Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Monday, October 11, 2010 11:11:23 AM
‘No, real "reform" came from outside the U.S. government, and from within America's "moral-cultural system" - which is to say that the demand for change emerged mostly from religious communities and private civic groups. All that "singin'" and "hopin'" that the President spoke about - it didn't come from Congress or the White House. Private citizens in the "private sector" led the charge on correcting these grave American injustices, and the U.S. government followed - not the other way around.’ –Austin Hill
Re: http://townhall.com/columnists/AustinHill/2010/10/10/can_obama_save_us_from_bad_government/
Mr. Hill makes an excellent point about the proper roles of church and state. As the state becomes lawless it begins to oppose the authority of natural law. Rather than promoting life, liberty and private property ownership the authoritarians lord it over the people. The attitude of stewardship in service for the public good is foreign to them.
Let’s go even more basic than his statement that “private citizens…led the charge on correcting…American injustices”. Is this not always the case? Look at the people who colonized America. They were fleeing from the injustice of institutionalized state/church religious persecution. Today we have the same thing only the religion is secularism.
Rather than promoting life they promote the irresponsible practice of abortion. They like to call it ‘pro-choice’ when a life in the womb is terminated as a method of birth control. They use the extreme cases of rape and incest to define their policy and then label the ‘pro-lifers’ as extreme.
In their view of the world the people are not to be trusted with liberty because a free people are free of the hierarchies of centralized control. Their policy is to make as many people as possible dependent on the state rather than self sufficient and free. The lawless state divides men through envy and class warfare. This is the fruit of secularism when the churches cease to be salt and light.