Treason Stalks the Shadows, Patriots Walk in Light

- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Statesman, Roman Republic (106-43 BC)

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear."

-- George Washington, 1st President of the United States (1789-1797), "Farewell Address"

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."

When George Washington wrote these words, Americans were already having trouble with "Mohammedan" brigands that led up to the war against the Barbary Pirates. "America's Earliest Terrorists" So when he spoke of "religion", he didn't mean ISLAM, nor was he Buddhist. He was CHRISTIAN. That was the religion supporting the morality that is indispensable to national security, the one whose churches dot our landscapes from sea to shining sea. May she repent of her worldliness and be revived again to a living hope in her savior and Lord! Those who portray the defense of Christian values in culture and politics as "Christian Taliban" should be ashasmed of themselves. Nor are we any less ignorant of their devices than was Marcus Tullius Cicero. Lord-willing, we should be on our knees praying that we not meet the same fate as Rome, descending into a blood thirsty empire before falling to barbarian hordes.

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