Posted on 01/17/2003 1:55:56 PM PST by Polycarp
And so we see the naked truth of democracy laid bare: vox populi, vox dei -- in any form of representative government, the voice of the people is the voice of God. Kerry is right -- under our system of government, if there is a conflict between the will of the people and the Will of God, the Will of the People trumps all.
This is why Christian monarchy is the best form of governent. A king is not beholden to the popular will. A king stands above politics, freeing the nation from the thrall of the whims of the masses. A pious king, consecrated to God, acts as the guardian of the dignity and rights of the human person guaranteed by the natural law -- rights which become in time subject to the poltical process when guaranteed by nothing more than paper.
It is in cases such as the abortion debate that a form of authority that transcends politics becomes most needed. Acting in his capacity as supre judge, a king can simply decree, "human life begins at the instant of natural conception", and the matter is settled. Those who disagree are welcome to express their disagreement peaceably, but no more; those who trangress the will of the sovereign are counted traitors, subject to the penalty of law.
In every case, represetative government tends towards mob rule. In time, when the Mob discovers it can vote itself supreme power, government ceases to be the God-ordained keeper of the peace and provider of justice it should properly be, and becomes a tool by which the Mob (and the manipulators who control it) reward and punish as they see fit. Bound by no mere church doctrine, those with power shift their allegiance to the doctrines of Mammon -- and history reveals the result.
Any nation not founded upon natural law is by definition evil. Any culture that does not recognize God as the Supreme Authority is forced to recognize only the desires of the human heart as supreme. Once a nation slips the bounds of power instituted by God and becomes a god unto itself, ruin soon follows.
If one's status as a human being is defined by mere words, it can be taken away by mere words. Only by dedication to the laws of God can a government hope to remain sane.
That being said, I do think monarchy will come to our society -- the way it always does: through the collapse of Empire. Right now the Empire is at its greatest extennt ("Iraq is divided into three parts..."), but even as our legions carry the eagle forward for the glory of the former Republic, the barbarians cross the borders at an alarming rate. Our "Germans" come from the south and speak Spanish, but as the Empire expands more and more, a greater percentage of her subjects will be barbarian in origin. In time the Empire will collapse -- not because of the barbarians, but in spite of their infusion of new blood and new ideas -- and a new Dark Age will fall.
When Rome can no longer maintain order in the peripheries, local barbarian warlords will square off for control of their own regions until one reigns supreme in each -- and, in time, a Pepin will appear. A future where Washington (or even Austin) is powerless to enforce the law ior maintain order n Dallas is where we'll see monarchy reappear. Ethnic warlords will vie with one another for control of the cities, while the Klan, bathtub Meth makers, and/or garden-variety psychotic drifters will terrorize the countryside. Eventually, one ethnic warlord -- a former National Guard colonel who gathers Hispanic guardsmen and their weapons into a "Fuerza Latina de Dallas" , say -- will defeat or co-opt the Malcolm X Brigade (another National Guard splinter group) and/or the Aryan Defense Force and rule the city as warlord. The local civilians, weary of the chaos, will swear to obey him in return for protection; over time, Colonel Martinez becomes King Juan I, in reality if not in name.
Far-fetched? Yes. But the above is more-or-less analagous to the way France, Spain, and the various former colonies of Rome developed after the fall of the Empire in the West. The dividing line between warlord and Christian king comes when the sovereign office takes on a sacramental as well as a military character; Charlemagne, tribal leader of the Franks became Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor with the consecration by the Pope of Christmas Day, A.D. 800. Thus is a mere ethnic gang and its chieftain converted by its baptism to new life as a Christian nation and its king.
Just as autoeroticism is fundamentally disordered, so is autogovernment. In both cases, man and his own will are the ultimate bases for the act. As Chriatians, I believe we should always seek to conform to the natural order, both in matters of sexuality -- in other words, marriage and family -- and in government. Just as the structure of the human family reflects the Divine order and serves as the basis of a happy, well-ordered human life, so too is monarchy -- that form of government that most closely mirrors the Divine order -- the only true way to achieve a happy, well-ordered Christian government.
"As above, so below"; Christ is not the President of the Universe -- He is King.
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