Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Thursday, September 23, 2010 1:08:08 PM
“Western civilization began with a very different ancient Greek idea of an autonomous citizen…” –Victor Hanson
Re: http://townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2010/09/23/a_nation_of_peasants
Why do men deny their heritage? Why is the contrast between the French and American Revolutions not more apparent to more men? Why do men look for ways to deny our Reformation heritage?
Free men are not autonomous, but bound together under a covenant of law based in the moral Law of the self-reveal God. For the law to be king it must be referenced to the personal and infinite God of creation. Any reading of the founding fathers will reveal these things. Their writings are not hidden from those who want to know.
The finite gods of the Greeks were not a sufficient foundation. The French proved that autonomous reason is also an insufficient base. The Americans appealed to the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God, which is the law of conscience that testifies that men are image bearers of God. This is what gives men worth and entitles him to liberty and self-determination.
Dependence on anything else other than the living God is the essence of idolatry and sin. This is what transforms a nation of free men into a nation of peasants.