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Entry: Post-Christian America Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/post_christian_america#27574 Post contents: Red Phillips, Of course America is accepted as a proposition 'nation.' That is what it was from its conception. Look at the Declaration of Independence. The first half is all Lockean theory and the second half is referential to the English Bill of Rights from the Protestant 'Glorious' Revolution. That is to say, it is founded on two things : (I) liberal individualism that denies the social essence of man known by reason and prescribed by the natural law, and (II) the Calvinist triumph of the bourgeois class in parliamentary supremacy, at the expense of royal sovereignty and a Catholic monarch. The Constitution begins, 'WE THE PEOPLE,' which is an affirmation of popular sovereignty. My goodness, right from the beginning we already have the Enlightenment, Protestantism, and immanentist egalitarianism as the foundation for a 'nation.' How could a Catholic accept something that was born of treason and founded against nature itself ? I have no idea; nonetheless, the United States are reaping what they have sown. Soon we will witness the crumbling of this mutant creature forged by the hands of men. No man should find himself surprised. Doom was certain from the beginning, for the United States is a house, built by fools, on shifting sands. The tide is coming in; wisdom requires that one seek the strong foundation of the rock to endure it. Sent at: 2008 11 20