Standing Your Ground Means Saying I'm Sorry
Why do we have this idea that religious neutrality is a stone in the foundation of some utopia? If our founding fathers had such a dim view of truth, then they would deserve all the derision that is now piled upon their memories. Faith is the foundation of culture. As C. S. Lewis wrote and I paraphrase, I believe in Christianity because I see everything else by it. There never will be a culture that is built in the vacuum formed where faith is absent.It is not by chance that secular cultures are tyrannical. Secular faiths mandate rigid hierarchy. If we had been bequeathed a civilization where we professed Christ and practiced atheism, we would have a different society than we were born into. The state religion of this day seems to be hedonism. Hedonism is the belief that happiness and pleasure are the focus of life.
Man's fallen nature is not the source of today's evil. The fall has already happened and is in the past. Today's evil is the result of today's sins. We have evil because we have a choice in the matter. Our secular nature, like that of Lucifer, draws us to take the easy way out.
Therefore, secular societies must have a rigid hierarchy. A perfect world can only be built where Man's drive to do evil is never given a choice. You will find that a secular society has a complex legal code to insure that all decisions are made by the enlightened elites who possess the responsibility to rule. Our founding fathers did not create such a society for us. Thomas Jefferson said of religion, "it is deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support."
A Christian society relies upon laws that are written in the hearts and the minds of its citizens. We do not need a large collection of laws that dictate our every thought, word and action. Since the laws are written in the hearts and minds of the people and not the state, then power itself should not be allowed to concentrate. How many more King Sauls have we had than King Davids? King David, a man after God's own heart, was not without sin.
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