ClayBarham
12-02-2007, 06:17 PM
There is a lot of interest shown in the First Amendment to the Federal Constitution today, because it prevents government from better managing community. There are five parts of the First Amendment. All five parts prevent government from getting in the way of the people in America living their lives. Those five parts deal with an established religion, freedom of individuals to practice their own religion, free speech, right to complain and the right to gather. These five behaviors of a people are dangerous to the health of government, if not managed, as it has always been in the whole world, except America. Government, to protect people from “politically incorrect” behaviors, believes it must now step in and define correct behavior, something not allowed in our Founding.
Preventing government from establishing an official religion, being first, recognizes one of the main reasons for the British Colonies of America separating from Britain. Parliament was moving to establish the Church of England as the official religion in the colonies. Freedom to practice one’s religion was a primary reason people left Europe to settle in the New World. They were not willing to give that up. The history of the church in England was filled with bloody tyranny. Bloody Mary, reestablishing the Roman Catholic Church as the official church, caused the murder of hundreds of the Protestants who did not agree. Having and reading the Bible was a capital offense. The government knew it had to control religion and the beliefs of its people if it were to control their behaviors. King James, openly against the Calvinist Geneva Bible, had it rewritten and outlawed, to prevent people from seeing only God as their king.
In America, a tradition was established for 150 years prior to the separation from Britain. People followed laws they created, obeyed God in Heaven who gave them their rights, and owed no government their allegiance. When the break occurred, the explanation of why was well stated in the Declaration of Independence in two ways. First, our Creator gave us our rights, not the king, and government’s job is simply to preserve those rights. Second, that the governing system of king and parliament abused its citizens and violated their rights, necessitating dissolution. When the second constitution was written and ratified, giving a framework for a limited central government, the rights of citizens needed restating to make sure everyone understood that government was limited. The First Amendment spelled out five rights that could not be infringed, followed by the Second Amendment, which declared individuals would always have to right to defend themselves, individually, against the usurpation of power by any government. Both of these Amendments are under assault because they stand in the way of a caring government shielding its citizens from contamination by any politically incorrect behaviors of others in community who may see things a bit differently.
Politicians suggest that we alter our view of government. They tell us to look upon our government as the center of compassion, empathy and sympathy for those less capable or willing, and to be the architect and manager of all civil and economic behaviors. Academics suggest that individual self-interests are contrary to the better interests of community and solidarity. For better management by them means we must rid ourselves of the limitations our Founders placed on a caring, concerned government. It has always been the traditions of humanity that government portions out rights; to the extent they do not prevent government from doing what is best for its people. They promise a better world without sickness or poverty, a new land of milk and honey, if we simply give them the keys and get out of their way.
Government will establish the official religion of the nation as atheism, the absence of all beliefs in anything spiritual or extraterrestrial. It promises not to interfere with any other religious belief practiced in the home, as long as such practice and expression does not contaminate the civil foundations established by atheism. The First and Second Amendments, both of which interfere with the proper management of society, must be repealed. Civil society cannot succeed if minority opinions are allowed to be expressed or in print, or if numbers of people greater than three gather in any one place at any one time. The keeping of firearms is contrary to all sound civil sentiments and shall not be permitted. Government needs these changes to provide for the safety and security of society, as all reasonable people must agree. At least, this is what we are asked to accept as our new and better world.
This is the great turn around we are all asked to vote for in these early 21st century elections. Have the majority of Americans agreed to abandon America in order to better our image in the rest of the world, and be like everyone else?
Preventing government from establishing an official religion, being first, recognizes one of the main reasons for the British Colonies of America separating from Britain. Parliament was moving to establish the Church of England as the official religion in the colonies. Freedom to practice one’s religion was a primary reason people left Europe to settle in the New World. They were not willing to give that up. The history of the church in England was filled with bloody tyranny. Bloody Mary, reestablishing the Roman Catholic Church as the official church, caused the murder of hundreds of the Protestants who did not agree. Having and reading the Bible was a capital offense. The government knew it had to control religion and the beliefs of its people if it were to control their behaviors. King James, openly against the Calvinist Geneva Bible, had it rewritten and outlawed, to prevent people from seeing only God as their king.
In America, a tradition was established for 150 years prior to the separation from Britain. People followed laws they created, obeyed God in Heaven who gave them their rights, and owed no government their allegiance. When the break occurred, the explanation of why was well stated in the Declaration of Independence in two ways. First, our Creator gave us our rights, not the king, and government’s job is simply to preserve those rights. Second, that the governing system of king and parliament abused its citizens and violated their rights, necessitating dissolution. When the second constitution was written and ratified, giving a framework for a limited central government, the rights of citizens needed restating to make sure everyone understood that government was limited. The First Amendment spelled out five rights that could not be infringed, followed by the Second Amendment, which declared individuals would always have to right to defend themselves, individually, against the usurpation of power by any government. Both of these Amendments are under assault because they stand in the way of a caring government shielding its citizens from contamination by any politically incorrect behaviors of others in community who may see things a bit differently.
Politicians suggest that we alter our view of government. They tell us to look upon our government as the center of compassion, empathy and sympathy for those less capable or willing, and to be the architect and manager of all civil and economic behaviors. Academics suggest that individual self-interests are contrary to the better interests of community and solidarity. For better management by them means we must rid ourselves of the limitations our Founders placed on a caring, concerned government. It has always been the traditions of humanity that government portions out rights; to the extent they do not prevent government from doing what is best for its people. They promise a better world without sickness or poverty, a new land of milk and honey, if we simply give them the keys and get out of their way.
Government will establish the official religion of the nation as atheism, the absence of all beliefs in anything spiritual or extraterrestrial. It promises not to interfere with any other religious belief practiced in the home, as long as such practice and expression does not contaminate the civil foundations established by atheism. The First and Second Amendments, both of which interfere with the proper management of society, must be repealed. Civil society cannot succeed if minority opinions are allowed to be expressed or in print, or if numbers of people greater than three gather in any one place at any one time. The keeping of firearms is contrary to all sound civil sentiments and shall not be permitted. Government needs these changes to provide for the safety and security of society, as all reasonable people must agree. At least, this is what we are asked to accept as our new and better world.
This is the great turn around we are all asked to vote for in these early 21st century elections. Have the majority of Americans agreed to abandon America in order to better our image in the rest of the world, and be like everyone else?