This is a man who would be President of the United States.
This man believes that no laws pertaining to guns can save children, or could have saved the children in that school. Yet, there are laws controlling the ownership of bazookas, tanks, mines, machine guns, hand grenades, missiles, nuclear devices, and other military arms or weapons of mass destruction, with the result that few American children are dead on American soil due to the proliferation of such weapons in US cities. So is it not conceivably the case that had there also been other laws controlling ownership of other types of military weaponry, such as those used at Sandy Hook, Aurora, and elsewhere, surely fewer people, fewer children, would be dead? Perhaps the argument now for America has to be about "fewer dead."
This man believes that laws are the tools of the secular, or non-religious state-- that laws are the fruit of Reasoning Men, rather than Religious Men, and that this is not good. It is true in fact that laws, such as are found in the Democratic Republic with its rule of law structure, are the fruit of Reasoning Men. So is the concept of We the People, which is the philosophical cornerstone of the very human and rational idea of Democracy. Every Religion is, by its very nature, a Theocracy, which is structurally equal to every other form of totalitarian or authoritarian rule, except that it clothes itself in the robes of virtue. Reason, on the other hand, leads to concepts like We the People, and Democracies. So there is no space where Religion and Reason can meaningfully intersect in the Civil Society -- never should the twain meet.
This man believes that laws in the hands of reasoning men are not sufficient to create a State that is both just and safe. He believes that We the People should put Law and Reason to the side, and that we should return passively to our churches. That We the People should exchange civil action for religious inaction. This man would exchange a State of the People, by the People, and for the People--a Democracy, for a State of God, an Authoritarian State, a divine Tyranny.
This is a man who would be President of these United States.
This man believes that no laws pertaining to guns can save children, or could have saved the children in that school. Yet, there are laws controlling the ownership of bazookas, tanks, mines, machine guns, hand grenades, missiles, nuclear devices, and other military arms or weapons of mass destruction, with the result that few American children are dead on American soil due to the proliferation of such weapons in US cities. So is it not conceivably the case that had there also been other laws controlling ownership of other types of military weaponry, such as those used at Sandy Hook, Aurora, and elsewhere, surely fewer people, fewer children, would be dead? Perhaps the argument now for America has to be about "fewer dead."
This man believes that laws are the tools of the secular, or non-religious state-- that laws are the fruit of Reasoning Men, rather than Religious Men, and that this is not good. It is true in fact that laws, such as are found in the Democratic Republic with its rule of law structure, are the fruit of Reasoning Men. So is the concept of We the People, which is the philosophical cornerstone of the very human and rational idea of Democracy. Every Religion is, by its very nature, a Theocracy, which is structurally equal to every other form of totalitarian or authoritarian rule, except that it clothes itself in the robes of virtue. Reason, on the other hand, leads to concepts like We the People, and Democracies. So there is no space where Religion and Reason can meaningfully intersect in the Civil Society -- never should the twain meet.
This man believes that laws in the hands of reasoning men are not sufficient to create a State that is both just and safe. He believes that We the People should put Law and Reason to the side, and that we should return passively to our churches. That We the People should exchange civil action for religious inaction. This man would exchange a State of the People, by the People, and for the People--a Democracy, for a State of God, an Authoritarian State, a divine Tyranny.
This is a man who would be President of these United States.
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