Monday, January 17, 2022
Saturday, January 15, 2022
THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE
When the Founding Fathers began writing the Constitution and forming a new system of government, many aspects of politics, philosophy, and human nature were taken into account. What emerged was our Constitution and its system of checks and balances.
However, built into the Founders’ vision was a compliment to the Constitution, a formula described later by scholar Os Guinness, in his book A Free People’s Suicide, as the Golden Triangle of Freedom:
“Freedom requires virtue, which requires faith, which requires freedom.”
More formulaically, it might read:
Freedom requires virtue.
Virtue requires faith.
Faith requires freedom.
What happened since then? Over time, but especially accelerating during the 20th Century, the American legal system began to take a more secular approach to its functionality. “Virtue” and “Faith” began to wane. Where character, trust, and virtue had been prevalent, the importance of legal contracts took their place.
As Guinness wrote, “Legal contracts were strengthened and sharpened to take the place of weakening moral considerations such as character and trust.”
#1 — FREEDOM REQUIRES VIRTUE
Liberty and freedom don’t “just happen.” History is largely a tale of tyranny. All men were created equal and have certain unalienable rights, as recognized in the Declaration of Independence. However, the freedom and liberty Americans experience comes from more than just laws and regulations. They come from the virtue of the citizenry.
Virtue is the only internal characteristic that supplies the self-restraint necessary to balance the risk to the social order of giving people a large amount of liberty.
Without virtuous leaders and virtuous citizens, there is no reason to follow laws. The Republic has an interest in the virtue of its people, as much as the people have an interest in the character and virtue of its leaders.
#2 — VIRTUE REQUIRES FAITH
The Founders were clear in their view that the virtue necessary to allow maximum liberty required a solid foundation: and that foundation was religion. Even the Founders with the least affinity to orthodox Christian views of their day believed this.
Benjamin Franklin made it very clear that he would never be a Christian, however, he stated that “as to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion…I think the System of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see.” It was Franklin who initiated prayer during a crisis moment in the Constitutional Convention. It was Franklin who saw the immense cultural value of the work of his friend, the renowned evangelist George Whitfield.
And Thomas Jefferson, an alleged deist, stated, “The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man.” Many critics forget that men like Jefferson were no secularists; they clearly believed in God. Jefferson, as a statesman and as president, was clear that without faith there is very little reason to be virtuous. The Jefferson Memorial itself displays famous quotes by Jefferson connecting freedom to the moral laws of God.
#3 — FAITH REQUIRES FREEDOM
Faith is voluntary in America. Americans may choose to believe or not to believe. We have the ability to exercise our faith without coercion, and participation is by choice.
As the Williamsburg Charter, a 1988 document on religious freedom signed by over 200 leaders from various backgrounds, stated:
“No longer can sword, purse, and sacred mantle be equated. Now, the government is barred from using religion’s mantle to become a confessional state, and from allowing religion to use the government’s sword and purse to become a coercing Church. In this new order, the freedom of the government from religious control and the freedom of religion from government control are a double guarantee of the protection of rights. No faith is preferred or prohibited, for where there is no state-definable orthodoxy, there can be no state-definable heresy.”
Yes, faith can flourish in totalitarian states. But the record of history demonstrates that lowering the walls to faith often allows an expansion and all the benefits of a public tolerance of open religious practice.
WHY IS THIS NECESSARY?
In many of the writings of the Founders, the importance of character and faith are heavily discussed. They understood that the system they designed was best for self-government by a virtuous citizenry. The checks and balances created by the Constitution are to be complemented with leaders of high virtue and character, those who can be trusted to place the importance of the people ahead of their personal gain.
Today, the character and virtue of both average citizens and leaders are being more and more privatized, just as religion is. Many believe that whatever a person believes, and how they behave, the decision is private with little consequence beyond that individual.
Is it any surprise, then, that religious liberty has come under growing hostility? If virtue requires faith, and virtue is devalued, then it follows that faith—and the freedom to express that faith—will also be devalued.
And is it any surprise that such a system will also begin to value competence over character in leadership—whether public or in business—a dangerous choice? Leaders need skills and abilities necessary to do well in leading our country; however, the Founders believed that character should be equally, if not more, important.
The Founders believed that liberty and freedom could be maintained through the system they designed. However, without the influence of virtue and faith—all of which are enhanced by religious freedom—how long can the Golden Triangle of Freedom, and freedom itself, be maintained?
Radical groups are on the prowl looking for ways to suppress religious expression throughout America.
Contact First Liberty for immediate help if your religious speech has been censored or attacked.
https://firstliberty.org/news/the-forgotten-triangle-of-freedom/
Friday, January 14, 2022
A jab for a job?
The vax card holder - or a non symptom rona carrier.
WHo is "The Super Spreader"?
I truly do not understand how some refuse to consider
that the body was built with the ability to fight against illness.
