Lyle's Blog

Our constitution was written by men, especially one man, who understood the problem all governments had: leaders with unlimited power over the citizen’s life. It was a short, simple, to the point document quite unlike the reams of laws our present government has. It wasn’t able to be perfect as some input by monarch lovers tainted its intent, which is to allow men free rein over their property and affairs. This sprang from the various state documents such as the Fundamental Order of Connecticut which reads: “The Word of God requires that to maintain the peace and union of such a people, there should be an orderly and decent Government established according to God.” (1639) Thomas Jefferson himself stated: “Christianity is the best friend of government. Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.” Abraham Lincoln said: “It is the duty of nations, as well as of men, to owe their dependence upon the over-ruling power of God and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all of history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.” Our founders had suffered under the oppression of the state and the religion they support. Finally a place was to be where men could be free; but free to do what? And where did the permission to be free come from? They boldly stated: all men are created equal, that is God didn’t prefer one over the other. That one and same God endowed them with inalienable rights, which is to say rights that are common to man and not issued according to the whims of the state. Happiness could only be pursued when these rights were the individuals only and the state was the servant of the free man. Theodore Roosevelt: “Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally, and I do not mean figuratively, but literally impossible for us to figure what that loss would be if would be if these teachings were removed. We would lose all the standards by which we judge both public and private morals; all the standards towards which we, with more or less resolution, strive to raise ourselves.” If we are to be free we must throw off the chains the present batch of tyrants have placed on us and resist the state in its constant striving to place us in bondage.