Solange Hertz

“THE Declaration of Independence states:

We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government …

“Here is formal canonization of revolution. In the face of it, to insist that Church and state must – or can – remain separate is to make every citizen a moral schizophrenic. To tell him it’s ‘self-evident’ that all men are created equal leads him to deny the evidence of his senses; to tell him that authority comes only from the people, is to make of him a formal revolutionary with a mandate to turn against any authority that doesn’t suit him. This is why ‘democracy,’ doomed from the beginning, is even now disintegrating beyond repair.”

— Solange Herz, The Star-Spangled Heresy: Americanism (Kindle Locations 5500-5507). Tumblar House.

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