Pardon me in advance if when I am rude, but I am sick to death of the way bashing America, its founding fathers, its founding principles, and its founding documents has become fashionable. I do not claim that there were not flaws--they were only human after all. But for countless seemingly willfully ignorant myriad to trash the truly monumental foundation that they laid is wearying to the bone. Whether it is CNN commentators denigrating the Constitution because, for example, "the structure of the Senate is...undemocratic" since it doesn't equate to "one man, one vote" (Note to Fareed: please get a clue and at a bare minimum spend some time on Wikipedia before you spout off. "Constitutional Convention (United States)" would be a great place to start. Try following the link to the "Connecticut Compromise"if you still don't get it.) to the truly insightful (sarcasm alert!!) question raised by Time Magazine's managing editor--"Does It [The Constitution] Still Matter?"--perfectly timed to coincide with the week of our greatest national holiday (Extra! Extra! Get your July 4th "Trash The US" edition here!) and including such insightful analysis as "if the Constitution was intended to limit the federal government, it sure doesn’t say so" (Note to Stengel: Link to Wikipedia's article on the TENTH AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION, supplied HERE free of charge. You're welcome.), I want to shout at the all the mindless drones so willing to spew their invective at that which makes their very mindlessness possible. I cannot help but cheer, then, when I encounter those who clearly and succinctly expose their drivel for what it is. (2nd Note to Stengel: Indeed it DOES, you blithering windbag!. Indeed it does!) And so, without further ado, "July 4th," by Thomas Sowell.
We seem to think that we can make something true by saying it ... after all, truth is subjective to my worldview and the circumstances. People do this with the Bible, so why not the constitution? This mindset is poisonous to our society and to the church. When the constitution was written, another thing was different ... we didn't need a lawyer to tell us everything that was excluded by a specific statement. This desire to find loopholes in all of life causes us to twist the extraordinary wisdom of our founding fathers and even the Words of our God. Thank you for your article and the one by Mr. Sowell.
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