“Respect for law” is a character trait that does not stop at the steps of a church building. So when men turn their backs on God, they also turn their backs on the stability that comes from respecting the law established by the Founding Fathers of this country. This results in a people who do not restrain their passions and inclinations from any guiding faith within. Such people must then be controlled from without.

William Penn described this condition best when he said, “Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.”

Many people today think that submitting themselves to the law of God is oppressive and hampers their pleasure. They will not have long to find out that the heavy hand of men who are not restrained by the rule of law is not a particularly enjoyable alternative. Educate yourselves, and read books written by those who suffered under Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao and others who ruled from their atheistic frame of reference. Barnabas Firth was right on.

Also, this article confuses the historical definitions of “democracy” and “republic.” Historically, there are the same thing, except a Republic lacks a monarch. As recently as 1910, there were only two countries in Europe that weren’t monarchies, Switzerland and France, plus a sprinkling of miniature states. A constitutional democracy does limit the power of the majority to do anything. There is no association between “democracy” lack of a constitution that limits what a majority can do. This confusion with the meaning of these terms started in the early 1960′s, when the John Birch Society put up billboards saying, “This is a Republic, not a Democracy.” And those billboards have managed to lull people into ignoring dictionaries.