Rumanian Editor
is Wrong that “Freedom” is the Reason for America’s Greatness
A
Rumanian editor was wrong at the time of 9/11 when he
wrote that America’s greatness lies in its “freedom.”
He opined that “only
freedom can work such miracles.” He pondered for days to discover
what made this country unique among all the peoples of the world.
However, he failed
to understand that the genius of this country has always stemmed
from its belief in God, which was recognized by our own John Adams
in his original conflict with Thomas Jefferson, who was unable
to initially see the difference between the French Revolution
of the 1790s and ours (which had occurred twenty years earlier
in the 1770s).
The French revolution
ended with Napoleon seizing total control, whereas ours led to
the greatest culture ever unleashed upon the earth.
Our Senator
Kennedy Is Leader in Destroying Our Freedom
We are seeing
that difference today in the use by our mainstream culture of
“freedom” to force homosexual “marriage” upon our citizens. We
have seen our “freedom” become licentiousness, which is using
its newly discovered power to threaten our freedom.
(We witnessed our
legislature brazenly refuse to follow our state Constitution in
both 2002 and 2004 without an outcry from anyone, even though
the Supreme Judicial Court agreed in a unanimous 7-0 decision
that they had broken the law and violated the Constitution.)
The loss of freedom
has already happened in Canada and Europe, where freedom has been
abrogated with citizens, especially ministers, being dragged to
criminal courts for talking frankly about homosexuality.
The leading
apostle for that here is our own Senator Edward Kennedy, who is
the leader in hate-crime legislation and similar oppressive measures.
This Threat
Is Always Present in a Free Society
We have
written before about our great John Adams who demonstrated that
his great tolerance toward all people resulted from his belief
in a loving God. It was he who wrote our state Constitution in
1780.
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The following article is reprinted from our issue
of January 2002.
Pres.
John Adams of Quincy Believed in Real Diversity
MassNews may start a custom of reminding
all of us every year that John Adams of Quincy personified the
real Colonial patriot who founded this unequaled country and gave
it great diversity and tolerance.
John Adams wrote a
letter to Benjamin Rush in 1810, ten years after his Presidency,
“Ask me not, then, whether I am a Catholic or Protestant, Calvinist
or Arminian. As far as they are Christians, I wish to be a fellow-disciple
with them all.” (It is sad that very few Christians today would
understand what an Arminian is.)
As for Jews, he wrote in a letter in 1809, “If I were
an atheist, and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still
believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be he most essential
instrument for civilizing the nations. If I were an atheist of
the other sect, who believe or pretend to believe that all is
ordered by chance, I should believe that chance had ordered the
Jews to preserve and propagate to all mankind the doctrine of
a supreme, intelligent, wise, almighty sovereign of the universe,
which I believe to be the great essential principle of all morality,
and consequently all civilization.”
But his tolerance
did not mean he was not proud to be a Christian.
There is much talk that John Adams was an atheist or a
humanist, but that is far from true.
Adams wrote in 1798
to the Grand Jurors in Greenfield about what was unfolding in
France at that time, where a belief in humanism was dominant.
Their revolution was a copy of ours except that they had removed
God from their beliefs. Their revolution was bloody and cruel.
It was to fail with Napoleon becoming dictator. With great foresight,
Adams cautioned the citizens that we should not undertake the
new theory of humanism that could make things much worse. He wrote:
“If a new order of
things has commenced, it behooves us to be cautious, that it may
not be for the worse. If the abuse of Christianity can be annihilated
or diminished, and a more equitable enjoyment of the right of
conscience introduced, it will be well, but this will not be accomplished
by the abolition of Christianity and the introduction of Grecian
mythology, or the worship of modern heroes or heroines, by erecting
statues of idolatry to reason or virtue, to beauty or to taste.
It is a serious problem to resolve, whether all the abuses of
Christianity, even in the darkest ages, when the Pope deposed
princes and laid nations under his interdict, were ever so bloody
and cruel, ever bore down the independence of the human mind with
such terror and intolerance, or taught doctrines which required
such implicit credulity to believe, as the present reign of pretended
philosophy in France.”
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The following article is the full text of the
writing by Cornal Nistorescu in the Romanian newspaper, Evenimentulzilei
on Sept. 24, 2002.
An Ode to America
Why are Americans
so united? They would not resemble one another even if you
painted them all one color! They speak all the languages
of the world and
form an astonishing mixture of civilizations and religious beliefs.
Still, the
American tragedy turned three hundred million people into a hand
put on the
heart. Nobody rushed to accuse the White House, the army, and
the secret services that they are only a bunch of losers.
Nobody rushed to empty their bank accounts. Nobody rushed
out onto the streets nearby to gape about. The Americans
volunteered to donate blood and to give a helping hand.
After the first moments
of panic, they raised their flag over the smoking
ruins, putting on T-shirts, caps and ties in the colors of the
national flag.
They placed flags
on buildings and cars as if in every place and on every car a
government official or the president was passing.
On every occasion,
they started singing their traditional song: "God Bless
America"! I watched the live broadcast and rerun after
rerun for hours,
listening to the story of the guy who went down one hundred floors
with a woman in a wheelchair without knowing who she was, or of
the Californian hockey player, who gave his life fighting with
the terrorists and prevented the plane from hitting a target that
could have killed other hundreds or thousands of people.
How on earth were
they able to respond united as one human being?
Imperceptibly, with
every word and musical note, the memory of some turned into a
modern myth of tragic heroes. And with every phone call,
millions and millions of dollars were put in a collection aimed
at rewarding not a man or a family, but a spirit, which no money
can buy.
What on earth can
unite the Americans in such a way? Their land? Their
galloping history? Their economic power? Money?
I tried for hours to find an
answer, humming songs and murmuring phrases with the risk of sounding
commonplace.
I thought things over,
but I reached only one conclusion...only freedom can
work such miracles.
Cornel
Nistorescu
