rot and decay.
No external power could have destroyed the mighty Roman Empire. Rome fell because of internal moral rot and decay.
No external power could destroy the mighty United States of America. If America falls, it will be because of internal moral rot and decay.
Already, examples of moral rot and decay unthinkable only a few decades ago, are accepted by many Americans--maybe most--and actually championed by the Democrat Party, which represents roughly half the US electorate: e.g.
ubiquitous drug addiction--illegal drugs such as heroin and cocaine are available in every American city and town,
the de facto acceptance of heroin and cocaine pushers--and pushers of other illegal drugs--everywhere in America, even in her grammar schools!
illegal immigration,
open borders
voter fraud,
infanticide,
abortion on demand,
sexual perversion,
same-sex marriage,
pornography,
degenerations of the US free press into a mendacious propaganda machine,
widespread contempt for truth, truth for its own sake,
corruption at the highest levels of government including corruption of such venerable institutions as the FBI, the CIA, the US Department of Justice,
open calls for the assassination of the President of the United States.
Who would have even imagined, a few decades ago, that the FBI would become corrupted?
That Americans would tolerate drug pushers in their grammar schools?
The flow of illegal drugs and sex traffickers over her borders?
This is the kind of moral rot and decay that destroys civilizations.
President Trump and his supporters believe that the USA can be pulled back from the brink of the abyss of decadence, of self-destruction, made great again, and sent soaring once again into new heights of ascendency, glory, and greatness.
They believe that the American Dream: liberty, justice, and prosperity for all the people of the world, is alive and well in the hearts of the American People and that it can be a reality.
Pray that they are right.
Pray that they succeed.
” . . . in reality, the main emphasis of the KGB is not in the area of intelligence at all. According to my opinion and
[the] opinion of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower [are] spent on espionage as such.
The other 85% is a slow process, which we call either ‘ideological subversion,’ or ‘active measures’—‘[?]’ in the language of
the KGB—or ‘psychological warfare.’ What it basically means is, to change the perception of reality, of every American,
to such an extent that despite of the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the
interests of defending themselves, their families, their community and their country . . .”
” . . . They are contaminated; they are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern.
You cannot change their mind[s], even if you expose them to authentic information, even if you prove that white
is white and black is black, you still cannot change the basic perception and the logic of behavior.
In other words, these people... the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible . . .”
Yuri Bezmenov 1984
Newsome in California is now allowing illegals to sit on State Government boards and commissions. Our decline is accelerating.
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