Greetings, Gentle Reader

Humans have had the Ten Commandments for millennia, and the majority have ignored them. But, though we have always picked and chosen which commandments we wanted to obey, our founding fathers wisely based both the laws of our country and the values of our society on them. Their wisdom and confidence were not misplaced; their system worked until we decided we were smarter than they.

By now we have become so brilliant that we have replaced the orderly society they bequeathed us with a suicidal/homicidal mass of squirming humanity, who spend their lives frantically seeking pleasure and some degree of peace. The former is fleeting and the latter increasingly elusive, in a society saturated with drugs and violence, so we have turned to Prozac, instead.

When the commandments that created our orderly society became an encumbrance, we threw them out; then we permitted our leaders, academic and political, to establish a culture aggressively hostile to those commandments.

It is fashionable for leaders to worry whether the Ten Commandments are offensive to the tender sensibilities of some people; and indeed, they are. They have always been offensive to certain people, but that wasn’t sufficient reason to banish them until the latter half of the 20th century.

Part of the credit for the banishment must go to the creators and purveyors of political correctness, or P.C. It is impossible for P.C. and the Ten Commandments to co-exist. P.C. demands that one violate the Ten Commandments, and the Ten Commandments demand that one violate the precepts of P.C. It’s one or the other.

There is a time in a young person’s life when he is open to ideas that contradict those taught in his home, and it is when he leaves home. He becomes subject to values and precepts that are foreign to his upbringing. At college, he finds people radically different from those he left behind, whether students or professors. It is relatively easy to embrace ideas and behaviors that are personally and socially destructive under those circumstances, and many students do.

The ACLU has fought a battle against anything and everything Christian, almost by themselves. But they lacked something to take the place of the commandments, something that people would accept, something that would allow them to feel virtuous without their having to be virtuous. And that something had to be taught by our nation’s teachers, because the only way to replace one philosophy, in its entirety, with another, is to teach it to very young children. That’s where P.C. came in.

When the ’60s radicals were sent into America’s schools by their leaders, they injected their philosophies into the curriculum. Within one generation, the values to which Americans had adhered for 300-plus years had been successfully scrapped, replaced by drugs and culturally destructive values.

It is not that our ancestors lived all the Ten Commandments. They were like us. There were thieves, robbers, con men, murderers and every sort of rat, just as there are now. The difference is that the rotten ones were not held up to the younger generation to be emulated. They were looked down upon by decent people.

It is different now. Our children’s idols are increasingly degenerate. Anyone who doubts this should listen to rap music. It glorifies every form of human depravity. It encourages viciousness and violence. And that’s just the rap; that doesn’t include the lyrics to modern songs, which tend to promote a destructive lifestyle.

Show-business idols rarely live a lifestyle conducive to any degree of happiness. They change sex partners the way our ancestors changed their socks. They contract venereal diseases as a result, so they campaign for federal funds to solve their problems. They know they are diseased because of their promiscuity, but many see no reason why they should take responsibility for their condition. Irresponsibility has become a way of life, and they know there are almost no political readers with the courage to place the responsibility where it belongs.

The work our founding fathers accomplished is unparalleled in modern time, but their great accomplishments notwithstanding, they were humans with human faults, and in order to make their work vulnerable to attack, they have been portrayed as dishonorable individuals.