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The fabric of American liberty is being ripped apart.
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-fabric-of-american-liberty-is-being.htmlThe First Amendment is what makes this country America. There's a whole lot to the Constitution that is unique, powerful, and which contributes to this country being the world power that it is. Beyond that, there's a lot more that contributes to the freedom we enjoy, under which we prosper, and which contributes to our pursuit of happiness. The First Amendment is the core, the foundation, the thing that makes sacrifice for its protection worth it.
It wasn't perfectly formed when it was first written and ratified. Slavery was an acknowledged evil in the writing of some of those who were responsible for its drafting, and yet, the more powerful need to get the Constitution ratified, and the government established, caused dealing with it to be postponed for more than fifty years after it was ratified. And even then, it took a bloody civil war before the 13th amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery. And the struggle, and the racism, went on for at least another century.
The founding fathers, most particularly those involved with drafting the Constitution, and especially those who drafted the Bill of Rights, had a close up seat for the kind of violence, hatred and bigotry caused by state sponsored and controlled religion. Europe's history is one of hundreds--literally--hundreds of years of bloody violence and war over trying to protect the waning power of one religion over the growing changes brought about by the Renaissance and the Reformation which challenged, and eventually broke, that power.
Why would we ever want to go back to that? Why would the people in America, who came here at least in part to escape from that, want it to follow them here?
It wasn't perfectly formed when it was first written and ratified. Slavery was an acknowledged evil in the writing of some of those who were responsible for its drafting, and yet, the more powerful need to get the Constitution ratified, and the government established, caused dealing with it to be postponed for more than fifty years after it was ratified. And even then, it took a bloody civil war before the 13th amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery. And the struggle, and the racism, went on for at least another century.
The founding fathers, most particularly those involved with drafting the Constitution, and especially those who drafted the Bill of Rights, had a close up seat for the kind of violence, hatred and bigotry caused by state sponsored and controlled religion. Europe's history is one of hundreds--literally--hundreds of years of bloody violence and war over trying to protect the waning power of one religion over the growing changes brought about by the Renaissance and the Reformation which challenged, and eventually broke, that power.
Why would we ever want to go back to that? Why would the people in America, who came here at least in part to escape from that, want it to follow them here?
So why should Americans be getting interested in this? Because there is an abberration of Christianity that has intruded upon the Christian church in America, and it is heading down a road toward the destriction of individual rights and the Constitution, specifically the separation of church and state and religious liberty. It is destroying the orthodoxy and sincerity of an entire branch of American Christianity. And if it continues, it will destroy our Constitutional Democracy.
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