The Rotten Fruit Of Our Indifference To Corruption
By DEACON ANTHONY BARRASSO
(Editor’s Note: Deacon Barrasso serves in a Maryland parish.)
- + + The word “independent” describes a person or entity who is not subject to control, guidance, opinion, or need of another. We Americans celebrate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by our Founding Fathers who understood that there is no such thing for humanity as “independence.”
George Washington said, “It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible” (Farewell Address, 1796). But we have tried to govern ourselves without God since Adam and Eve, forgetting that those who are guilty of sin are their own worst enemies (Tobit 12:10). The separation of church and state would not have been approved by the Founding Fathers, and be certain of this — every person who has drawn a breath is bound by the Ten Commandments. They are the natural law written upon the human heart.
The founders and promoters of Black Lives Matter (BLM) have hardened their hearts. They are a Marxist, terrorist, pro-death, traitorous, and immoral organization funded by corrupt political and criminal funds who wish to destroy not only America, but also Christianity.
BLM has duped thousands into believing that it is “working” to help underprivileged and abused blacks to rise above the restraints placed upon them by society. BLM has the blessing of the Democrats and many ill-informed Church leaders and politicians who kneel before the idol of leftism.
We are witnessing the rotten fruit of our indifference to immorality and corruption. A silent majority is never heard. The first Chief Justice (1789-1795) John Jay said, “Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian Nation to select and to prefer Christians for their rulers” (October 12, 1781).
When rioters want to destroy their country’s history, traditions, churches, and legal system, and those who govern fund pro-death and anti-Christian legislation, then they are certainly not American or religious.
John Adams said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” He added, “Human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . . would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.”
Are we a moral and religious people? In 1962 the Supreme Court decided to make school prayers unconstitutional. Infanticide is now legal. Marriage has been redefined and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah have been rebuilt while we wring our hands at the mention of climate change. The fool is often blind to truth. St. Augustine said it best: “We love the truth when it shines upon us. We hate it when it contradicts us” (Confessions, p. 255).
If we are not blind, we can see with the eyes of Francis Scott Key, the broad stripes of red, white, and blue and bright stars “gallantly streaming through the perilous fight” we are now facing. If we are American and religious, the red will remind us of the blood shed for America by courageous men and women, and by our Lord and Savior who set us free from the slavery of sin. The white reminds us of the purity of intentions of our Founding Fathers, and the most holy purity of Jesus Christ, true God and true man and His Immaculate Mother. The blue reminds us of vigilance and perseverance which we must always have to protect us from our enemies, both temporal and spiritual.
The stars remind us of the diversity and uniqueness of each state, and that we ourselves will shine like the stars when we proclaim His Way, Truth, and Life. Independence Day, which we have just celebrated, reminds us that we are dependent. President Trump is American and depending on us.