A must read on Town Hall by Alan Sears
ADF’s president takes it to the hypocrites on the Left: Madder than ever
Somehow, the people at the wheel of our careening culture are convinced that – if we can only remove every spiritual incentive for upright, moral, selfless behavior – if we can just convince everyone that God doesn’t exist – people will suddenly decide to be good.
No, not just good. Better than they’ve ever been before.
Legendary novelist Fedor Dostoevsky knew better.
“If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality,” he wrote, “not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up.” For, “if God does not exist, everything is permitted.”
Everything. Liberty – political, social, sexual – runs amuck, without reason, without discipline, without limits. Justice is impossible, and unnecessary. Ignorance truly becomes bliss. Nothing has to make sense any more, because… nothing matters.
In their blind determination to eradicate God from our community, from our culture, even from our government, the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State and all their Leftist kindred aren’t really accomplishing the demotion of the Divine – Who is, by definition, un-demote-able.
They are bent, rather, on destroying themselves.
The only question that remains, as they head for their mad fall, is whether they take our nation, and our children, with them.
Read the entire piece…like Tony Snow says and Sears demonstrates, the Left’s arguments are like cotton candy, they “melt on contact.”
Great companion piece from the incomparable Professor Adams: Legislating morality
How many of our Founding Fathers attended seminary? (Hint: It is more than 26 and less than 28).
In 1796, an act was passed by Congress under President Washington regulating the land given to the Society of United Brethren for “propagating the gospel among the heathen.” The act was later extended by President Jefferson. Do you suppose that conflicts with his supposed insistence upon a “wall of separation between church and state”?
Have you ever read the 1802 letter from which the phrase “wall of separation of church and state” was taken? Is there any truth to the assertion that the letter was written to a group of Baptists in Connecticut ensuring that their church would be protected from the government by a one way wall of protection?
How did that letter produce the justification for keeping a high school girl from mentioning Jesus at her high school graduation?
Is it true that Thomas Jefferson set up the University of Virginia – using state funds – with rules including a ban on swearing and an expectation that students would “attend religious services”?
Given that Thomas Jefferson did not attend the constitutional convention, why is it that people often quote him when insisting that the “separation of church and state” is a “constitutional requirement”? Is it possible that many of these self-described liberals are unable to differentiate between the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence?
How many of the states that ratified the First Amendment had official state churches?
Is there any relationship between the ACLU’s love of communism and its hatred of religion?
Isn’t it amazing that big Lefties claim that our Founders were influenced in NO WAY by Judeo-Christian philosophy, insisting that the nation is a pure-bred child of the “Enlightenment” birthed solely by Locke (whose secularism is highly exagerrated anyway) and Montesquieu, when nearly every one of our Founders was steeped from early on in an intense environment of Christian education, many of whom were theologians of greater heft than any of the Leftist RINOs (Reverend in Name Only) of today like Barry Lynn and Jim Wallis. What these radical secularists want you to believe is that all of these Founders completely rejected what had the greatest influence on the formation of their worldviews, allowed all of their Christian education and experience to be completely back-seated by some near-contemporary philosophers and that not a whisper of that embedded influence had ANYTHING to do with the philosophical foundations of the birth of the nation. How implausible. Here’s the difference between those extreme historical revisionists and me — I do not deny that folks like Locke had an influence on our founding. Why would I deny historical fact — it doesn’t serve my interests or those of the truth and it also doesn’t invalidate the fact that the deeply Christian founders of this nation were in fact informed by the tenets of the faith they’d studied for a lifetime and professed to their deaths. Those secular proselytizers who deny that the religion of nearly EVERY ONE of our Founders had any influence and ONLY the secular philosphers currently favored in the maniacal academy and by the anti-Christian zealots were looked to by those who established our government have a vested interest in rewriting history. The truth of our history is a foil to their agenda, so they’ve made it a life’s mission to keep the generations ignorant of our true history in order for the truth to fade into the unremembered past and for their stupidity-yielding revisionism to seize a permanent choke hold. Sadly, they’ve done a number on this country by producing class after class of young Americans who are completely blind to the blessing (you know, the kind of BLESSING mentioned in the Constitution that the Left insists includes no reference to God) that this country truly is.
