America began its experiment with secular government after the War Between the States. Now we have the data, and they show demonstrable failure. Low birth rates, a population increasing (if at all) through immigration, and corruption of all human institutions tell the tale. America must abandon secular government, or die.
Roots of secular government in the United States
The United States government, in the days of the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation, was anything but secular. John Adams, in his letter to the Massachusetts Militia, famously said,
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
But in 1875 Rep. James G. Blaine (R-Maine), then Speaker of the House, promulgated his Amendment to all but twelve State Constitutions. That Amendment essentially forbids any State to do anything for its religious community. Louisiana repealed its Blaine Amendment in 1973. Ironically, Maine never ratified a Blaine Amendment, but they might as well have.
Blaine shares the blame with three other nefarious social scientists. Rep. Horace Mann (Whig-Mass.) gave us government schools even before the War Between the States. John Dewey ensured that those schools would be secular. Democracy – as Jean Jacques Rousseau might have imagined it – was his ideal.
Those three men fought to destroy the influence of Catholic schools in America. But they didn’t stop there. Without them, a Communist named Roger Baldwin would never have succeeded, with his American Civil Liberties Union, in driving religion out of the public square.
What secular government promotes
Secular government, the ideal of Blaine and company, promotes nihilism and despair in all areas of human endeavor and law. Every school in America, except for Christian schools and maybe those of some other religions, teaches the Grand Evolutionary Paradigm of the origins of the universe, the Earth, and life. That Paradigm pervades all debate on public policy, on everything from “climate change” to the “endangerment of species.” According to it:
The ages of the universe, the Solar system, and the Earth, are 13.7 billion years, 4.6 billion years, and 4.5 billion years, respectively.
Life on Earth began 3.8 billion years ago. But it somehow “exploded” into its dizzying variety slightly more than half a billion years ago.
Human beings have existed on this Earth for at least four million years, and perhaps as long as eight million.
Of course, civilization did not begin with such a dry vision of how humans came to be. That would come with the sophistication that has always characterized civilization. The ancient Greeks flirted with this idea – and then, of course, the Romans conquered them. Rome eventually fell, and the constituents of the Western Roman Empire continued with the Roman Catholic Church to guide them.
But with the coming of secular government came the promotion of the Grand Evolutionary Paradigm, or “Evolution.” With that, have come all the moral, philosophical, and legal ills of the “developed” world today.
Depopulation and the pursuit of immortality
Among those ills, we now see the depopulation of the Earth. The United States remains today the only “developed” country with a growing population. One should note two things:
That growth is through migration only, not “natural increase” (the excess of births over deaths).
Even in the United States, population is peaking, if it hasn’t peaked already.
Furthermore, one sees explicit holdings of a depopulation ideology in Western law. These include:
Abortion on demand, for any reason or no reason, and
The Alphabet Soup paradigm, which states that gender, and intimate attraction, are fluid.
With regard to that last: occasionally one hears of “promising research” aimed at allowing humans, born into one gender, to exercise the reproductive functions of the other. Don’t believe it. The Western elites, who run the United Nations, specifically say that life expectancy will continue to increase. For that reason, they insist, the world needs fewer people, not more. Thus they have tipped their hand. They are researching immortality, not flexible reproductive options. So they won’t do a thing for those Alphabet Soupers who want to have children other than in a marriage of a man to a woman. The elites want the planet to themselves, and want the rest of us to die out. Which is also why they promote abortion on demand, enlisting the feminists with lurid tales of death in childbirth.
Perversion of astronomy
Secular government, with its education system, has twisted our understanding of astronomy. Of course this twisting has lasted a long time, to support the notion of “billions of years.” But the recent appearance of three long-period comets has introduced absurd pronouncements and predictions.
The three long-period comets, which the astronomical community calls interstellar objects, are:
1I/Oumuamua,
2I/Borisov, and
3I/Atlas.
Each of these objects is appearing, or has appeared, in our skies for the first time – ever. Borisov need not concern us here, and does not concern anyone. It came in 2019, no closer than two AU to the Sun, and went. (AU stands for Astronomical Unit, the semimajor axis of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun.)
