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The Christian Constitutional Republic
One Nation Under God
Government of, by, and for the People
Liberty and Justice for All
by: Thomas Lee Abshier, ND
The Christian Nation
by Thomas Lee Abshier, ND
06/12/2005-07/11/2010
Betrayal of the Founders' Promise
A Study in the Secularization of Government & Society
Pointing
the Direction for a Christian Renewal of America
A Roadmap to a Christian Nation
Legislation
for a Righteous Society
A Contract with Christian America
Site Map Access to all Chapters
Preface America as a Christian Nation Working to Bring God's Kingdom on Earth
Prologue The Secular Agenda – Activating a Christian Response
Introduction Secular & Christian Forces Battle for America's Status as a Secular
or Christian Nation
Chapter 1: Religion & Tyranny – Our founders intended that America be a Christian
Nation, governed by laws based upon the Judeo-Christian Ethic. They did not write
Christianity into the Constitution, Bill of Rights, or the Declaration of Independence
overtly. Rather, our founding documents and the acts of Congress reveal the implicit
hand of Christianity guiding them. The Founders had just experienced the Revolutionary
War, a war fought at least in part to liberate themselves from England which required
allegiance to a state approved religion. Even so, they realized that social organization
depends on the general public embrace and self-imposed compliance with a common underlying
moral system. The current political correctness contends that the group moral system
is a Secular Humanist belief in man's inherent goodness and knowledge of truth. But,
when the group spirit rejects Christianity, we will have only our heritage to fall
back upon to return us to our roots. Thus, to maintain our status as a Christian
Nation, we must remain vigilant against the pulls on each generation to worship other
gods. The Old Testament account of the Children of Israel clearly illustrates the
fickle nature of man's heart. The founders did not declare us to be a Christian nation
by law because of the tendency of men to fall into the temptation of imposing a religious
tyranny. Instead, they depended upon the general populace to propagate Christianity
throughout the culture and maintain our spiritual lineage. For this reason, government
was restricted from interfering with the practice of Christian worship and doctrine.
The founders depended upon an unrestricted consideration of the issues of Biblical
morality in the process of writing legislation. Integral to this process of creating
a common Christian moral system, our culture must produce statesmen, judges, and
informed citizens. To perpetuate this generational lineage of Christian morality,
we must teach our children the principles of Christianity in the public schools to
propagate the faith to the youth and thereby maintain our moral structure as a Christian
Nation. We are a government of, by, and for the people, and as a Christian majority,
we have the right to use the group morality to organize our laws, morals, and wisdom
around the precepts of our beliefs about right and wrong, using the moral system
we choose. Non-Christians within our society can expect to receive the same public
policy courtesies in matters of personal safety, respect of property, and equality
before the law. The non-Christian may disagree with the society's Christian-based
laws, mores, and speech; but disagreement cannot be avoided within a society. Every
citizen should be equal before the law, receiving punishment or reward according
to his good or evil deeds. The Constitution does not require homogeneity of belief,
only compliance with the law. And the Constitution itself should reflect the absolute
truth of God's plan for man. To the extent that the Constitution veers from God's
perfect standard, it should be amended.
Chapter 2: Freedom of Speech – The Board of Commissioners of Marion County allowed
an "Adopt a Road" sign sponsored by the American Nazi party on the grounds of their
Freedom of Speech. The absurdity of believing that they must give an evil organization
equal access to a government controlled medium of persuasion indicates the level
of distortion we have allowed into our group conscience. The question becomes, how
did we stray so far from the ability to judge rightly? The answer to this question
is that we have allowed the tolerance of sexual perversion to be legislated into
our body of law by embracing the Secular Humanist dogma of tolerance and their worldview
which rejects Biblical judgment. Without embracing the Biblical standard of righteousness,
upon which our country was founded, we risk losing right perspective on matters of
grave importance. The end of such foolishness is the destruction of the nation because
of improper action against economic, military, ecologic, and social threats which
could destroy our nation, just as they have destroyed the many which have collapsed
before ours.
