Failing the Founding Fathers

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

 

          The US claims a proud history of being a nation blessed by YHWH and of never having had a dictator, a tyrant, or a coup. Many would deny the validity of those claims; but, can any deny the US is crumbling along with most of the rest of the world. For the last few generations the US and the world have been paying the price for the US’s attempts at “nation building” and “spreading democracy” while simultaneously abandoning biblical morals internally. The US cannot build another up while disintegrating itself; and, the US has never been, nor was it designed to be, a democracy.

So what went wrong? How did this great experiment, of a capitalistic constitutional republic for a free and equal people, which began by men with a strong sense of biblical morality (See Note¹), end up where it is now? I would posit the first step on the slippery slope to implosion began over a hundred years ago. Lincoln was accused by many of acting the tyrant and it cannot be denied he ignored the Constitution and abused the Rights of the States. After Lincoln, membership in the Republic was no longer voluntary - it was join or else (like Islam & Sharia Law). Under FDR came the drifting away from “laissez faire” capitalism to “New Deal” socialism (see section nine here for an example) - a change in political as well as economic philosophy. Johnson continued this assault with the “Great Society” programs. (There are even those who believe Johnson led the first coup via the killing of Kennedy.) By this time social equality began trumping individual morality as a national expectation. Economically the final nail in that coffin came with Nixon’s financial fiasco - the final and full rejection of the gold standard. Politically, the latest assault on the Constitution (and perhaps the fatal one) is being waged by the Obama administration. Obama, with his pen and his phone, is pushing the boundaries of president/dictator: His consistent indecision may be all that is delaying his utter destruction of the US.

          The US is woefully in need of folks of the caliber that started the Republic. These were exceptional men who studied history and knew that democracy does not work on a mass scale. A Constitution was needed; but, a Constitution would only be as strong as the morals of those applying it (again See Note¹). These were men that understood that individual freedom must triumph over government authority - e.g. monarchy and freedom do not work well together. They also understood socialism did not work well with freedom: Placing too heavy a social burden on a people eroded their individual freedoms. As an experiment, the Founders created a Constitutional Republic supported by a free market capitalistic economy. The nation and “freedom” would last as long as they were supported by a moral, hardworking people.

          The key issue as to why the US is going downhill (fast!) is the same reason that “US methods” do not work when transplanted to most other nations. The methods were designed for people with morals based on the biblical principles of YHWH and a deep sense of individual freedom AND responsibility. Too may “Americans” today have little to no morals and economically expect to be cared for from cradle to grave - with maximum freedom and no responsibility. Too many Americans demand, not freedom of religion, but the freedom to ban the “free exercise thereof” for biblically based religion.

          Consider the Pledge of Allegiance:

                    “I pledge allegiance” -- How many Americans still actually say or mean this pledge. CBS just rejected an advertisement as being “too political” because it had a young girl’s recitation of the Pledge! A US Army veteran was banned from reciting the Pledge at a US taxpayer funded public university because it might offend foreign students! Where is American loyalty? Theodore Roosevelt railed against Hyphenated Americans (PDF) - or in modern times against terms like African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, etc. - with divided loyalties. A clear cut example of disloyalty is that the Obama administration continues to bring thousands of Somalis to the US every year - most with loyalty to the Islamic terrorists the US has been under attack from for decades! These people want to eventually kill everyone who holds the biblical values that built the US!

                    “And to the Republic for which it stands” -- The US no longer stands as a republic. Few citizens even know what the word means much less that the US was supposed to be a republic and not a democracy. Ben Franklin warned that the new nation would only have - “A republic, if you can keep it.”

                    “Under God” -- God, in most any form, is being shunned in public discourse. YHWH is being banned from the workplace, the court room, etc. In public education YHWH is not just banned but is being replaced, by law in many cases, by Allah.

                    “With Liberty and Justice for All” -- Worshippers of YHWH no longer have the liberty of the Constitutionally guaranteed right to the “free exercise thereof” of their religion - the very religious basis the Founding Fathers knew was required for the success of the Republic! It is illegal now to teach, in public schools, the very same biblical principles that, again, the Founding Fathers knew were required for the success of the Republic!

