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Posted on 02/18/2012 1:04:34 PM PST by Noumenon
The foundation of this nation lay in the assumption that we were wise enough to control our own lives. Everything that the Founders wrote reflects this underlying assumption. They believed, without exception (even those with strong religious beliefs) that the Church should play no role in the conduct of government because of the Church's tendency to manipulate or otherwise usurp control of the populace's lives in ways the Founders found abhorrent. They were strongly pro-gun; firearms made it possible for a citizen to protect himself from encroachments upon his liberty, even by his own government. They desired a free press because they believed that as individuals, we were wise enough to make decisions that would ultimately be beneficial to the larger community. In short, the Founders produced the first nation ever in the history of the world based upon an idea – a philosophy, if you will - of freedom. This has largely been abandoned or ignored.
Once a nation such as ours loses sight of the philosophical principles upon which it was founded, it is lost. A man without a firm grasp of unbreachable and intransigent moral principles based upon reason is a man disarmed. We are a nation disarmed - morally, ethically, and philosophically. The silence of our alleged representatives concerning the encroachment on our fundamental rights speaks more eloquently than anything I can write. Don't you suppose that the real reason for the 'silence of the damned' is simply because they have nothing to say?
"I heard no mention of the loss of personal freedom... Apparently this was not much of a sacrifice. They couldn't have cared less."
William Shirer, "Hitler and the Third Reich: First Impressions", from The Nightmare Years: 1930-1940 (Little, Brown, and Co., 1984)
Those who deny the reality of the systematic abrogation of the rule of law and the destruction of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights at the hands of both mainstream American political parties are whistling past the graveyard of history. Once it has become apparent that the rule of law no longer applies to the common man; once the application of existing law has become arbitrary and outcomes subject to the amount of money one can apply; once laws are made and applied in such a way that it becomes virtually impossible to exist without violating them - the party's over.
Some of us are willing to acknowledge the indisputable and incontrovertible evidence that the rule of law is all but dead, and that the political process as it now exists is irretrievably corrupt. The rest of you cling to the fiction that the rule of law still governs, and that the first principles of human freedom upon which our nation was founded are honored and upheld, much less understood. And that's the dirty secret, isn't it? Too many of us are willing to look the other way, to deny the evidence, to pretend that it doesn't matter. The loss of our freedom is akin to the crazy uncle locked up in the basement - we all know he's there; we just won't talk about it. There is terrible price to be paid for this denial of reality. The butchers' bill is coming due - soon.
Once it has become apparent that the rule of law no longer applies to the common man; once the application of existing law has become arbitrary and outcomes subject to the amount of money one can apply; once laws are made and applied in such a way that it becomes virtually impossible to exist without violating them - the party’s over.
Agreed. So now that the party’s over, what next?
The reality is--easily demonstrable--that Collectivist/Egalitarianism Sabotages Human Potential. Most of our social & economic problems spring from the failure of central planners to even understand the full context of the things they have wrought.
William Flax
What’s next? Prepare to sell your life dearly, unless you’re prepared to repeat one of recent history’s horrible lessons.
Some of them understand it all too well, and it stems from their conviction that human beings are nothing more than things, animals or machines. For monsters such as they are, the ultimate expression of their will to power is the desire to slaughter human beings without fear of consequence. And in reality, it's even worse than that. For that desire to slaughter is accompanied by a delight in sadism and cruelty that we as decent human beings simply cannot comprehend.
While the author's premises have merit, I question his conclusion (above). The French revolutionists embraced reason while simultaneously savaging the Catholic Church. Their attacks on the Church included theft, murder of the clergy, and more. In the Church's place, they literally erected a new "religion" based on Reason. Their revolution resulted in mass butchery, external and internal wars, and eventually the dictatorship of Napolean and contintental war. Millions died.
No, reason won't save us, but God might.
Reading “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy” and it is a great book about the takeover of the churches by Hitler. You control the ideas and you can control the people. Hitler had total control over the press and Goebbels who would lie constantly in the press. They created all allowed “perceptions” and would “kill” the traitors—who were defined as anyone who would disagree with the State.
The evil SS did all the killing so the “moral” people in the regular military never saw the total depravity of the Nazis....but they heard the rumors and there were attempts to kill Hitler, but they knew it was much harder to get rid of all the SS and SA—for they would take over if Hitler was killed.
The depravity and brutality of the SS and SA can never be comprehended by good people. Even the depravity toward little children.
Solution? Cicero said as he saw the Republic of Rome ending—that the only way to survive was to be a nation of Rule of Law. We have to pronounce laws which are “obnoxious” to our Constitutional principles, “Null and Void”. All judges have the power to do this (John Marshall)—in fact, they have a DUTY to do it by their very oaths.
