http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2012/08/can-we-legislate-morality/ The Tenther Grapevine Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:58:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2012/08/can-we-legislate-morality/#comment-16089 DarylLloydDavis Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:37:11 +0000 http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/?p=13001#comment-16089 KrisAnne: While I agree with you that the loss in America of a shared sense of morality is tearing apart society, sinking our nation, I disagree that the remedy is necessarily religion. Judgment is required, not just religious faith. And real judgment requires more than obedience to dogma and tradition.
 
I devised a localized system of constitutional direct democracy in order to allow people the exercise of their own judgments confined within small political arenas, in hopes that through trial and error they might more quickly discern the value of a moral self-reliance and  the pitfalls of collective governance:
 

]]> http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2012/08/can-we-legislate-morality/#comment-16078 onetenther Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:40:41 +0000 http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/?p=13001#comment-16078 Most liberal newspapers are full of lies that try to distort our perception of reality into what they think it should be.  I find that people are very religious and, where I work, there is a group of ladies that talk openly about the bible.  I don’t join in but I do encourage it because religion is going to be the most important force for undoing statism in this country.  Governments, especially ones that wanted more power, either took away the guns for obvious reasons and they took away the right to practice any religion that they did not approve of.  The ones that said God had more authority than the state over the practitioner were the first to go.  That is not a coincidence and many in the tea party movement say that when government takes away guns they are moving towards dictatorship but they fail to be skeptical of a government that wants to make it hard for people to acknowledge a being that has infinitly more authority than the state.  Authoritarian states can’t tolerate that which is why these religions are either made illegal or co-opted so that that religious power can be used for their own gain.  When the state says there is no God or assumes it is the right-hand of God (Rick Santorum) then we should all be wary of what its true intentions are.

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