Chapter Eight
CALL IT REVOLUTION
In the garden of Eden Adam's unique job was to name the other creatures. Even those reluctant to admit the factual validity of the message in the Bible would admit that Adam's ability to name things defines the essence of the human distinctive--that fundamental ability distinguishing Homo sapiens from all the other creatures. The Bible also infers that the ability to use words to catalogue creation was for Adam, and continues to be for us, the essence of what it means to be created in the image of God. According to the Bible, God used words to create the universe. We too use words to create the universe within which we live. By cataloging those things perceived to be outside ourselves, we create them anew to be stored within our minds as images, ever retrievable by the word.
Some things are easy to name. If something has never been seen before, like a creature netted in the depths of the ocean, we simply agree on a name--any sound will do. But some things are very difficult to name: they are obscure. Usually they are obscure because they already have a name, but we can't think of it--like when a movie star shows up unexpectedly at a PTA meeting. Until somebody comes up with the right name, nobody can concentrate on the business at hand.
For decades, many people in the United States of America have seen something they could not name. The pulpits and the pews, the barrooms and the brothels, have been filled with people buzzing for the name of the unexpected guest they glimpsed in this nation. Writer after writer has tried to come up with the right name, but we all knew that somehow they hadn't quite got it. Let me put a name to it so we can get on with the business at hand. Call it Revolution.
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A revolution occurs when anything long following one form is changed into a new form. Revolutions are most easily recognized when the old form is changed into a new form that is a direct contradiction, or the opposite, of the old form. When an agricultural based economy is changed to a manufacturing economy we say an industrial revolution has occurred; when we see that the earth revolves around the sun and not vice versa we say a Copernican revolution has occurred; when one form of government is replaced by another form of government that is the opposite of the old, revolution is the most accurate name in our language for that event.
Now if it can be demonstrated that a Revolution has occurred in the United States of America, any discussion of a New World Order would have to take that fact into consideration. Since few people on this planet will deny that the United States will play a pivotal role in the New World Order, insight into the nature of the New American Revolution will shed much light on the form the New World Order will take.
Do not expect the New American Revolution to be easy to see: the New Revolution occurred nearly twenty years ago and most of us have been totally oblivious to it. The reason we have had a difficult time seeing that a revolution has occurred in the United States of America is because the revolution occurred without altering the structure of government at all. The governmental structure was simply moved lock, stock and barrel from its old foundation to a new, diametrically opposite foundation.
To see the New American Revolution, we must see the government of the United States as the Founders saw it. To them, constructing a government was much like constructing a building: it took place in two distinct stages. The Founders explained their government building procedure in the Declaration of Independence: "...it is the Right of the People to...institute new Government, LAYING ITS FOUNDATIONS ON SUCH PRINCIPLES AND ORGANIZING ITS POWERS IN SUCH FORM, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness."
Notice the language of the Declaration. Two steps are identified as the means through which governments are instituted: (1) laying its foundation on such principles; (2) organizing its powers in such form. Those two steps were followed in the construction of the government of the United States. The foundation was laid as Principles that justified the government's existence were defined in the Declaration of Independence: the structure of government, the organization of the government's powers, was erected in the Constitution of the United States of America.
The foundational principles of the government of the United States are these: "...all men are created equal...they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights...that to preserve these Rights governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." Without these Principles the organization of government powers defined in the Constitution of the United States is removed from the foundation laid by the Founders of the government of the United States of America.
If a building were to be erected upon a foundation of stone, then after completion that same building were to be moved to another location and set down on Jell-O, it would be a different building even if nothing had been changed in the structure of the building. But this fact might not be evident until a person stepped back and watched the building slowly slip from sight. This is exactly what has happened in the United States of America. A revolution has occurred that left intact the outward form of the government but moved the building itself to an entirely different foundation than the one upon which the building originally rested. Many United States citizens do not understand the foundational nature of the ideas contained in the Declaration of Independence. In fact, there are those who deny that the authority of the Constitution is dependent upon the ideas contained within the Declaration of Independence. To deny that the Constitution of the United States rests on foundational principles defined within the Declaration of Independence is to disengage the government of the United States from historical fact. A government so disengaged is a victim of amnesia, condemned to wander aimlessly in confusion until someone comes along who can supply the missing identity.
It is a matter of historical fact that the Constitution of the United States could not gain ratification by the great majority of the people until 10 Amendments had been added to the document that was originally proposed. Those 10 Amendments are called the Bill of Rights because they were added to the Constitution to ensure that the ideas about Rights contained within the Declaration of Independence would be a part of the official legal foundation of the United States of America. And the ideas about rights were logically dependent on the idea concerning the role the will of the Creator played in the formation of the government of the United States of America.
