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February 5, 2010

Anonymous The Moultrie Observer Fri Feb 05, 2010, 11:37 PM EST

Dear editor,

Mr. Harris' long ago letter of Jan. 23rd belittling Mr. Blanchard and defending political correctness and historical revision is interesting to say the least. How does one read the founding documents and the attending correspondence of the founders and come to the conclusion that these men “…intended for their religious homogeneity to be considered by future generations as a coincidence, not as a guiding principle.”(?)

I suppose you could start by ignoring the second part of the Establishment Clause: Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” Many of the founders clearly understood that this form of government would only work so long as it was underpinned by a Christian ethic and world view.

However, I would agree with Mr. Harris that political correctness is not the reason for the collapse of our political system, etc. That is like saying the quarterback is responsible for losing the game because he threw one interception. Political correctness is simply a symptom of a much greater problem: relativism. This is the idea that all things are equal, that the only truth is the truth as you see it. While it defies logic it has nonetheless become the underlying philosophy by which the majority of the Western world lives.

This is the reason that we keep moving step by step toward socialism, the reason Britt Hume is berated for mentioning Tiger Woods' need to repent and believe the Gospel, the reason that military leaders can't find the stomach to discharge a Muslim psychiatrist who is obviously bent on murder and the reason why Mr. Blanchard and his “ilk” are written off as uneducated buffoons.

But apparently we're all just parrots because Mr. Harris does an excellent job of parroting the rhetoric of those who would divorce our country from its Christian heritage. Though claiming to be a Christian, Mr. Harris can't bring himself to say that Christianity is unique among the religions of the world. Certainly, he would never claim that Christianity is actually better than the others or, heaven forbid, right. He implies that all religions are equal and equally valid. The good Buddhist or good Muslim is no different from the good Christian. It's all the same.

The only problem with this point of view is that it represents a logical impossibility. You can't have two ideas that stand in contradiction to one another and both of them be true. They can both be wrong, or one can be right, but both cannot be right. Each of the world religions makes conflicting claims about the nature of God, eternity, man and salvation. They may all be wrong but they can't all be right. In spite of this reality the worshippers of tolerance are relentless in their proclamation that all religions are the same and have the same value.

When someone like Mr. Blanchard comes along and states otherwise we discover that while proclaiming to be tolerant the only folks that they can tolerate are the ones who agree with them.

The founders obviously missed it on the issues of slavery and the role of women in society (a generalization by Mr. Harris) but this does not mean that their vision for this nation or the documents upon which it is established are no longer valid.

In fact, a return to the principles that guided the founding of this nation is our only hope for continuing as a free people. So my hope for 2010 is that before we find ourselves in a Huxley's Brave New World or the United States of Arabia we'll recapture the vision and spirit of the founders who yearned to live free.

Dion Brown

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