Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:02:31 PM
[Our Founders and men like them] are the men who chose their own pastors and soon claimed to choose their governors, and the self-ruled congregation became the self-governed municipality…self-government spread until all men could be free. [Will Durant on the Reformation from his History of Civilization]
There was a consensus among the people of the necessity of a limited federal government to secure their God given rights to life, liberty and property. Today this consensus is gone.
There is a new ideology opposed to constitutional government that empowers the people. There is no concept of personal liberty under limited government because there is no basis for self-government. The priority is not to secure the right of men to equality under law, but to establish social and economic equality by an intrusive and expanding state. In the new America the Constitution limits the power of the people rather than the federal government.
Colonial Americans engaged in rebellion against a tyrannical government. The new Americans refuse to see that socialism is the road to tyranny. The original Americans risked everything for the advance of liberty. The socialist Americans line up to give away their liberty.
The originals believed that Biblical Christianity is essential for men to learn self denial and to be self-governing. The socialists reject their religious heritage and prove the colonials are right by advocating state sponsored coercion rather than liberty.
Liberty apart from Biblical Christianity is not sustainable as taught by the history of the French Revolution and the history in the making of the modern West. What would men like Patrick Henry say of their country today? Where are the men who would sacrifice all for liberty?