"Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb and purge my heart by Thy Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me more and more in the likeness of Thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in Thy fear, and dying in Thy favor, I may in thy appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto eternal life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind and let the world be filled with the knowledge of Thee and Thy son, Jesus Christ." - George Washington
What grants us freedom under nature absolute moral law to choose whether to follow the moral or live against it? Is it the established law of nature given by God that grants such liberty in reason or is liberty simply an illusion created by the flawed reality of human practical rationality? Are we free? And by whose measures are we free? My premise is predicated upon the idea of freedom and under which system of thought is such a unique concept of freedom derived.
After analyzing different schools of thought in religious teachings and scientific materialism, I have come to the conclusion that there is no other school of thought that justifies liberty for the individual or his autonomy than Christianity and Freedom's King who authored it.
This reality of autonomy and liberty can only come from one source of logic: an omnipotent God who has the ability to set one species above the rest, to have dominion and the knowledge to maintain justice and morality in governing the four corners of the world. From this there can only be one conclusion: we are the product of a free will granted by an existing and omnipotent God. For it is by reason, not rationality, that we are able to utilize the human faculty to be either rational or irrational.
For reason is bound to law by which it can define and interpret law, while rationality is the variable that is the result of utilized reason. If reason is constant, then law must be constant, by which rationality can even exist. If there is consistency in the structure of Reason, then there is perfect structure in the existence of Law by which we utilize reason, which then we can then make the claim that it is the result of a perfect Lawgiver (God) by which such a perfect law can be established.
For a nation that has been founded upon freedom and the premise of free will, it seems rather interesting that there are those in society's fabric that try to deny the Judeo-Christian principles that established it. In the science room, we are indoctrinated to believe that Christianity's freedom is an illusion. In society, we are indoctrinated to believe that the "free nation" is not dependent on Christianity nor its principles of freedom, even if the materialist's argument of cannot justify freedom nor can it validate the American principle that "All men are created equal" in their share of freedom. What a gross contradiction in logic! As goes the famous quote by G.K. Chesterton,
"But the new rebel is a skeptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be really a revolutionist. And the fact that he doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants to denounce anything. For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind; and the modern revolutionist doubts not only the institution he denounces, but the doctrine by which he denounces it. . . . As a politician, he will cry out that war is a waste of life, and then, as a philosopher, that all life is waste of time. A Russian pessimist will denounce a policeman for killing a peasant, and then prove by the highest philosophical principles that the peasant ought to have killed himself. . . . The man of this school goes first to a political meeting, where he complains that savages are treated as if they were beasts; then he takes his hat and umbrella and goes on to a scientific meeting, where he proves that they practically are beasts. In short, the modern revolutionist, being an infinite skeptic, is always engaged in undermining his own mines. In his book on politics he attacks men for trampling on morality; in his book on ethics he attacks morality for trampling on men. Therefore the modern man in revolt has become practically useless for all purposes of revolt. By rebelling against everything he has lost his right to rebel against anything.”
In this famous quote given by one of the most brilliant philosophical minds of history, it is astounding that even the very idea that the "new rebel" can have the ability to contradict himself is one of the ultimate indicators of a freedom of the will, for if an individual is truly determined, contradiction can never exist as we become "pre-wired" to think in a "pre-determined" way of thinking. In essence, the freedom to contradict oneself is also unjustified.
Only within the United States of America and its founding documents can such liberty be recognized above the questions of the skeptic, which makes it all the more ironic that we as a society have endeavored to remove God and the teachings of freedom from every fiber of government, education, policy, adjudication, collective, narrative and doctrine in our society. If God is indeed the author of freedom, can freedom exist without Freedom's King? This also presents a serious contradiction.
The materialist would argue that reality is subject to nature's food-chain; whatever dominates the top tier of this chain rules over everything underneath itself, which begs the question "Was the American idea fashioned by a such a premise of thought where freedom is basically nonexistent?"
As 3rd President of the United States Thomas Jefferson ascertained, "God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?"
