Posted by
Nathan on Thursday, May 31, 2007 5:46:19 PM
L&G-
I just wanted to
write a quick note on something that has been simmering in my mind for
quite some time. I hear a lot of talk in general from political leaders
on the right (such as pastors and bureaucrats) that there is an agenda
in America that seeks to defy Christianity and that the worldview of
people from this agenda is of moral relativism - i.e., anything can be
considered 'truth' as long as [a majority of] people believe it. And
this affronts God's absolute sovereignty. It is true that there is an
agenda that seeks to undermine God and our biblical/literate tradition
in the civilized world, but it is not necessarily one group of people
seeking to 'relativize' the truth, as it were. There is no single
culprit (e.g., homosexuals) seeking to destroy the foundations for
God's perfect order and there is no single culprit seeking to wash away
the sanctuary created for God on earth (i.e., the American dream). It
is true that America was born, largely of Protestants seeking freedom
from religious persecution (e.g., being jailed for insurrection in
England, being crucified as well as burnt on stakes in Spain) in Europe
where freedom of speech and the right to gather peacefully as well as
freedom of the press were curtailed.
This nation is great not
due to compromising its values and its ethics but from staying true to
its traditions and it has been blessed, through faith, in obedience to
God. We are ascendant and set apart to glorify the name of Christ; we
are as a city upon a hill for all to see - a holy example bright and
shining for the world to acknowledge the works of his hands. I told you
these emails were going to start getting steeped in Christianity - it
is the only way for us to solve our problems. We are being encroached
upon by the dreaded hand of private violence and the even more to be
dreaded hand of legal oppression, not due to the worldviews of
homosexuals or any specific target demographic, but due to our politics
of accommodation. There is a saying that, "If you give Satan an inch,
he'll be a ruler!" There is no specific demographic that threatens our
nation's prosperity; rather it is accommodative politics which
encroaches upon our liberties.
Let me explain something:
civil society is based upon the rule of law and we, as citizens, are
each engaged in a social contract of mutual shared sacrifice. We are
limited in what we can do to one another by the law - that is what
'liberty' is. If you are running on a mountain pass and you see a
hungry predator that wants to hunt you, it's not likely that screaming,
"Stop - in the name of the law; I am protected by my human rights
liberties!" is going to have any affect on that animals' behaviour. If
it wants to eat you and if you are less than capable of defending
yourself from an attack (and no act of providence protects you), then
you will surely be eaten. In the case of civil society, however, people
honor the power of the written word and objective standards govern our
social mechanics (e.g., people stop at red lights in traffic; abate
their respective inclinations toward murder, theft, etc.). When people
invoke the sweet name of 'liberty', consider the cost and God's economy
where there is no free lunch. People use [human] 'rights' struggles
propaganda to take advantage of each other.
If one specific
demographic group is to have [special] 'liberties', then another
[specific] demographic group (or the remainder thereof) will have to
pay for those liberties. When someone 'takes their liberties' with
another person, that is a form of rape, murder, theft - it is really
just one person taking advantage of another. Earlier I said that there
is no specific demographic group that seeks to undermine God's biblical
tradition, necessarily. And furthermore, it is not simply a will of one
specific group that asserts a [morally relative] worldview, therefore,
the moral/political leaders of America need to focus more broadly, in
my opinion, on issues of accommodation rather than targeting specific
groups as culprits in America's [ever-increasing] moral failings and
ineptitude to defend itself from [foreign/domestic invasion],
bankruptcy ( e.g. top-heavy entitlements such as pensions for being an
American citizen analogous to the Airlines, all of whom are directly or
indirectly subsidized by American citizens' tax dollars via Federal
assistance and most of whom are nevertheless going bankrupt) and the
like. Essentially, the issues we face are corporative - once people
have citizenship (given they've reached the adult age of eighteen and
are not convicted felons), they can vote and these enfranchised peoples
have power to influence the direction of this society, as well as the
way it functions.
Accomodative politics usurps American
liberties because it takes away from those who are, as I've previously
stated, hard-working and law-abiding - i.e., common people who love God
and who love America and who love their families. Bureaucrats,
merchant-elites, Hollywood media-elites, Manhattanite International
Relations elites and the like, all gain power from having widespread
influence. The bureaucrats pander to the widest constituencies possible
in order to get the most votes. Merchants advertise in the most
provocative manner and in the form that segregates populations into
'target demographics' to create the deepest possible penetration (for
market share, brand loyalty, etc.). Hollywood media elites want the
broadest appeal for sales, etc. And finally, the International
Relations elites want power by association with world leaders for
influence, etc. so their agenda is, as the aforementioned,
accommodative.
Now the phenomenon of accommodation goes like
this: once you give specific groups of people special status and
accommodate them accordingly, you are importing trouble. People, unless
they are a homogenous collective, bring with them various worldviews,
perspectives, belief systems, et cetera, according to the normative
traditions attending their respective nationalities*. Diverse
perspectives and diverse intellectual thought can add to the creative
genius of society and be very productive, if harnessed properly – i.e.,
if used toward moral ends. It's just as the proverbial encounter
states: "Will [one] use power for good or for evil?" However,
unrestrained 'diversity' is deviant and counterproductive because it
subverts the common order and perverts the collective good (which can
take many forms – e.g., economy, politics, military/police protection,
culture, etc.).
Once you accommodate people by giving them
special liberties, it takes [liberties] away from those who aren't
special. And when people are given free reign to exercise liberties,
they bring their culture and their traditions and their natural
inclinations with them. So, essentially what occurs is we have many
different nations in the United States of America that all have special
privileges to, basically, act and believe in whatever manner they see
fit. The universal rights to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness' outlined in our frame of government include specific
statutes declaring the ability [of every person] to speak out, gather
peacefully, write and even criticize the government, among other
things. These rights are good, but when combined with 'special
privileges' for special demographic groups, we have an adverse affect
which disallows those without special privileges to practice those same
rights and enjoy those same liberties to the same extent (special
status creates a supra-class and a sub-class partition with a
concomitant order based on those status differences). In economic
terms, the now underprivileged get 'crowded out', as it were. And with
a loss of privileges comes a loss of moral and political status in
society. When you gradually disenfranchise a specific class, you are,
in effect, negating the traditions and the order of that specific
class.
Back to the point I was making about accommodation: In
the main, what we have here is an accommodation of specific people
groups and their traditions at the expense of America's host society's
liberties and, thereby, America's host society's traditions. So America
is slipping into moral decrepitude due to the overindulgence of
demographics that pull us away from God, the Bible, et cetera. By
accommodating the will of pagans, as it were, we are allowing for the
slippage, for lack of a better word, of our own morals, or own ethics,
our own traditions, our own order, our own strength – which is God's
will, God's traditions, Gods' order, God's ethics, God's morals and
God's strength. To the extent we allow non-Christians to lead us
astray, God will continue to let America fall into the pits of despair
and hopelessness. However, upon a quickening and revival (i.e.,
enlightenment in the truth of our situation and responsibility to
correct it), we can be surely turned around and set on solid ground.
*I
say nationality specifically for the purpose of this argument which
seeks to set [multiculturalism] in context of the multi-ethnic,
multi-traditional realm in which we deal in our day-to-day realities in
the civilized world.