OPINION:
Two op-eds in Monday’s paper, “The war over moral authority” by Robert Knight and “The decline of religion affects everything” by Don Feder, demonstrate the authors’ ignorance of the “self-evident” “Truths” expressed in the Declaration of Independence.
Since the creation of the U.S. Constitution our nation has repeatedly failed to protect the “inalienable Rights” ordained within the Declaration’s first paragraph as “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.”
Neither the Constitution nor the United Nations Charter has demonstrated moral authority in their laws. Both persistently fail to protect “inalienable Rights.” The U.S. has the power, then kills others without due process or a consequence. The U.N. has no power to protect, kill or offer consequences. Both systems were intentionally engineered with this moral flaw.
Mr. Feder is correct: The decline of religion affects everything. But religious faith is not the glue that holds us together. That would be the Golden Rule religions preaches but fails to prioritize. And in the “self-evident” “Truths” offered in 1776. These are the glue that builds trust and holds everything together.
Even now, different religious factions slaughter each other at will in the Middle East. This has the world flirting with Armageddon. The Bible is not a real estate manual. And God values ever life the same. Acting otherwise is form of mental illness and this insanity must stop.
Abraham Lincoln wrote that the Declaration is our “Apple of Gold” and our Constitution its “Frame of Silver.” He also claimed the Declaration was made ‘for everyone, everywhere, for all time.”
John Adams and Benjamin Franklin warned that only a virtuous people should put faith in the Constitution. Thus, worse days are coming. Those lines governments draw on maps mean nothing to pandemics, extreme climate events, violent extremists, economic contagion, weapons of mass destruction or the toxins made by creative minds for money and power.
All the world’s problems are simple to solve; we just need to follow 10 words. Keep people and nature healthy. Don’t believe everything you think.
CHUCK WOOLERY
Former chair, United Nations Association, Council of Organizations
Rockville, Maryland
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