The Father of Our Country Speaks Wisdom for the Ages! Shouldn't We "Take a Listen?"

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"Friends and Citizens:

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"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

"It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who that is a sincere friend to it can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric?"

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President George Washington
Farewell Address to Congress, 1796

[ The entire speech is incredibly relevant/essential reading. ]
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp

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Providence and Faith in the Glove of History; the Sheltered Anchorage of Our Nation

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Without a belief in God, we have no “unalienable rights.” Without these rights, we have no absolutes. Without absolutes, we have no moral authority. Without moral authority, we have no foundation for, nor any right to enforce the rule of law. Without the rule of law, there can be no government. And, if this great experiment of “government of the people, by the people, and for the people … [should] perish from the earth,” we will have no Liberty... and I dare say no second chance.

And, if we should wantonly squander the “Blessings of Liberty” secured “to ourselves and our Posterity” through that “last measure of devotion” freely given by Patriots-past, and as ordained and established through our Constitution; if we should, due to the hubris of fools, be left bereft and adrift in a pretentious denial of the “truths [which are] self-evident, that all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights;” and if we should despise those Rights and also the blessings poured upon this nation in an unfathomable abundance by a Benevolent Providence — the very blessings responsible for the birth and prosperity of this land of Freedom; indeed if we should, then — “may God help us.”

For, as it has been repeatedly stated: the price of Liberty is eternal vigilance; and evil persons who possess wanton lusts for conquest, greed, and power will not hesitate to perpetuate every form of barbarism we could dread to imagine upon ourselves, our children, and our children’s children!

Let it never be so, O Merciful and Just One — You "who presides over the rise and fall of all nations” [quotation paraphrased].<sup>†

†</sup>All quotations from: early Fathers, the Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg Address, Patrick Henry, the Constitution of the United States, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Benjamin Franklin.

The full truth about the Pro-Life agenda and movement.

     The Pro-Life movement encompasses promoting a life-ethic; i.e., the protection of innocent human life as sacrosanct, from conception until natural death. Additionally, contrary to propaganda and misunderstanding, the mission of the movement is to care for the mothers-in-need (pre-and-post natal care and assistance through pregnancy centers, church groups, fund-raisers, etc.), and heartfelt love (not condemnation) toward reconciling "aborted" mothers with a loving God... the healing and release from the guilt and PTSD which result from the abortion procedure. Abortion advocates, due to the requisite underpinnings of their advocacy, deny and invalidate these needs and traumas of the post-aborted mother, worsening the harm inflicted. "Always remember that JESUS forgives you, loves you and is healing you every single day! The peace of Christ be with you!"
[Last two sentences of the book:  Five Steps Toward Post-Abortion Healing]

Rejoicing? Not under this administration...

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Words for the wise:
Proverbs 29:2 (NLTSE)
When the godly are in authority, the people rejoice.
But when the wicked are in power, they groan.

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A fractured republic? The Tyranny of the Activist-godless...

The Epicentral National Motto of Our "More Perfect Union:"
In God We Trust

However fashionable in certain circles, it is clearly fallacious to posit the notion that the Cross of Christ and the Framers' Vision of Liberty through self-government are somehow incompatible; that our Liberty must be held separate from religious principle.

In fact it was the pulpits of America which gave birth to the patriots' dream of Liberty and ultimately the hard-fought realization of that dream. They propounded the teachings of first: the personal redemption of man from the bondages which had resulted from the transgression of nature's law and nature's God; and second, that it was self-evident that men possessed rights granted to them by their Creator, and as a result were at liberty to establish a government of their own choosing -- not one imposed by the dictates of a monarchy, or any other form of tyranny.

Thus, it was through the Liberty provided through the Cross of Christ that men were able to govern their personal behavior, and with this capacity, to be participants in the establishment and success of a government, of the people, by the people, and for the people.

At first it may sound extreme, but ponder the following: given the aforementioned precepts, any doctrine which professes the contrary reaches to the realm of sedition, becoming a viral toxin to the very lifeblood of a free people, whose founding documents and resultant constitutional republic are built upon a bedrock-comprehension of Judeo-Christian values, and solely thereby, protect and guarantee our Creator-endowed rights.