Turning Point USA

John Adams states, “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break our Constitution’s strongest cords as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Now it is known that he was not a Christian (at most, he was a Deist, but more notably known as a secularist). Still, even he understood that there could be no constitution without religion and morality. Lo and behold, though, his words still ring true, as the Constitution is under attack by those on the left considering it to be a living breathing document to be changed at will as time progresses instead of the foundational governance for which the United States stands upon. Therefore, in so making the Constitution malleable, it undermines the foundation for which we are built, and we crumble and fail. We fail because we will no longer be a moral or religious people governed by the power of the United States constitution, but by the will of subjective morality of societal standards that sway from this notion to that without concrete foundational context for proper moral reasoning. This is why many seek religion because religion is the source of concrete moral reasoning. There are codes of conduct within a religion that governs the people associated with that religion instead of atheism, which governance is by individual moral subjective reasoning. More notably, the United States uses Christianity as the basis for examples of morality, due to the teachings of Jesus and his disciples/apostles (as well as other authors of the Bible), which both Atheists and religious people all over the world can get behind (love thy neighbor as thyself, do not repay evil with evil, but repay evil with good, thou shall not kill, steal, commit adultery, etc.). This is why their faith leaders influence a considerable portion of the population’s political views because they know their faith leaders understand the foundational teachings within the Bible, which are indeed the basis for moral reasoning. And as John Adams surmised, if you destroy moral and religious reason, the Constitution cannot and will not be adhered to because “…we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion”.

John Adams, a true American patriot whose words remain true even today

Real Talk. Period.

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