The State of the Union: America in the Twilight of Truth

The State of the Union: America in the Twilight of Truth

Virginia Armstrong, Ph.D., National Chairman, Eagle Forum’s Court Watch
President, Blackstone Institute

“America has become tolerant of tolerance but not of truth,” said Dr. Erwin Lutzer, long-time pastor of the Moody Church in Chicago, after attending a Parliament of the World’s Religions twenty years ago. This perceptive observation is even more compelling today. “Tolerance for tolerance but not for truth” is so pervasive that we Constitutionalists could deliver our own “State of the Union” address, entitled “America in the Twilight of Truth.” As Eagle Forum’s Court Watch joyfully and gratefully returns to active duty, I offer a condensed version of our “State of the Union.”A pernicious Humanistic worldview has viciously and relentlessly attacked the centuries-old Judeo-Christian worldview foundations of Western civilization and darkness has replaced the light of truth. Truth has become less visible in both our cultural and constitutional life and is being eclipsed in the four public policy areas that are fundamental to our national life: (1) religious liberties (especially for Biblical believers), (2) evolutionism v. creationism, (3) abortion and life issues, and (4) homosexual rights or “marriage.”

A pernicious Humanistic worldview has viciously and relentlessly attacked the centuries-old Judeo-Christian worldview foundations of Western civilization and darkness has replaced the light of truth. Truth has become less visible in both our cultural and constitutional life and is being eclipsed in the four public policy areas that are fundamental to our national life: (1) religious liberties (especially for Biblical believers), (2) evolutionism v. creationism, (3) abortion and life issues, and (4) homosexual rights or “marriage.”

This trampling of truth is rooted in the nation’s Culture War and results from Humanistic attacks on the four core principles that are basic to American life. These principles, expressed in the U. S. Constitution in Amendments One, Five, and Fourteen, are: (1) “personhood,” (2) “life,” (3) “liberty,” and (4) “law.” As we stand on the cusp of a new era in American law and politics following the 2016 election, we must ask three crucial questions:

1. WHAT is happening?
2. WHO is responsible?
3. HOW must we Constitutionalists respond?

1. WHAT is happening can be seen in bold relief when we state the truths of America’s Judeo-Christian core principles and then view the Humanistic principles plunging our first principles into the twilight.
   1. “Personhood” – the dignity of the person – the individual human being – has been denigrated to reduce humans to mere animals.
   2. “Life” – the sanctity of human life has been transmogrified into the Humanistic concept of “quality of life” – but “quality” is defined by the ruling elites in a way that makes them gods over the “life” rights of the rest of society.
   3. “Liberty” – ripping it from its Judeo-Christian anchor, Humanists are trying to redefine “liberty.” “Religious liberty” has been changed from the right to acknowledge an almighty God of the Scriptures to the right to abandon and even attack God – or the right to idolatry.  “Morality” has been twisted grotesquely into the right to licentiousness (as in same-sex marriage policy and the new nonsense of “transgender restrooms”).
   4. “Law” – the “rule of law” has been bulldozed by the “rule of lawlessness.” Without the rule of law, all the other core principles are stripped of any protection. To demonstrate the twilight of the rule of law in America, let us turn to the “Father of Analytical Jurisprudence,” H.L.A. Hart, who explained the differences between primitive and mature legal systems – the former characterizing a society in which there is the “rule of lawlessness,” and the latter characterizing a system in which there is the “rule of law.” Hart said that for a legal system to survive and embody the rule of law, it must manifest the qualities of certainty, consistency, and continuity – the “three Cs.”

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