“Nobodys talking about big government Christianity. They are talking about the bottom-up restoration of morality.”
If you are serious about the restoration of morality, you’d not try to make an unwieldy beast such as our government “moral”. It isn’t possible with it’s size and intrusiveness.
You had some good quotes from founding fathers in a previous post. Remember, they could build on moral foundations because they had set tyranny alight, and chased it from our shores.
We have some of those moral foundations still in place - but we’ve got to torch the house of ill-repute that has been built upon it over the past 200 years.
Then we can talk about the restoration of morality and freedoms.
In order to maintain a system of self-government, you must have people who actually govern themselves. People who believe that God expects them to be honest, and to honor their commitments to their families and to each other. When that breaks down, more and more government is necessary to clean up the mess.