Posted on 07/04/2010 3:28:02 AM PDT by Scanian
Americans celebrate their independence today in a very different society from the one born in 1776. The beliefs the Founders held most dear, and upon which they built a uniquely free society, are largely alien -- even objectionable -- in today's America. I am not referring to the changes brought about by President Obama, but to a deeper change that preceded Obama and which fueled his ascendancy.
The principles of freedom upon which America was built -- such as the ideas that all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights -- arose from religious beliefs held firmly by the Founders. Even the less religious Founders accepted the truth of those beliefs. But in recent decades, America has replaced its history with a narrative that resembles the French Revolution more than our own. We have reimagined ourselves as a secular nation based on secular principles. While many Americans believe secularization increases our freedom, it in fact reduces our freedom and will eventually destroy it. The Founders tried to tell us, but we refuse to listen: Secularism and freedom are incompatible.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Hogwash!
Thanks for this post.
And the lion shall lay down with the lamb.
Secularism has worked out so well hasn't it? /sarcasm
BM
But the lamb won’t get much sleep.
I do not recall any administration, media, etc. spokesmen talking about rights other than "human rights" -- which have been defined by the U.N. as government goodies.
The floundering followers of Obama today work to replace our federal government with a fetteral government of czars and fetters.
Glad you liked it.
The Founders were not concerned about Islamofascism........
IMHO benign agnostics are nicer.
We’ve become to lazy in defense of that Freedom and Liberty that the Founders bequeath us.
Ragged Old Flag by John Wayne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6vwXbQZvJo&feature=related
When law and rights are divorced from God then the determination of these become a matter of human opinion and inevitably a struggle for power by competing factions to enforce their view of what is right and just. Human history is full of this and the crowning achievments of secularism are found in the 20th century resulting in the butchery of hundreds of millions in the name of one ideology or another. The wars of religion (actually political conflicts cloaked in religious justification) never, in their entire history in the west claimed so many lives or wreaked so much destruction.
Secularists are fools - there is no other term that fits - who imagine that human beings will bow to sweet reason and line up on the side of peace and brotherhood. What they refuse to accept is that humans are free agents who can and do form opinions and take actions for any and every reason imaginable. Humans can and do act on impulse, faulty and sometimes insane reasoning and will accept the wildest and most horrifying belief systems based on nothing more than emotion or pure cussedness. The world of the madman is based on perfect logic and reason - it just doesn’t conform to reality. But try and tell that to the madman and you are likely to provoke an intense, bitter and sometimes violent attack.
There is no salvation to be found in the philosophical constructs of men.
That's an excellent point. I believe it was Chesterton who made the following astute point:
"When a man ceases to believe in God, he does not believe in nothing, he believes in anything."
Right on the mark.
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