The American
Wisdom Series
Presents
Pamphlet #612
"When
Government becomes Destructive"
There
are two basic worldviews: theism and atheism.
Many
would have us believe that only a secularist/atheistic approach
to
government has any merit or credence.
That
was not the position of America’s Founding Fathers.
It
has only been in the past half-century
that
America’s courts and culture
have
seen fit to reject the faith of our founding ancesters.
The
foundational document of this nation asserts,
"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...".
America’s
founders obviously embraced a theistic
worldview.
They
knew that God is the grantor of life, liberty and happiness,
therefore;
they formed our government to protect those rights.
The
Declaration of Independence categorically states,
"That
to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men..."
Therefore,
legitimate government protects and defends
God-given
rights and freedoms,
while
illegitimate government seeks to destroy and steal these liberties.
It
should be obvious to even a casual observer that much
(even
most) of our current political system today runs
counter
to these historic values.
When
politicians understand government to be the source of men’s rights,
when
they routinely usurp the principles of freedom without compunction or regret,
government
abandons its reason for existing and becomes illegitimate.
At
that point, it is the responsibility of freemen to "alter or abolish it."
Examples
of this bastardization of government include
the
attempt to deny men the right of self-protection (gun control),
the
confiscation of our wealth and property in order to redistribute it to
others (welfare and entitlement
programs),
government-sanctioned
killing,
denying
man’s fundamental right to life (abortion),
politically-correct
coercion that forces men to accept moral perversities, thus
denying
men their God-given right of conscience, etc.
Add
to these a host of illegitimate performances by an ever-encroaching, ever-meddling
federal government and what one is left with is a not-so-pale form of despotism.
Neither
of our present two major political parties seems willing to recognize
that
God, not government,
provides
freedom and happiness.
When
political leaders visualize government
to
be responsible to provide freedom and happiness,
instead
of simply protecting the individuals’
freedom
to obtain those blessings from God,
they
have produced a system that has become
"destructive
to these Ends."
Such
a system stems from a hedonistic culture and atheistic worldview.
The
only hope for reversing this trend is to reintroduce the fundamental,
historic
values and principles upon which our nation was built.
This
should be the goal of each and every one of us.
And
we should expect nothing less of the leaders we elect.
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