To John Blake (#12): how easily you praise the “enlightenment” for our prosperity while denigrating “sectarian dogma…” as if it’s by mere accident that the American people were once able to make our Constitution work.

Ever hear of the Protestant Work Ethic?

Ever read the scripture,

“If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.

For we hear that there are some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, not working at all, but are busybodies. Now those who are such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ that they work in quietness and eat their own bread.” (II Th 3:10-12)

This is what once drove Americans, not some French idea of “enlightenment.”

It is the abandonment of the Protestant Work Ethic and replacing it with a philosophy of “something for nothing” and “what’s yours is mine” that is destroying us.