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In what ideas and beliefs is the spirit of the Fourth of July, Independence Day, ordered liberty, and the rights of men rooted?
With due respect for those championing that root as "Scottish Common Sense Realism," or SCSR for short, as we consider many as friends, this SCRM most certainly was not the root of that good tree. Rather, SCSR was one of the first vines that arose to strangle the tree of liberty.
This can be proven in three distinct and damning ways. The first two of these proofs is rooted in the internal logic and consequences of ideas, and in the character of the "fathers" of SCSR. The "fathers" of SCSR were all, by confession, Presbyterian - more than mere Congregants, many were ordained ministers ("Shepherds" and "Elders" by Scriptural standards). As such they stood on the shoulders of giants of the faith, and of the Scottish Reformation, such as John Knox.
The first principle of the Reformation, generally, and Scottish Reformation, particularly, was Sola Scriptura: Scripture, alone, is God-breathed, inerrant, and the standard by which all else is measured. As such, Reformers, generally, and Scottish Reformers such as John Knox, particularly, wholly rejected the manmade, Pagan philosophy of Aristotle, the importation of this philosophy by Aquinas, and the Scholastics broadly. Put plainly, Natural Law cannot coexist with the Reformed doctrine of Sola Scriptura. It was on the doctrines and works of these Reformers, not of SCSR apostasy, that the virtues of ordered liberty, government-subordinated-to-God, spheres theology, and the earnest pursuit of His blessings over the nation "who's God is Yahweh" stood.
This doctrine of Sola Scriptura was foundational to the Presbyterian, Reformed faith the SCSR proponents, such as Reid, paid lip service to, but they did so while knowingly undermining this cornerstone doctrine with the importation of Scholastic Natural Law, and the outright rejection of the plain language of Scripture. His Word is overwhelmingly clear that it is God's Law, not man's reason, that is a firm foundation for our lives.
Why did they do this? Because they were concerned not with keeping the faith for which those just 150-years prior had died Martyrs, but rather with synthesizing the Scottish Enlightenment - arising in the aftermath of the Scottish Reformation, which swept Europe with it's "enlightened" ideas tied, largely, to esotericism and Romanticism - and Greek philosophies with their bequeathed Presbyterian faith and culture.
In other words, the SCSR founders character can be seen in contrasting what they professed with their mouth - the faith of their fathers - with their deeds as they actively undermined their profession. This ought to be seen as damning, as the foundations of SCSR do not lie in the moral fortitude of those such as Knox and the Martyrs, but in the subterfuge of liars who knowingly perverted their faith.
The internal logic of the overturning of Sola Scriptura in favor of SCSR during the Scottish Enlightenment was that of unmooring a ship in harbor during a storm. What once was guided by His Word and the limited number of reasonable alternative interpretations of that universally accessible Word was now guided by the infinitely possible paths of gnosis, as people began to turn inward to interpret their autonomous moral code - subject, fully of course, to the Scripturally-documented propensity of man to lie to even himself to excuse his sin.
The third proof arises in the timeline of events that aligns with the rise of SCSR and the Scottish Enlightenment that was immediately proceeded by moral degradation, the abandonment of God's Law and substitution with mans autonomy, and the uninterrupted slide into precisely what Scotland has become today.
This same timeline was mirrored in America. Even by the time of the Founding Fathers some of them, and a significant slice of the culture, had abandoned the bequeathed good order and virtue of the Puritan Faith (itself hugely influenced by the Scottish Reformation, not SCSR) of their fathers in syncretism with "enlightenment" ideals. They, like the Scottish before them, had handed to them a society formed by a moral order as ordained by the Lord Himself, but in their rejection of His Word as the sole basis for their law they set us off on an unsure foundation.
Nonetheless, the founders of America retained enough of the foundational basis of this faith of their fathers within our founding documents to slow the decaying march of esoteric enlightenment ideas - such explains our more limited and slower slide into abject tyranny as compared to the Scots. However, we do now see what the ultimate result is of rejecting His Law for our own, as derived through the gnostic sense of "Natural Law," wherein the moral order is sought not in His Good Book, but by divination of the intellect, as though contacting the mind of God directly in interacting with His creation.