Chapter 3: The Godly Judiciary – Terri Schiavo was murdered by the American Legal
System because of its allegiance to legal interpretation according to the Secular
Humanist morality. A severely disabled adult was killed by State-ordered starvation
and dehydration by purposefully focusing on the law that established her husband
as the guardian of her life. The court disregarded the surrounding circumstances
of her husband's life and the willingness of her parents to continue her care. They
argued that these specific issues were not included as allowable legal considerations
in such cases. Thus, the ruling to end her life was supported by literal interpretation
of the words of man’s law, but laws subservient to God’s Law could not justify it.
As a nation we should view case law as precedent to guide judgments, but it should
never trump the spirit of God's Law. The courts should moderate their passion to
follow legal precedent so that individual circumstances can modify the law to conform
to the higher morality that human law should reflect. Clearly the specifics of the
Terri Schiavo case were not previously legislated. But, such legislation should not
have been necessary because God's law is always the implicit legal background upon
which to refer in judging complex cases. Thus, the courts claimed that the law bound
them to rule as they did. They justified their position by declaring that ruling
to give custody to her parents would have required legislation that specifically
authorized such action. But, even when the Florida legislature and US Congress passed
such legislation, the Courts ruled that passing laws to govern in specific circumstances
was unConstitutional. Thus, the courts freed themselves to act on the letter of the
law as they interpreted it according to their Secular Humanist moral system. But,
the courts ignored the Constitutional fact that Congress has the right to set the
limits of judicial authority, and they responded as masters rather than servants.
Even though the courts engaged in gross judicial activism driven by a Secular Humanist
bias, they did not acknowledge their organizing worldview. Rather, they hid behind
the plausible shield of strict legal interpretation of the mandates of law. Those
who criticized the President and Congress for legislating to deal with the specifics
of this case, cried that such an effort to adjudicate and legislate under the guidance
of a higher moral system were doing so at the risk of destroying the foundations
of law. But, these critics were ignoring the fact that human legislation is inherently
general and requires the reference to an underlying moral base to modify judgment
in the consideration of each unique circumstance. The Left's interpretation of law
has an implicit Secular Humanist bias. They cannot claim to legislate according to
a neutral, religion-free perspective; nor are they able judge without prejudice to
their underlying moral code. As a nation we should recognize and embrace the Judeo-Christian
ethic as the moral foundation that should guide and govern the execution of our legal
system in its specific application. Without overtly recognizing and acknowledging
our allegiance to the True God, the spiritual vacuum will be filled by the judicial
influence of other gods. The letter of the law will likewise rule and kill if we
do not place the law under subjection to the mercy of God's Holy Spirit. The nation
will suffer if we bow to any but the one true Lord God – the Father of Jesus the
Christ.
Chapter 3: Right to Privacy – Society has recently elevated the right to privacy
to being one of the cardinal social/moral virtues. Select behavior once considered
taboo, typically around sexual behaviors or drug use, are now off limits for prosecution
or societal censure because of this overarching right. Respect of privacy now trumps
the Judeo-Christian moral condemnation of homosexual sodomy and abortion. This “right”
has now found a new application as a justification for refusing to show identification
to the airlines before traveling. This story illustrates how society has lost its
grounding in righteous discrimination. When we dethrone God, remove the Bible from
its foundation as the moral principle for law and societal ethics, and replace timeless
Godly instruction with human concepts of proper morality, we will reap unexpected
(bad) consequences. The general principle involves the elevation of minor rights
and virtues above Godliness. The degradation of society has become so great that
the content and existence of Godliness has come into question. Man has made himself
the measure of all things, and man’s wisdom has been exalted above the wisdom and
ways of God.
