Falling Back into Complacency.

Watching the world spin, I have been seeing a disturbing trend. There is little doubt that this has been going on for far longer than I have been watching it. It is not even new to my eyes. Why is it that we are getting so complacent that we consider it a bad thing to conflict with the world around us?
In a recent editorial, I read that teaching the Ten Commandments would be insensitive to people with a different set of traditions. Was it wrong for the ancient kings of Israel to desecrate the temples where people with a different set of traditions used to burn their children alive as offerings? What law in the Ten Commandments conflicts with the basis of free society? Would it not be true that the free world rose under the banner of the decalog?
Has it ever been said of great men, and great leaders of men, that they rolled over and played dead with the best of them? When these United States of America rose up to become a nation, it rose in contrast to the established order in the rest of the world. This is a bottom up nation because our founding fathers understood the fallen nature of Man. What government has the power to grant, it has the authority to take away. Belief in the law of nature and of nature’s God puts all rights in the hands of the people.
Our forefathers fought and died to grant us supremacy over our rulers. If tolerance had been their goal, they could have shown it by not leaving. Colonizing North America was the ultimate act of intolerance. The optimum act of tolerance is to endure intolerance. Let’s think of a common myth closer than most people ever look at it.
The Congregationalists of England faced intolerance, so they fled to the home of tolerance. They were so afraid that their children would grow into this brilliant, Utopian ideology that, being hypocrites, they fled to colonies in North America. Knowing what it was like to endure intolerance, they created a nation where everybody was welcome. I’ve got a bridge to sell you and, if you act now, I’ll throw in some swampland in Arizona.
I broke the grade curve in school, while living in public housing. Intolerance is not collection of vague stories to me. I’ll never be a leftist because “soak the rich” sounds a bit too much like “kick the smart kid.” If my forefathers, the non indigenous ones, had fled to this continent because of name calling, I would be ashamed of them. What these people were running from was extermination.
Extermination comes in two flavors. You can round people up and send them to the death camps or you can erase the identity of a people. Killing off all of the Congregationalists was within the authority of the king. Realizing the difficulty of such a task, converting the population was a much better solution. Just institute a “separation of church and state” to limit what can be called true in public, and let anything conflicting those truths be called faith. Anybody living in the modern world can tell you how hard it is to resist this slow lobotomy.
The Congregationalists flee to the land of tolerance. Here they discover a curse that we even fear to whisper in the shadows. Think of yourself sharing your bedroom with a dozen strangers. You cannot offend any of them or you face punishment. Soon you will find just how uncomfortable it is to give up everything that really matters to you simply to avoid conflict. It is not a life comfortable to anybody deeper than his shadow.
So they fled again, going to North America. Notice that we had 13 colonies. That far back, we were ripe for a federal republic. Even when the Congregationalists came to this continent, they were traveling with the “fellow travelers.” When they arrived, the Congregationalists and the “fellow travelers” parted ways in a live and let live philosophy fitting with what the Congregationalists believed. Tolerance played no part in it. In a nation of 50 states, as long as the central government can be kept out of the way, you can have a place for people who represent many types of communities. Each state can have its own religion and people can live in communities where they share the same beliefs and values. People who cannot live together are free to live apart.
What has been accomplished should not be hidden in the sands of time. There is no reason why this nation should hide away its values for the comfort of outsiders. If the character of the people is changed, then the character of the nation built on and by those people will change as well. That is why our enemies focus so much on education and the media. Even as they preach centralization, they realize that the life of a nation flows from its people. Destroying the people destroys the nation.
“A true prophet is never accepted in his homeland.” Who wants to hear the preacher saying that God is mad at us? Why would he be happy with us? So why would people be telling us to quiet down? It is uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable because it is true.
We are not trying to get judges to write laws for us. Neither are we arming a militia and sending suicide bombers into public buildings. You do not win hearts and minds that way. Are people supposed to think that we are wise because we are silent while our children are taught that we are zoo exhibits? It is more reasonable that people will think us fools.
It is no less likely that the wrath of God is turned against the United States than it was for God’s anger to be sent against Israel. Believing so does not make you something that should only be found in a museum. The free world has been under attack since before it was born. Authoritarians, a secular elite that feels that it has the responsibility to rule the rest of us, would love to have aborted the free world. Its birth ruined their lives. Peace is not the absence of war, but the opposite of war, therefore, giving in to the desire to keep silent is not the answer.
Diversity is a sham designed to divide and conquer. The ability to think and express our thoughts freely keeps us strong. I cannot accept that the goal of the First Amendment was to protect pornography. What our founding fathers gave to us is more likely to be a license to express our disagreements. Emotions spread among the unthinking because we all react similarly to the same stimuli. A thinking population is harder to build because complex ideas are harder to express than feelings. Self governing nations need the second more than the first.