That endows it with the weight it should carry, and makes it a guiding - if not defining - force in our morality.
To oppose it -
is to storm the very gates of Heaven itself.
Against that might, who can prevail? Certainly not the relativist Left, whose agnosticism serves as a flimsy substitute for the moral certainty - or at least reassurance - these times demand. As a nation composed of family oriented virtues,
[whose core values we've tried to conserve over the decades,
but have families and public schools been successful in imparting simple core values and traditions over succeeding generations ?]
The traditional bastions of morality , home and the church ,have been assailed to such an extent that Duty, Honor, and Country has fallen to Sex, Drugs, and Rock'n'roll.
But , since 9/11--
could that void lead to an unapologetic fulfillment to God, country, and family?
For what other institutions have served as our cultural anchors through every vagary of man and nature for a thousand years?
Think of it as a "return to normalcy," an ideological maturing that is long overdue, a putting away of childish things after a glimpse of Hell through a glass darkly.
Mostly, it is a covenant with the spirits of the past and the hopes of the future that the great promise of this land will not be squandered.
No. And to the degree they've failed, our culture has become weak and susceptible to the acts we saw on Sept. 11. Our strength lies in restoring the morality that made us strong to begin with.