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Is It Really About The Ten Commandments?
As with all great controversies, the Ten Commandments have reached the Supreme Court.
But, is it really about the Ten Commandments?
America’s legal and social system is so insolubly linked to Judeo-Christian principles and teaching that it is nearly impossible to separate the two. Even though the symbols and quotations of the Bible are etched not only in the persona of America, but in the granite monuments and buildings across the land, there are those among us who try to remove the indelible traces of our past.
There is a much larger issue at play.
First, it is rebellion.
The Declaration of Independence is simply that. The independence that was declared was done so on the premise that our Creator has endowed us with certain unalienable rights, which include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. America, as no other nation before or after, was founded not to grant or provide rights and privileges, but to protect those rights that were granted by the acknowledged God of the Bible – the Creator of mankind. In acknowledging God as Creator, Sovereign, etc., our Founding Fathers and many who followed, submitted to God, thus using His laws as the basis of America’s laws – His emphasis on life as our mandate to protect life.
I believe it is not so much about the Ten Commandment’s being posted on government property as it is about the God who gave us the Commandments.
If you look at the “religious controversies� that have gone to the Supreme Court in the past 50 years, it is apparent that in each case it is related to an individual or group who are unwilling to acknowledge God as Creator or Sovereign. Unlike the Founding Fathers and millions of us who have followed, who have acknowledged God as Creator and Sovereign, these folks use the very laws that these beliefs have created to seek to destroy that freedom and the Source of that freedom.
Man rebelling against God is as old as the oldest account of the human race. The story of Adam and Eve is well known, simply because they wanted to become like God. In the end, they lost it all.
Look at the issues of the past 50 years. Prayer in school, abortion (the taking of life), reciting “under God� in the Pledge, euthanasia, and now religious symbols in public.
Our Founding Fathers declared their independence, “with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence.� Some today declare their independence by attempting to expunge all recognition of Divinity from public life. The Founders built the greatest nation in the history of the world. If those who seek to “be� God are allowed to prevail, they and the country will come to the same end as our ancient ancestors in the Garden of Eden.
The second issue is greed.
The ACLU and others like them are actually compensated through a little known provision of our law. The law that was originally written to provide assistance for impoverished people – often minorities – who felt they had been wrongly accused. Now, the ACLU and like groups make millions of dollars every year from our government, while seeking to destroy the very system that provides the money.
Theodore Roosevelt once said, “We must especially beware of that small group of men who clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.�
Greed is blinding – and so is rebellion.
James Madison said, “The belief in a God all powerful, wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from to many sources.�
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Gary Randall
President & Chairman
Faith and Freedom Foundation
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