On Idiocracy, and the good and necessity of Cultural Christianity for America.

The wise woman builds her house,

But the woman of folly tears it down with her own hands.

Proverbs 14:1

Have you ever wondered why God did not simply outright abolish slavery in the 1st century?

Many good, interrelated reasons have been posited. The simplest answer seems to be that demolishing the practice in the Roman Empire in the 1st century would have caused almost world-wide havoc and suffering. The labor market, as we understand it today, simply didn’t exist. The “professions” were done by slaves, not self-employed business owners. The entire western civilization was built on various forms of slavery, and society would have simply crumbled into societal meltdown. Quickly terminating that system would have resulted in catastrophic economic collapse and the resultant mass starvation and anarchy.

What does that have to do with Cultural Christianity and America?

Systems of government are not all equal.

Not only are they unequal, they cannot be simply swapped, like a garment.

What’s more, one system cannot be removed, without replacing it with another.

If a town or a city decided to power-off all its stoplights, without installing a new system for managing traffic, there would be utter chaos…

Again, what does that have to do with America?

It’s simply, really. I mean it’s really simply.

Consider the well known words of the 2nd POTUS, John Adams:

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

He was a signer of the Declaration, and framer of the Constitution.

Adams knew his stuff, and when he made explicit the type of populace necessary for our Constitution to work, he wasn’t merely speculating, he’s speaking as a designer of the system!

Adams was likely not a Christian. In his latter days he was a Unitarian.

So let’s go there for a minute. He wasn’t saying that everyone needs to be a born again Christian, that’s for sure!

Let’s even grant, for the sake of argument, the worst case as it pertains to the Framers. Let’s say that the majority were deists, with few real Christians. What does that mean?

It means that the understanding of the framers was that it’s not born again Christianity that is necessary for the American system to work, but Cultural Christianity. Christian morals. Christian ethics. Acknowledgement of the truth claims of Christianity.

The American system was designed only to work upon the foundation of Cultural Christianity.

Apart from that, it is wholly inadequate.

Our constitution, according to the designer, will not work apart from Cultural Christianity. It is wholly inadequate for such a task.

You might have noticed, he’s right!

So, rail against Cultural Christianity. Decry it. Condemn it. Bemoan it.

But be ready to establish an entirely new governmental system, as you participate in the collapse of the one you sabotage and tear down.

The wise woman builds her house,

But the woman of folly tears it down with her own hands.

Proverbs 14:1