It is also a matter of historical fact visible to anyone who takes the time to look that the United States of America was designed by the Founding Fathers so that the plan of the Creator would be understood to be the foundation upon which the authority of the government of the United States rested. Without those ideas, the Doctrine of Divine Right of Kings made the people impotent to make a Revolution. If the idea of the plan of the Creator can be seen now to have been removed by the authorities of this nation, the only name in the English language that can adequately describe the meaning of such removal would be Revolution. Since the idea has been removed, accuracy requires us to call Revolution Revolution.
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Prior to 1973, government's decisions on the role of the Creator in the United States were ambiguous. But it was clear that the historic role the idea of the Creator had played in the United States government decisions was being eroded. A series of legal decisions was handed down that widened the wall between Church and State erected in the First Amendment to the Constitution. Prayer in public schools was ruled to be illegal, public display of religious symbols were constrained, public officials were inhibited free exercise of personal religious observations on public property. Nowhere though was there a decision that directly required the removal of the idea of the Creator from the thought process of American citizens.
In 1973 that changed. For the first time in the history of the United States of America, the role of the will of the Creator was omitted as a factor in the thought process leading to decisions that govern this nation. In its decision in the case called Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court of the United States of America decreed that the idea of the will of the Creator was to have no role in this nation. In a situation where the will of the Creator is most clearly seen to operate, the creation of life, the Supreme Court omitted any reference to the role of the Creator entirely and ruled that the will of the woman is to be the decisive will in any decision concerning whether the creature in the womb of the woman is to live or die.
In effect, a new definition of where rights came from was expressed by the Supreme Court. Instead of the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness being an endowment from the Creator, rights were decreed by the Supreme Court to belong to the individual because they were citizens of the United States of America. In Roe v. Wade the Supreme Court removed the structure of government in the United States from the foundation that rested on the ideas expressed in the Declaration of Independence and transferred the government of the United States of America to another foundation. No longer was the authority of government decisions to rest on their agreement with the will of the Creator. Instead, the New Revolution rested on the self-proclaimed Right of the governing authorities to endow people with Rights independent of any consideration of the role of the Creator in that process.
The argument over legalized abortion in the United States is a closed question today. Opponents and advocates of legalized abortion occupy camps containing virtually every citizen in this nation in one or the other camps. And no real communication occurs between camps.
The question of legalized abortion has become a closed issue in the United States because an underlying question has never been raised, much less understood. The question is: What is the role of the Creator in the affairs of the United States of America? The reason that the abortion issue has hardened into what appear to be irreconcilable differences is because both sides justify their positions on the basis of assumptions they hold concerning the role of the will of God in the affairs of this nation; and those assumptions have never seen the light of day, have never been exposed to the scrutiny of common sense. Without such exposure, and without the resulting scrutiny, resolution of this issue can come only under the direst circumstances.
At a time when nuclear proliferation is forcing the world toward a redefinition of National Sovereignty that will lead to the establishment of a New World Order, a New World Government, the question of individual Rights or individual Liberty will be today, as it has been throughout history, the crux of the matter. How the New World Order defines individual Rights will determine whether we enter a new age of Despotism or whether we enter a new age of Liberty. Now, as at every other stage in history, what the people decide to be the will of god will create the government that rules the New World Order.
Like a sign posted where two roads cross, the question of legalized abortion forces people to stop and decide which way they need to go to arrive at their chosen destination. In the question of legalized abortion all the questions concerning the role of the will of god are contained in microcosm. As the government that rules the New World Order will be formed on ideas that define the will of god on earth, the ideas themselves will be formed as we, the people, decide what factors must be included in the thought process leading to decision in the question of legalized abortion.
What has abortion got to do with the will of the Creator? Why is this issue a hinge upon which the door of the thing called nation will swing, either opening onto a thriving and free New World Order, or closing, shutting mankind off from the source of life itself? Legalized abortion is a test case wherein the will of the people define what they believe to constitute the will of God. In this one issue, all the questions of life and death, right and wrong, good and evil are contained in microcosm. The answer that people give defines what they mean by the word "God".
