Episode 312: Apologies, Rants and Reason

Apologies, Rants and Reason  apologies, rants and reason

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I open this weeks program with a sincere apologies to Pastor John MacArthur for my program on 8-15-20 titled “John MacArthur – Too Little Too Late.’

Next is the discussion between coherent Rants and those of pundits who strike an emotional note but often do nothing to bring the listener to a means of self-governance, be it personal, family, work, or governing in our Republic.

Lastly in this episode of Apologies, Rants and Reason; Reason is qualified from the point of Founder’s Intent. I bring you to the Introduction of the Epilogue: Securing the Republic in Volume One of The Founders Constitution.

Apologies

My apology to John MacArthur is heart felt. I have been digging into his videos at the pulpit and those where he is interviewed on various topics regarding the extensibility of the Gospel. Yet, as you will find in the other programs that I referenced here, there seems to be an incongruity in how John MacArthur is perceived in relationship to his peers who have gone to the dark side on social and cultural issues…. Well, that means they went to the dark side politically as well.

I will leave it at the fact that my apology is specific and that maybe, as John MacArthur is now preaching clearly, the woke church isn’t the church. As I have always noted, the pulpits lead the nation. When they stopped affecting every aspect of the Republic, The Constitution became meaningless as the Founders like Madison and John Adam well noted – This Constitution is ONLY for a moral and virtuous people.

Rants

In respect to this program on Apologies, Rants and Reason, I send you to the References here to watch or read the Blog posts by Doug Wilson. His Rant on Kicked Out of Hell for Lying is well done and sets the high bar for all who Rant to reach or, unlikely, to exceed.

Reason

Lastly, when it comes to Reason in this program on Apologies, Rants and Reason, the Epilogue found in Volume I of The Founders Constitution is a mainstay. The mechanisms for keeping the republic are well articulated regardless of your preference to Christianity or not. Morals and Virtue are the foundation of our Constitutional Republic. Education is the mechanism to properly inculcate both. Sadly, our educational system is now designed to destroy the Constitution and the Republic.

Time to defund all education that does not further Founders Intent…. Especially public universities and colleges since they are bastions for communism.

De Tocqueville Make No Apologies: Summary

“Religion in America…must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions….This opinion is not peculiar to a class of citizens or a party, but it belongs to the whole nation and to every rank of society.” Writing about the greatness of America, he said, “Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpit flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

De Tocqueville continues: “…America is perhaps, at this moment, the country of the whole world which contains the fewest germs of revolution; but the press is not less destructive in its principles than in France, and it displays the same violence without the same reasons for indignation. In America, as in France, it constitutes a singular power, so strangely composed of mingled good and evil that it is at the same time indispensable to the existence of freedom, and nearly incompatible with the maintenance of public order. Its power is certainly much greater in France than in the United States; though nothing is more rare in the latter country than to hear of a prosecution having been instituted against it. The reason of this is perfectly simple: the Americans, having once admitted the doctrine of the sovereignty of the people, apply it with perfect consistency. It was never their intention to found a permanent state of things with elements which undergo daily modifications; and there is consequently nothing criminal in an attack upon the existing laws, provided it be not attended with a violent infraction of them. They are moreover of opinion that courts of justice are unable to check the abuses of the press; and that as the subtilty of human language perpetually eludes the severity of judicial analysis, offences of this nature are apt to escape the hand which attempts to apprehend them. They hold that to act with efficacy upon the press it would be necessary to find a tribunal, not only devoted to the existing order of things, but capable of surmounting the influence of public opinion; a tribunal which should conduct its proceedings without publicity, which should pronounce its decrees without assigning its motives, and punish the intentions even more than the language of an author. Whosoever should have the power of creating and maintaining a tribunal of this kind would waste his time in prosecuting the liberty of the press; for he would be the supreme master of the whole community, and he would be as free to rid himself of the authors as of their writings…’

And continuing his comment on the press: “…The number of periodical and occasional publications which appears in the United States actually surpasses belief. The most enlightened Americans attribute the subordinate influence of the press to this excessive dissemination; and it is adopted as an axiom of political science in that country that the only way to neutralize the effect of public journals is to multiply them indefinitely. I cannot conceive that a truth which is so self-evident should not already have been more generally admitted in Europe; it is comprehensible that the persons who hope to bring about revolutions by means of the press should be desirous of confining its action to a few powerful organs, but it is perfectly incredible that the partisans of the existing state of things, and the natural supporters of the law, should attempt to diminish the influence of the press by concentrating its authority. The Governments of Europe seem to treat the press with the courtesy of the knights of old; they are anxious to furnish it with the same central power which they have found to be so trusty a weapon, in order to enhance the glory of their resistance to its attacks….”

There is so much more in De Tocqueville’s analysis of America that only shows how the perversions of morals and virtue have destroyed the original understanding of self-governance as known in the 1830’s.

Sam Adams’ Wisdom

TO ARTHUR LEE.

[MS., Samuel Adams Papers, Lenox Library; a text with modifications is in R. H. Lee, Life of Arthur Lee, vol. ii., pp. 197-203; printed also in the Boston Gazette, May 23, 1774.]

BOSTON, 9 April 1773

MY DEAR SIR ,

I must by no means omit to request you to present my most respectful Complimts to the Society of the Bill of Rights and return them my hearty Thanks for the great Honor they have done me in admitting me one of their Members. The Gentlemen may be assured that this unexpected mark of their Respect adds to the Obligation which I have ever held myself under, to employ the small Share of Ability which God has given me, in vindicating the Rights of my Country & Mankind.