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Posted by G. Fortunato on October 12, 2006 11:20 am
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Syndicate Me
The left is very sick. Very very sick. And the silence is deafening.
Who ever said that?
I don’t believe atheists represent a significantly high proportion of criminals. Why do you believe that reason, discipline, and proper social behavior can only come from a belief in God?
“Somehow, the people at the wheel of our careening culture are convinced that – if we can only remove every spiritual incentive for upright, moral, selfless behavior – if we can just convince everyone that God doesn’t exist – people will suddenly decide to be good. “
It is an anarchistic belief that has permutated our society. There are individuals on both the left and right that are either anarchist, or are influenced to one degree or another by anarchism. When someone complains about “organized” religion, then you have someone who is influenced and the same with “limited” government. I am not sure what a disorganized religion is, and all governments are limited to one extent or another according to the powers the People allow them to take, either by tolerating them, being too scared to rebel, or other such action.
Jeff Molby,
Anarchist are generally atheist and are also more likely to have contempt for laws.
Atheism is also a common religion of socialist and communist but I do not believe either has a greater tendency to commit crimes but I could be wrong.
Paul Yanna,
You are looking at data that was warped for the .2% figure as there were a large portion of those surveyed that indicated who did not answer or indicated they had no religion. You are also trusting convicted criminals to tell the truth. I don’t suggest you make a practice of that.
It makes absolutely no difference if anarchists, communists, and socialists tend to be atheists. The assertion was that atheists are incapable of acting properly for the good of society.
It’s possible that the study was biased. I’m not familiar with it. What would you propose as a more reasonable number?
I’m influenced strongly in my views by my rejection of mythical gods
No kidding!
We’ve had at least a dozen like you. Like you, they all claim no belief in a “sky god” and “mythical god”, but spend a great deal of time, energy and passion railing against what they claim doesn’t exist.
The Founders knew what was best for the country and made a distinction between their personal religious views and how they knew they nation should be governed.
Which our history shows is one and the same. Some of us old codgers were schooled before the liberals took over and introduced the “new and revised” history that more closely supports their (and your) world view.
putting 2000-year-old writings about a mythical sky god (“one you’re likely to have never investigated”)ahead of all else.
I’m not going to defend Paul, since his condescending tone is counterproductive, but I do want to point out that you twisted his words.
He didn’t “rail against God” at all. He was railing against those that advocate a relationship between church and state. This is not at odds with his lack of belief.
“The assertion was that atheists are incapable of acting properly for the good of society.”
No Jeff, the assertion is that the radical secular Left is attempting to forcibly erase God from our society. You should really try to undersatnd what you are reading before you comment.
“those that advocate a relationship between church and state.”
First, why would you attempt to defend a guy like PY? Second, this statement is so broad as to make it utterly inane.
For PY, I’ll take a Proverbs 13:20 approach. See ya!
Jeff Molby,
I was actually saying that anarchist could tilt the rate. Some atheist believe in Christian values and are as good or better at holding to the ethics as some so called Christians. From what I have seen Christians that go to church weekly do have an edge on holding to their values but that is most likely because they are constantly measuring themselves against a moral standard and adjusting their behavior to conform. This behavior seems to be normal to human beings whatever their beliefs as a recent study on weight loss and maintenance showed. I do not know the religion of those involved but I am assuming it was fairly standard for Americans.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=14&click_id=117&art_id=qw1160626863863B243
There is no reliable study of the religion of inmates. To get one you would have to find our what their friends and associates state. Considering some people who claim to be theist never talk about God and Atheist/Agnostic might not mention their religion either that might not even work. I saw someone conclude that the convicts who did not indicate their religion were atheist/agnostics and that is just as erroneous as to conclude that the ones that answered were all there were.
The thing that concerns me is that 6% of the jail population is Muslim while only about .5% of the outside population. That means Muslims are twice as likely as Blacks to end up in jail. I understand the high rate for Blacks as their culture has suffered a breakdown in marriage which is known to lead to move criminal behavior on the part of effected children but I do not believe it is the same case with Muslims. It is possible that many of those claiming to be Muslims are doing it to give Muslims a bad name and not because they are actually Muslim.