Before the “woke times” messed up honest discussion, whenever fake liberals were cornered with the facts about their unfounded attitude against the Christian worldview, they countered with egalitarian clichés. “Who is to say” and “opinions are equal” were two favorite put-downs against “retrograde” views of the subject. And from the ramparts of a wall they built between church and state they shot down all who challenged their rantings against God in human affairs. They still do.
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Well, Christ spoke and established his church. So much for “who is to say.” It was he and his apostles who spoke for the relation of God to us. Walking with Christ would be walking with one who embodied the truth regarding the mind and will of the Creator, not the mind and will of false prophets who as I write, continue to make news headlines.
As for the argument that opinions are all equal, well, if all opinions were equal, no opinion would be worth a dime. How does the opinion of one who is on drugs equate to the opinion of one who is free of that addiction? How does the opinion of a person who is mentally ill equate to that of a person not so afflicted? I touch on extreme cases to highlight the fallacy in the argument. And what of the great range of inequalities in perception and judgment among individuals regarding anything, even including professionals in their respective fields?
Big deal? Well, it’s a huge deal in a democracy. Cutting to the bone: What is the value of the “average” between what is best and what is not to what is required? Or the value of a ”consensus” among crooks? Can a majority of voters be wrong? Christians who remember that a majority voted to crucify Christ would shout YES.
The tendency of majoritarian rule to devolve to mob rule alerted America’s founders to configure a system of government that would make it difficult for any faction to dominate and take control. The prerequisite for honest and open debate was taken as self-evident in achieving just and responsible rule. The “checks-and-balances” method of government crafted by the architects of the American republic is intended to maximize cooperation and minimize self-interest among those elected to govern the nation.
History proves that we live in a chronically wicked world, where “money talks” and wisdom is not a genetic feature of human society. It was therefore a necessity against social chaos that wisdom became centered in religious doctrine and promoted by clerics whose lives were dedicated to justice and wellbeing predicated on laws higher than those of the marketplace. The founders of America recognized what all right-minded people recognize, that Providence must be included in a just social order. This calls for Church AND State, not Church VERSUS State, as the Left has twisted it.
Liberals of an intolerant kind and dystopia-bound progressives willfully ignore or distort the moral factor in democracy, permitting the Law of the Land — America’s Constitution — to be made an asset of power-hungry elites instead of being the instrument of justice for all Americans, the aim of men much wiser than any in government today.
The idea of separating the church from the state was never meant to separate God from the public. It was meant to keep America from being ruled by a particular religious sect. No legitimate argument exists in this light for the non-observance of Judeo-Christian morality in American public life. To all honest parties it was clear from the beginning that isolating the church from the state was not a motive for building a wall between God and the United States.
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It is worth remembering that the hatred of the church by the Left is an inheritance of 17th- and 18th-century Enlightenment pundits who placed themselves above God, a few assuming that role for themselves. That act of piracy resulted in the blood bath that turned the French Revolution into a Reign of Terror. The reckless pitting of human against human, ending in countless lives lost, continues to occur today for essentially the same reason, namely regarding Christianity and the church of being an enemy of the people instead of an enemy of a wicked state.
Benighted intellectuals of the Age of Reason branded in their followers an unreasoning contempt for divine guidance since it too frequently interfered with their prescriptions for society. The conflict continues to “chop heads,” as it were, to this day, as in the French Reign of Terror. (I can’t help picturing Nancy Pelosi with her gavel presiding over the march to the guillotine.)
The rebellion of the Left against the Creator needs no special acuity of vision to detect in today’s deranged world. It is evident in the constant distortion of the facts of reality and the censorship of truthful speech, smeared as “hate speech” and targeting for jail those who speak the truth.
What surprise can there be that churches have shut down, been burned, their holiest icons wrecked, their congregants scattered, demonized and persecuted, their leaders pressured to turn against their own religion? Did Christ and the church he established declare war on the state? Or was it rather that the state declared war on God, a war still raging 2,000 years after His Word became flesh — a war against all that is good and beautiful and best for humanity?
And what surprise can there be that morality was not excluded from public affairs by the architects of the United States of America? The founders of America warned of the ill effects of being at odds with Gospel teaching. The ill consequences were spelled out by visiting French scholar Tocqueville in the early years of the American republic. In recent times, Solzhenitsyn made it plain that forgetting God in human affairs creates injustice among people. This articulate Gulag survivor and defector from Soviet Russia warned of the prospect for a communist-style dystopia in America that, regardless of how attractive and comfortable leftists could make it, would end the freedom of mind, body and soul of the people it descended upon.
Some will say that it is a waste of time to stir up a retrograde view of the relation between church and state in these “woke times.” I say, there is no expiration date for speaking the truth about the relation between us and the One who gave us life.
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Anthony J. DeBlasi is a veteran and life-long defender of Western Culture.
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