This a just a great exersize to see where modern humanist thinking leads to. Also a a nice contrast showing what our founding fathers set up as compared to how Britian's government is organized. From Chalcedon.
Is Britain Finished?
by Lee Duigon
...The church had centuries in which to teach morality to the peoples of Britain. Although there were always individuals who broke the law, everybody knew what basic Christian morality entailed and most people voluntarily abided by the laws derived from it.
But with Christian morality cast aside, people don’t know what the new morality requires of them! Because it would be impossible to police the daily lives of millions of people—never mind the government’s action of setting up 10,000 closed circuit television surveillance cameras in London alone, an action that has nevertheless left 80 percent of London’s crimes unsolved—the humanist state must “teach” the new morality by making dramatic examples of what happens to transgressors. This is why the state sends four police officers after a little boy who spoke the word “gay” on the playground: it gets everyone’s attention. This is intended as a form of teaching, but it’s mere intimidation.
Why don’t the people understand what humanist morality requires of them? Rushdoony answers: “But if the ultimate source of law resides in humanity, and humanity is seen as divine, then man cannot be placed under law, because he himself is beyond law as the source of law.”[16]
In a nation whose people and leaders are consciously Christian, laws enacted by the legislature, man’s laws, must conform to God’s laws. If they conflict with God’s laws, the citizens will view them as invalid. Meanwhile, God’s laws are all written in the Bible, are accessible to everyone, and cannot be hanged by any future Parliament. Citizens will obey them voluntarily, without being cowed by lurid stories in the newspapers....Read the whole article
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