Seeing Clearly Now    

   Either God fathered self-governing Christians 2,000 years ago, and made a covenant with our founders some 245 years ago ... or there is no God, and both history and the future are meaningless. Only the present matters. 

   Whoever wins this struggle will determine our national identity going forward. 

   We can't say today's movers and shakers, educators and "progressive" news media have surprised us with their ideas. They are the world, and U.S. Christianity has been on the decline for decades. 

   In a book, The American Covenant, a humanist is quoted: Religious humanists regard the universe as self-existing and not created. We find insufficient evidence for belief in the existence of a supernatural; it is either meaningless or irrelevant to the survival and fulfillment of the human race. 

   While there is much that we do not know, humans are responsible for what we are or will become. No deity will save us; we must save ourselves.

Cyclical View of History

   The book continues: The cyclical view of history is as old as antiquity and sees the same pattern in the events of men. This view explains China, India, the Middle East, Greece and Rome, and in the 1960s found its way to American college campuses, gaining wide acceptance. 

   17th century philosophers - still being studied - saw life as an endless repetition of living and dying. Individualism replaced tradition. Many students influenced by Eastern religions come to believe nothing (beyond themselves) matters. 

   The importance of individual achievement to better the world is lost.

   Surprised? All the above comes from a book my Dad bought 40 years ago.

 Tomorrow: The Marxist View of History

                 Jimmy