Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Tuesday, June 02, 2009 12:25:06 PM
Could it be any clearer that government may not prohibit "the free exercise thereof"? –Chuck Norris
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights are only clear in the context of their origin. The consensus from Biblical Christianity that rights are derived from the commands of the sovereign God and Creator of all things has been lost to a godless and vain philosophy that all that exists is self created and self sustained without design and therefore without purpose.
That’s the part that is lost in the intelligent design debate: Design implies purpose. When design is suppressed, then purpose has no meaning and every man becomes a law unto himself.
What is the purpose of man? The old catechism says it best: The chief end of man is to love God and to enjoy Him forever. He has given us the Law and the Gospel that we might find our purpose.
When men suppress this truth and give up the Christian world view, then rights also lose their meaning. No longer are they derived from the self-revealed God giving them a reference to the absolute, but they become arbitrary as derived from the autonomous reason of man.
The rule of law is meaningless to the culture of lawlessness, personified in Obamanomics.
Conservatives are rightly concerned over the devastation that follows the policies of socialism, but those who love liberty should focus on the vain philosophy that undermines the truth from which liberty has its origin.