There are some who believe that "religion" such as that discussed on this website has no place in a pro-freedom movement. However, belief systems (whether religious or not) determine the fundamental axioms by which societies will be run. Thus, a brief look at the political implications of these belief systems reveals the impossibility of true freedom from a non-supernatural (naturalistic) basis.
The Declaration of Independence states that everyone has unalienable rights given to them by the Creator, God, and that governments exist to protect these rights. Good government is thus only possible when the Creatorship of God is recognized and acknowledged.
Take, for instance, the demise of Athens, the French Revolution, or the dictatorships of Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, or Mao Tse-tung. Each came about when the Creatorship of a supernatural Supreme Being was rejected, and each was marked by chaos, tyranny, and in most cases, genocide.
It is clear that a free country is a country under absolutes. Absolutes are unchanging principles or Laws. They contain the "unalienable rights" which can never be taken away.
There is only one source which could make absolutes and rights for all mankind. It is mankind's Creator. That is why free countries have always recognized the existence of God. On the other hand, if no absolutes (rights) exist, no limitations can be put on government. There could be no such thing as tyranny, because there would be no right or wrong. Thus, countries which are not under God’s absolutes can never be free, but are governed arbitrarily and lawlessly. Relativism and naturalism can only produce despotism.
Even in America, proponents of Evolution are already teaching a new idea of a “living” Constitution which evolves with the people, and a new system of “rights” which can be created or destroyed at the whim of the State! Instead of unalienable rights, citizens are being granted ever-changable government privileges.
Thomas Jefferson once asked, “Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God?” Truly, an ignoring of the supernatural can only be a dismissal of our republic in favor of a dictatorship, and thus, to oppose this danger is not only Christian, but American.
-R. Josiah Magnuson
(this article posted several other places as well)
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