The First Amendment and American Greatness

American Thinker.com ^ | September 16, 2021 | Paul Krause

[Kaslin]

The First Amendment, that sacred door to the Bill of Rights and Constitution, is the true source of America’s greatness and genius. The First Amendment contains the seeds that inspire humans to greatness: religion, intellect, and liberty. Our natural condition as humans is to be religious, intellectual, and free. Precisely because this is the root of American exceptionalism and the greatness of human ingenuity in the United States, the forces of destruction, desecration, and despotism must destroy the very flame that inspires our soul to lofty heights.

That the First Amendment is under siege is an understatement. The attacks against religious liberty, free speech, and free assembly are aimed at creating a servile population subjugated to the will and whim of the Beltway Bureaucracy and their Beijing and Silicon Valley masters. The genius of our Founding Fathers to include, in the First Amendment, the three realities deep in human nature which, when harmoniously combined, produce human greatness, is a testament to their wisdom and reveals the depravity of our present state.

When humans, and society, unite the principles of religion, intellect, and liberty, the great flourishing of mankind and civilization commences. Much to the chagrin of atheists, who would seek intellect and liberty devoid of the Author of intellect and liberty, and invariably stunt societal progress and lead it to a slow drift toward desecration, history shows us the reality of the trinity of religion, intellect, and freedom and what it brings to civilization.

No civilization in recorded history has flourished without religion. Religion has been the springboard to intellectual and political liberty. Our Sacred Scriptures testify to this in the Old Testament history. The intellectual progress and political freedom of the Jews is first owed to their covenant with God.

[equaviator]

In 1968, it was okay for a 9 year-old to buy and read the latest issue of MAD Magazine. You could even read half of it while deciding to buy it or not, and if not, you could just leave it at the register on the way out.

[alexander_busek]

No civilization in recorded history has flourished without religion.

To be fair: The sample size of civilizations without religion is relatively tiny / statistically insignificant.

Further, numerous civilization with religion have nonetheless failed to flourish.

So this statement is practically useless.

Regards,