10 Truths - 1 - Foundation of Gov. & Politics

10 Truths – 1 - Foundation of Government & Politics
cinops be gone Friday, August 1, 2008
We continue with and only on Fridays with Coral Ridge’s classic 10 Truths about Christians and Politics.
1. Foundation of Government and Politics is Religion: continued

The importance of religion in providing the necessary foundation for any social order has been noted by acclaimed historians Will and Ariel Durant, who acknowledged in 1968 that “there is no significant example in history before our time of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.”

Every government needs a moral code to justify and legitimize its rule, and every lasting moral system must rest on religion – which answers the ultimate questions about man and God. Without religion to breathe life and meaning into any legal-political system, the options are either anarchy or tyranny.

Christianity and Western Pre-Eminence:
Some argue, as did the Durants, that in our time such a religious foundation is not longer necessary. But the truth is evident, even the elite social scientists in Communist China. The “pre-eminence of Western cultures and nations is due to the influence of Christianity.”
Former Time magazine reporter David Aikman tells in his book, Jesus in Bejing, how a Chinese researcher explained that he and his colleagues “studied everything we could from the historical, political, economic, and cultural perspective,” to understand, Western dominance. The researcher explained:

‘At first, we thought it was because you had more powerful guns than we had. Then we thought it was because you had the best political system. Next we focused on you economic system. But in the past twenty years, we have realized that the heart of your culture is your religion: Christianity. That is why the West has been so powerful. The Christian moral foundation of social and cultural life was what made possible the emergence of Capitalism and then the successful transition to democratic politics. We don’t have any doubt about this.’

What these Chinese scholars found to be true for the West was recognized very clearly by our nation’s founders. President John Adams, signer of both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, put it this way:
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Despite the record of history, the ACLU and its friends are adamant in their insistence that America is a secular nation. What Catholic priest and writer Richard John Neuhaus has called the “naked public square,” has become the ruling orthodoxy for contemporary American political thought. P. 14-16

In closing the presidential election of 2008 is America’s choice between Obama’s secular America and McCain’s traditional America.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.