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Why do I say all this? Not to blow my horn but to be able to state that my actions in relation to others has for a very long time now resulted in very positive face to face communications. I am the first to admit that my formal education is limited but in trusting God and seeking his guidance I find things flow rather easily. And if I can do it anyone can. It always seems to be when I try to rely on my own will solely or someone elses direction that I encounter obstacles. Love.

Excellent point, Tim. Yet the people opposed to our Christian morals based republic would attempt to stifle the free marketplace of ideas. They do this through "political correctness" in universites, schools, and the media, and through effectively blackballing Christian/moralists in Hollywood. Even more despicable, they attempt to drown out from our governmental institutions, any historically and intellectually honest relation of our Christian (and by Christian I also mean Judaic) heritage, the very basis of the free society in which we live. Many means are used, from the very subtle to the very obtuse.

One means has been to focus on a minsconstrued Jefferson, Madison, and Franklin, as opposed to J. & S. Adams, Henry, Mason, Blackstone, etc.; also to ignore the role of everyman's Biblically informed conscience and intellect, and of course the roles of the clergy, while the hew and cry at the time of our Revolution was actually "No king but King Jesus!" as assuredly as it was "No taxation without representation." Also, in the earlier generation, the leftists and corrupted libertarians focus upon a misconstrued Locke (Locke as Rousseau) vs. Sidney. Since then, of course the existentialists, materialists... and now the immaterialist "post-modernists." (Perhaps there is more novelty and controversy with these people; maybe that is the excuse for all the attention.)

But beneath the revisionism is Marxist-style manipulation and control of the public mind. Hardly the free marketplace of ideas, there.

One means has been to focus on a minsconstrued Jefferson, Madison, and Franklin, as opposed to J. & S. Adams, Henry, Mason, Blackstone, etc.

I was remiss to name James Otis here, who some say was a living mentor to Samuel Adams, John Adams, etc.

Here is a link to an "indictment," written by a loyalist in 1781, of James Otis and certain clergy in America, for being the chief instigators of the American Revolution.