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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton What is certain is that the changes that have occured over the last two centuries makes those views moot. [/quote]That is hardly the case. These are fundamental principles, with extreme bearing to today’s events. Why do you decide what views are moot, where does it stop, the Declaration of Impendence, the Constitution, our own Bill of Rights, The Bible, where I ask you? Indeed I say, that if these views are moot, then all wisdom of old is lost, and we are doomed; a fate worse than death at that, the fate of ignorance. If rejected what is to keep our country from going down the long slippery path of socialism France took; If the foundation of our country is allowed to crumble, and freedom becomes a myth, all the deaths of the Revolution, Civil war, and many others, were in vain. "Only lay down true principles, and adhere to them inflexibly."- Thomas Jefferson, 1816" To proclaim these views outdated is to make a mockery of all they worked so hard for! Is even Liberty outdated? [quote]QUOTE: …Many will argue that were it not for government expenditures to build infrastructure and develope technology our society would not have advanced as far as we have… … If you want to live in times like theirs, you are going to have to find a time machine or move to a present day third world country… [/quote] You have missed the point entirely; it was these very principles that allowed society to get as far as it did. Assuming that history too is not moot. Let us take a look back even father into antiquity; back to the old Roman Republic. In 500 B.C. the inhabitants of Britain lived in primitive log huts with dirt floors. Along cam those old principles of capitalism and freedom, in the form of the Roman Republic, which our founding fathers had the wisdom to base our society on the same ideals. By 200A.D Roman civilization brought large tile roofed buildings with mosaic floors, plumbing, baths, glass windows, and central heating. But corruption was at work, the principles of old were declared moot. And so, the infamous Roman Empire was born, it could not last as the scolism seeped into it began to crumble. By 500 A.D the people were back to their log huts, and unsanitary conditions, as they had one thousand years earlier. A great book called Ancient Rome How it Affects You Today, by Richard J. Maybury, a history, and economics teacher, explains how history is repeating between Rome and the US. Part of his premise is that the Romans were on the verge of a industrial revolution, the one we hit in 1776, freedom is what got us to where we are today; out of our mud huts, and into our cars. To achieve, liberty should be our goal, not to live with their technology, but to live with their God inspired ideas.
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