At the advent
of the 21st century, our children are being taught an American history markedly
different from the record handed down to previous generations. The new
narrative is the story of European conquest of native peoples and the endless
struggle of identity groups to assert their rights to justice, safety and
well-being. It comes with a growing sense of accepting our past failures –
including failures of the Fathers of our country – and brings a collective commitment
going forward to ensure social justice and equality for all. The rapidly
growing chorus of highly-credentialed individuals advocating this post-modern
national account across the spectrum of our institutions demands that all of us
– particularly those educated prior to this generation – seriously question
ourselves. “What if we were wrong ?“
What if
the founding document of our nation was not the Declaration of Independence?
What if instead
it was implemented a Declaration of rebellion? Or an Anarchists’ Manifesto?
Instead of simply separating themselves from British rule to operate under
their established, time-tested colonial self-governance, what if our Fathers
purposed a Machiavellian overthrow of King George and Parliament? What if
rather than fighting and winning a separatist movement they made themselves
rebels, usurped monarchical power and instituted the very tyranny from which
they claimed to have sought escape? What if under a different Declaration every
individual was made subservient to a collective identity that denied our very
nature and God’s ruler-ship in the affairs of men?
What if the
Declaration was never drafted? Would we recognize our individual rights? Could
we understand that our rights are inalienable from us simply because we were
born? Would we still be so willing to sacrifice ourselves to preserve liberties
if we accepted them as handouts from a niggardly State and not gifts of our
benevolent Maker? How would government govern? Would it dare constrain itself
to its single legitimate purpose of protecting and preserving the rights of all
men from one another and from itself? Should government grow so corrupt as to
become totalitarian would we still recognize and faithfully exercise our duty
to throw it off and seek more sure guards for our future security?
How else but
from the words of this Document would we be able to understand that in which
our Fathers placed their hope – acts of random chance or the hand of Divine
Providence acting time and again on their behalf enabling farmers and
shopkeepers to bring the greatest military force on earth to full surrender?
What if
the highest law of our land were not our US Constitution?
Would a
democratic republic have been formed to acknowledge all political power as
belonging to the people to be exercised through duly chosen and proven-worthy
agents? Could self-governance have been maintained under a true moral code for
the betterment of all? Or would freedom itself have been found too burdensome
and people would still have willingly placed themselves under the heel of many
masters? Would a separation of powers have arisen to preserve the people from
power’s corrupting influence?
Could rule of
equal justice under the law still triumph over fiat edicts thrown at us from
whimsical men? Could we recognize that government is nothing but force exerted
by men upon men with the power to tax which is the power to destroy, taking at
will from one to give to another? Would our States have guaranteed themselves
republican forms of government? Or could power have stopped itself from
aggregating to transform republicanism into democracy of special interests, by
special interests, for special interests?
We have allowed
a new story of America to be told our children. Those we’ve allowed to rewrite
our history seek the overthrow of our culture, supplanting it with the swill of
multiculturalism which breeds division and failure, sacrifice of the individual
to the collective, barren subsistence and total subservience. We’ve given them
the ability to force our children to deny their nature so as to erase their
identity. In so doing we make our children into a nation that does not know its
Fathers; that is, a byword and a proverb.
What If We Were
Wrong?
Source:http://christianitycapitalismandourconstitution.wordpress.com/2014/10/01/what-if-we-were-wrong/
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