We the people need to force those judges who pass arbitrary laws to be held accountable-—all of them at every level. They need to be challenged and impeached if they do not use “Right Reason according to Nature” which is the definition of Just Law.
John Austin’s philosophy is taught in the Law schools of America and it teaches irrational thinking (is good) and that laws can be “arbitrary”.
It is a lie. Arbitrary Laws are always unjust laws—because they treat some people as “special” and others as less so and they give power to groups or persons over others. Rational people can easily see the flawed thinking in a government which PROMISES equal “justice” for all.
We need to impeach Sotomeyer and Kagan and Ginsberg-—they have stated things which let us know they have not lived up to their sacred obligation to uphold the Supreme Law of the Land-—and made rulings antithetical to it.
It can NOT be allowed in a Just system. You can never have “Justices” who do not believe in “Just Law”. It is irrational==postmodernist non thinking.
The Ominous Parallels, p.13
So we've reached the point in our history where thinking has become virtually nonexistent. I suppose that probably less than 5% of our population actually thinks about anything at all of substance.
Of course we know that it has all been intentional and implemented by painstakingly crafty and patient design. Be that as it may, now we sit and watch it all unfold on a daily basis. Virtual all pretense and shadows have been eliminated, they openly carry out their plans in full sunlight and it barely draws a yawn from zombie masses.
Those of us that do notice and care to comment are almost universally derided as the paranoid (and perhaps criminally) insane.
God is reason. Reason and Faith can never be separated. We are a Nation under God-—our Natural Rights come from God, and so, unlike the French, we have a standard for Justice (Revelation and Natural Law). Reason is essential in all endeavors for Just societies.
Where God and Reason exist you get the USA which made it great. Leave the morality and Virtue out (God)-—is leaving Reason out, also. Faith is always present in every belief system-—but with God you are rational because you acknowledge your faith. Atheists never do—although their “belief system” takes more faith than Christianity and has just arbitrary standards where Justice can never exist.
The French Revolution ended up being irrational and emotional and with no intellect controlling those emotions. Evil—”Will to Power” always will rise to take the reigns of control during chaos. That is why zero is trying to divide us and create chaos. Christianity has supplied too much stability and wisdom and has to be destroyed to create arbitrary law and chaos. It is why he forced sodomy as “good” in our military—to destroy the Christian paradigm which has always existed up until the forced reeducation and destruction of Virtue. Sodomy is always evil and is against Natural Law. Even Machiavelli stated that militaries MUST be virtuous. Destroy Virtue by promoting obviously vile and evil acts as “good” and you will create corrupt, immoral units.
The Age of Reason is what made it possible for the Founders to write the Constitution and form this nation. God and Reason came together in the most beautiful way but since Christianity and Natural Law was joined by St. Thomas Aquinas—there is no conflict between the two. Islam is in total denial of Natural Law and is incompatible with our government—as is Marxism.
The millions of mutilated corpses result in all godless societies—they end up all being totalitarian societies—always. Never Just.
If you deny the Supernatural elements in nature—you deny Natural Law—which states there is a Designer of Nature.
Rational thinking encompasses the Law of Nature—it is where Common Sense comes from and why the US was so successful.
In the case of the French Revolution, reason was hijacked in the service of tyranny; reason uninformed with with ethical considerations borne of an enduring of faith becomes a poor substitute for God. As history has so clearly shown.
We appear to be on the same track here. Leftists are obliged to abandon faith and reason to begin with. None of the worldview or outlook holds up against it. Power is their goal. The power to slaughter millions, even billions.
It doesn’t look good for what remains of Western civilization, does it?
Yes, and the Democrats embrace science.
The former were and the latter are lying.
| Belief in God | |||
| Absent | Present | ||
| Reason | Absent | primitivism | extreme Islam |
| Present | French Revolution, Marxism | USA as founded |
Nice graph-—exactly what one of my professors once said.
There was only a little window of time that a nation like America could have been founded-—it was quite unique in all history: The Age of Reason and before the atheism of Voltaire became dominant.
It took both God and Reason to form America.....neither of the two can be eliminated because both are required for a Rule of Law-—Just Law. You need Objective Truth (absolutes) for Just Law that only come from God who embodies the “Most Just”.
An excellent time to repost this gem, my friend.
Yes, it is. The hour is getting late.
My real fear is that they keep dragging this out to the point where I spend the rest of my life slogging through this decline. I'd much prefer a quick resolution so that we can help our children and grandchildren start the rebuilding process before passing (assuming I live through the denouement!).
I suppose that probably less than 5% of our population actually thinks about anything at all of substance.
American knowledge has been culturally cleansed by liberals...on purpose and in the name of change to Marxist “smart.” Who is to judge?
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