Here's why: God is, by definition, whatever it is that creates and controls life. God is the Cause of life. Even in situations where an individual has dismissed every existing concept of god, when that individual tries to define reality in terms of cause and effect, that which is seen as cause is the individual's operative definition of god. No matter how hard the individual tries to escape it, the fact remains that the referent for the word "cause" and the referent for the word "god" or in all cases the same referent. The very idea of cause and effect cannot be sustained without relying on a fundamental connection between cause and a controlling god. Since reason itself relies on cause and effect as that which constitutes reason, all explanations of how things are connected, or how things should be connected, are explanations of one's understanding of god.
With Roe v. Wade, the idea of an out-there-somewhere Creator with a Will and a Plan of His own, like the one defined by the Founding Fathers of the United States, has been removed totally from the reasoning process of the Supreme Authorities in this nation. The fact that the great majority of citizens in this nation are comfortable with that removal proves that there has been a New American Revolution. United States citizens now live in a New America peopled by New Americans where the Authorities reason from New Principles that are designed to lead to a New World Order, a New World Order that no longer contains the idea of an out-there-somewhere Creator who gave Rights to people as an inalienable gift.
Is it true that in Roe v. Wade the idea of the will of God as defined by the Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence was removed from the reasoning process of the authorities? One does not have to be a legal scholar to know that legalized abortion was justified by declaring a woman had a Constitutional Right to Privacy that allowed her to be the sole Judge concerning what was to happen to the contents of her womb up until the seventh month of pregnancy.
That decision carried a logic that is clear to anyone who looks. In order for the woman's right to prevail, there could be no other Being who had a prior or superior claim to the contents of the womb.
Historically, in Western Civilization, a consensus has existed among people who held a concept of God that God was nothing if not the Creator. By that it was commonly understood to mean that God created people. Inherent in the ideas outlined in the Declaration of Independence is the notion that people have been ordained with unalienable rights because God created those people to have rights. Clearly, the explanation of reality defined in the Declaration of Independence was omitted in the reasoning process of the Judges who created legalized abortion. In Roe v. Wade the question of the role of the Creator was never raised. Had the question been raised, the question would have presupposed the possibility that such a Creator might actually be out there. The possibility of the presence of the Creator would have carried unavoidable logical consequences that would have forced the authorities to grant that if there is a Creator out there whose will creates an unborn child, there is One who has a prior and superior claim than the mother to the contents of the womb.
But in the place of the logic in the Declaration of Independence, a New Logic was ordained by the United States Supreme Legal Authorities. According to their Logic, it is no longer incumbent upon the citizens of this nation to presuppose the existence of a Creator like the One presupposed by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, or any other of your forefathers and mothers who actually lived their lives and defined their reasons for living in light of what they held to be self-evident truths about the Creator. According to the creators of the New Revolution, logic and reason can begin with New Self-Evident Truths; among these are that United States authorities or United States citizens no longer have to include the idea of the Will of God in their explanations of reality.
Two hundred years of American history have demonstrated that the Founders of the United States, while not perfect, were master builders: But we could be on the verge of realizing they made a fatal error. The Founders saw to it that the ideas defined in the Constitution of the United States are Law which each citizen of the United States of America disobeys under dire penalties. But the Principles defined in the Declaration of Independence are not protected by legal restraints against offenders. The failure of the Founders to include in the Constitution a device to protect the Principles defined in the Declaration of Independence could one day be seen by historians to be the fatal error of the Founders of the government of the United States of America.
The principles upon which the foundation of the United States originally rested defined how the Creator intended for Rights to be understood by all mankind. Rights were an inalienable gift from the Creator to "all men." Because of this "all men" were created equal. Upon that foundation, and that foundation alone, the powers of the government of the United States were organized. Given the foundational nature of that idea for the structure of government, how could the Founders have failed to design a mechanism to protect it?
While various historians have had conflicting views on the edifice constructed by the Founders of the government of the United States, all have agreed they were brilliant men. But brilliance has its limitations. The Founders designed the government of the United States to stand under every conceivable attack. The tripartite separation of the powers of government and the system of checks and balances built into the Constitution made it impossible for any monarch justified by the Doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings to legally gain control of the government. And the Amendment process built into the Constitution allowed changes in the Constitutional structure to be made according to law. But nowhere was there any indication that the Founders conceived of any possible threat to the Principles defined in the Declaration of Independence. To them, it was simply inconceivable that a time in history would ever arise when reasonable people would seriously question the existence of a Creator like the One defined in the Declaration of Independence, a Being upon whom all mankind were dependent for life. While the Founders were brilliant men, nothing in history could have prepared them to consider that there might actually come a time on earth when we, the people, would consent to the elimination of the idea of the Creator from our midst. That time is now.
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