Let's put aside the historical question of what sources the Founding Fathers, mostly Deists, drew upon.
Translation: Let's open up with a typical Libertarian bald faced lie. (Truth: 21 Anglicans, 16-18 Calvinists, 2 Methodists, 2 Lutherans, 2 Roman Catholics, 1 lapsed Quaker sometimes Anglican, and 1 (ONE) open Diest - Dr. Franklin, who attended every kind of Christian worship, called for public prayer, and contributed to all denominations. - source: Bradford "A Worthy Company")
It says, in effect, "I own you; you must obey me."
The typical Libertarian statement of open rebellion and blind allegiance to the god of Chance who authored "evolution" which says that man is an accident of random chance. If our author hates God, denies the eistance of Creator, and believes that he is nothing but an accident of random chance, then it is not possible for him to subscribe to abstracts like reason and morality since they are nothing but random chemical processes. If the chemistry in his brain is a result of what is ingested, his thought process is the total result of dinner and whatever narcotics the Libertarian is fueled on. We can reasonably assume then that this avowed atheist created himself, or is dependent on two other animals for his existance. Both prospects are laughable.
Could America be based on this?
Absolutely. Who exactly were the Puritans and the Pilgrims, and what was Christopher Columbus and the Spanish explorers if they were not highly religous people who trusted God? When examining the Constitutions of the various states, why was it a requirement for most of them to believe in orthodox Christianity?
Is such a servile idea even consistent with what America represents: the land of the free, independent, sovereign individual who exists for his own sake?
This is evidence that we are dealing with a complete ignorant moron, and total apparatchik of the Atheist Deconstructionalists. For the abundant evidence of the remarkable faith of America's forefounders, that this clod can't find any evidence of it, speaks openly against his claims. Furthermore, wherever Christianity has been rejected in favor of other gods (like Islam), or no God (like Cuba, China and the former Soviet Union), or many gods (like India), or a new found rejection of Christianity (like the united States and Europe), then one sees slavery, servitude, dependance and everyone as Wards of the State. I can only conclude that this is really the goal of Dr. Binswanger - to usher in a pagan servile state of Lords, Barons, Kings and serfs.
Inherited guilt is an impossible and degrading concept.
That is why Christians reject Binswanger's premise. How can we expect a belligerent and open God Hater to express any honesty whatsoever when it comes to things he is an irrational enemy to? Christianity, or for that matter, the entire gospel looks towards Christ to break the chain of sin and death. Binswainger, like all of his Libertarian myrmidons, can not possibly fathom Cause & Effect. They want to do whatever they want to do, are scared silly by the obvious consequences of their open rebellion and self gratification, so they conjure up this new religion that denies all of the history of man, invents a new world thoroughally constrained within the bounds of their hedonistic minds, and then compiles this sort of dreck - a hit piece on Christianity and a total rewrite of history. Libertarians, like their Marxist bretheren employ the exact same techniques in their plot to destroy the Middle Class, kill off God, and return the world to a thousand years of darkness.
The nation of the self-made man cannot be squared with the ugly notion that you are to be punished for the "sin" of your great-grandfather.
In other words, Dr Binswanger wants to engage in any kind of immorality, and then he wants to pretend that none of his friends or relatives are harmed by his rotten reputation. Typical Libertarian "thought", throughout the history of man, it has been important to not defame or taint the name of the family. Why do you suppose that is? Dr Binswainger is to ignorant to see that reputation and integrity have long lasting effects. Dr Binswainger is too stupid and self-centered to understand that rotten parents usually raise rotten children. Good fruit does not come from a diseased tree, but Dr Binswainger doesn't live in this world, he lives in this fantasy land of Unicorns, elves, and the inherent perfect nature of man
...taking the Lord's name "in vain" and spending a special day, the Sabbath, in propitiating Him. ...
No, Dr Binswainger would rather say "God Damn" all the time, not recognizing that he is offending people who believe in God, he is also stating foolishness according to his own folly, in that he denies the existance of a Creator God, yet wants to be able to send down curses according to God's name. And what is this "propitiating" business? The Ten Commandments says "for in six days God labored, and on the seventh day he rested..." God is giving man a day off. Dr Binswainger is too stupid to realize that during the French Revolution and in Stalin's reformation, the tried to change the work week into a ten day cycle. God decreed that man should live according to a hebdamodal cycle, thus both experiments to deviate from seven days resulted in failure. But Dr Binswainger's raw arrogance and self worship prevents him from considering that.
Your particular father and mother may or may not deserve your honor—that is for you to judge on the basis of how they have treated you and of a rational evaluation of their moral character.
Notice at this point, he has completely deviated from the original premise, and is now standing on a soap-box preaching his open rebellion and utter hatred towards God, Christians, the Family unit, and traidional American values. What kind of demonic hell hole has this guy been raised in where he openly desires the destruction of the family unit? This is why Libertarianism should be killed while it is still young. It is perversion and moral sickness straight from the bowels of Hell. Notice that Libertarianism shares the exact same attitudes towards the family unit as Marxist Communism. I am not surprised.
To demand that Stalin's daughter honor Stalin is not only obscene,
Yes, of course, everyone has a Stalin for a father. This is typical Libertarian demagoguery, notice that God hating, and dwelling on Stalin and sharing Stalin's ideals for the perfect state occupy this man's mind. Need I say more about their true origins and commonality?
...a metaphysics of the natural, not the supernatural; of free will, not determinism;...
Can anyone explain the evolutionary origins of "free will"? It would seem to me, that chemical processes are highly deterministic. But Dr Binswainger is so steeped in his own foolishness and stupidity that he can't even be consistant - except that he is a consistant Libertarian - IOW, irrational, fanatical, rebellious, deceptive, and immoral.
funny you should say that.
in europre, it was the very birth of the middle class, and the reemergence of rational sciences after a thousand years of dogmatic darkness, that led to God's decline.