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In
America today, there is an all-out attack on the values that this country was
founded upon. Many of the people that are involved in these attacks
actually claim to "love America" and yet they viciously attack the
values and the principles that were foundational to what early Americans
believed. In particular, there are two documents that were greatly
cherished in early America that are being relentlessly assaulted today: the
U.S. Constitution and the Bible. In colleges and universities all over
America, students are being taught that these documents are "flawed"
and that they need to "evolve" as society changes. Those
teaching this philosophy honestly believe that modern values are far superior
to the values found in those documents. They are convinced that it is
foolish to be "bound" by the wisdom of the past. That is why
they love to refer to the U.S. Constitution as a "living, breathing
document". They believe that they should be able to
"reinterpret" the Constitution without going through the hassle of
the formal amendment process. And of course we have seen courts do this
over and over again in recent years. When they feel it is necessary, our
politicians and our courts will even openly ignore the Constitution when they
feel it is necessary. At this point, the Constitution has been so watered
down and so many of our freedoms and liberties have been stripped away that we
really don't have much of a Constitution left. Sure, it is still there on
paper, but our nation really doesn't follow it anymore.
Of
course a similar thing could be said of the Bible. In colleges and
universities all over America, the Bible is relentlessly attacked. Trust
me, I have sat in university classrooms where it happens. The goal is to
cast doubt on it, discredit it and make it as irrelevant as possible. In
other words, they are trying to do the same thing to the Bible that they are
doing to the U.S. Constitution.
But
those two documents were the two most important documents in the early years of
the United States.
Those
two documents contained values and principles that helped make our country
great.
Unfortunately,
today we think that we "know better" and we are turning our backs on
those values and principles.
So
do you hate America and the values and the principles that it was founded
upon? The following are some indications that you might...
If you refer to the U.S.
Constitution as a "living, breathing document", you might hate
America.
If you believe that the U.S.
Constitution is "inherently
flawed", you might hate America.
If you go around telling
people that "we
cannot let the Constitution become an obstacle", you might hate
America.
If you believe that the U.S.
Constitution "represented
values we should abhor or at least reject today", you might hate
America.
If you are convinced
that there is "something infantile in the belief of the
constitution-worshippers that the complex political arguments of today can be
settled by simple fidelity to a document written in the 18th century", you
might hate America.
If you find yourself uttering
phrases such as "capitalism does not work" or "capitalist
pigs", you might hate America.
If you consider marriage to be
an "antiquated institution" and you believe that it enslaves women,
you might hate America.
If you believe that the fact
that the percentage of married couples in America today is at an
all-time low is a good thing, you might hate America.
If you think that football is "too
violent" and should be banned, you might hate America.
If you believe that those that
are "reverent
of individual liberty" are potential terrorists, you might hate
America.
If you consider California
to be a positive example for the rest of the nation, you might hate America.
If you believe that U.S.
soldiers should be ordered to avoid criticizing "anything
related to Islam", you might hate America.
If you believe that students
should be sent
home from school for wearing shirts that display the American flag on the
Mexican holiday of Cinco de Mayo, you might hate America.
If you think that the U.S.
military should be able to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens on U.S. soil
without ever granting them a trial, you might hate America.
If you believe that
"liberty" and "freedom" are "dangerous", you
might hate America.
If you believe that all human
activity should be centrally planned and managed "for
the good of the environment", you might hate America.
If you believe that
Christianity exists to keep the poor from killing the rich, you might hate
America.
If you think that the
government should take away most of what people earn through taxes, you might
hate America.
If you believe that it is a
good thing that millions of American jobs are being shipped to
communist China, you might hate America.
If you consider small
businesses to be "irrelevant", you might hate America.
If you want to trample
on our Second Amendment rights, you might hate America.
If you believe that volunteer
chaplains should
be banned from using the name of Jesus on government property, you might
hate America.
If you think that the U.S.
government should continue running trillion dollar deficits every single year,
you might hate America.
If you think that traffic
camera fines are a good thing, you might hate America.
If you believe that our
borders should be left unprotected, you might hate America.
If you believe that illegal
immigrants should be able to legally
get driver's licenses, you might hate America.
If you believe that illegal
immigrants should be able to practice
law in the United States, you might hate America.
If you are wearing a shirt that
proclaims that you are "proud to be politically correct", you might
hate America.
If you think that the United
Nations should be given control of the Internet, you
might hate America.
If you are convinced that
license plates that say "Choose
Life" on them are unconstitutional, you might hate America.
If you believe that government
agencies should be able to read your email without a search warrant, you might
hate America.
If you believe that faith is a
"mental illness", you might hate America.
If you work for MSNBC, you
might hate America.
If you believe that preppers
are "dangerous extremists" that should be carefully watched and
monitored, you might hate America.
If you believe that TSA goons
should touch the private parts of our women and our children
before they are allowed to board their flights, you might hate America.
If you are convinced that
"it is necessary to give up some civil liberties in order to make the
country safe from terrorism", you might hate America.
If you believe that making a
profit is a sin, you might hate America.
If you consider the Founding
Fathers to be "terrorists",
you might hate America.’