America's Underlying Foundation

The Bible is the foundation, the Declaration is the “why,” and the Constitution is the “how” of this wonderful experiment in liberty and self-government known as the United States of America. . . .

If no God, then no Creator, no natural rights, and no equality. If no Creator, then evolution. If evolution, then all rights are positive rights, expressions of power rather than authority. And, if evolution, then no equality since the different races evolved separately, and no human exceptionalism – man is but an animal. Meaning, if man were to consider himself on a higher moral plane than the brutes, he would be guilty of the highest form of racism: speciesism.

Ultimately, rights come from either God or Government. If rights come from God, then government is under God, since it is the role of government to secure those rights. But, if government is the source of rights, then what is granted can be withdrawn. Rights would be alienable, only temporary. Similarly, laws are either divine or positive. All positive laws are expressions of power, while all divine laws are claims of authority. The Founders understood these things better than anyone before or since – they are the greatest political philosophers in history. . . .

Consider an Atheist’s Declaration of Dependence:

We claim these opinions to be our relative truth, that most men are to be considered equally evolved, that they are granted certain temporary rights by government, that among them are generally life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that to create, define, and enforce these rights, governments are instituted to rule over men, deriving their powers from the ruling elites, that whenever any form of government is threatened, it is never the right of the people to alter and abolish it, for they are to never institute new government. For it is the power and authority of government to create and destroy all rights, and to always determine what is in the best interests of the people. For the people are forever dependent upon government for all things.

. . . It is a high, noble and an especially American thing to do to reject secularism, atheism, evolution, and other ideologies of the Left – for such thinking could never have drafted the Declaration of Independence.

-- Frank Pastore, townhall.com, 4/8/07

YOU NEED LIBERTY AND LAW Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness. -- James Wilson

FUNERAL HECKLERS: Demonstrators at servicemen's funerals are hecklers, trying to shout down the message of the serviceman's life. They are not exercising freedom of speech, they are denying it -- and denying it to a person who is utterly helpless to speak ever again, because he is dead. This one message is the last he can deliver: That he loved his country, his family, his friends, his fellowcitizens, his duty, his honor -- so much that he put himself in harm's way in order to protect them as the government said they should be protected. That message is one that the survival of our nation and our way of life -- including the freedom to demonstrate for causes noble or stupid -- depends on. A nation that allows that message to be silenced in the name of "freedom" is signing its own death warrant. -- Orson Scott Card, ornery.org, 12/19/06

UNBIASED JUDGES: Judges . . . rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times. -- former Chief Justice Warren E. Burger

UNENFORCIBLE LAW: Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. -- Albert Einstein

MORALITY: The safeguard of morality is religion, and morality is the best security of law as well as the surest pledge of freedom. -- Alexis de Tocqueville