While we recognize the restrictions placed on our behavior by the legal system, laws are broken everywhere and every day. Yet, law breakers respect authority, whether it's in the form of a police car, a notice from the IRS, or the judgment of a man in a black robe wielding a gavel.
On a national level, we have challenges to our form of government that would impact our familiar way of life. We have already seen how a radical move to the Left in the past two years can alter the role of government and repress individual freedoms. Socialism and Communism certainly represent a challenge to our Constitution and our democratic republic. Fortunately, in a Judeo-Christian nation such as ours, an aroused electorate can still rise to such a challenge.
This brings into question the impact of secularism on our democracy. Does the insistence on freedom from religion necessarily entail a separation not only of church and state, but also from the Judeo-Christian tradition that is the basis of our civilization and the laws that govern us? If there is no divine authority, what prevents us from breaking the links with our Founders' vision and establishing a perfectly secular system of government?
One might point to the consequences of the French Revolution as an answer to that question. Closer to home, we might also remember how the American Revolution was the result of an experiment in self-government that ultimately rejected the divine right of kings. America proved that authority is not divine if it denies the inalienable God-given rights of man. Communism has been a failure everywhere precisely because it does deny them.
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