Back in the formative days of humanity, when mankind was tribal in nature, there was an incredible emphasis placed upon gods in day-to-day life. The nomadic and agrarian peoples of ancient times relied on unseen beings to control the weather, the seasons, and the bounty of forest and sea. By doing so, many societies of the day ultimately became extinct because they essentially gave up on their own actions and ingenuity, choosing to fully rely on their unknown master to get them out of any disastrous situation that may have occurred. In a sort of Darwinistic development, as those societies flopped the smarter and more self-reliant societies grew and aggressively took control of the world around them rather than passively allowing that world to control them.

There was a major underlying reason behind this success. As mankind changed for the better and became more advanced, so did their religions. Gone were the environmental gods, those micromanagers of sun, rain, wind, and animal. They were replaced by the singularly-powerful, omnipotent Great Overseers that define the world’s two largest religions, Christianity and Islam. These "big picture" gods are nowhere near as intrusive as the legions of gods that were worshipped long ago. Instead, these gods and their religions have created their own worlds in which their people can flourish and achieve glorious rewards, given that they follow a simplistic yet defined path of morality and rules. By instilling virtue and responsibility - with just a little help from above - into its peoples, the followers of these religions (especially the Christians) flourished because of self-reliance. They were empowered to control their own destinies: The quality of their lives and afterlives are a direct result of what they do for themselves and others.

Advancing this success, the United States of America applied this set of mores to its very foundation, becoming somewhat of a religion itself, nearly identical in the aforementioned ways of promoting self-reliance. The Bill of Rights and Constitution did just as the Bible and Koran, creating an environment in which people could pursue their lives and reap the rewards of their sweat and tears. Our citizens could achieve their own personal heaven given that they followed the basic and timeless set of laws defined within the founding documents, our Constitutional amendments comparable in importance and scope to Christianity’s Ten Commandments. Because of this similarity to the practices of modern religions, the United States quickly became – and continues to be - the greatest society this world has ever known. The freedoms, quality of life, and material and metaphysical rewards that have been reaped by hundreds of millions thanks to the American Way are legitimately without peer, our land a veritable heaven on Earth.

Even though we reign supreme now it is unknown how long we can maintain this success. We as a people are losing our religion in a Constitutional sense. The American people are, in a continuous and disturbing way, ditching the tenets of self-reliance and reverting to the helpless ways of the ancient societies that had pushed them to collapse. Rather than worshipping and requiring help from unseen micromanaging deities today’s citizens are worshipping and requiring help from all levels of our government, the new age deity. They want the government to, like the gods of old, do everything for them. As every generation passes, more and more people are forgoing their wits, self-respect and responsibilities, demanding that the government control their very existence and give them comfort and safety, providing for their very existence. The list of demands is without end; the people want an omnipotent government to give them healthcare, job security, retirement security, housing, social welfare, fiscal stability, education, property insurance, and so much more….all things that they should really take responsibility for and control on their own.

These simple-minded and corrupted souls who are worshipping Big Government and denying the morally prudent values of the Constitution want the government to be something that the Founding Fathers had never intended. Without a doubt, those who framed the context of our nation and fought for its independence from tyranny are rolling in their graves watching their descendants clamor for – if not outright praying for - an all-controlling and all-knowing God-like government. It’s quite sad, for as America’s Bible – the Constitution – gradually becomes a thing of the past, so will America.