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Date: 27 Apr 1999 06:23:53 -0400
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> Vanguard of the Revolution
> National Edition
> 
> By Syndicated Columnist and Commentator
> Rod D. Martin 
> 
> LITTLETON
> by
> Rod D. Martin, 24 April 1999
> 
> It9s only been a year since we were writing about Jonesboro.
> 
> I really didn9t want to write this column.  I didn9t ever want to
> write another column like it again.
> 
> But that9s just the point.  What was once an unheard-of topic is now
> becoming almost routine.  Only the locations - and the stylistic
> bent of the murderers - seems to change.
> 
> A year ago, Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee prayed that the day
> would never come when shock was not our reaction to horrors such as
> Littleton; yet even then the shock derived primarily from the venue
> of the killings.  We have long since accepted the idea of gang
> violence - once again, kids killing kids - and our murder rates
> provoke barely a yawn.  We have long since grown accustomed to the
> culture of death. Indeed, from our abortuaries to our latest
> box-office craze, we have embraced that culture, whether as a fun
> night out or as a cowardly but effective way to solve a "personal"
> problem.
> 
> Alan Keyes wrote well when he demanded this week that we look beyond
> the symptom to the spiritual sickness in our land.  Post-Christian
> America revolves around precisely one of the inalienable rights in
> the Declaration of Independence:  the pursuit of happiness.  "If it
> feels good, do it" has left the realm of slogan and become the
> subconscious principle we live by.  From Nike to Outback Steakhouse
> to your psychiatrist to - all too often - your preacher, the entire
> world tells us today that incessant rebellion is the only way to
> fulfillment, that the only absolute is that there are no absolutes,
> and that anyone who requires a standard thereby becomes your
> oppressor.
> 
> This is hardly a new philosophy; indeed, it is the oldest philosophy
> of man.  But the evolutionists do not lie when they say man apart
> from God is an animal.  By his nature he seeks only what gratifies
> himself, all the day long.  And what usually gratifies him best is
> that which will deviate most from whatever authority is placed over
> him.
> 
> When the deviation becomes too great, the humanist claims the
> deviant is insane.  This is the legacy of Freud, and necessary if
> the humanist is to confine dangerous people while still pretending
> there is no absolute right or wrong.  But the depraved man is not
> insane:  he is merely normal.  He does whatever he wants, exactly
> like a peace-loving flower child.  He, like every rebel, recognizes
> no legitimate authority above himself; therefore, who may say what
> he should want?
> 
> And who ought be shocked when he wants nothing more than to kill?
> 
> The Founders of the nation understood this all too well, and wrote
> about it prolifically.  John Adams said: "We have no government
> armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled
> by morality and religion.  Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry,
> would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes
> through a net.  Our Constitution was made only for a moral and
> religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any
> other."  His generation agreed.
> 
> Our generation does not.  Look at it9s hero:  Bill Clinton.  Just
> two months ago, all we scribes were writing of the dangers of a
> government which no longer values or abides by the rule of law.  In
> Littleton, we see the dangers of a people similarly debased, now for
> some thirty-five years.
> 
> In the absence of private virtue, society collapses.  It is a big
> thing, society; it takes a while to cave in.  But cave in it does,
> as night follows day.
> 
> The Founders well appreciated what public policy could do to
> restrain evil.  But they also knew that public order is impossible
> unless certain behaviors are constantly reinforced as "socially
> unacceptable."  Decades of degradation of the family and the
> individual through easy divorce, easy drugs, easy sex, and above all
> easy abortion produced Littleton.  Why should anyone respect a
> schoolchild9s life when 38 million babies9 lives have been brutally
> snuffed out by one in five of all of the women in America?  Where
> will children learn the values we call "decency" if not in a
> functioning home?  How will those homes function if parents are not
> willing to commit at least to stay together, despite their own
> passing, irresponsible fancies?  Shall a social worker, or a new gun
> law, be all that stands between us and the abyss?
> 
> C. S. Lewis said that "there are two kinds of people: those who say
> to God, ^LThy will be done,9 and those to whom God says, ^LAll right,
> then, have it your way.9"  It becomes more painfully obvious by the
> day that "our way" is destroying our children and our very
> civilization before our eyes.
> 
> Copyright: Rod D. Martin, 24 April 1999.
> 
> -- Rod D. Martin is a Little Rock, Arkansas attorney, and a
> fellow of the Kuyper Institute for Political Studies.
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