@mattforney The mainline Christian denominations are so unimportant now that they don't even exist in the historical record for many people. Nobody ever discusses the secret six.
@smashbaals The land was settled by Christians, but the nation itself is deist and masonic and Lockean. The Christians at the time made a covenant with oathbreakers in order to protect their security. I don't know why people can't understand this relatively simple idea.
@JakeBequette91 If your whole project depends on the life of a single commander surviving then it was a stupid project. I'm from the South, and the South caught a huge break when they lost the war.
@mspistolicious But nobody really cares what blacks think. They have been written of by both the Left and Right. Blacks have been at the lowest rung of the social hierarchy for 400 years. They are only relevant at the voting and city council level where they mostly just do what they are told.
@4nt1p4tt3rn We will have to start over with explicitly Christian republics where citizenship and holding office will require Christian religious oaths. So back to the way it was before the Rhode Island experiment.
@EWErickson The most important aspect of a governmental system is authority. In the US system authority is from the people. The decision defines the people to be anyone who has the wherewithal to have a child in the US. So the decision is more fundamental than the other decisions.
@AnnCoulter The devout Catholic will always defer to authority as opposed to the law. They are conditioned to do so from a very young age. You can watch any papal visit to see in real time why they would always defer to man-made institutions as opposed to the
@EricRSammons Yes this was the old Republican line going all the way back to the ,70s. They would also tell you that the Communists would be in charge. If of course it turns out that the Communists were never the real threat
@UtahFlatRanger Nobody's going to participate in a violent coup. Violence is expensive and dangerous. You have to have somebody at the barricades. Who's going to be at the barricade? Soldiers? DHS? The federal government couldn't even control protests in Minneapolis.
@TheLaurenChen They're lawyers. They're all trained and think the same way. This is one of the problems when you have a founding that was a lawyer's revolution.