Why Our Constitution Is Being Destroyed

Even by the Very Americans Sworn to Uphold It

By Joan Hough

John Adams told us that our government does not have the “power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.” He explained:   “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” [Emphasis added.]

Today I am reminded of a truth brilliantly expressed by Dr. Douglas Young.  Writing for the Georgia Heritage Council, Dr. Young, in a remarkable commentary, entitled “Secular Political Fanatics”) added to the Adams statement.  Young tells us that down through history secular political fanatics have done far more harm because they lacked humility before a judgmental God and did not possess his rules to halt them.  Theirs is the desire to create a heaven on earth because that’s all they think there is--to do that they must remake society.   [Obviously their concept of heaven is vastly different from that of all Christians!]

Young then adds:  “And what a horrific toll many political true-believers have wrought. Without religion to rein them in, they created the first totalitarian dictatorships in which the party-state (national secular church) proscribes every aspect of citizens’ lives. Inspired by the French Revolution’s Jacobins who sought to create “a republic of virtue,” 20th century communists strove to forge a new “revolutionary man.” Marxists in Russia, Eastern Europe, North Korea, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Cuba criminalized all religious, political, social, and even personal conduct deemed “ideologically incorrect.” A Bolshevik once asked Joe Stalin to execute a group because “They have no [communist] faith.” The stridently secular Nazi Adolf Hitler declared, “Anyone who interprets National Socialism merely as a political movement knows almost nothing about it. It is more than religion; it is the determination to create a new man.’”

Young’s commentary in its entirety can be found at: http://georgiaheritagecouncil.org/site2/commentary/young-secular-pol-fanatics020509.phtml