Upon being told that Freedom of Religion precludes America from ever being a Christian state, John Adams shot back: “This is not a Christian nation, sir, and upon that, we agree. This is, however, a nation of Christians, and it is the Christian tradition that guides us.”
This is a profound statement, particularly when paired with the fact that John Adams viewed the central premise of Jesus’ teachings to be ethical rather than religious.
I hear over and over and over again that people can be moral without religion, and this is, of course, true, but it is also true that if morality is but a construct of man, then each of us is free to define our own morality however we wish, which brings us to a much more famous John Adams quote:
“Because we have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge, or Gallantry would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
That second John Adams quote provides the reason that the anti-Christian party is also the anti-Constitution party: the left is smart enough to understand that without the Christian ethic, we need a totalitarian state to prevent the public from ripping itself to shreds.
That’s not to say we need everyone to proclaim faith, but we do need an agreed-upon moral standard, and for 250 years, the Judeo-Christian moral standard has been the norm. We eliminate that standard at our own peril.
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