They may not all have been Christian but God's hand was upon them
in their wisdom, intellect and integrity. There are so very few today
who could even dialogue on the same level with them. I'm referring to
our Founding Fathers. They themselves looked up to men before them such
as John Locke, Edmund Burke and particularly Charles de Montesquieu. I'm
convinced that lawyer, author and conservative radio talk show host
Mark Levin is one of those very few!
I read his new book Plunder And Deceit and I'm listening to the CDs right now for the third time. There is an analogy in this with Christian writers, R. C. Sproul and Michael Horton being two, who have been gifted as were men of the past such as John Calvin and Martin Luther; but as for secular political philosophers, it is Mark Levin that could have been a contributor and even an influence at our Constitutional Convention.
I have been a professing Christian for roughly thirty-three years and when I open God's Word tonight it will amaze me anew over yesterday, and when I open it tomorrow, Lord willing, it will amaze me anew over today. Such is it with God's Word to us. Words and ideas of men...alone... will not heal America, but God will not heal us without words and ideas either. So I recommend this book by Mark Levin. If nothing else we may see by reading it how far our wisdom has been removed from us, how far ahead of us were our Founding Fathers, and we might just contemplate who it is that grants wisdom and can take it away as easily!
The following are two paragraphs from Plunder And Deceit. The first is from the pen of Mark Levin from his chapter on education, and the second Levin quotes from the pen of Montesquieu:
"There are salient realities that very few in the academy will acknowledge. The most prominent is that education is not supposed to be about administrators and educational bureaucrats, labor unions, tenured educators, improvident construction projects, and statist indoctrination. It is supposed to be about the enrichment and improvement of young people and society. Students are not lab rats to be subjected to endless educational experiments; they are not Pavlov's dog to be conditioned as societal malcontents; and they and their families (and the taxpayers) are not cash cows for reckless spending and debt assumption. The failure of American education is an unforgivable dereliction of one generation to the next."
"...there are three kinds of government, REPUBLICAN, MONARCHICAL, and DESPOTIC...I assume three definitions, or rather, three facts: one, republican government is that in which the people as a body, or only a part of the people, have sovereign power; monarchical government is that in which one alone governs, but by fixed and established laws; whereas, in a despotic government, one alone, without law and without rule, draws everything along by his will and caprices" (Italics in
original)
note: My book review on Plunder And Deceit can be found on my September 1 post.
I read his new book Plunder And Deceit and I'm listening to the CDs right now for the third time. There is an analogy in this with Christian writers, R. C. Sproul and Michael Horton being two, who have been gifted as were men of the past such as John Calvin and Martin Luther; but as for secular political philosophers, it is Mark Levin that could have been a contributor and even an influence at our Constitutional Convention.
I have been a professing Christian for roughly thirty-three years and when I open God's Word tonight it will amaze me anew over yesterday, and when I open it tomorrow, Lord willing, it will amaze me anew over today. Such is it with God's Word to us. Words and ideas of men...alone... will not heal America, but God will not heal us without words and ideas either. So I recommend this book by Mark Levin. If nothing else we may see by reading it how far our wisdom has been removed from us, how far ahead of us were our Founding Fathers, and we might just contemplate who it is that grants wisdom and can take it away as easily!
The following are two paragraphs from Plunder And Deceit. The first is from the pen of Mark Levin from his chapter on education, and the second Levin quotes from the pen of Montesquieu:
"There are salient realities that very few in the academy will acknowledge. The most prominent is that education is not supposed to be about administrators and educational bureaucrats, labor unions, tenured educators, improvident construction projects, and statist indoctrination. It is supposed to be about the enrichment and improvement of young people and society. Students are not lab rats to be subjected to endless educational experiments; they are not Pavlov's dog to be conditioned as societal malcontents; and they and their families (and the taxpayers) are not cash cows for reckless spending and debt assumption. The failure of American education is an unforgivable dereliction of one generation to the next."
"...there are three kinds of government, REPUBLICAN, MONARCHICAL, and DESPOTIC...I assume three definitions, or rather, three facts: one, republican government is that in which the people as a body, or only a part of the people, have sovereign power; monarchical government is that in which one alone governs, but by fixed and established laws; whereas, in a despotic government, one alone, without law and without rule, draws everything along by his will and caprices" (Italics in
original)
note: My book review on Plunder And Deceit can be found on my September 1 post.
