Posted by
Frigglesnitz on Sunday, December 17, 2006 8:33:16 PM
Much is being said about freedom of religion and separation of church and state.
In addition, it seems necessary that to avoid offending anybody, we must be politically correct to a fault. In other words, tiptoe on eggshells around everyone.
Somewhere along the way we have moved to an uneasy place in history where religion has come to be verboten. It appears to have occurred around 9/11/2001 and, more so, with our determination to bring peace and freedom to a nation whose landscape is sadly the resting place of thousands of victims of mass murder at the hands of a dictatorial tyrant. Those victims were, not incidentally, of a religious faith not concurring with that of the dictator.
It appears that in the effort to be politically correct, we have become blind to our own history and to our founding fathers’ remarkable intelligence and foresight.
One such founding father, Patrick Henry, described the place of religion in this country, using reason and intelligence common in our country’s long-forgotten beginnings, but all too uncommon in history being made today. Patrick Henry stated:
“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.”
We are free, by the Grace of God and the intelligence and courage of our forefathers, and by American men and women who have over the ages fought and died for that freedom.
Because of that freedom, we are under no obligation to bow to a religion whose followers consider non-believers of their faith to be “infidels,” and many of whose followers are blindly and foolishly committed to our untimely demise.
We must not allow ourselves to be conquered by those whose only hope is “martyrdom.”
We must not allow ourselves to be conquered simply by our country's choice of friendly nations. We must not allow ourselves to be conquered by a peculiar minority who appear collectively to have a death wish. We must not allow the minority to rule.
We must not fear standing upright and fighting, by free speech and independence, a very small but rowdy minority who wish to see Americans groveling.
In America the minority does not rule. Why must we need to be reminded of this simple fact?
I have written a couple of blogs along these same lines. It appears that their content must be repeated until reasonable minds converge and reasonable people begin to screech to be heard over the cacophony of dimwits.
Those dimwits have every right to express their opinions, but their opinions, simply by virtue of the fact that they are pronounced justified, do not make them the law of the land.