re: We Have Created a Pre-Soviet Culture in the United States

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It was a cancer planted in the Western superorganism for which there is no cure without killing the patient.

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Disagree there. I don't see anywhere in the Constitution where it mandates that those who do not believe in this form of government and it's economic system must be allowed to participate. We are dealing with people who endeavor to destroy this country and it's founding documents and principles. We are at war. When you're at war, you don't allow those who want the other side to win, on your team.

I know it sounds elementary, and hyperbolic, but we are quickly coming to a point where we are going to have to decide if we want to keep our country or not. If we want to keep it, something must be done about those who want it destroyed. We have an enemy within.

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We American’s are witnessing a progressive extinction of our traditional public and educational institutions, watching to our horror, traditional values replaced with all manner of perversion. Our once proud institutions are now becoming corrupt, just as violence, decadence, and insanity are increasing

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Is this really the fault of progressivism or simply the end result of modernization and rule by secular Constitutional government instead of a pseudo-theocratic one?

Throughout history, even before the rise of the Christianity, there has always been a fear of that new ideologies and different lifestyles will cause a societal corruption. Most of these fears are perpetuated by those who could lose power in whatever hierarchical structure their society has put in place. You don't think the ancient Romans were exactly Christ-like, do you?

I modern times, people are simply acting out in the way they always wanted too. Without societal shaming, we see a rise in recreational drug and single motherhood. That's because, as harsh as it sounds, that's what people wanted to do anyway outside of Christian law. Sleep with whoever you want and consume whatever you want.

The issue with the United States is that if you are a strict constructionist, then none of those things are inherently wrong. We have the freedom to do whatever we want provided it doesn't hurt anyone or their property.

I don't think this is a good analogy.

The Russians had lost 1.7 million men in a war, the country was starving as a result of the war, it's population were mostly agrarian living only fifty years since the abolition of serfdom, and the population of urban dwellers were only a generation removed from the farm.

The Bolsheviks had a simple slogan "Peace, Land, and Bread"

There was obviously a secularization among the Communists and Socialists, but many Russians remained devoutly religious despite massive efforts after the Revolution to eradicate the Church. In fact, the Communists would have to settle on co-opting it and infiltrating it with their own agents.

In fact I think many Russians were duped by the Communists because of their Messianic Christian nature.

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

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John Adams.

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What an absurd claim. If there is a problem in the US, it's that there isn't ENOUGH atheism.

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Yesiree, things sure have always turned out dandy where only atheists run things and man makes all the rules.

The current Pope is a bad person. He isn't promoting the Catholic faith and seems to be tied into the broader agenda. So religion has sort of lost its ability to attract people that would otherwise want to be guided by it.

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However, there is clearly no push in the US to have atheism be some sort of official edict of the state. This is apples to oranges.

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If you use the same metrics the "wall of separation" crowd uses, the government has established atheism as the national religion.

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I modern times, people are simply acting out in the way they always wanted too. Without societal shaming, we see a rise in recreational drug and single motherhood. That's because, as harsh as it sounds, that's what people wanted to do anyway outside of Christian law. Sleep with whoever you want and consume whatever you want.

The issue with the United States is that if you are a strict constructionist, then none of those things are inherently wrong.

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I think you meant to say "none of those things should be inherently illegal", and I'd agree.

However, if you're a strict constructionist, you wouldn't be subsidizing those piss-porr choices. We subsidize them. And if you subsidize something, you get more of that something.

So poor people wouldn’t be poor if they were more Christian? Verrrrry interesting.