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
posted by Chuck Demastus at 5:56 PM
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Murray Rothbard in an essay, "Just War" on the Yankee:
“The North’s driving force, the ‘Yankees’—that ethnocultural group who either lived in New England or migrated from there to upstate New York, northern and eastern Ohio, northern Indiana, and northern Illinois—had been swept by . . . a fanatical and emotional neo-Puritanism driven by a fervent ‘postmillenialism’ which held that as a precondition of the Second Advent of Jesus Christ, man must set up a thousand-year-Kingdom of God on Earth. The Kingdom is to be a perfect society. In order to be perfect, of course, this Kingdom must be free of sin . . . . If you didn’t stamp out sin by force you yourself would not be saved. This is why “the Northern war against slavery partook of a fanatical millenialist fervor, of a cheerful willingness to uproot institutions, to commit mayhem and mass murder, to plunder and loot and destroy, all in the name of high moral principle. They were ‘humanitarians with the guillotine,’ the ‘Jacobins, the Bolsheviks of their era.’”
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