If the Founders of our country were alive today, there
already would have been a Second American Revolution. And if the people alive today were alive back
then, there never would have been a first one.
The Declaration of Independence was written to explain why
the colonies wanted to be independent of England and why they thought it was
worth fighting a war to do just that.
Read this excerpt from that document. But read it slowly. I’ll wait.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That
to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their
just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of
Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to
alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation
on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall
seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
Our country is based on certain concepts: all people are created
equal, and their creator, God, gave them unalienable rights. Equality means, or at least what they meant
by it, is that nobody has a right to be a king, or a ruler. There is no royal family or royal line. We would have representatives to represent
the people, a Senate to represent the states, an executive to carry out the
laws, and courts to mete out justice.
God gave people unalienable rights, rights that precede and supersede
government, rights that the government cannot take away, change, or interfere with.
We establish government for the purpose of securing and
protecting those rights. And if it doesn’t,
we are told to change it or get rid of it and make another one.
Our government no longer believes in unalienable
rights. It only knows of rights that the
government gives, based on what the people want or what they offer to the
people in exchange for their votes to stay in their elected positions.
So why doesn’t the government believe any more in unalienable
rights?
It goes back to the court called supreme. That court said that the government cannot
aid religion or favor any particular one of them, something that it had been doing
for almost 200 years after our nation’s founding and the almost 200 years that
the colonies existed before that.
Unalienable rights come from God. And not just any god. Islam doesn’t know of unalienable rights, nor
any other religion. When the Founders
spoke of God or our creator, they were talking of the God of the Bible. That’s why the Bible was a basic part of
public education for almost 200 years before, again, the court called supreme
found that unconstitutional.
But how can it be unconstitutional if the very idea of
unalienable rights comes from the God of the Bible? Our very country is based on what our courts
call a religious belief. The Founders
called it a fact.
If our courts cannot favor any religion, then all religions
must be considered equal. That only makes
sense if religious beliefs are only opinions with no basis in fact. They are considered unproveable, so they have
no validity outside of their own system.
Religions are then nothing more than people’s opinions or preferences,
like their taste in music, books, movies, or food. You can tell people why you like a certain
book or movie, but you can’t tell them they are wrong if they don’t agree with
you.
That’s one way you can look at religion, but then there is
no such thing as unalienable rights. You
don’t have them, and our country was built on a lie. You can call a religion simply a belief
system with no basis in fact, but to the people who believe in their religion,
it is a fact. It is true. A religion is a description of all of reality. And
this is why all religions cannot be true.
None of them may be true, but all of them cannot.
But if none of them is true, then God is unknowable, and talk
of God is pointless. God would have to
reveal Himself to humankind for us to know what He is like. If He hasn’t done it, then we don’t know what
He is like. If He has done it, then only
one religion can be true, because they are all fundamentally different in their
core. Not perfect, because we are still
dealing with human beings here. But its
teachings in the broad scope would be true.
As you try to answer more and more questions, people end up trying to be
certain where the texts are not clear.
But the main teachings are clear.
Some will argue that our rights are natural rights figured
out by John Locke and some other philosophers whose works the Founders borrowed
from. But unalienable rights come from a
Higher Power, one that the people of the land need to agree on. You don’t get unalienable rights just because
you say you have them.
Our nation and the United Nations are trying to pass the idea
or force the idea of human rights on other nations. If enough people of a nation insist on a right,
and the government doesn’t forcibly forbid it, people get rights. They are not unalienable, but once they have
them, it’s hard to take them away apart from a forceable change in government,
like a coup or revolution.
So, our country is based on a particular belief of a
particular God of a particular religion.
Without God, you don’t have unalienable rights. Without the God of the Bible, you don’t have
unalienable rights. Without Christianity,
you don’t have unalienable rights.
I should note here that Judaism and Christianity are
inextricably linked. Christianity would
consider itself Judaism 2.0. There is
one basic teaching of the New Testament that Judaism doesn’t accept. But all the relevant teachings pertaining to
unalienable rights and the necessary moral code that goes with them are found
there. Our heritage as a nation is often
spoken of as our Judeo-Christian heritage.
But the Bibles used in our public schools always included the New
Testament.
For generations now, our government has been insisting that
we are a secular nation, where religion is best kept to yourself, and we don’t
need or can use it in government.
So we stopped teaching it to our children. Then we flooded our country with people from
all over the world who have in most cases no idea of unalienable rights, the
God of the Bible, the Bible, or Christianity, which is the outworking of the teachings
of the Bible. Which is why for most of
our history, we got most of our immigrants from Europe. They were familiar with Christianity and the
Bible.
So over generations, our nation has been shifting from
unalienable rights to government-given rights, and the differences are huge. For one, they usually require enormous
amounts of money. Since this shift has
started, our government has almost always spent far more money than it receives
in taxes. The government then just borrows
the money, pays interest on it that makes everything it spends money on more
expensive, and it prints money to devalue the money we already have to pay the
debt back with cheaper dollars.
Our country is now pretty much at the tipping point. The number of voters who have no concept of
unalienable rights seems to outnumber those who do, but our country is based on
uniting states, not just one large mass of people.
But if those who believe in unalienable rights don’t fight
for them, then our country is lost. We
will still be the United States in name, but it won’t be the country our Founders
fought a war in order to create. It
would be the same as if we had been overrun by a foreign country and they
imposed a new government on us.
But it happened slowly, over generations. So the changes were accepted as inevitable, small,
not serious, necessary, progress, but it set in motion forces that only move in
one direction.
Frankly, we don’t have much time before the country we
fought a war to create will be no more. If you don’t know how it was supposed to be, you
won’t see any difference. But the forces
aren’t done moving.
Government rights seek to do more and more things for more
and more people. And the money isn’t there. We are already $22 trillion in debt with no
end in sight. Very soon we will be spending
a trillion dollars a year just on interest for that debt. That’s money that is just wasted and that is a
drag on the economy as it takes money out of the private sector and people’s
pockets.
Those of us who know the truth have to decide if it’s worth fighting
for, because it won’t change without a fight.
And nobody is even talking about it right now.
We are told not to talk about religion and politics. I think that was made up by the people who
want to change our country, because that’s what we always talked about, because
that’s what’s most important in life. Religion
has to do with our relationship with God and people. Politics is about almost everything else.
We need to start talking about this with our friends, family,
co-workers, and then the newspapers and all of our elected officials. There is nothing more important for our
country right now, and you can’t just wait for somebody else to do it for you.
