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States' Liberty Party E-BookMorality & the ConstitutionChapter 1 -- The Beginning
It begins with the simple and innocent message of Jesus, or is it Augustine of Hippo’s fourth century warning that thought of child must be foremost in the mind of a couple or there is sin? It begins, actually in the Garden of Eden, and is the original sin; or does our lesson start with the early settlers of America and their government of the people, for the people, and by the people? Our real beginning is the classroom today, children taught, or more correctly not taught the moral values that a 20th Century federal Supreme Court disallowed them from learning, and told to learn that which conflicts with the teaching of Jesus, and this takes us back to the Garden of Eden – no, to Augustine. Augustine is a foundation of the Christian church and cornerstone of Catholic moral understanding. His simple but central message answers the riddle of original sin, and tells us how to eliminate it: Place thought of child foremost in mind and there is no sin. Without this, a man has reduced his wife to the role of a prostitute, using or abusing her for his desires of the flesh, and should a child be conceived, there might be resentment, jealousies and anger, and a child will enter the world absent two loving parents. The Catholic and protestant Church adhered to Augustine’s word – and it is the word of Christ—for a thousand and five hundred years, mandating just procreative intercourse, as legitimate sexual intercourse, and early settlers in the United States strictly adhered to the teaching and imposed stiff sentences on those who disobeyed. Not until the 20th Century did the Church upset the ancient message, under strong internal pressure to change and accept new modern methods of birth control, for the managing of now desired smaller families. The Catholic Church refused to fully oblige, and others either did or simply ignored the question entirely. The latter may have proved to have been the more wise, or better said; less unwise. The Catholic Pope in Rome could not accept birth control yet continue to adhere to Augustine’s lessons of moral values; and the Pope, because he is infallible, could never have erred and given the flock a wrong instruction. The Church wiggled out of the problem with a new concept called “must be open to life”, all birth control methods failing the test excepting the natural rhythm system. This has led to a more scientific church doctrine called NFP; a comprehensive birth controlling system for producing a quantity of wanted children through an entirely natural system. Augustine’s message has been lost though; as “pleasures” are bumped up to top spot and the child must play second fiddle. Believers will have an opportunity to play a kind of “Russian Roulette” in building a family, gambling or praying that a child may come later rather than sooner, so that they may maximize the pleasures. The redefinition of original sin to that of a desirable and pleasurable experience required that the accepting churches create a reasoning for the altered practice, which they accomplished by changing the primary purpose of the procreative act to an expressing or developing of “love”, and a knitting together of (just the) parents for family, providing the marriage with love and unity, or at least giving these things a boost. Lust thus was redefined to be love, and the original sin became an achieving of unity. The distinction, and only distinction between right and wrong amounted to the marriage license, recognized by both church and government. Original sin was now something beyond mankind, and we are reduced to acceptance of it even when taking out the proper licenses. Children cannot be born except in sin, with original sin institutionalized by the church. Hypocrisy might be an expected outgrowth of a religious philosophy telling children: “If we do it it’s ok, because we have a valid license”, and this exactly became the complaint, first of children and later same-sex lovers, for if love may be expressed or obtained entirely by a sexual act then there would seem no reason for abstaining, and surely, the pleasurable experience should not be shunned over nothing more than a failure to file the proper paperwork. From here came other seemingly logical extensions to the new church values: Why should I not love my friends, neighbors, the milkman, or my young pretty secretary? Similarly, there is no logic to why two members of the same sex should not love each other. From here the “intellectual” experience is destined to slide downhill to even more deviant sexual acts; man/boy relationships, incest, and bestiality, perhaps all the way down a pit with no bottom. With a foremost ideal of experiencing love through deviant sexual pleasures, homosexual marriage cannot be stopped, for it will be a legitimate equal-protection issue, and soon following will be a question of why one must limit his love to a single other person. Marriage was intended for better things than simply a “love license”, or contract between individuals for an expressing of “love”. Security for the woman and a stable, secure and permanent environment for her children was the intended purpose, but once children are stripped from the necessary package, the purpose fails. Augustine’s ancient message was needed. Without it, marriage will in time become a silly act, rejected by new generation children realizing how foolish it is to take out a license for what comes naturally; closeness, sex for fun, and perhaps even love. It is here where we begin our journey into a world where deviant sexual practices are the accepted norm, and ancient church values are thought prudish, stupid, narrow-minded, and wrong. <Introduction Index
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