What Progressives Hate About Free Will

By J.B. Williams
May 18, 2013
NewsWithViews.com

Simply stated, they can’t control freedom, liberty, or any society which enjoys these inalienable rights. The fundamental desire of all progressives (aka Democratic Socialists) is to control all others for their own benefit. This is the opposite of freedom.

In sum, freedom (aka free will) allows every individual to make winners or losers of themselves, the right to self-determination. Leftists want the power to create winners and losers, always based upon making winners of those who support their political agenda, and losers of those who stand opposed.

In America, freedom and liberty are not luxuries afforded by our elected officials at the whim of their political ambitions. Freedom is not a gift from congress, the White House or the Supreme Court.

It is a gift from a “free will” God, protected by our founding documents known as our Charters of Freedom, and paid for with the blood of heroes who give all in defense of these concepts. An undying belief in a “free will” God is the cornerstone of all freedom and liberty, period.

This is why leftists insist upon a false premise of “separation of church and state,” a term or phrase which does not appear anywhere in our nation’s founding documents. The aim is to separate morality and ethics from government, leaving in place an immoral, unethical and unrestrained government free to rule over all mankind for benefit of their own tyrannical ambitions.

This also explains why the first objective of communism and socialism (aka progressive Marxism) is the destruction of all free religious expression via creating “religion free zones” such as education, government and even public areas. It explains the full court press to feed sexual perversions into every facet of society, insisting that women have a constitutional civil right to murder their own offspring.

But a society which places its trust in a higher power will always know better than to trust simple men with dominion over mankind. As our Founders stated quite clearly, freedom and liberty are suited only for a moral people.

This is not to promote any form of theocracy. Once again, Amendment #1 of our Constitution strictly prohibits the government from establishing any theocratical form of government. It protects the open individual exercise and expression of all peaceful religions and the right to peacefully assemble.

All students of history know that the point of origin for the phrase “separation of church and state” is Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists following the ratification process of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.

It is Jefferson’s personal beliefs written in his letter to the Danbury Baptists in which he stated –

“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.”

But to fully appreciate Jefferson’s commentary, one must fully appreciate what question was asked of Jefferson by the Danbury Baptists.

“Our ancient charter, together with the laws made coincident therewith, were adapted as the basis of our government at the time of our revolution. And such has been our laws and usages, and such still are, [so] that Religion is considered as the first object of Legislation, and therefore what religious privileges we enjoy (as a minor part of the State) we enjoy as favors granted, and not as inalienable rights.”

Of concern to the Danbury Baptists was the fact that seven of thirteen original colonies had already established individual state religions by the passage of the U.S. Constitution. The authors of the letter to Jefferson were seeking direct assurances from Jefferson that the Constitution of the United States did not authorize congress (the only branch of the federal government with the power to make laws) to govern religion or infringe upon the free exercise thereof…

With a deeply held conviction to the “free will” God, the Baptists made the following statement, later affirmed by Jefferson’s response.

“Sir, we are sensible that the President of the United States is not the National Legislator and also sensible that the national government cannot destroy the laws of each State, but our hopes are strong that the sentiment of our beloved President, which have had such genial effect already, like the radiant beams of the sun, will shine and prevail through all these States–and all the world–until hierarchy and tyranny be destroyed from the earth.”

Jefferson responded quite succinctly…

“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature would “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.”

 

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