American Idol: How to lose a Republic

It is not like forefathers did not warn that we would lose the nation if we turned from God and His ways. Now the God for many in America is an idol. He is a false prophet, a puppet creation of the God hating, American hating Far Left. His only achievements were handed to him and his only skill is reading words from a teleprompter. We will reap the consequences if America votes for their American idol. Like another great man said “a nation will get a leader it deserves” We are seeing that being played out during every election.

The big picture: Loss of a republic?

At the close of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, it’s reported that a lady approached the venerable Benjamin Franklin and asked, “Well, Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?”

And the grand old man responded gravely, “A republic – if you can keep it.”

You may have heard that quote before, but have you asked yourself just what Ben Franklin was getting at? Well, the long, tiresome and often contentious convention had almost ended with nothing, with members going back to their home states angry and bitter. In the midst of apparent breakdown and failure, it was Franklin himself who stood up and proposed that starting the next morning, the convention should open with prayer and a sermon, because it was obvious that their momentous objective could not be achieved without the direct intervention of God, the One all the attendees credited with their very existence.

And starting from the very next day, after the morning prayers and sermons, the Constitution was brought to final form and agreed to. It was unlike any document in history, purporting to guarantee every citizen equality, possibility, security and liberty. There would be no monarch, no despot, no ruling cabal; no segment of American society would be able to impose its will unchecked. The freedom to worship, to speak freely, to dissent or to promote would be available to all; the elected would govern with the consent of the governed. And this whole mighty enterprise would be held together by respect for, and obedience to, law – law based on the Constitution itself and managed by the collective will of the people.
The word for that fabulous concept is “republic.”

But Franklin had a sober regard for how fragile the concept could be. He said himself, “Only a moral and virtuous people are capable of freedom; the more corrupt and vicious a society becomes, the more it has need of masters.”

His dear friend and compatriot John Adams concurred. “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and a religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Virtually all our Founding Fathers realized that the whole idea of liberty hinged on the personal morality and responsibility of all citizens, that devious and unscrupulous men could find ways to use freedoms for their own selfish purposes and undermine the concept of republic, eventually corrupting and destroying it.

George Washington had declared, “Religion and morality are the twin pillars of freedom.”

Not many years later, President Thomas Jefferson warned: “The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.” He came to regard judicial over-reach that way in his second term; even before then, he said: “God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.”

Do you see what these men were getting at? Do you understand why Ben Franklin said, “A republic – if you can keep it”? They realized they were staking the whole future of this magnificent experiment on the supposition that Americans would demand, of themselves and their government, a continued reliance on the guidance of Bible-rooted principles and the very hand of God Himself. If the populace and their representatives forsook those specific guidelines, the structure would crumble and the house would fall.

Well, look around. If you haven’t noticed, the structure isn’t just crumbling – it’s being hacked to pieces, right before our eyes.

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