The Death of
American Religion
http://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2012/11/21/the_death_of_american_religionTownhall -- Ben Shapiro -- 11/21/2012
The secular community looks to one source: the
state. Where the religious believer understands that it is immoral to deprive
someone else of their property by force, even when such stealing is given legal
cover by the state, the secularist believes that the morality of
redistributionism takes precedence over the morality of respect for the rights
of others. The same folks who voted for gay marriage and abortion voted for a
broad expansion of the state and for higher tax rates.
That's
not because Republicans are pro-life and pro-traditional marriage; even if
Republicans ignored the issues -- as, indeed, Mitt Romney tried to do --
secularists would still link a larger state with a pro-abortion, pro-same sex
marriage position. That's because the same position that rejects the sanctity of
unborn life tends to reject the sanctity of private property; both are based on
the John Locke-ian premise that man is special in the universe, and that the
product of his labor is an extension of his special place in the universe.
Ignore man's Godly origins and his property becomes a dispensable commodity
rather than a fulfillment of a divine mission.
More than that, the religious society rests on two
fundamental principles: personal responsibility and belief in responsibility to
future generations. Secularism rejects both principles. Personal responsibility
becomes societal responsibility in the secular view; we are all shaped by our
genetics and our environment, both of which are out of our control. How, then,
can we be held responsible for our actions?
The best hope for a return to fundamental American
principles is a return to the fundamental American philosophy embodied on our
coinage: E Pluribus Unum on one side, In God We Trust on the
other.
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