Constitutional and Christian Worldview

 

The preservation of a moral foundation and virtuous society against a potential tyranny that chases the rule of man, rather than the rule of law, is exactly why the Founding Fathers saw it fit to include in the United States Constitution the enumerated rights of the First Amendment.  To continue to succeed as a system based on liberty we require religious freedom.  In order to maintain religious freedom we must enjoy and preserve our God-given freedoms of speech and of the press which were specifically written into the Constitution to secure the freedom of political and religious speech; the very kinds of speech the hard left collectivist progressives are trying to silence.  And, if our religious freedoms as well as our freedoms of speech and of the press are to be preserved, then our ability to assemble freely and to freely associate with those who agree with our political and religious beliefs must follow.  And, when we are able to practice our religion freely, speak freely, report freely, and assemble freely, then it gives us the opportunity to petition the government for a redress of grievances and change or sharpen our governmental institutions as are needed to continue to secure those rights enumerated in the First Amendment.  It all ties together.  They are dependent upon each other.  If we lose access to just one of those rights, it puts the entire gamut at risk.

 

What if, however, our government becomes so tyrannical that those freedoms begin to become compromised, unraveling like a ball of twine, as we are seeing in today’s political environment?  What do we do, then?

 

The obvious answer that reveals itself is the Second Amendment.  That does not mean, however, that if we don’t get what we want we begin to shoot the place up.  The Founding Fathers did not go into the revolutionary era with the expectation of an armed conflict.  They worked through the system, strategically applying their knowledge of their Natural Rights and English Law.  Being armed was not to be viewed as an open threat, but as insurance to keep the tyrants honest (or at least less tyrannical than they’d like to be).  It became an armed revolution not because the Founding Fathers desired it to be, but because the British pushed the discussion beyond its peaceful foundation and into an armed conflict.  At that point the insurance policy of the right to keep and bear arms became active, or I suppose you could say the policy matured and was cashed in.  The need to be armed became as clear as it could be.  Without the right to keep and bear arms the journey towards independence would not have been possible.

 

In short, while we must never be the ones who begins any violent confrontations, but if the enemies of liberty push the envelope too far and engage in their own violent campaign, those working to preserve liberty would be obligated to respond in kind.

 

Our motivations and belief system must be in line with what it was in the beginning.  The Christian influences upon the creation of the Constitution, and the foundational principles of biblical and Natural Rights that led to the writing of the Declaration of Independence, must be the foundation of our own movements in today’s topsey-turvey world.  God’s plan and the principles of liberty and a free market must be absorbed into everything we do; and we need to be on the same page with this.  Movements don’t flow if the pieces are not flowing in the same direction and working together to piece together the strategies and tactics.  We must be true to the old maxim, “United We Stand.”

 

The reality is that the enemy lies, they deceive, and as we saw with the assassination attempt of Donald Trump, they are even willing to kill to achieve their goals.  They believe that the ends justify the means, and we must be aware of that.  They will play deceptive word games, doing what they can to kill the truths of history, providing misrepresentations of history, and even killing proper representations of history as they did with Keven Costner’s “Horizon” movie (which flopped not because it was not a good movie, I saw it and was stunned by its brutal honesty, but because the media killed it before it got out the gate with poor reviews and claims it must be a flop because they were appalled by the truthful telling of our complex history and contentious journey westward into and across the American Frontier).

 

They have done all they can to discredit history and the truth, and attack Christian-influence on all political and social issues.  They attack things like they attacked ivermectin during the scamdemic.  Ivermectin was not attacked and disallowed to be prescribed because there was something wrong with it.  It was attacked simply because Trump spoke favorably about it.  They do everything they can to oppose who they consider their enemy, and since God has been perceived as being among their greatest enemies in the current battle for the soul of America, they must attack anything and everything that would support God’s hand on humanity.  Therefore, the family, the natural order of things, sexuality, and even how one is identified must be attacked.  God must be, from their point of view, destroyed and the only way to destroy God is to oppose everything that is associated with God, or His Creation.  Therefore, they attack truth, and claim that man’s truth that they invent as they go is the absolute truth; and that God’s truth is a lie.  They teach that boys can be girls and girls can be boys; men may lie with men and women may lie with women; men can become pregnant; parents have no rights over their children, especially when it comes to their education or personal feelings; babies in the womb are not people and can be slaughtered in the womb in the name of reproductive rights; and a minor gas called carbon dioxide is warming the planet despite science that says otherwise, but natural phenomena associated with the Sun and other natural events have nothing to do with the changing temperatures we experience on Earth.  If you want to save the planet, all you must do is succumb to communism.

 

If we are going to stop the downward slide towards tyranny, and destruction, it is critical that we become actively involved in civics, and that begins with learning and applying constitutional principles, and that begins with education.  Understand that our duties here are not simply because they are required in order to preserve liberty.  From a biblical standpoint, considering that we are fully aware that evil is on the march, it is our religious duty to fight the good fight.  To be apathetic or complacent when confronted by evil as we are today would be, to put it frankly, the committance of the sin of omission.  Knowing what we know, it is our duty to step up and stand tall as a patriot and godly warrior, ensuring that our country remains on the right track with an alignment with Christian principles and American ideals.