What we are today.

I hate getting my inspiration from the Drudgereport, because everybody reads that anyway.

But I have not been writing much of anything recently, and I have felt as though I have nothing to say. Here, I think is something interesting, which I found on Drudge...

A new capitol visiting center has been opened in D.C. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) doesn't like it too much. See this article.

One interesting part of DeMint's statement is:

The current CVC displays are left-leaning and in some cases distort our true history. Exhibits portray the federal government as the fulfillment of human ambition and the answer to all of society’s problems. This is a clear departure from acknowledging that Americans’ rights ‘are endowed by their Creator’ and stem from ‘a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence.’ Instead, the CVC’s most prominent display proclaims faith not in God, but in government. Visitors will enter reading a large engraving that states, ‘We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.’ This is an intentional misrepresentation of our nation’s real history, and an offensive refusal to honor America's God-given blessings. [emphasis added].

One angry commenter writes:

Leave it to neanderthal Demint to strike a blow against sanity. I guess he's railing at the fact there are no references to the "flat earth" and that we don't honor our history of slavery. Complete idiot. It's sad that even in this great visitors' center, someone like Demint has to create some straw dog like "left leaning." Unbelievable. [emphasis added]

So here's my point--the new visitors' center is NOT about the past. It's not about history or where we've come from. Rather, it's about today. Who and what are we today? Today, the power structure glorifies itself as what is good. Today, religion is not seen as a positive aspect of our past, but a skeleton to hide in the closet. The commenter quoted above apparently equates our religious heritage with our despicable history of slavery. What are we today? there are always exceptions, but unfortunately, many or most of us are (1) people who actually do deify government (making the capitol the temple of America), and (2) who are satisfied with the Constitution being our oracle.

Let's face it--if the Constitution were the hard, fast document with a definite meaning as argued by such as Justices Thomas and Scalia, the United States would not be very happy about having that as their oracle. After all, if Obama lost his presidency based on Constitutional requirements, there would be a deafening outcry against such a "strict" interpretation of the constitution.

The reason why we let the Constitution be our Oracle is because we (by we, I talk very generally) see it as a "living, breathing document." The people of the United States rebell against a rigid word--they won't follow the word of God, not the word of the Constitution, not the word of our parents or other authorities. The Constitution is our Oracle because it has been interpretively transformed into the maleable, let government do what it wants, don't stop me from doing what I want, give me give me give me, instrument of tyranny and decay it has become.