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Thank you Betty Boop for catching the sense of my words. I came late to this thread and reviewed the more than 500 posts before responding. My comments at post 520 are based on a problem that is manifest in fully 90% of those posts.
Your original essay stands as a seminal insight into the struggle that is upon us. Your thesis is in no way controversial but is essential to understanding the truth of our circumstances as a nation. Yet, a morass of controversy ensued from the beginning that effectively waylaid any real grappling with your thesis. This has been the device of those who oppose the truth as you so brilliantly revealed it. Debate, assault, rancor, all done with an air of intellectual superiority have, to this point, effectively prevented a careful development of your work.
Your thesis stands as one of 2 recent articles that are clarion calls for those who believe in the vital importance of preserving our Constitution. The other is the magnificent treatise on America's Ruling Class published in the American Spectator. These interlinking articles form a tour de force for the Framers vision.
With whatever time remains on this thread before crickets chirp I want to raise up your essay as a vital call to arms for the protection and renewal of our Constitution and our way of life.
As was the cause of our Founders, we stand for the triumph of God over the chaos of hubris and anarchy. Those who debate and oppose us in this effort are no less than our enemies and deserve no other treatment than as enemy.
Enough with rancor. We have a war to win.

Dear Amos, brother in Christ, thank you ever so much for your kind words!

Yes, this thread has been side-tracked from time to time. Still, there have been some wonderful contributions from KC Burke, YHAOS, Diamond, Alamo-Girl, spirited irish, and many other writers. It's been a learning experience!

I just visited your home page, Amos, and found this wonderful piece from a few years back by FReeper wagglebee:

...For the past 150 years, the intent of futurists/socialists and those who favor the central authority of government in society has been to remove the authority of cultural tradition and religion from the public sector. Arguments for the privacy of religion and for multiculturism have been thinly veiled campaigns to relegate knowledge and experience from the past to a curio shop of cultural oddities.
This campaign (designed by Marx, Freud, Dewey, Spinoza, Darwin, Emerson and many others) has designed social structures oriented to a utopian future by breaking radically with the past. The viewpoint of each of these philosophers has been based in a belief that the evolution of society and the individual are hopelessly restricted by the influence of all that has gone before, especially by religion.
The central theme of cultural tradition and its concomitant, religion, is morality based on natural law. Our Constitution is the quintessential example of this. Futurists believe fervently in the absolute authority of government over all aspects of personal and social behavior. It is vital, therefor, for them to overcome the founding principles of the Constitution.
In an attempt to do this the Founders are denegrated as white, racists, slaveholders, capitalists and bigots to a man. Their appeals to the Creator and Natural Law are viewed by futurists as attempts to confine society to a narrow, provincial and wholly backward political system.
The reliance of the Constitution and its historical antecedents on morality are major stumbling blocks to the New World so fervently sought by socialists. This is precisely why it is critical for those who wish government to dominate society to root out all vestiges of religion and morality. They, then, can have a free hand to redisign man and society in their own image. This is the precise struggle in which we are engaged. It is a war for the continued existence of mankind centered on God. We are far along this path with no clear way back.... [emphasis added]

Oh, wagglebee, so beautifully and truly said!

Thank you ever so much for writing, dear Amos, and for your excellent insights!

I very strongly agree with you on the importance and relevance of betty boop's outstanding article!

With whatever time remains on this thread before crickets chirp I want to raise up your essay as a vital call to arms for the protection and renewal of our Constitution and our way of life.
As was the cause of our Founders, we stand for the triumph of God over the chaos of hubris and anarchy. Those who debate and oppose us in this effort are no less than our enemies and deserve no other treatment than as enemy.

Enough with rancor. We have a war to win.

Indeed. Thank you so very much for sharing your insights, dear Amos the Prophet!