Opus 2024-426: Lessons in History and Current Events

As we watch the regime change in Syria under the onslaught of unhappy citizens I asked myself could it happened here?  We have watched a central government quickly crumble under the attack of several different militia groups.  Is this the kind of thing that the deep state elitists of America are worried about?  Do they really think that this is possible?

Actually, they are trying to make it happen by destroying the liberties that we have guaranteed in the first and second amendment.  They are trying to make us a sectarian, Balkanized conglomeration.  

Take, for instance the first amendment.  Notice the first thing mention there is not freedom of speech or freedom of the press, but the limitation on the government starting a state religion or hindering anybody from practicing freely the religion of their choice.  That’s really what the whole first amendment is about and also the second amendment.  This document was written by people who remember their history and remembered how the government of England tried to control its people by controlling their religion.

Our Founders saw through this and saw that we needed as a group to be able to worship as we chose, not as we were told.  If you look at what’s happening in Syria, you find that one of the major differences in the groups is their religious affiliation.  The deposed dictator, Assad, belong to a minor sect of Islam.  Then you have the Russians, who up until recently were officially atheists.  And you have representatives of Iran, who are Shiite Muslim, and the supporters of Turkey which I assume is Sunni.  The battle may be over political power, but the roots are in their insistence that their form of religion is superior.

Somehow, I don’t see the Baptist and the Methodist going to war over the perseverance of the saints.  I don’t see Pentecostals going after Lutherans because they have a different view of spiritual gifts.  Sure the Anabaptists were once hunted and killed, but not in this country.  One of the side effects of saying the government can’t enforce a specific religion is that it teaches us to allow other people to exercise their beliefs without hindrance.  It makes us a tolerance society in the real meaning of tolerance.  We can be adamant about what we believe.  We cannot force others to believe.  And going along with that is the understanding that we don’t shoot somebody just because they disagree with us.

As I said, the elites are trying to destroy this root value of Americans.  The cabal that runs the Democratic Party and seems to be running the media and all the government agencies is doing everything they can to make Americans hate each other based on such things as race and gender.  It’s called identity politics.  It goes under many names from multiculturalism to DEI.  It says that we’re not all Americans because we don’t all agree with a specific group.  That in itself is un-American.  It is divisive.  It will eventually be murderous.  We see the hostility, growing all around us.

Could we become Syria?  Only if we abandon that phrase that is on our coins and money, “e pluribus unum.”  Only if we start ignoring the other phrase about “In God we trust” and start trusting in our government instead.

It could happen.  I am believing that it won’t.  Each of us makes a contribution.  If you are not ready to love your neighbor you might at least bake them some Christmas cookies.

homo unius libri