Today, July 10th, was the start of the Scopes Trial, also called
Scopes Monkey Trial, (July 10–21, 1925, Dayton, Tennessee, U.S.), highly publicized trial (known as the “Monkey Trial”) of a Dayton, Tennessee, high-school teacher, John T. Scopes, charged with violating state law by teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. The trial’s proceedings helped to bring the scientific evidence for evolution into the public sphere while also stoking a national debate over the veracity of evolution that continues to the present day.” Britannica.com
A perfect time to put the trial in perspective.
You know the song, the Impossible Dream. Well, perhaps sometimes just being willing to fight will have to be enough.
1.Being the pessimist that I am, I look at
the advances the Left, the religion of Militant Secularism has made, the chaos in our streets enabled by the major party, find it difficult to envision better times ahead for America.
“This is precisely the time — right now, tonight — to defend the institutions we desperately need to keep in this country,” Carlson added. “Those institutions include the nuclear family, our freedom of speech, small independent businesses, absolute color blindness under the law, the noble tradition of non-violent protests. Those are the things that make us proud to be Americans. Those are the things that make America a place worth living in. We need to defend these things with everything we have. All of us must defend them, including the president. That is his hope of reelection. For the rest of us, it is our only hope as a country.”
Tucker Carlson
And let's include freedom of thought, and freedom of religion....the antitheses of Democrat doctrine.
2. But it is dissipating before our eyes, and there is no cavalry coming to the rescue.
Did you think the courts would save America? Don’t.
“The tendency of elite domination, moreover, is to press America ever more steadily towards the cultural left.
The complaint here is not that old virtues are eroding and new values rising. Morality inevitably evolves….What is objectionable is that, in too many instances, a natural evolution of the moral balance is blocked and a minority morality forced upon us by judicial decrees.”
Robert Bork,
“A Country I Do Not Recognize: The Legal Assault on American Values,” xi
The Left, the neo-Marxists, either control the legal system, or has the ability to co-opt the ones we thought were conservative, originalists, textualists.
3. When it comes to being able to understand right and wrong,
why is it that some elite supposedly has a better grasp on it? Why isn’t voluntary prayer allowed? How Orwellian is it to treat religion and morality as though it is evil, and to be banished from the public arena? And that, in the face of a century when atheistic doctrines caused the deaths of over 100 million human being.
“The Left says of the Right, “You fools, it is demonstrable that dinosaurs lived one hundred million years ago, I can prove it to you, how can you say the earth was created in 4000BCE?” But this supposed intransigence on the part of the Religious Right is far less detrimental to the health of the body politic than the Left’s love affair with Marxism, Socialism, Racialism, the Command Economy, all of which have been proven via one hundred years of evidence shows only shortages, despotism and murder.”
David Mamet's "The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture."
4. The media made an agreement with the nascent nation to be fair and honest, and in return was given a special place in our first amendment. The lied. The media, the schools, the legal system….all lined up against the principles upon which this nation was created, promised.
Militant Secularism appears to be the unbeatable foe.