It's Not God, It's The Godlessness
Immanuel Kant said that we are justified in believing in the existence of God as a foundation for reason and a moral and civil society.
One does not need to be a practicing Jew or Christian to live by Judeo-Christian moral tenets, so one wonders why people resist the reality that moral codes based in these tenets are far more necessary to a safe and civil society than any legislation ever passed by mankind.
When a society discards individual responsibility in favor of collective or corporate control, it is saying that random killings like those that seem to be in the news every day now – and the brutal killing of kids and teachers in schools – are acceptable collateral damage.
If I go for a drive today, what is there to stop me from running every red light and stop sign in town?
Even if there is a police car sitting at the intersection, they can’t stop me – they can ticket me or arrest me afterwards and at some point, a court can determine my innocence or guilt and impose punishment. The fact is that there are no collective answers for individual acts. Laws and law enforcement are, by definition, lagging actions, neither can prevent every infraction because they are neither omnipresent nor omnipotent.
In truth, there is nothing external to my person that can force me to obey the traffic laws. Only my own self-governance, self-interest in my own health combined with my desire not to cause harm to others or their property result in the behavior I exhibit when I get behind the wheel. Traffic laws only work because each individual driver knows the laws and shares the same desires that I do.
Laws, regardless of the behaviors they target, are only valid because people choose to treat them that way - and when laws clearly contradict moral actions, they will be considered invalid.
In reaction to tragic shootings, the progressive statist left calls for more collective and corporate control – in this case, focusing on the presence of a gun. They seek more laws and more government – but it isn’t more collectivism we need; it is more individualism. More individual freedom, more individual responsibility, and more individual self-governance.
One thing remains true for every murder or “mass shooting” involving a firearm – and it is true for every single crime committed regardless of severity - the existence of laws prohibiting any of those actions were irrelevant to the person who decided to pull the trigger at the precise moment they decided to shoot.
The very reason gun ownership is increasing is directly related to the inability of the collective to protect the individual – for over 40 years, the courts (SCOTUS as well) have held that police have no specific duty to protect the public. Realizing that they could be victims of the random acts of violence the collective considers acceptable loss, citizens logically opt to enact ways to protect themselves and their families.
The external controls and threats of punishment imposed by an overweening state do prevent some things – chief among them is the prevention of the individual from ever questioning, exploring, testing, or developing their own internal controls. Why would they? The state will do that for them and if they are “legal”, they never have to worry about whether a thing is moral or not. They never have to be personally liable for their acts. They never have to worry about being personally accountable to any authority higher than the state.
“Safety in numbers” collectivism is a vehicle to avoid individual responsibility and accountability - in the governing and the governed. It is seen today – individual acts are blamed on any variety of collective psychosis to avoid blaming the individual if they are a protected class or to place blame if they are not.
I think it is due to our society adopting a “guilt by association” culture of generalization.
Ignoring the fact that our nation was founded on Judeo-Christian tenets, the Democrat Party has adopted a sociopolitical philosophy based on the idea that Christianity is bad, and any examples or promotions of those founding tenets are therefore undesirable and must be banned from public view.
It is a fact that Democrats generalize faster and to a greater degree than any other group of people. Assisted by a complete lack of any sense of any proportionality, when their opposition is in the crosshairs, their ideology shares that property with gasses, their accusations tend to fill the size of the container – they will conflate any issue to fit whatever the size of their need.
For example, if you oppose drag shows for children, you want hate all drag queens and want to ban all drag shows. If you want to pull age-inappropriate books from your elementary school library, that means you want to go Fahrenheit 411 on all books. Some white people are racist; therefore, all white people are racists. George Santos is a scam artist and a Republican; therefore, all Republicans are scam artists. One gun wielding criminal goes on a killing spree means that all gun owners are potential murderers.
So, it isn’t a surprise that they will generalize that if you live by Christian tenets, you are a Christian and since they believe Christianity is bad, you are also bad.
The issue America faces is not a proliferation of guns – it is the proliferation of the state and the substitution of any sort of individual moral code with collective ambiguity and legalism. It is the loss of the ability to recognize right from wrong and self-govern accordingly.
When the very basis of society has been determined worthy of destruction, it is no surprise that society is being destroyed.
And what makes it incredibly frustrating is that we know how to stop the destruction. It is simple and easy. It requires nothing from government other than to stop trying to kill Judeo-Christian influences in society. Call it God, religion, faith, morality or simply a code of behavior, absent one of these that doesn’t include the very basic tenets of the Biblical Golden Rule and the Ten Commandments, we can expect horrendous crimes against adults and children to continue.
It's not God that is the problem, it is the godlessness.
God, Family, and Country.
If all laws were based on Judeo-Christian Ethics what would the speed limits be? Very few drivers abide by the limits and those that do are derided by the majority. It's an example of the push by Dr. Ferris and the enforcement thereof varies.