Veritas et Sapientia – Our Godless Politics Makes Us Godless People

Mandeville, LA – “Now in all these schemings of theory, by which we have been contriving how to generate, or how we have generated, a government without going above humanity, we lose out all moral ideas, and take away all tonic forces necessary to government. Our merely terrene, almost subterranean, always godless fabric, becomes more and more exactly what we have taken it to be in our philosophy. The habit of respect dies out in us, we respect nothing; authority is more and more completely ignored. What authority have laws when there is no sovereignty back of them, or in them, but that of the people ? The grand, historic, religions element is worn away, or supplanted thus, by what we take to be our wiser philosophy, and the spirit of loyalty runs down to be a mere feeling of attachment, so weak that we are scarcely conscious of it, to our mere compacts and man-made sovereignties. Meantime our descent is accelerated in the same direction, by the demoralizing forces of peace, and unexampled prosperity, and more than all, by the scrambles of party and the venal intrigues of political leaders and rulers, till finally we reach a state where the government is chiefly valued for what can be gotten out of it, by the farming of its revenues, and offices, and contracts. Reverence to its honor, care for its safety, integrity in maintaining it, willingness to make sacrifices for it, all give way and an awful recklessness respecting it, or what becomes of it, is visible on every side.” – Horace Bushnell, A Discourse Delivered After The Disaster of Bull Run, 05 August, 1851

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