The Family:The Greatest Fortress Of Human Liberty

The Family:The Greatest Fortress Of Human Liberty.

“The greatest fortress of human liberty, proof against all earthly
powers, is the Family. In it’s small private space, it can defy the
will of authority and the might of wealth.

It is without doubt the most effective means of passing lore, culture,
manners and traditions down through the generations. Its loyalties
are stronger than those of the state, more powerful even than patriotism.

All serious tyrannies have sought to undermine or infiltrate it, socialist
tyrannies most of all. (eg. the former U.S.S.R.) …The huge, wedge-shaped
Place of Weddings in Kiev was known locally as ‘The Bermuda Triangle’
because so many of the marriages solemnized there later disappeared
without a trace. Divorce was deliberately made as easy as possible, while
abortion was an out-patient treatment, so trivial and cheap that many women
had seven or more abortions in a lifetime. (in the former U.S.S.R.)

There are many explanations for authority’s mistrust of the Family. The main
one is that it cannot control what goes on there, what ideas are taught, what
wealth is stored up, what loyalties are fostered.

Perhaps more galling for those who believe that government action solves all
problems, a fully functioning Family does not OWE the state anything much.
If it feeds itself, clothes and schools it’s children and cares for it’s old and ill,
it does not need to show the almost feudal fealty to government demanded
of the rest of us in an age where the authorities, rather than God…seem to
be in charge of everything and to require most of our money to pay for their
services….

Full Family independence would undermine the government’s supposed right
to demand heavy taxation.

It would also leave people free to cling to individual ideas of conscience,
rather than the nationalized ‘social’ conscience which measures a citizen’s
value by how much tax he is willing to pay.

The freer a society is, the more it leaves the Family alone…”

__From The Abolition Of Britain by Peter Hitchens pp.190-192

Marriage and the Family is the one and only barrier/obstacle to stop
the all powerful state from it’s natural tendency to rule by tyranny.
Destroy marriage and the Family and soon you will have the all powerful
state at your door first for your money (heavy taxes) then to take away
your rights and freedoms under one pretense or another. This is true
because the break down of marriage and the Family creates huge social
problems and dilemmas that only an all powerful government can “fix.”
And they need your tax dollars and some of your rights and freedoms in
order to “fix” the resulting social mess created by the breakdown of marriage
and the Family. (Which “fix” btw, only creates more and deeper social problems
and dilemmas that need more and more tax dollars to “fix.”)

One could make this culture war a battle front to preserve the Christian/American
Family, draw the battle line there, and he would be at precisely the right spot. If
we win the Battle For The Family we will automatically win this culture war, and if
we lose the Battle For The Family then we’ll lose this culture war no matter how
many other minor skirmishes and battles we win.

Btw, there is no reason to assume we will lose this culture war, and many reasons
to believe that we will eventually win it. Here is one reason right here: “…THEN
the end will come, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father AFTER
He has destroyed ALL dominion, authority and power. For He must reign UNTIL
He has put ALL His enemies under His feet…” I Corinthians 15:24,25 (caps mine)

That Biblical text sounds like our side wins at some point on the time line, doesn’t it !

“…Then the end will come…” That would be the end of time, right ? It would seem so.
And if that is the correct interpretation of that phrase, then we have a pretty clear statement
from the Biblical text that the Lord will reign in history “…until He has put all His enemies under His feet…”

“…AFTER He has destroyed ALL dominion, authority and power…” (caps mine)

That’s just another way of saying that our side wins this war at some point on the time line. (That is a very encouraging verse of Scripture as we fight this culture war.)

The Lord Himself is the originator and designer of the Christian Family and some of us believe that
this vital institution will not be defeated in the Earth, but will be sustained and protected by the Lord Himself, through mercy and grace, even in the darkest of political times.

Jack Hectormann of OneMillionConservatives.Org