Offsite Post: ‘The US and the Black Abyss of Revolution’

 

There is a school of thought about the United States’ War for Independence (1776-83), that it was fought to prevent a revolution rather than to initiate one.  No one ought to believe it.  From that time until today, Titanic hubris directed against the primordial foundation of human society – an official religion and a kingly ruler, both established by divine ordinance – has been the dominant force guiding the United States.  The two foremost political philosophers who sought to justify a liberated US in the 18^th century – John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (representative of Yankeeland and Dixieland, respectively) – leave no doubt about this.  Here is Jefferson writing to Adams:

‘we are destined to be a barrier against the returns of ignorance and barbarism. old Europe will have to lean on our shoulders, and to hobble along by our side, under the monkish trammels of priests & kings, as she can. what a Colossus shall we be when the Southern continent comes up to our mark! what a stand will it secure as a ralliance for the reason & freedom of the globe! I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. so good night! I will dream on, always fancying that mrs Adams and yourself are by my side marking the progress and the obliquities of ages and countries.’

Likewise, here is Mr Adams casting his own aspersions on the old order:

‘John Adams explained in perfect Enlightenment style why the Framers had rejected any divine intrusion into their work:  “It was the general opinion of ancient nations that the Divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to men,” he wrote, but the new state and federal governments of America “have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature”—principles that had somehow eluded man’s understanding until 1787.  Further, Adams declared, it must not be pretended that those involved in devising these new governments “had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise and agriculture. . . .”  Rather, Adams predicted:  “[I]t will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.”  Nor would Locke have had it any other way’ (Christopher Ferrara, Liberty: The God That Failed, Tacoma, Wash., Angelico Press, 2012, p. 550).

Early citizens of the US were apprehensive about what kind of society had been set up by leaders like Jefferson, Adams, etc.:

In 1811, ‘Samuel Austin, President of the University of Vermont, warned his congregation in a published sermon that the Constitution “has one capital defect which will issue inevitably in its destruction.  It is entirely disconnected from Christianity”’ (Ibid., p. 525).

Samuel Taggart of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, who served as a Presbyterian minister and as a US representative, warned in 1812, ‘ . . . it [the US constitution] takes no notice of, and is not at all connected with religion.  . . . It is a bold experiment, and one which, I fear, can only issue in national apostasy and national ruin’ (Ibid.).

Nevertheless, contemporary supporters of the ‘American experiment’ still happily gush about the States’ overthrow of the God-established order.  Here is William Federer, for example, exulting in the downfall of kingship:

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The rest is here:

https://www.geopolitika.ru/en/article/us-and-black-abyss-revolution

And also here:

https://katehon.com/en/article/us-and-black-abyss-revolution

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Anathema to the Union!