Sure we are going to get sick, it's unforunate- there's no way around that.
Every one deals with the flu, a virus , an illness in their own way- in their own time.
Some get sick, some get REAL sick, some don't get sick at all, some die- some only get mild symptoms- whatever it is
and I'm talking more about how it was before all of this insanity.
The days before COVID.
People died- however they died- more die from the flu then "they" even talk about.
A cold, a sniffle- shingles... bacterial or viral- it is what it always has been.
It's like mother nature is combating the imbalance, or a bureaucrat got funded to experiment- ???
HEY GUESS WHAT - WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE ONE DAY>
We all get sick, if it was your time, then FUCK that sucks,
you get better or you don't. We go where we focus.
The J and J Vax killed my best friend, Who's to say if the actual virus
would have killed him. I have a feeling he would still be here had he skipped the jab.
But truly We will Never Know. and let me ask you a question-
what happened to America, where our freedom to Thine Ownself Be True - SURVIVAL OF OUR FREEDOM
OR DEATH FOR OUR FREEDOM? My best friend wanted to take the Jab, he knew he was taking a gamble
A gamble with his life- to live life- I guess?
TO CHOOSE THE PLAN THAT IS BEST FOR YOU OR FOR THEM?
THE DIVISON THAT HAS INVADED THE VERY DEPTHS OF FAMILY, FRIENDS,& WORK.
The Politicians or is it the Bureaucrats of this nation or WAIT have they become one ; when did "they" cross the line- when did they become one
- a regime wrapped up in their regimen.
My Body, Your Mandate? or my Body , My Choice.
The vaccinated are caving to genocide.
a bunch of sheeps bowing to the social media hypnotized mediocracy.....
a bunch of ostriches.... voted for this nonsense but pretend to no longer watch or SEE WHAT IS GOING ON_ While they TAKE their
bonus checks, their vItAminzzzzzzZZZzzzzz... and Slip into sleep- the ShEEPLEMaSSES of mediocres.
WHere's the faith in the moment, in the permission to give yourself time to get sick and mend from it- the permission to have faith
that it's not your turn to die- or perhaps maybe like my best friend- we had a discussion 30 days before he passed over-
we both agreed if we got it and die from it that we woud be "ok" with leaving this earth right here, right now. I never fucking thought he was actually gonna fucking die.
But in a way, it's like hey man, I could get hit by a truck later, or eat some fucked up shit an die from food poisoning or some bullshit like that,
it's just enough already.
YOU GO WHERE YOU FOCUS
period end of story stop trying to control my shit and stop judging me because I am not a sheeple ass bitch. I know who the Super Spreaders are....the bannana republic. the Aristocracy that have inflitrated our government, feeding off of the corporations fat, pulling rank and privilage - above the law and any sort of consequence to their actions - other then lining their very own pockets, How "we" the people seem blind to what is going on in front of our own eyes. Nope - too worried about getting the "rona" and or too phat & self involved to care- our democracy has died - our freedom to choose has been extinguished by public traitors. “For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and, dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.” “In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech; a thing terrible to publick traytors.” Benjamin Franklin, Dogwood Papers, written by Franklin in 1722, at the age of sixteen George Washington, Address to the officers of the army, March 15, 1783 Note:
period end of story stop trying to control my shit and stop judging me because I am not a sheeple ass bitch. I know who the Super Spreaders are....the bannana republic. the Aristocracy that have inflitrated our government, feeding off of the corporations fat, pulling rank and privilage - above the law and any sort of consequence to their actions - other then lining their very own pockets, How "we" the people seem blind to what is going on in front of our own eyes. Nope - too worried about getting the "rona" and or too phat & self involved to care- our democracy has died - our freedom to choose has been extinguished by public traitors. “For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and, dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.” “In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech; a thing terrible to publick traytors.” Benjamin Franklin, Dogwood Papers, written by Franklin in 1722, at the age of sixteen George Washington, Address to the officers of the army, March 15, 1783 Note:
Saturday, January 1, 2022
Monday, December 27, 2021
Wednesday, December 22, 2021
Sunday, December 19, 2021
The world has become a very small playground or is it just; I may have succumb to adulthood at the ripe age of 53.
I don't want to say it out loud, because I do know I have a very real "Wendy" within. I , too, want to fly and play with the mermaids and say funny things to the stars. I, too, giggle with the flowers and mingle with all animals, trees & etheral beings. However I feel as if I am suffering from a kind of illness or deficiency . That has thrust me into a rusty, stuck, old tin toy. I love the elders as much as the teeny tiny tots~ I fear not the elder years , more so, I fear the lack of enthusiasim , passion and thirst for that kiss. It's as if I have died inside. God tell me what vitamin, supplement , what reflection I have lost myself.
What does it take to alleviate this rut I am in.
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