James Madison; not electable in this age

No, I don't think Jimmy is electable today. But there have been a few times a dead man was elected (usually by straight-party voting), so who knows?

 

The Founders and Framers said and wrote a lot of things that we are largely in ignorance about in this current age where the teaching of proper civics is left out of the picture.

None of them would be electable today, for we have drifted into a quasi-Marxist socialism that would cause each or any of them to foment a new revolution against their own nation's government because it violates the clauses that they considered would make it illegitimate!

There were several sure tenets that the Founders and Framers held, first that a man WOULD be involved with some church, but that church would not be national in scope. Rather, they had no issues at all with a State church and they lived in an era where that reality existed. We project onto the period of the founding of America with our own worldview where anything goes. Though they did indeed support the universal nature of religious freedom (George Washington had a letter to that effect to a leader of a Jewish group, as did others likewise) but for the most part they recognized that states had rights that the federal government did not, including the right to a state church and mandatory participation in order to run as a candidate from that particular state. Second, they held that WHEN the government started to dictate policy to the people instead of represent the will OF the people that the government was illegitimate and due for overthrow by the people. They build our Constitution with that idea in mind, which was gathered from the work of John Locke.

 

Are we okay with freedom for religions alternative to Christianity in America?

Of course... That is the Christian position! We realize that there are false religions, that is our mission field. Why on earth would we wish to oust people from a FREE LAND when they are coming TO US so that we can missionalize them and send them back to their homeland with the gospel?

In that we BLOW so many chances to do so, we are likely in sin against God. Some of the greatest enemies of America can here to study in our colleges and while they were here they were never treated in Christian love nor did (for all outward appearances) anyone witness to them. We would rather point fingers and war against each other than to do what Christ commanded in the great commission.

Does that mean, however, that we should turn our back on our own Declaration of Independence, which stipulates in no uncertain language from whence those freedoms stem? Absoultely not. We are a nation that was/is founded on Judeo-Christian principles and with a decidedly biblical worldview. To surrender that is to surrender America without a shot being fired. And yet, it seems that we are most hasty to surrender that indeed!

Virtually all the Framers and Founders made note of the fact that their Republic could not stand unless the mores and morals (culture and worldview) of the elected officials and the public remained in good standing with God. They understood that were great freedoms were given, great responsibilities were required, including standing up against utopian tyrannies that might (and probably would) come our way. Some of the Bill of Rights are there to give American citizens the ability to revolt against our own government should that government drift into tyranny -- as it now has -- and it is due time for that revolt.

We can do the revolt in one of two ways. We can elect representatives and an executive branch that holds to the heart of the Constitution and Declaration and who see the rights of the people as unalianable or we can start shooting. How much better to wrestle back America by vote (and by prayer) than by blood... :saint: