Upon reading the actual Commandments, anyone is left asking the question, “Why would someone be opposed to having those publicly displayed?” Is it a problem that someone might read them and then go out and actually do them? How awful that would surely be!
As the Bible, prayer, and now the Ten Commandments, have been taken out of public life as a society, we have seen a distinct change in our society… an increase in crime, in divorce, in illegitimate births, in abortion, in dishonesty in government, and so much more.
In I Samuel 4:21,22 in the Old Testament, the Bible tells of the grandson of the priest of Israel being named as a sign of God’s judgment upon Israel for their turning from Him. The name was “Ichabod,” meaning “the glory has departed.” Surely, we have been experiencing a departing of Divine favour in our own generation.
The Ten Commandments have always been historically recognized by honest students of history as both the moral AND legal foundation of the American Republic. History is replete with examples of peoples who have created republics but then became decadent in their social lifestyles… only to end up in a dangerous cycle of democracy, anarchy, followed by the tyranny of a few.
Southerners then and now have hastened to talk about the importance that our Christian heritage plays in the maintenance of our unique Constitutional Republic. The Virginian, James Madison, is regarded as the “Father of the Constitution.” It was he who said, “Our Constitution is written for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.” And Patrick Henry, another famous Southern Founding Father, said, “It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religions, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
So, should Southerners be required to post public displays of the Koran or teachings of Buddha in our county courthouses, too? The answer is emphatically, “No!” Neither of those documents provide the bulwark of our cultural foundations. And, while every other group may have a right to their own view of life, so do we who are descended from those who forged a living here when America was yet a wilderness. Every people has a right to preserve its valuable way of life… and the Ten Commandments are the foundation of our valuable way of life.
The real issue – and the one for which this battle is really being waged – is that it is only one part in an on-going cultural war which is being waged against ALL of the traditional values of our Republic, especially here in the South. And it is crystal clear to the enemies of this Republic that the last bastion of those values is “Dixie” …the “Bible Belt.”
The attack is intended to destroy our moral fiber – our families and our faith in God. Those who are attacking the Ten Commandments are doing so, in part, because they also wish to destroy our form of government (or what still remains of it) – namely, a constitutional republic where sovereign States jealously guard the liberties of their people against the continual encroachments of an unconstitutional tyrannical federal government.
America has been transformed from a Republic to an Empire! And the South is the only thing which stands in the way of the final transformation!
Like Cicero of Roman history, it’s time to begin “mouring the death of the glorious Republic of our Fathers and warning of the dangers of Empire.”
It is high time that those who have pledged to uphold the Constitution and defend our God-given liberties as elected officials in our Southern states begin to, once again, exercise their responsibilities to invoke such practices as interposition and nullification to prevent the unconstitutional usurpation of federal judges from attacking our valuable way of life as found in the Ten Commandments.
The South needs statesmen, not politicians. The South needs citizens who will not sit idly by while these attacks continue. The South needs a true Christian revival. And the South needs… to draw a line in the sand.
There is absolutely nothing more that we can give in this culminating war against our families and our liberties.
If you haven’t already drawn your own personal line in the sand, as to what it will take to get you to take a stand for Southern liberty and the restoration of a constitutional Republic, TODAY ought to be the day that you do just that!
May God, and our children, find us faithful in our duty.
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Ray McBerry [send him mail] is chairman of the Georgia League of the South, founder and president of
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