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States' Liberty Party E-BookMorality & the ConstitutionChapter 7 - The Old Crossroad: Morality’s Slippery Slope
The new national “religion” called secularism essentially was a concoction of the Supreme Court’s policies toward the States, carried about by a distorted reading of the Fourteenth Amendment. Religions with an underlying belief in God were suppressed in the public schools attended by nearly all of the nation’s children by state mandate, and was replaced by a value system raising non-procreative sexual activities to the level of a fundamental right. The black v. white equality of religion-is-good v. religion-is-bad had entirely silenced religion under the Court’s “fair” system of suppressing both good and bad elements of religion, and endorsing contrary values and attitudes. An old gospel song goes “The old crossroad is waiting; which one are you going to take? One road leads to destruction, the other to the pearly gate.” America reached this crossroad with the advent of modern birth control methods somewhere around the 1930’s, and with a need for smaller families as people migrated from family farms to the new booming cities thriving on the industrial revolution. The old religious message of the original sin had lost much if not all of it’s magic and although parents knew that out-of-wedlock sex was wrong, they may not have understood why that was, excepting that it will produce a child that may not be wanted and will destroy the lives of children, forcing them into relationships too early and perhaps that are not desired. Birth control solved or alleviated the problem. It was not difficult for society to take the wrong path, for it was pleasurable and required little discipline, and the many that resisted were pushed along by a Supreme Court that had stepped out of the limiting boundaries of constitutional law. The churches eventually accepted the new “religion” in part, and original sin was redefined to be an expression of love and building of family unity. Lust was not lust, it was love. The needed separator between procreation and deviate values would no longer be intent, but the more technical issue of whether a license had been secured. The marriage license, originally intended as a financial protection of the woman and offspring with a primary purpose of creating a stable and lifetime environment for children to grow up in, began to become redefined as a love license, a contract with the government to love another person equally as oneself. This new message is skewed, for Christianity and other great religions instruct the flock to love all men equally. The marital love license mandated that a special close love be between just two people, man and woman. Children were no longer material. As may be expected, divorce and remarriage became prominent and normal, as young or old “kids” fell in and out of love. A redefining of sexual intercourse to the act of love is the old “crossroad” leading to “destruction”, a worshiping of pleasures instead of the one God. The other path is that of Augustine’s ancient message, the placing of thought of child foremost, so that children are born of their parents, not born in sin. Children born in sin will bear children in sin and the cycle of imperfection is locked, and man’s perfect nature is lost. A child born in sin may be denied the unity of the birth process, his parents having selfishly abused it for immediate physical gratifications, His separation from God at birth will not produce the perfect child, of whom “no crying he made”. The ancient scriptures tells of an error by the first Man, having put his desire for sensual pleasures above the child-to-be, eating from the “tree of knowledge of good and evil” and losing the “tree of life”. Although early settlers to the United States had carefully adhered to Christian moral values and placed stiff penalties on deviance, they presumably were unable to follow Augustine’s message and produce the perfect children no longer born in sin. They handed down imperfect offspring but gave us a government unparalleled in the world’s history, presenting us with a freedom of thought and behavior. How did they both fail and succeed? Imperfect humans may find themselves unable to adhere to strict teachings of ancient religious masters. The Church will create rituals and idea systems for focusing the flock, and will ingrain correct values in them. Resulting is not eternal life, but a consistent seemingly eternal society, building on successes and errors to better itself. Good things will continue to happen as long as the society recognizes the perfect ideal and sees that as the ultimate or primary purpose for the citizens. Thus, a couple that places pleasures above child may have marital disunity, but they will not become hopelessly lost. They are on the road leading to the “pearly gate”, but are not at the pearly gate. They have a moral compass. A problem develops when the society throws away the moral compass, out of ignorance or perhaps from an impatience to become perfect, but not having the discipline to adhere to the ancient instructions for the obtaining of it. America threw away the compass and took the other path when they accepted birth control devices, which dropped the child out of first place and replaced it with original sin. No longer did America see a craving for sensual pleasures as a weakness, they now saw it as a pathway to life. They had essentially turned the road sign at the crossroad, so that the path to destruction pointed to the path of life, and the path to life pointed to nowhere, perhaps a cow pasture populated by narrow-minded Christian bigots. The pathway to life was now uncharted, still there, but un-traveled, and seen as an unobtainable ideal, advocated only by do-gooders and those from another era. The new religion institutionalizing the original sin is easy to justify and not difficult to follow, requiring little in self-control and no more than a taking out of a marriage contract to be blameless. The instruction of Jesus is to love others, and that love is expressed by sexual intercourse. It is true that Jesus not once said that sexual intercourse is a way of showing love, and nothing anywhere in the Bible suggests that it is, but Jesus said to forgive freely, so even if sexual intercourse is wrong it should be forgiven and if it is forgiven then it is not wrong. This twisted logic permeates the society. The first thing to go under the new “religion” was the taboo against premarital sex. Children may find little reason for withholding their love over a trivial thing like a marriage contract, which is only a piece of paper. Love is greater than a piece of paper. Similarly, why would one withhold his love from friends? Adultery is next. If love is good, and it is, then a person may love his friends, neighbors, the milkman or his young new secretary. There will be no end to the slippery slope. A man can love a man equally as a man loves a woman. A prohibition by sex becomes an equal protection problem, and if two of the same sex cannot have procreative sexual intercourse then deviant intercourse must be valid. Both homosexuality and homosexual marriage will enter into the society in time, as will deviate heterosexual activity. Right here is the stage of the society at the writing of this book. But as noted, the slippery slope has no end. Man/boy relationships, incest, and bestiality are only internet e-mail advertisements and web site novelties, not yet accepted as valid. There are reasons for this, just as there were reasons for preventing homosexuality, premarital sex, and adultery. The reasons will fall away in time as the love license grows and develops in acceptance. Next will be the multiple-marriage contract, not polygamy which is an ancient and misleading term, for a person may surely love more than a single person. The marriage contract will be expanded to perhaps a limited number of partners, and could resemble the family values of the “Manson Family”, a sect of misfits that became well known after going on a killing spree in Los Angeles. In time the marriage contract will become so silly that it will be eliminated, as young adults realize the folly of government controlled “love”. This path will lead to destruction, carrying mankind back to the “law of the jungle”. |
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