Tomorrow’s schedule of events, & history, illustrate why we should be afraid when 1) a politician 2) lies & says our country 3) was founded as a Christian nation 4) believes that means for the benefit of Christians 5) who are the only people capable of being moral. 1/9

Europe’s monarchs ruled under the divine right of kings: “The political theory that the sovereign is a direct representative of God and has the right to rule absolutely by virtue of royal birth.” [FN1] The Declaration of Independence negates this divine imprimatur of government: 2/9

“Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” [FN2] The Colonies’ declaration was one of the final events that was at odds with, and dealt a significant blow to, the divine right of kings. [FN3] Tomorrow’s events: 3/9

1) A politician: “a person actively engaged in government or politics.” [FN4] The definition does not mean only elected officials elected in their own right. IN’s Lt Gov was nominated at the State GOP convention last June by a margin of fewer than 70 delegates’ votes. 4/9

Beckwith then ran as number 2 on the GOP ticket for Gov/Lt Gov; bluster distracts from a reality. Voters reject him when he’s the only choice.
2) Beckwith makes untrue statements about the founding that he should know are untrue: he lies [FN5] by saying 5/9

3) this country was founded as a Christian nation. I’ll close for now. Tomorrow will be busy. But you can see the advantage if someone claims toi talk to”god,” ppl are silly enough to believe him and he gets into office. 6/9

Footnotes:
FN1. Black’s Law Dictionary, 10th ed, 2014, p. 581.
FN2. The Declaration of Independence, para. 2 (U.S. 1776). 7/9

FN3. “In place of this Hebrew God, deists postulated a distant deity. The Declaration [] displays precisely this kind of wording and sense of a distant deity.” Holmes, David L., “The Faiths of the Founding Fathers,” (2006 ed) pp. 46-47. 8/9

FN4. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 1974 ed., p. 537.
FN5. Id., p. 406. 9/9