But Oumuamua, with its unusual features (in addition to its orbit), scared the living daylights out of many astronomers. It has the shape of a cigar, not the usual snowball. It tumbled as it passed close to the Sun, then the Earth. And on its way out, it allegedly accelerated. This led Jordan “The Angry Astronaut” Wright to conclude that Oumuamua is an uncrewed probe from a galactic lighthouse parked outside the Solar system, at what astronomers call the Galactic Standard of Rest – the frame of reference for motion applicable to the Galaxy as a whole. This probe had orders to sniff at the Earth, then switch on its engines (ion engines?) and blast out.
The aliens are here!
Never mind that any ship that tumbles as it passes, is a derelict, and that no shipwright would ever design a ship with engines that could propel the ship on a straight course while it is tumbling. That hasn’t stopped modern graphic artists from creating fanciful graphics of Oumuamua as a ship.
CNAV has said before what Oumuamua is: a long-period comet, made of material left over from the Global Flood. But of course, the perennial UFOlogist Avi Loeb refuses to consider any theory but one. That is, that an extraterrestrial civilization built Oumuamua, and launched it at us for a closer look.
Now Dr. Loeb is back in the news again, and scare-mongering feverishly about the third “interstellar” object, Atlas. Atlas is much larger than Oumuamua, by an order of magnitude. In fact it is more than six miles wide – wider than the fictitious “Meteor” of the 1979 American International movie. Apparently Atlas is on a course (or rather, trajectory, the path of a thrown object) that will not let it come anywhere near Earth. (Or at least, no nearer than 130 million miles, or about 1.4 AU.) Loeb asks, what if the Atlas object is not only an alien vessel, but a hostile one?
Again Jordan Wright ran with that speculation. He attributed to Loeb a chilling scenario: that Atlas is a gigantic robot with engines that could brake it and send it crashing into Earth. Such an outcome would, of course, destroy civilization.
Why would they do this?
Why, indeed? Because, says Wright, these aliens consider us a threat to the galactic order. We are, says Wright, an angry and hostile race, always inventing – and deploying – cruel weapons against one another. Therefore the Galactic Empire – or whatever Wright (or Loeb) might call the launch authority for Oumuamua, Atlas and perhaps Borisov also – has determined, to quote Douglas Adams,
Terra delenda est! [Earth must be destroyed!]
From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and its sequels
Forget Douglas Adams and his Hitchhiker Trilogy. Here Meteor meets The Day the Earth Stood Still or even Plan 9 from Outer Space!
This is the poisonous fruit of secular government. If we were still that “moral and religious people” John Adams said we were, we would not make these mistakes. We would know that those objects all consist of Flood ejecta, that have come inside the orbits of even more massive objects beyond sight of our telescopes. (Has anyone trained the James Webb Space Telescope on any of these objects, to look for gravitational assistant objects?) We would also know not to expect any of those objects to be anything but big rocks – and not to expect any of them to brake and steer toward Earth.
Furthermore, our birth rate would be higher – much higher. And how do we know this?
The control against the secular government experiment
We know this because – against the wishes of the Blaine-Mann-Dewey-Baldwin Axis – their experiment in secular government has a control. That control is the population of Old Order Amish that settled in Pennsylvania before the War Between the States. Since then they have spread to Ohio and then into Indiana.
These Old Order Amish are the “Amish” of popular lore. (The New Order Amish are the “Mennonites.”) The Amish, from the start, separated themselves from the rest of us, whom they call “The English World.” (Amish speak a dialect of German.) Not only do they avoid our notions of secular government and education, but they also avoid every institution that might tie them to the rest of us. That most famously includes the electric grid and the Public Switched Telephone Network. A typical Amish village might have one telephone, usually in its general store, to serve the entire community.
Amish women enjoy a Total Fertility Rate (the number of children an average woman has during her lifeftime) of at least 4. In years of robust commerce with “The English World,” the TFR climbs to 6 or 7. They doubled their population in 25 years and show every sign of continuing that growth. Furthermore, all the growth of the Amish population is through natural increase. That growth always exceeds the “losses” to the custom of Rumspringa, in which Amish youth sample “English” ways and decide which is more attractive to them.