Prophesy that mankind is made to and capable of comprehending Him through all that is around us is not something you will not find a basis for in His Scriptures. It is something for which you must turn to the Greeks for support of, and there's a reason their empire is no longer with us today.
We arrive now at our final episode in our American Caesar series. We discuss here the specific mechanisms, ethical considerations, and tactical moves necessary in the Executive who might restore the republic. It’s not an easy thing to consider, but it’s high time that it must be.
This also likely marks the last public episode of this format - hence, the reversal of the prior decision to make this available only to paid subscribers. It is necessary for us to explore other formats going forward, as the cost of producing these videos has increased, and it has not been met with a commensurate increase in paid subscriptions. As we have operated for months at a loss we must now change. We are exploring the possibility of moving forward with a podcast-like format. However, though presently unknown, there is an expiration date on the Counterspell project unless a significant increase in support can be gained. We hope you might share us with friends towards this end.
Though we long hoped it would never come this time, it has, in fact, come. The reasonable and respectable avenues of normal polity have been cut-off from us. We face an illegitimate, revolutionary and detestable democracy where our constitutional republic belongs.
In our prior subscriber-only episodes we explored the history, precedents, and ethics of where we find ourselves. In the next episode, for subscribers only, we explore the gritty mechanisms from which this might still be accomplished without descending into chaos.
The task of reformation now falls to the only office in the land capable of carrying it forward: the President.
Here, we take a moment to discuss the necessity of laying out a little bit of coin to properly equip yourself for a role in neighborhood watch - or, perhaps, “neighborhood-watch plus.”
We’ll be continuing with our series on American Caesar, largely for subscribers only, soon. You may not presently see the connection between these topics, but, we assure you, it is there.
Let me start by thanking you all for your patience and the relative slow speed of content production as of late. The winter has been quite difficult in terms of health, and the legislative session has been extremely busy with my serving on two committees due to a resignation that left House Education short. However, I hope you’ll be quite happy to know that a major book release is now only 1 week away. The Right is getting a reason to get excited about May Day - a day when the Left is planning to run an economic boycott to hurt American and Americans. Sure would be a shame if we turned the book into a bestseller on their boycott day…
I can also announce that this is only the first of several planned books. This, being the first and foundation of those to come, will be the most comprehensive and generalist manual on identifying how the enemy works and what we must do to get to the victory we all desire. For that reason, the subtitle of the book is The Field Manual for the Counter-Revolution. The title, in ...
How the Biden Regime Brought the War Home.
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With the release of the newly declassified internal strategy and policy document on “countering violent extremism” from DNI Tulsi Gabbard we have an opening to provide in-depth analysis on “how the sausage was made” in terms of turning America into a authoritarian police state, targeting decent Americans as “terrorists” and “extremists,” and more.
We undertake this analysis with the purpose of tying it all to the prior lessons we’ve gone through with our audience. It can sometime be difficult to envision how the abstract lessons on esoterica, political theory, and more that we provide translate directly to the reality we see around us. This analysis follows on the prior analysis, years ago, ...
We are excited to announce a new messaging campaign building on (and coopting, in part) current efforts to establish “Liberty” as a bedrock American principle going forward. This effort is made possible by our subscribers. Please consider subscribing to support this and future efforts.
For those active in these social media circles you’ll likely recognize the structure of what we now present as being similar, though divergent from, other efforts that are ongoing. We undertake this for several reasons:
Liberty is, was, and ought to be a bedrock principle of Americanism.
Recent efforts have, unintentionally (we believe), alienated numerous groups of persons that ought to be allies of Liberty by undertaking a messaging effort that, on its face, transgressed foundational Christian principles due to misunderstanding in theology.
To establish “Liberty” not as a good in and of itself, but as a necessary precondition to adequately pursue goodness, and as an affirmative command from our Lord ...
