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Most Western constitutions were drafted to rest on Biblical foundations which acknowledge the will of God for families, churches and civil governments. Today the drivers of drastic constitutional overhaul are re-writing the language with the obsessive revolutionary aim to dismantle those Biblical theological foundations.
Here’s an example to watch:
On Friday March 8th, revolutionary anti-Christian bureaucrats in Ireland are demanding that the people show up at the polls to approve some new constitutional language which will gut the importance and protection of family and motherhood from national life.
Fortunately, the people can vote to keep the original language. But the media is urging them to scrap it.
Read the original language here and you will see immediately why the revolutionaries want to mutate it:
1° The State recognises the Family as the natural primary and fundamental unit group of Society, and as a moral institution possessing inalienable and imprescriptible rights, antecedent and superior to all positive law.
2° The State, therefore, guarantees to protect the Family in its constitution and authority, as the necessary basis of social order and as indispensable to the welfare of the Nation and the State.
[That ‘necessary basis of social order’ is based on marriage, which is why:]
1° The State pledges itself to guard with special care the institution of Marriage, on which the Family is founded, and to protect it against attack.
Well, the attack came, the State did not obey constitutional law, and now the people in this referendum are the final protection against the attack. What will they do on March 8th?
The narrow strait is the most important chokepoint for the world's oil supply. Some 21 million barrels — or $1.2 billion worth of oil — pass through the strait every day.
Will a closed Strait hurt Iran? In terms of international oil sales, yes, but in terms of daily life, no. Iran pumps 3.5 million barrels of crude oil per day. The situation at this hour:
Most people hear “Hormuz” and think gas prices.
That’s part of it. But it’s bigger. It’s a central artery for global trade, and we talked about how disruptions hit second-order systems fast, including inputs tied to food production (field work and fertilizers), trucking, and downstream shocks in everything from shipping insurance to medicine, medical supplies, medical treatments and regional stability.
This is why the “we’re energy independent so it doesn’t matter” line is naive. In a globally priced commodity world, you don’t get to opt out.
Former Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali comes to Christ and discovers the supernatural Christian heritage of West, and how worldly families destroyed it. She is now married and living in the US.
"I like Os Guinness’s analogy of the cut flower civilization. I find it very vivid in regard to non-Christian conservative parents. Conservative non-Christian families are cutting themselves off from our foundational roots.
Let’s think about what happens to a plant when the roots die. What happens when you pick flowers and put them in a vase? Obviously, the flowers wither. And if you cut conservative morals off from Christianity, they fade.
"This decline is exactly what we have seen in the West over the last century and a half. Some people say the decay dates back to the Enlightenment. It’s a gradual fading that goes on and on. My fear is that we have landed in a place of moral wilderness.
"For the West to restore itself, it has to rediscover and revive its biblical roots. I insist that the biblical...
