STATEMENT ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE
The question I hear pundits discussing, as if it was some kind of mystery is, “Why is there so much political violence in our day?” They scratch their heads when they read that perpetrators like Cole Allen, the shooter at the recent correspondent’s dinner, is a mechanical engineer and a computer science major. He obviously is not a dummy. Why does generation Z consider political violence to be acceptable according to the latest studies? Why doe the killer of a pharmaceutical company executive actually have a fan club? There has been a fundamental sea-change in the general worldview of this younger generation. They have been raised without the ever-present sense of the God of the Bible and His moral laws. As Dostoevsky told us in “The Brothers Karamazov,” if there is no god, then anything is permissible.
That leaves one to establish one’s own sense of right and wrong. Murder is no longer a violation of an express commandment, but rather an object of social construct that may be justified if enough people decide it is worthy of justification. When you hear people calling President Trump a fascist likened to Hitler it serves to justify his murder. After all, is it not for the public good? When you hear that pharmaceutical companies are guilty of “social murder” as some have claimed, is not the execution of an executive simply proper recompense?
So what is the solution? It’s simple. Bring God back into the public atmosphere. Remind our children that the Ten Commandments are the foundation of our moral worldview. Reclaim the concept of covenantal relationships with God and with one another.
The experiment with godless Progressivism has proven to be a complete failure. We must get back to “First Principles” if our children and our grandchildren will have any chance for liberty, peace and prosperity. Bring back God’s moral laws!
“Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first –the most basic- expression of Americanism”—President Dwight D. Eisenhower
