The Trouble With God....

I seem to recall some resistance by some in liberal quarters to the notion that the Declaration of Independence be considered a true founding document, and that it be afforded at least equanimity in its importance with the Constitution.

I understood that the mention of God in the Declaration troubled them, and that their revulsion was somehow tied to those phrases that made God very central to the Declaration. If one does not understand that, one does not truly understand the brilliance of the Declaration, and cannot understand the Constitution.

One needs to recognize a few things about the relationship between the Declaration and the Constitution, particularly as relates to the 1st Amendment Rights enumerated in the Constitution, and recognize that there is an engine which drives the relationship; that being the existence of God either as a real spiritual entity, or as a legal concept. One or the other or both has to be true in order to make both the Declaration and the Constitution work.

Liberalism would have neither of them work as the logical conclusion of their argument, for liberals want or have to replace God (the Entity or legal concept or both) with government, and that is a very dangerous thing.

Please allow me to back-track to make my Case:

First, I believe that the Declaration of Independence is at least as important as the Constitution, for it lays out the legal argument or foundation for the need for the Constitution.

Second, the acknowledgement of God or nature's god is very central to the Declaration, and by extension the Constitution because it argues that mankind has certain rights granted to him by a higher power, and not by dictators, kings, or any other form of government.

Third, the use of the term inalienable is very powerful, purposeful, and profound in describing these rights. It means that the individual cannot be separated from these basic rights, (life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness) because no person or group of persons or people gave it to them in the first place. So if they did not and could not have given it to them, then they must not ever be in a position to take them away! (the argument for limited government)

In the last 100 or so years, liberals have attempted to and to a large degree have been successful in redefining that relationship, to where it has gone from being a little confusing (thank Roger Baldwin and the ACLU) to quite clear that they believe that individual rights are granted, and determined by government. And in order to proffer and sustain that argument, they have redefined, mitigated, and to a large degree eliminated the notion and relevance of God from the culture, and by extension the Declaration and the Constitution!

That is why they argue so vehemently, and wrongly I might add, in support of the false notion of the separation of church and state. They have no choice if they are to make their fallacious argument seem consistent.

The results are tragically clear. The removal of God, either the Entity or legal argument, has had devastating results in our culture and nation. Take any test by which we can measure societal values, and since 1962 they have gone off the charts! Chart the steady rise in drug use, suicides, teenage pregnancies, unwed mothers, school drop-outs, murders, STDs, divorces etc., and you will see a steady trend upwards as God has been pushed further and further to the recesses of our society!

The trend of liberalism towards more and more dependence on government from cradle to grave is alarming. The attitude that the government now decides when life begins, when it can end, what quality it should have and even what the very definition of life is, is equally appalling.

It is a sad day in America, for we are losing and to a large degree have already lost something that set us apart from any other nation in history, and I don't know if we can ever get it back. May government, er, I mean may God help us!