I can now assure you, that the Efforts of this Town at their Meeting in November last, have had Effects which are extremely mortifying to our petty Tyrants. Every Art & every Instrument was made use of to prevent the Meetings of the Towns in the Country but to no purpose. It is no Wonder that a Measure calculated to promote a Correspodence and a free Communication among the people, should awaken Apprehensions; for they well know that it must detect their Falshood in asserting that the people of this Country were satisfied with the Measures of the British parliament and the Administration of Government. Our Governor has in my Opinion merited greatly of the Ministry by his constant Endeavors, though in vain, to sooth & quiet the people & perswade them to think there were no Grievances that might “be seen felt or understood.” And when the House of Representatives in the last May Session, by almost a unanimous Vote remonstrated against his Independency, he, without the least Foundation in Truth, & for no other Reason that I can conceive but to give Countenance to his Patron Hillsborough, or to establish himself in his Governmt which he recd with so great RELUCTANCE, did not scruple in his Speech at the Close of that Session, to insinuate that the House was under the Influence of a few factious members. No Speech of Bernards ever gave greater Disgust to the People, nor with more reason.

There has been another Session of the Genl Assembly, wch began unexpectedly on the 6th of Jany last. It is my Opinion that it would have been postponed, as usual of late, till near the Close of our political Year, had it not been for the Boston Town Meeting; I mean to prevent the designd Effects of it, by giving an occasion to the small Jobbers in the Country to say, that “however expedient it might have been for them to have had their meetings before, it now becomes unnecessary & improper since their representatives are soon to meet in Genl Assembly.” This had an Influence in some Towns; and his EXCELLENCY, I suppose judgd it more probable that he should be able to mannage the Members of the House and prevail upon them “to joyn with him in bearing Testimony against the UNWARRANTABLE Proceedings of Boston,” if they came together without having the explicit Sentiments of their Constituents.

At the Meeting of the Assembly, he thought proper to open a Controversy with the two Houses, for which I think Hillsbro would not thank him; for he has thereby defeated the favorite Design of the Ministry, which was to lull the people into Security, and for the effecting of which Design, he had before thought himself, or endeavord to make Administration believe he was entitled to so great a Share of Merit. It has been publishd in most of the Newspapers in the Continent & engages much of the Attention of the other Colonies. This, together with ye proceedings of a CONTEMPTIBLE Town meeting, has awakned the Jealousy of all, & has particularly raised ye Spirit of the most ancient & patriotick Colony of Virginia. Their manly Resolves have been transmitted to the Speaker of the House of Representatives in a printed Sheet of their Journals; and our Come of Correspondence have circulated Copies of them into every Town & District through the Province.

I wish I could hear more of Lord D. to qualify him for his high office, than merely that he is a GOOD Man. Goodness I confess is an essential, tho too rare a Qualification of a Minister of State. Possibly I may not have been informd of the whole of his Lordships Character. Without a Greatness of Mind adequate to the Importance of his Station, I fear he may find himself embarrassd with his present Connections. It can easily be conceivd what principle induced Lord North to recommend to that Department a Nobleman characterized in America for Piety; but what could prevail on his Lordship to joyn with such Connections, unless he had a Consciousness that his own Abilities were sufficient to defeat the plans of a corrupt Administration, I am not able to conceive. It might be well for his Lordship to be assured, that there is now a fairer prospect than ever of an Union among the Colonies, which his predecessor did & had reason to dread, tho he affected to despise it. Should the Correspondence proposd by Virginia produce a Congress; and that an ASSEMBLY OF STATES, it would require the Head of a very able Minister to treat with so respectable a Body. This perhaps is a mere fiction in the Mind of a political Enthusiast. Ministers of State are not to be disturbd with Dreams…

Because you keep asking –

References:

1. All programs at this site that reference John MacArthur

2. Doug Wilson Rant: Kicked Out of Hell for Lying

3. Doug Wilson: A Sickly Yellow Custard That is a Little Green Around the Edges

4. Chaplains and Clergy of The Revolution: Chapter 6 – Jonas Clark

5. Epilogue: Securing the Republic, Chapter 18: Introduction

6. Ohio GOP Central Committee Members Challenge Chairman Paduchik on $638k Write-Off in 2021 and $1.7 Million Deduction to Equity in 2017

7. Naomi Wolf on Censorship, Vaccine Passports, and the Reversal of ‘My Body, My Choice’

8. Relevant Old News from January: Top 11 Covid-19 Statistics Mainstream News Is Hiding From You

Other Top issues:

I. Small business under attack by Government and the mega corporations. Here is a really good small business resource and articles:

1. SBE Council

1. a. The PRO Act: Special-Interest Politics Aiming to Destroy Small Businesses and Economic Freedom

1. b. Small Business Scores Number One in Public Confidence, and with Strong Bipartisan Support

2. The Disadvantages of a Small Business Complying with Government Regulations

3. To Help Small Business, Cut Regulation

II. General topics of Reasoned interest:

1. Lockdowns Force Autistic Kids To Be Lab Rats In A Failed Experiment

2. Better than my Rant on defunding education: Masks And CRT Are Just The Start: It’s Time To Break The Public Schools (And Here’s How)

3. Biden vaccine rule sets stage for onslaught of lawsuits

4. Domenech: The Left Wants A Permanent Pandemic Because ‘Isolated People Are Easier To Manipulate’

5. Why Universities need Godly Moral education again: Eliminating Sex On Birth Certificates Is Driven By Inexperienced Med Students Undermining Science

 

 

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