For a believer as myself, can I exist in a political structure grounded from a materialist's perspective? Can I as an opponent to the materialist's perspective be free to practice my opposition? If reality revolves around a "food-chain", the top-down political structure seems to suggest a society where single individuals consume enough power to climb to the top of the chain and dominate everyone and everything underneath, which by definition is indicative of a nation governed by fascism.
One needs only look at the political structures practiced by Hitler, Stalin, Ferdinand Marcos, Mao Zedong, Kim Jong Il, Sadaam Hussein, Benito Mussolini and other examples of the world's most notorious dictators to see the "food-chain" political structure being put into practice. In this kind of state, the populace is suppressed under the iron fist of the political elite, and the rights of the individual to oppose the state are virtually nonexistent.
But in this nation that was founded upon a fight against tyranny and the recognizance of liberty and the autonomy of of the individual, can in no place be justified other than in the doctrine put forth by Christ himself in Galatians 5:1,
" It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery."
Also in Joshua 24:15 prior to the Israelites' entry into the promised land of Canaan, "And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
I conjecture from these points of Scripture that it is only by Christianity's principles of free will that anyone, including an atheist, can condemn the very institution that made them free to condemn it. Moreover, we have the freedom to either honor Freedom's king in acknowledging the grace given to humanity in the imparting of free will or to reject him and chase him out of society. I challenge anyone to find any society that adopts differentiating political structures that allows for this kind of freedom.
In essence, it is because of the Judeo-Christian foundation of freedom in this country that an opposing voice can castigate such notions freely in courts, in the legislatures, in the classroom and in the common discussion without fear of suppression by the state. For if the Declaration of Independence is true in saying "All men are created equal", then indeed all men are created equal in worth, value and opinion, of which such equality as well cannot be justified in a materialist's argument nor in the "food-chain" political structure.
The revelation of these things bring to light also the dangers of eradicating Freedom's King from the very institution that was built upon his principles of human sovereignty. As I mentioned in my previous article The Sleight of Hand that if Liberty indeed is an unalienable right granted by God himself as Thomas Jefferson strongly believed, and if in the make of things God represents the cardinal ethic of freedom in and of itself, then it should be asserted that he is that which is Freedom in and of itself as it says in 2 Corinthians 3:17,
"Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
And if we are indeed all created equal into the image of God as it says in Genesis 1:27, "
Then we can conclude with confidence that we as a free people were created into the image of Freedom itself.
If this all indeed true, then we must question the intentions of those who are fighting so adamantly to remove God from society. For to remove God would likewise mean to remove freedom. For if God is Freedom, then freedom cannot exist without God.
Yet it is God himself and the very name of his Son Jesus Christ, that society in the United States have come to hate and despise and in so despising freedom itself; especially those within places of authority. For once the citizen recognizes his freedom, he recognizes the God who gave him this freedom and that it is above any governing authority's ability to strip it from them and this is an occurrence most feared by those who have a sadistic craving for power over the populace.
For in the struggle of the patriot against the tyrant, it is Freedom's King that has proven to be his ultimate ally; one that can never be conquered by tyrants and whose doctrine of liberty can never be suppressed.
Yet, it was on the Cross of Calvary itself, where Christ made the ultimate sacrifice, that mankind's freedom would be established for eternity in body and spirit, of which no dictator, indeed not even the wily Devil himself, can ever abridge.
It was Freedom's King that set gave man his worth, it was Freedom's King that gave man his autonomy, and it was Freedom's King that gave man his liberty.
As one nation under God, we arise as one nation under Freedom. For it is the coequal share in this freedom that unites us all as American citizens of all walks of life, and that drives us to the battlefield when there is any threat to abridge it.
For this patriot, who stands for God and Country, my soul will forever burst forth in the praises of Freedom's King, and in the victory of his Son Jesus, who through his blood has set all men free, and through his love has established that "All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."
In liberty will I always stand, and before any tyrants that try to bend me by force to their will let them know that I bow only before the might of Freedom's King, who has called all mankind free, and who has reserved judgment for all despots that would dare make war against his liberty.
