The indictment is grounded in an Act of Parliament which is directly repugnant to the Law of God. The King in Parliament cannot bestow the Supremacy of the Church because it is a Spiritual Supremacy! And more to this the immunity of the Church is promised both in Magna Carta and the King’s own Coronation Oath!
Saint Thomas More, A Man For All Seasons screenplay
This is the way freedom dies: emergencies that eliminate liberties as old as Magna Carta. I would prefer a Black Sniffles death toll ten times the inflated numbers that we currently have to this. Kipling warned us:
AT Runnymede, at Runnymede
What say the reeds at Runnymede?
The lissom reeds that give and take,
That bend so far, but never break,
They keep the sleepy Thames awake
With tales of John at Runnymede.
At Runnymede, at Runnymede,
Oh, hear the reeds at Runnymede:–
“You mustn’t sell, delay, deny,
A freeman’s right or liberty.
It makes the stubborn Englishry,
We saw ’em roused at Runnymede!
“When through our ranks the Barons came,
With little thought of praise or blame,
But resolute to play the game,
They lumbered up to Runnymede;
And there they launched in solid time
The first attack on Right Divine–
The curt, uncompromising ‘Sign!’
That settled John at Runnymede.
“At Runnymede, at Runnymede,
Your rights were won at Runnymede!
No freeman shall be fined or bound,
Or dispossessed of freehold ground,
Except by lawful judgment found
And passed upon him by his peers.
Forget not, after all these years,
The Charter Signed at Runnymede.”
And still when Mob or Monarch lays
Too rude a hand on English ways,
The whisper wakes, the shudder plays,
Across the reeds at Runnymede.
And Thames, that knows the moods of kings,
And crowds and priests and suchlike things,
Rolls deep and dreadful as he brings
Their warning down from Runnymede!
“I would prefer a Black Sniffles death toll ten times the inflated numbers that we currently have to this.”
Or any death toll, for that matter.
This is what our forefathers fought for. They shed blood on our land and invisibly shed their blood and disappeared on land far from home. By the millions, they offered themselves and their children. Why? Because they fought for things that transcend life; principles more important than mere existence. They fought for the God given rights inherent in being free, autonomous creations of God Almighty. We are not a Christian nation, too bad. But we are a nation which provides fertile soil for Christians to thrive at the micro level of home and community.
They fought for that.
In our day, most don’t believe in God and so have nothing worth fighting for beyond the next breath, the next meal, the next beer, the next sex, the next car, home, cruise, game. Existence – prolong it. That’s pretty much it. What else, really, is there? Which is why people go apoplectic over others not wearing a mask. You threaten their “existence”. Their religion is existence. Threaten that, threaten everything.
And so, the question must be asked: do we still have a nation? Does America still stand? If we no longer commonly assent to “we hold these truths to be self evident” I would say no. These founding documents are more than just mere words on a page. They are the structure for a nation that is built on common consensus in Divine Truths, codified into governing language. We are not an ethnic nation. We are a Constitutional Republic that assents commonly to existential governing Truths. Lose that, lose the nation.
I believe Covid did not cause our dissolution. It merely exposed the inner spiritual dissolution already dissolved. Perhaps the Chinese know us better than we know ourselves.
Ammendment: what I wrote above does not describe all of America. There is conflict between one vision of America and another. I believe the MAGA movement is essentially the vast majority of Americans reasserting the principles of our self-governing, Constitutional Republic based on the Magna Carta Truths of our founding documents. The impeachments civil and political violence have been the visible signs of the spiritual (not military) struggle for our nation.
There are those who love America and wish to restore her to its roots. There are those who hate America, in alliance with CCP, false Catholic and global government fascists.
We are not defeated. We are in a cold-war style struggle. I think we are now fully awakened to what was an invisible threat, unseen no longer.
I believe there will be many amazing, restorative turns in our future.
Aqua, I believe your observations are spot on, and I dearly hope your prognostication is also.