Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Monday, November 09, 2009 8:47:50 AM
Constitutionalism has a context. It did not just happen, nor will it just sustain itself. This is the heritage that is being robbed from us because the secular elites from both parties are ashamed of it as well as the religious establishment.
Re: http://townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2009/11/09/challenges_for_a_republican_renaissance
Free markets and capitalism not only depend on morality, but they are derived from it. Morality demands that a man’s labor and its fruits are his property and belong to him. A man’s property is sacred because the Law says, “Thou shalt not steal”. Morality defines the proper role of government as an authority instituted by God to be His minister for good. And what defines what is good other than God’s Law? Is the state to engage in class envy resulting in class warfare? No! Because the Law says, “Thou shalt not covet”.
The American heritage is Biblical Christianity, where the Law and the Gospel promotes a morality not in outward forms and rituals, but from the heart. If sin originates from the heart, then morality must also be of the heart. The American experience has confirmed the truth of the proverb…
‘Righteousness exalts a nation,
But sin is a reproach to any people’ [Proverbs 14:34].