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... in the end the Constitution will hang by a thread!

I don‘t know why everyone seems so surprised by this. The persecution of Christianity by the republican State and by the non-Christian groups which empower it are the natural result of any system of non-sacramental government. In any State where the government rules “of the people, by the people, and for the people”, it necessarily follows that the power of that State is limited only by the will of “the people” (i.e. those who make the laws and control the armed forces). In other words, even the best-intentioned republic eventually ends up as a tyranny, with all power residing in the hands of a small elite of demagogues and enforced by the Mob they control. Such a tyranny follows the overthrow of sacramental government as surely and as naturally as water running downhill; this fundamental flaw (common to all forms of representative government) is a product of human nature – the natural desire to hold on to power. To those in power, there can be only one law in town: their own, crafted by their own human hands. To them, anyone holding an allegiance to any law or authority other than their own is a threat, and common sense dictates that any threat – however small — be neutralized as quickly and completely as possible. Thus, to the demagogues who always end up in coontrol of the Republic, the only sensible course of action is to persecute, oppress, and in time eliminate those who do not accept their authority as being supreme and unlimited.

It goes without saying that the true Christian reserves his highest allegiance to God and His Law – a sin that no Republic can afford to forgive.

Popular government is flawed and un-Christian at its very fundament. The traditional Christian concept of government is the divine hierarchy: God to King to Lord to freeman, peasant, or serf. All authority comes from God as a sacrament by way of the Church. He who bears the Crown bears the burden of upholding the Natural Law within his desmesne; he is, like Christ, both Lord and Servant of his people. The king is limited in his powers by his Faith and by the sanction of the Church; should either be removed, his status as King disappears and his power is transferred to his legitimate successor.

The scramental state is based on love and loyalty, nou upon nose-counting. The King's capacity for tyranny is limited by the love of the common folk (with their scythes), he loyalty of his peers (with their arms and retainers) and by his own loyalty to God and God's Church (with its ability to excommunicate). Like the family, the sacrammental state is an institution founded upon Duty – to God, to Peer, to Subject, to Liege Lord, to Sovereign – not upon the self-centered notion of personal Liberty.

A Republic, which replaces God with the will of the people (“the consent of the governed”) has no such limitations. Unlike the Natural Law, the Republic is ordained and established by the constitution, a written or unwritten artiifice that is subject to reinterpretation at will by judges (who are either elected – and thus beholden to their electorates – or appointed, which puts them in the service of their patrons among the power elite). Thus, the power of the Republic is in fact unlimited, and will in time inevitably become more and more centralized in the hands of those with the resources and skill to manipulate the sans-culottes into legitimizing whatever their whims decree. The road to the abolition of man is thus paved with the ballots of the well-intentioned.

Any government that is not specifically and constitutionally founded on the Christian faith is a ticking time-bomb. The Christians of the Vendée found that out; we will, too. In a state where power and law are both made by men, power has no bounds and law will come to mean whatever those who hold it want it to mean. What was true in 1793 is still true today: kill the King in the name of Liberty and you end up with a tyranny far worse than any the Crown ever imposed. Our day of reckoning is coming, just as surely as it did for the Christians of France. Aux barricades, citoyens! Ecrasez l'infame!