Been Awhile...

I apologize for taking so long between posts!  It's been a bit overwhelming trying to select a topic with so much going on, lately.

I wasn't able to stomach the "Healthcare Summit," but did catch the tail end featuring B. Hussein droning on incoherently, including his "race to the bottom" analogy.  That one lowered my IQ by about 15 points, I think, and it hasn't been easy recovering it!

But today I'm struck by the broader view of the scene before me as I watch this culture war heat up.  It seems clear to me--and I've said as much-- that the statists have read the tea leaves and determined that this was their time to strike and seize control of the United States, discard the Constitution and establish a new socialist state in its place. 

While I don't subscribe to one grand conspiracy to accomplish this, it seems rather obvious that those who favor statism have long infested the education system, the media and government for decades. 

A sizable portion of the statist agenda--and one that is beginning to crumble before our eyes--is their anti-religious religion.  Ann Coulter laid out the tenets of this false faith expertly in her book, Godless.  I don't pretend to have all the answers here, nor do I plan to make a full discussion of this point. 

But there is a clear premise of hostility to religion in the bulk of the statist agenda, even though there are so many instances where that agenda is contradictory (for example, why are self-proclaimed darwinists so devoted to preventing the "survival of the fittest" in nature, in schools, in business, etc.?), they press on with their fundamental belief that any religion is superior to Christianity and no religion is best.

Absent a belief in an involved and personal God, what prevents our falling victim to the "Crisis of the Day?"  Man becomes the ultimate cause of all the problems in the earth and, therefore, the solution.  If only man can be sufficiently regulated by government, then all the evils and problems of the world can be eradicated.

Moreover, if there is no God, then His rules certainly don't apply!  There is no morality beyond that which can be contrived by the statists--and those are typically knee-jerk reactions to situations.  Without a divine heritage, man is nothing more than a common animal, but one with vast power to affect the function of the earth and its infinitely complex interactions, all of which combine to sustain life.  

I could go on and on, but even this is not my point today.  What has been refreshing to me is the resurgence and reawakening of religious faith that I am seeing.  Similar to the rising tide of opposition to the erosion of other liberties, the attacks on religious liberty are awakening people of faith to stand firm against the onslaught of secular drivel. 

This is, I think, one of the most positive sides of the rising opposition to the statists' agenda.  A return to moral fundamentals must, I think, precede the return to Constitutional principle.  John Adams observed, "We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions which are unbridled by morality and true religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."  

That is the essence of self-government--to be bridled by our own moral and religious faiths.  It is a sure path to tyranny and servitude to jettison those supports.  Hence, I think, the continuous flow of amoral sludge from Hollywood and the media.  

As the "Progressive" [statist] agenda "progresses," everything else that matters must be in full decline.  Our culture and our societal decline feed the argument for increasing government power.  The opposite--the path chosen by our founders was self rule and self rule cannot be achieved absent a clear and consistent moral code available to each individual.  And religion is "indispensable support" to instilling that code in each citizen.

George Washington declared:

“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and

Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens. The mere Politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity...And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”

Yet we live in a society where morality (and the principles that carried our parents through the Great Depression and two world wars and helped them to build the prosperity that allowed the coddled and over-privileged statists to thrive despite their moral and intellectual bankruptcy) is routinely mocked and derided in the pop culture.  We have lived to realize the warning of CS Lewis, "In a sort of ghastly simplicity, we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the gelding be fruitful." (CS Lewis, The Abolition of Man.)

Thus, I am greatly heartened by what I'm seeing among the faithful and pray it continues to grow!