Possible reasons
Naturally advocates for a secular government – when they’re not cursing Amish women’s unusual fertility as evidence of their exploitation – will protest that the Amish could have many reasons for their extra fertility and overall thriving. Some of those reasons might interest Health Secretary Kennedy. The Amish drink their cow’s milk raw, not heat-treated, and are much more careful when collecting it. They do not add artificial dyes or anything else to their food that God didn’t put there. Nor do they expose themselves to noxious chemicals (including motor fuels) or electric fields.
Nor do they “veg out” in front of television sets – because they consume no television, nor any other mass medium. As one result, they get exercise – far more than we “Englishers” get.
But most of all, they have hope. The Grand Evolutionary Paradigm offers no hope, and says what you do makes no difference to anyone else.
Religion attends the birth of civilization; philosophy accompanies it to its grave.
Will Durant
And because they do not consume mass media, they do not pollute their minds with mass media content.
Tellingly, no trustworthy independent clinical authority has studied the epidemiology of Alphabet Soup urges in Amish society. Naturally Alphabet Soup propagandists say that Alphabet Soup individuals, born into that society, either:
“Flee” it, usually at Rumspringa, or
Suffer shunning as adults upon failure to repent.
So no one really knows whether the Amish develop “Alphabet Soup” tendencies as often as “Englishers” do.
Secular government has failed
We do know that the Amish, the controls of the secular government experiment, are thriving. In contrast, “The English World” is dying. In fact, if the Amish are thriving less well now than they did before, that’s because they have allowed “English World” values to creep into their society. Perhaps that was inevitable when the Amish expanded beyond their first settlement and had to buy land – with “English” currency – from “English” landowners.
All of which to say: the culture that includes secular government is not only dying, but has deleterious influences. The most deleterious influence of all is surely secular government itself. It is buying the loyalty of its subjects (citizens might not be the word anymore) with cheap, immediate thrills, just as Roman society bought off its “Head Count” with bread and circuses. And it’s not working. Or rather, it is not working as advertised. But secular government is working according to the designs of the elites who likely built upon the work of Mann, Blaine, Dewey, and Baldwin (and don’t forget Darwin), and added to that work through the contributions of such “geniuses” as Darrow, Friedan, Steinem, Dworkin – and the incomparable (in the negative sense) Earl Warren, who famously dictated that the Constitution should mean whatever he said it meant, any time he said it.
Thankfully, Earl Warren is dead, and the Supreme Court today is in wiser hands than his. But the problem remains.
The solution
To continue that thought, the Supreme Court signaled, in its 2021 Term, a sea change in its attitude toward religion. Kennedy v. Bremerton School District destroyed the “Lemon Test” of “secular applicability.” Carson v. Makin laid a foundation for invalidating Blaine Amendments everywhere. That invalidation requires only the will to find plaintiffs in the thirty-seven States that still have Blaine Amendments, and file lawsuits that will lead to Supreme Court orders like this:
The petition(s) for writs of certiorari is/are granted. The judgment(s) of the lower court(s) is/are vacated, and the case(s) is/are remanded to [that/those] court(s) for further proceedings consistent with this Court’s opinion in Carson v. Makin.
The immediate effect would be to nullify those Blaine Amendments. Thereafter, education systems, going beyond private Christian academies, could lay the foundation for faith-based government.
A faith-based government would teach the Bible as not only Beautiful Poetry and a Quaint Historical Artifact, but as Fact. Honest findings in biology, chemistry, geology, archaeology, astronomy and cosmology, to name six, support the Bible, rather than contradicting It. The government, and other Major Scientific Grantors, would for the first time consider creation as a valid scientific model, and evidence in its favor worthy of scientific investigation.
More to the point, abortion would be unlawful, as is murder according to conventional definition. Furthermore, society would treat loose talk of extraterrestrial fleets including “meteoric” planet-wrecking mass drones with the contempt it deserves. And maybe someone will study Alphabet Soup epidemiology, intending to heal people of such tendencies, not “celebrate” them as ideal.
Donald Trump might not be the man to lead this charge. This will require leaders dedicated to erasing the secularism of government, and returning to the ideals of John Adams.
Link to:
The article:
https://cnav.news/2025/08/05/foundation/constitution/secular-government-failings/
Video:
Jordan Wright’s alarmist video about Comet 3I/Atlas:
Paper about why the Amish continue to outbreed “The English World”:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8417155/
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