Americanism

Christmas and Easter celebrate Jesus Christ’s birth, death, and resurrection. Next in importance to these holidays is Independence Day, which marks the birthday of America, a nation in the making when a group of tough, courageous, Christian revolutionaries demanded, fought for, gained independence, and established a government based on Christ’s teachings.

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Since then, America has strengthened and prospered because of its adherence to Christian ethics. Her strength, prosperity and the American way of life define two terms: Americanism and exceptionalism. Reverence for human life’s sanctity and repugnance to its devaluation are fundamental to exceptionalism. That is why America is the world’s most charitable country, why it is first on the scene in the aftermath of global calamities, with food, medication, and funding, why its troops go in harm’s way to defend oppressed people desperately seeking what Americans enjoy: freedom. But many in positions of power and influence sneer at exceptionalism, patriotism, and Americanism. Cultural institutions and universities that should do all possible to promote patriotism among youth downplay it as “un-mainstream,” and some have even withdrawn funding for patriotic celebrations such as Independence Day, citing lame budget-constraint excuses, but apparently not curtailing spending that promotes diversity and multiculturalism, both of which contrast with “e pluribus unum” assimilation. Why is this? Is it because they want to supplant Christian, humanistic beliefs with a secular, hedonistic, post-Christian creed that condones any sort of personal behavior — however repulsive and sensual — in which individuals, under the guise of freedom of expression, can indulge every impulse while openly voicing their hatred for America? Determined cultural, political, and educational forces seek to universalize their view that the rights to compete, rise above others by virtue of hard work and fiscal responsibility, and enjoy the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, are irrelevant, and must be replaced with homogenization of humanity and with relegation of the unborn and infirm to nonperson status, fit only for euthanizing or organ harvest. Such a mindset smacks of utilitarianism, a doctrine stating that actions are right insofar as they promote happiness, and that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is conduct’s guiding principle — from which may derive big government’s mindset that money makes people happy, and all should be entitled to equal amounts, meaning wealth must be redistributed. In its most extreme, wacko permutation, this philosophy would have us believe that human beings are the problem; we are the planet’s pests. All that is wrong with the world can be blamed on the species that made this world what it is. The most radical of this philosophy’s adherents sincerely believe that global population must be reduced drastically, and support legal means for effecting this reduction. Included in these means are unlimited abortions (bringing to mind the fact that many government leaders favor funding to promote abortion abroad), euthanizing the elderly and sick, and human cloning. Real, patriotic Americans — those who honor their country on Independence Day — must unite to reassert what will not countenance such evils: Americanism.