Chapter 4: The Supreme Court & Christianity – As a society we must decide if we want to be a Christian or a Secular nation. The Secular Humanists claim they are not a religion, but their precepts have all the markings of religion. The Secular Humanists wish to enforce the removal of all Christian symbols, words, and acts from the sphere of public funded influence. Thus, in effect, they wish to use the power of government to enforce the imposition of a Secular Humanist state. The Secular Humanists contend that the Founders intended that we be a Secular nation, having no identifiable religion in the marketplace of society. They note the historical evidence of abuses perpetrated by a government directed by the church. Their trump card is always the First Amendment and the supposed implication of a "Separation of Church and State." But, "Separation" is not a Constitutional concept. And, neither the Secular Humanists nor the Christians will back down in submitting to the domination of the culture by the other's religion.
Chapter 5: The Group Moral Ethic – The Left wing media and political pundits have
characterized the Christians and Republicans as corrupt and morally depraved, and
used this condemnation as a political strategy. The Left elevate themselves to the
apparent moral high ground by accusing the Administration of lies, callous disregard
for life, and policies driven by money and power. The Right appealed to the "values"
voters by standing against abortion of the unborn, homosexual marriage, euthanasia,
and Clinton's infidelity; this position appealed to the moral sensibilities of God
fearing Americans, resulting in their victory in both houses of Congress and the
Presidency. The Left has attempted to employ this same strategy and give the appearance
of moral superiority by smearing the Right with accusations of torture, blood for
oil, cronyism with Arabs, and vilifying the Patriot Act as a power grab for Big Brother.
The list is endless. Each day they generate new accusations or corruption from the
daily news events. Every act of defense and policy is twisted to appear as though
driven by base motives. Likewise, the Democrat/Left liberally uses the ad hominem
attack to tarnish the motives and character of the Right. The Christian Right's current
alliance with the Republican Party is framed as a deceptive political ploy by the
Republican Big Business shadow-masters who use the naive Christian voters to give
democratic weight to their initiatives for power and money while giving only lip
service those moral issues important to the Christian voting block. The criticism
of Bush and the Republicans for the "Medical Consequences of using Depleted Uranium
in Iraq" is only one example of this type of connection of the Republican-Christian
Right for policies that can be only vaguely connected with the Bush Administration.
As a society, we should be raising our moral standards by encouraging an individual
and group worship of the Christian God because embedded within its doctrine and principles
are the truly humane and other-honoring behavior that we all desire. Only when our
allegiance is actually aligned with Truth will we receive the supernatural blessings
of peace, pleasure, and prosperity. The acts and faith of the nation's people and
its leaders produce benefit inherently due to the right and workable nature of the
actions pursued by such a people. The supernatural blessing of God is manifested
by the unseen hand moving in the minds of people, and in the subtle physical world
modifications when men know truth and act upon it. The hand of God works unseen to
coordinate beneficial outcomes for a people of who love Him in spirit and Truth.
6) Consent of the Governed: The Libertarian position argues against government having authority over the individual, since no one has seen the contract, nor explicitly agreed to its terms. But, there is an implicit social contract in the Constitution, and the terms of that contract are based upon the principles and proper ways of relationship established by God. He is the center of our being, and without considering the standards of God, we have little stable basis upon which to build a society other than man’s ideas of proper boundaries. And, such is the desire of the Libertarian, to live in a society without government-established boundaries. Instead of government establishing the law, the Libertarians wish to let the market set the limits of behavior. Regardless of the mechanism, society must have rules, and an individual, group, majority, or super-majority will establish rules. Laws are necessary to optimize freedom, since the state of no government (anarchy) and totalitarian government (tyranny) are both oppressive. Freedom is at its maximum when the rules of life are clear and the society operates within those boundaries. A nation’s laws should be as general as possible, so that every single person is free to operate at the maximum level of freedom. God’s way is to maximize freedom, but He has limits that do not allow or embrace evil of any sort. Evil is crafty, seductive, elusive, and disguised, and each man must use his full perceptive and judgmental capacity to discern evil from good, and then choose to act only upon goodness. A society of such men will experience the greatest prosperity and happiness.