          The people of the US are learning a hard lesson that the “Father of the Country” warned them of: “Government is not reason, it is not eloquence – it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” - George Washington

          The US has always been a nation of multi-cultural diversity; but, it was held together by a majority with a common set of principles supporting the Constitution and the Republic. As Alexander Hamilton said, “For my own part, I sincerely esteem it a system which without the finger of God never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests”. (See Luke 11:20)

It may not yet be too late. As with Nineveh (Jonah 3:8-10) the US may still have time before YHWH’s justice is meted out. SPEAK OUT! Stand up for and serve YHWH and His principles. YOU ARE a part of the solution or a part of the problem. “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Edmund Burke

QUOTE

“Rebels, especially successful rebels, were of necessity bad subjects and worse governors.” --

Seven Pillars of Wisdom -- T.E. Lawrence

          COMMENT: What does the US hope to accomplish in the Middle East? The people of the US need to focus on the US Government’s War on YHWH and not on fighting one Islamists group to prop up the governments of other Islamist groups. Not a single nation in the Middle East has come close to achieving a stable government over a free and equal people - except Israel. This should come as no surprise. It is historically the only time that the world has seen a government over a free and equal people with biblical morality as the basis for the majority. (The US did not qualify for the “Free and Equal” for most of its early history and as the people became more equal they also became less biblically moral - and without such morals the “experiment” is doomed to failure.)

DID YOU KNOW

There is no mention of a separation of Church and State in the Constitution. READ IT!

In the Wikipedia section entitled “Hyphenated American” it is so politically correct it never even mentions the most modern and divisive examples of “Hyphenated Americans” which are the African-American and the Mexican-American. One of which the US government practically mandates the use of!

          In public education in the US quoting the Bible is shunned if not forbidden while quoting the Koran, the Vedas, etc. are promoted as “expressions of cultural sensitivity”. The same goes for quoting Jesus versus Buddha, the Dalai Lama, Confucius, etc.

          The Founding Fathers did not believe in democracy as a viable form of government: They believed in a Constitutional Republic - read the quotes below!

Note¹ - Entire books could be, and have been, filled with quotes that prove our forbearers knew the US would be doomed if it turned away from biblical principles - here are but a few I consider to be salient:

George Washington

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

John Adams

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

It is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.

Samuel Adams

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. --- Comment: And now a major beer producer uses his name to support the LGBT Mafia!

James Madison

We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.

Benjamin Franklin

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Whereas true religion and good morals are the only solid foundations of public liberty and happiness . . . it is hereby earnestly recommended to the several States to take the most effectual measures for the encouragement thereof. --- Comment: Note that the States should act (a republic) - not that Uncle Sam should force action!

Benjamin Rush

          The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be aid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments. Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.

We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government, that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by the means of the Bible. For this Divine Book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and those sober and frugal virtues, which constitute the soul of republicanism.

By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects. . . . It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published. . . . All systems of religion, morals, and government not founded upon it [the Bible] must perish, and how consoling the thought, it will not only survive the wreck of these systems but the world itself.

Patrick Henry

The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.

William Penn

If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him… Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants. – (Penn was imprisoned for writing this tract.)

Daniel Webster

If we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.

Noah Webster

The Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government. . . . and I am persuaded that no civil government of a republican form can exist and be durable in which the principles of that religion have not a controlling influence.

Charles Carroll

Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime & pure, [and] which denounces against the wicked eternal misery, and [which] insured to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments. --- Comment: The death  of morals leads to the death of duration; and, historically the US is a newborn babe.

Robert Winthrop

Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled either by a power within them or by a power without them; either by the Word of God or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible or by the bayonet.

          And finally, for the ladies out there J:

Abigail Adams

A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men? Can he be a patriot who, by an openly vicious conduct, is undermining the very bonds of Society? . . . The Scriptures tell us ‘righteousness exalteth a Nation.' --- Comment: Proverbs 14:34 - Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.

 

Closing Comment: The central theme is clear - the freedom and liberty of the people of the US was based and built on a Constitutional Republic and the people would have to maintain a biblical moral standard to have any hope of staying a free people. As biblical morals collapse so too will the US.

I love my country and the form of government it was built on; but, I fear the modern monster it has become. It is as a servant of satan and an enemy of YHWH and of freedom. There is a reason 1 in 4 Americans would support their State seceding from the federal government - which is a State right granted in the Constitution.

The end of the US before the end of the world is not inevitable - even if it takes a Second American Revolution of these United States. The people must take the pen from the hand of the government. The pen now, or the sword soon - or the death of the US is, then, inevitable.