All tools that deliver power--automobiles, atom bombs, governments and so forth--must have a moral predicate to guide their use. The automobile has a steering wheel, accelerator and brake pedal that enable man to guide the tool for achieving a desired destination. Speed limits, turning rules and stop signs are the predicate, the morally significant basis for safe travel. Success is assured if the driver is educated to be responsible to avoid pitfalls and proceeds accordingly.
The Constitution, which serves as the tool for governing, has seven articles with short subsections and a preamble that starts with the sovereigns under God, "We the People." The moral predicate for guiding the use of the Constitution is the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights that was added later to the Constitution. The power to finance government flows from the mammoth equivalent of a local Main Street bank, the taxpayer-funded public treasury. Even small, privately-owned banks need the system of specific policy hurdles and audits to minimize theft by employees as well as decreasing the danger of authorizing bad loans. For this same reason, many obstacles and verifiable checkpoints were included in the Constitution.
Beyond the need for internal checks for monitoring the proper use of the public treasury is the need for the principles of the Creator-based Declaration of Independence, later expanded and codified for the citizens' Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights provides specific protections against the violation of citizens' rights as the sovereigns under God over government by government employees. This is necessary to protect society from pretender-gods who, as government officials, interfere with man's "unalienable rights" and industry.
In his Farewell Address to the nation, President Washington said: "Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the Constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown."*
Liberals in our midst understand the value of stealthy, cradle-to-grave government (socialism) as a tool for subduing, ruling and exploiting the people. They object to the impartial Creator-based principles, the absolutes for constitutional law that keep government on the side of citizen self-rule for liberty.
"If we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality [allow leftist secular militants to dictate what students are taught], and recklessly destroy the… Constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us that shall bury our glory in profound obscurity" (Daniel Webster, January 18, 1782-October 24, 1852, an attorney and statesman who argued several cases before the John Marshall court).**
Let us reverse the tragic move to atheistic secular jurisprudence! Morality of the God-honoring Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights are the design, and the Constitution is the tool for implementing that design.
The old European secular philosophy includes secular humanists and other atheistic sects, such as the followers of Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Professor John Dewey and Fabian socialist John Maynard Keynes. Their agenda is obvious. It is the elimination of God as well as a moral foundation for law.
Their belief is expressed in the Humanist Manifesto: "No deity will save us; we must save ourselves." The first Humanist Manifesto, written in 1933, was published with thirty-four signatories including the educator John Dewey (Paul Kurtz, tenured radical professor, State University of New York at Buffalo, Humanist Manifesto II, 2).
Without exception, rejection of creation's God and freedom
for religious competition over the broad spectrum
of private and public life gives rise to moral revisionism.
The religious presupposition for the secular humanist mind-set comes from Charles Darwin's book Origin of the Species. Those who adopted Darwin's God-rejecting assumption about the origin, meaning and purpose of life have no dependable standards upon which to establish human equality, morality or representative government. Truth, for them, is what man himself chooses at any given time and circumstance. Standards are based on wishes, perceptions and mortal goals rather than on established knowledge, objective facts or principles.
According to Darwinian militants, "There is no fixed limit or perfect form of knowledge and, that on the contrary, truth is always tentative."*
The Bible is stamped with a Specialty of Origin, and an immeasurable distance separates it from all competitors.**
W. E. Gladstone
"The attempt by the rulers of a nation [France] to destroy all religious opinion, and to pervert a whole nation to atheism … [and] to establish atheism on the ruins of Christianity [is] to deprive mankind of its best consolations and most animating hopes, and to make a gloomy desert of the universe" (James D. Richardson, citing Alexander Hamilton from October 3, 1789, in A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897, published by Congress, 1899, Vol. I, 64).
*John S. Brubacher and Willis Rudy, Higher Education Transition (New York: Harper and Row, 1958), 306.
**Halley's Bible Handbook authored by Henry H. Halley and published by Zondervan, Grand Rapids, MI (republished since 1924).
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The old European secular philosophy is the reflection of a hope in a fantasy world.
Marxists used socialist slogans, such as "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." The Soviet Socialist Union lasted but a whiff in time in spite of their great universities, KGB (secret police), a worldwide propaganda machine and military aggression (1917-91).
Liberals in present-day America justify socialism by saying that we are a wealthy nation. Some in America, who budget wisely and have a good income, do have wealth, but the truth is that the American government is broke. The Soviets not only funded their government by an excessive tax on the Russian people, but they also extracted a tax from over a dozen captive countries--and they still went broke.
Liberal politicians create a supportive voting block by promising them wealth redistribution. This comes by stealing from Americans (excessive tax), stealing from future generations (debt obligation) and the added tax of interest on the debt. When government officials are allowed to continue imposing high taxes, the incentive of the people to work hard and save is greatly diminished and the base for taxation is gradually destroyed. Also, the ability of the people to support churches and to assist the poor is greatly diminished. The national debt is over 14 trillion dollars. The revenue left after funding excessive government is not enough to pay the interest, so the shortage must be added to the principal indebtedness.
Monopoly unions are also used by the champions of old European philosophy to consolidate political power. When legislators succumbed to handouts from leftist National Education Association unions, laws began to turn against traditional American law and citizen self-government. The nonpartisan Iowa Family Policy Center Newsletter, March, 2008, reports that "Iowa Democrats have accepted $440,000 from out-of-state homosexual activists, with $170,000 going directly to Democrat legislators facing hotly contested races [Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure]." Seeing the involvement of at least $40 million nationwide in 2008, we understand that the financial and political influence of NEA leftists is immense (Education Reporter, #272, Eagle Forum, St. Louis, MO).
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Socialism is a system of social organization that rejects the fact that goods are the fruits of the people’s labor.The ownership of the means of producing goods provided by the people is claimed by secular authoritarians.They then use the power of government for laws to control the distribution of goods.The fact remains that it is the freedom of the people to choose and buy goods made useful by others that gives direction for a healthy economy (supply and demand).Both the Webster and Random House dictionaries identify socialism as a “Marxist theory.”
The following was written in 1916 by the Rev. William J. H. Boetcker, a Presbyterian clergyman and influential spokesman for American values:
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage
by taking away man’s initiative and independence.
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
You cannot help men permanently
by doing for them what they will not do for themselves.
Winston Churchill stated:“Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.”He also said, “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery” (Google, Winston Churchill quotes/w/winstonchurchill).
Winston Churchill
1874-1965
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1940-1945 and 1951-1955)
According to Alexis de Tocqueville in 1848:“democracy [democratic republic] extends the sphere of individual freedom; socialism restricts it.Democracy [democratic republic] attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number.[The two] have nothing in common but one word:equality.But notice the difference:while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude” (Google, Alexis de Tocqueville Quotations/Quotations).