[TheRealThing]

^^Didn't you know, Sombrero is an informed voter? True wisdom, the wisdom of the founders for example, includes all truth. That means embracing spiritual truths as well what we might call natural or secular truths though I do not accept the notion that there is any way to partition off the one from the other. One cannot compartmentalize or ignore some forms of truth if he really wants to enjoy an intellectual command of any given situation. If I deny lead is a naturally occurring metal for example, I might ban it in an attempt to 'save the environment' from whence it came. Likewise, speaking in half truths gives us things like ObamaScare, the American public was promised a treat, but all they got was the trick. And could I just remind everyone that it was and continually has been the Republicans, who have steadfastly warned said public about the dire consequences and skyrocketing costs attached to such a hair brained Ponzi scheme? Or as in this case, one might argue that graft, betrayal and corruption are just a part of politics. Laughable and sad at the same time.

The argument being made that the founders did not observe spiritual truths in their deliberations up to and including the Constitutional Convention of 1787 is a denial of history and the obvious. And in my view, the reason we functioned so well as a society through the 20th Century was due to our having honored the original intent of the Constitution. The more we allow any faction to mitigate the original intent, be it liberal, Libertarian or whatever, the more we will see American exceptionalism disappear.

At any rate, the liberal argument though touted as diverse and clear eyed, in fact rejects that spiritual truths are in such case applicable. That argument is therefore flawed. The US has never been perfect, but has become far more flawed in accepting liberalism, which seeks to supplant this nation's ties with her Christian heritage. All one has to do is to watch the news and world events to understand that we as a people are diminished. I hate it because I have watched the decline and in studying Scripture, I know the pain that awaits. That which no world power could have ever taken by force seems to me about to be given up willingly.