For various reasons having nothing to do with this post, I keep coming back to the phrase “an antidote to sin.”It's why I believe in limited government. It's why I'm a conservative.
Well, I don’t know about sin, but if killing vast numbers of your citizens in batch lots, like Nazis and Communists did, or through privation, economic destruction (or economic distortion) and repression as socialists did and do (poor Venezuela is the most extreme example but any government that considers it their business to determine what’s “death with dignity” and values it over life is doing the same, just slower, with softer gloves and more pretty words) isn’t a sin, then the Almighty and I need to have a word or fifty.
And as I was thinking of the sad state of the people of Europe who don’t even realize they are objects, owned by the government, serving at the will of the government, and destroyed just as easily, or that the hand that mollycoddles them can (and often does) snuff them out, I realized our founding documents are a remedy to that particularly horrendous sin.
Sunday, April 29, 2018
Why The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution Are So Important Today
Hard to say it any better than this:
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I was on FB this evening and I saw an old friend debating a supporter of the British NHS in the recent murder of a child. The supporter was going on about there was no hope and it was cruel to keep the kid on life support. I explained to this woman that these decisions were not for her, or any other buerocrat, even those with the letters “MD” behind their name to make. It was the parent’s decision to make, and the NHS’s interference in the worse decision any human must make is an absolute abomination.
But it comes back to an old question, and it wasn’t that long ago the belief in England was actually right. Hell, our view in this matter was inspired, in large part, by Anglo-Saxon belief. That we are not serfs of the government but free men and women. I’m recalling these words, “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, amount these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. To secure these rights, government are created among men, drawing their legitimate powers from the consent of the governed...”
How GB has fallen.
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