Founding Who?

Well, with my first blog, I guess I'll stick with the "theme" I created. So let's jump right into it. Progress has always been a part of America, and without progress, America would not be where it is today. Whether it be the introduction of machinery in the Industrial Revolution, or the invention of electricity by Thomas Edison, or the invention of the airplane by the Wright brothers, progress has been a central theme to America's society, and all of these examples have made America a better country. But when does progress actually lead to regress?

See, not all progress is beneficial to society, but this kind of progress has been pushed on Americans, especially in recent years. We are told by politicians that progress is the way of the future, and like all of the aforementioned things, will help America become a better place. Unfortunately, it is not healthy progress being pushed on us, but detrimental progress. We hear that our culture is changing, so America needs to progress to meet those changes. What they fail to mention is what that progress will cost us.

Recently, how often have you heard that our founding fathers were just a bunch of old guys who only made a Constitution applicable to their culture, but since America has progressed, so does the Constitution? What this is saying is that the Constitution is still living and that it is still subject to change according to what the general public wants, or even scarier, what the people in power want. If I completely lost you, let me give you just a couple of the many examples of what I mean.

First, let me talk about religion, since it is something I care a lot about. Well, as we all know, prayer is no longer allowed in school, and intelligent design is no longer taught in public schools. This seems to be ironic, being that most, if not all, of the founding fathers believed in God, which is clearly evident even through reading the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. We have rights endowed to us by our Creator, and the First Amendment says, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.." But judges managed to take away prayer from schools, the 10 commandments from a judges office, and are now trying to take away "under God" from the pledge of allegiance, all in the name of progress of a society.

Now politicians are trying to redefine marriage. They have redefined life, or rather determined when life starts when talking about abortion. And women have been given the right to do what they want with their body all in the name of progress. Since when does this trump what the founding fathers said about everyone having the right to life given to them by their Creator. But those words are meaningless since America and its culture has progressed, and how they would see things our way if they were living today. There are many more examples of this destructive progress that I do not have the time to write about.

It is time to stop this kind of detrimental progress, and relearn the founding of our country and what it was meant to be. If nothing changes, then progress will end up destroying every bit of morality and every fiber of America's greatness. So let us stop and examine what we are and what we should be, go back to the people who founded this country who got their ideas from the Being who created this world, and start a new kind of progress that will put us back on track.