Proud to be an American - 2

Proud to be an American – 2
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Saturday, December 5, 2009

Jefferson was addressing Christians. His entire argument about people having “unalienable rights” is contingent on the existence of God, and One who cares deeply about each and every individual. As Jefferson asked rhetorically on another occasion. “Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that their liberties are the gift of God?”…

If the life of an individual amounts to no more than a flicker in history, then the perpetuation of the state, society, or empire becomes the overriding political concern. This was Hitler’s philosophy, and it is the driving ideological force behind communism. Inherent in collectivist political systems is the idea that the interests of the individual must be subordinate to the supposed (and I must stress) interests of the whole. We begin to hear phrases like “national purpose.” “world government,” and “social theory” – ideas completely at odds with what America’s founding fathers had in mind…

Alexis de Tocqueville in the early part of the 19th century was commissioned by the French government to travel throughout the United States in order to discover the secret of the astounding success of this experiment in democracy… Tocqueville reported: “I do not know if all Americans have a sincere faith in their religion – for who can know the human heart? – but I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable for the maintenance of republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to class of citizens or to a party, but it belongs to the whole rank of society.”

Unless law is anchored in moral absolutes, Supreme Court Justice John Marshall’s statement that the government of the United States is a “government of laws and not of men” makes no sense…

As a writer and constitutional scholar John Whitehead points out, the idea of the “Higher Law” is closely connected to “common law,” a legal term referring to Christian principles adapted to the legal structure of civil life. The phrase first entered the vocabulary of English lawyers of the 12th century, after King John of Runnymede was forced by Pope Innocent III, English landowners, and the “Army of God” to sign England’s first written constitution, designed mainly to protect property fights. Magna Carta, or the great Charter, is filled with such phrases as: “The King himself ought not to be under a man but under God and under the law,...

The Continental Congress of the United States on Oct. 14, 1774, issued the Declaration of Rights stating that the colonists of the several states were entitled to the protections of the common law of England…

George H. Kubeck – the above from Benjamin Hart’s book Faith and Freedom, 1988, Chapter 1

P.S. Our president Barack Obama stated on at least three occasions that we are not a Christian nation. So what kind of change in America is he talking about? Some of his biggest supporters are the “Hate America Crowd” and the “The Lovers of Castro and Ho Chi Min.” Maybe the President is in the wrong country. Help him realize that; with true American change in 2010. No! No! No! To ACORN.