Cartoon 751: Belief

As humans we experience life through the lens of our culture. Culture is a powerful all embracing force. It is often myopic, narcissistic, and obstinate. Today in America we believe in enduring words. As a culture we believe this even though it flies in the face of facts.

The Constitution of the United States was crafted over 200 years ago by the elite of the times. They were of the wealthy and landed aristocracy. Some of them were intellectuals like Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and Ben Franklin. 

The document they put together was designed purely to meet an immediate need. The need was to sustain a union to continue the fight against the British. They took a forward thinking approach to achieve buy-in. They wrote the document as if they had won the ongoing war and gave a vision of things immediately after the war. They did not view it as crafting an enduring legacy of absolutes.

Then how has the document endured? The Constitution of the United States has survived because of liberal interpretations in sync with the times. Today, more than ever, the Constitution has also been usurped to provide a vehicle to justify a power grab in government. One party seems to have effectively captured the minds and souls of the people on its relevance and interpretation. Any question of its true origins as an enduring document fly in the face of America culture today.

History is often ironic. The founding fathers were not the religious adherents we credit to them today. It is a matter of record from their deliberations that they had a real concern of religious influence intruding in government and took special measurements for separation of church and State.

America is a culture rooted in the belief of another absolute enduring document, The King James version of the Bible. How it was crafted is well documented.

If you question the Constitution, than by inference, you are also questioning the Bible. In America that is a cultural anathema.