Born and raised in Texas, author/historian Mark K. Lewis spent much of his early life teaching college in the American West and then in China, where lived for more than a decade. He has also resided and taught in England and South Korea.

OPINION by Mark Lewis, Contributor | TOWNHALL.com | April 14, 2024

“Our Constitution was made only for moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”—John Adams 

I believe I have demonstrated in many articles that Leftists hate God and religion more than anything else because they cannot allow the slaves in their Marxist system to have any higher allegiance than their totalitarian government masters.  

It is also obvious, however, that Leftists loathe history almost as much as they do God and religion because true history (especially American history) is as devastating to their cause as God is.  

But then, their god, Marx, said, “Keep people from their history and they are easily controlled.”  The Democrat Party and their adherents are doing everything possible to accomplish just that.

Recently I referred the Adams quote at the beginning of this column to a Leftist.  His response was, “Conservatives have always taken that quote out of context.”  No, conservatives have not done so, the quote means exactly what Mr. Adams said, as I shall prove in this series, of which this is Part One.  

But this is typical Leftist historical revisionism.  While America’s Founders certainly did not establish a theocracy, from that fact Leftists draw the utterly erroneous conclusion that our Founders meant that religion should have absolutely no influence except in private affairs—and even then, should be regulated by the government, a la China.

Letting religion (God) influence policy is anathema to these people.  But this Leftist ideological canard would, frankly, be totally shocking to our Founders.

They did not establish a theocracy, but neither did they intend that religion would have no part to play in American affairs outside the home.  God is the God of…everything, including government, not just the God of private life.

I also quoted [to] my Leftist correspondent Andrew Jackson’s statement, “That Book (the Bible) is the rock on which our Republic rests.”

“But, but, but,” the Leftist responded, “Jackson was a slave owner.”  

This kind of hypocrisy and illogical argumentation is typical of Leftists.  In their own eyes, Leftism is the “god” of humanity.  

They establish the acceptable (always evolving) moral standard and judge everyone, including previous generations, by it.  They never try to put history into its context; they always judge others, even in history, by their current, modern, continually changing Leftist standard.  

That’s why they can condemn anybody they don’t agree with.  If you don’t measure up to THEIR canon of behavior, you are a horrible human being, a Nazi or racist or “white supremacist”—often worth disposing of entirely, thank you, Chairman Mao and General Secretary Stalin.

But the hypocrisy here is clearly manifest.  People who murder unborn babies, mutilate children, allow near-mass murder in the streets of cities they govern, and destroy countless lives through lying, unscientific transgender dogma, have absolutely no right to judge anyone else about anything.  

EXCEPT—those things are part of the current, ever-changing Leftist “morality,” thus not to be condemned.  

But the problem is, IF morality is, as they insist, “ever-changing,” how can they condemn slaveholders for submitting to the “ever-changing” morality of their own time?  Hypocrisy, thy name is Leftist.

Unfortunately for Leftists, Jackson’s quote is the exact truth.  Nearly everybody in early America believed that the Bible was the foundation of American society.  “But, Jackson was a slave owner!”  

This brings us to another absolute of Leftist historical revisionism and ideological hypocrisy:  find a flaw, or an imperfect motive, in the messenger, and that immediately frees us from having to believe or submit to any truth he/she teaches.  

Because Jackson was a “slave owner,” that automatically means we don’t have to believe anything he says.  Donald Trump is a terrible person who writes mean tweets, so we shouldn’t listen to anything he says.  

That standard, of course, doesn’t apply to Democrats.  Uh, modern-day Democrats, not Jacksonian Democrats.

However, truth is truth is truth, regardless of who speaks it.  We are responsible for believing and obeying the truth, even if the devil teaches it.  None of us (especially Leftists) are pure, including the men who founded our country.  But the impurity of life or motive doesn’t change the truth, as much as Leftists wish it did.  

“The truth is incontrovertible.  Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is” (Winston Churchill).  

Incidentally, quotes about the influence of the Bible and Judeo-Christian morality on America by earlier generations of great Americans could be multiplied exponentially.  But Leftists can’t have that.  They want to morph American history into opposition to Christianity so that they can create the godless, totalitarian government THEY want.

And make you the new Democrat Party slaves.

Leftist hypocrisy is everywhere.  Another example:  They need to get guns out of the hands of the murdering criminals they’ve created in cities they govern before they start trying to take them away from innocent Americans who have never hurt anybody with their firearms.  

But again, that isn’t what this is all about.  It is totally about absolute power and controlling other people, the cardinal element of Leftist ideology.  Power, not freedom, is their mantra.  

And they won’t take guns away from monsters because they need societal chaos.  The more chaos there is in a society, the more need there is (they believe) for the government to step in and “control” that society.  

In other words, more power for the government (i.e., them).  A responsible, moral, self-controlled, virtuous person is the LAST thing the Left wants because people like that don’t need government!  

The Leftist wants more murder in American streets increased moral perversity and unrestrained hedonism.  Such things are the very source and foundation of their grasping for power.

This brings me back to John Adams and his quote at the beginning of this essay, and why the Left hates him so much and must lie about his statement.  More on what Adams actually meant in my second article in this series. ##

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