WITH TIME, ALL GAFFES FADE AWAY

BUT THEY ARE SO EMBARRASING!!!

Inexplicably, when I wrote the opening line of my article about Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh's name popped into my head . . .

And to make matters worse, I spelled it Cavanaugh!

BELOW IS THE ARTICLE REMOVING KAVANAUGH

AND PROPERLY NAMING NEIL GORSUCH AS THE FOCUS

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21st CENTURY TOWER OF BABEL:

THE UNIVERSITY

Continuation

When U. S. Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsuch stated that America was not founded upon Biblical Christianity, he confirmed that America’s universities, the nation’s towers of Babel, have corrupted the minds of significant layers of American culture.

Our universities are impacting our nation from kindergarten upward reaching to the highest towers of national governance. The corruption of the American university is rotting American culture.

In his Washington Times article this past weekend, Dr. Everett Piper questions the depth of Gorsuch’s academic foundations. I question his knowledge of world history.

The Mayflower Compact (1620) represents the founding document of the Plymouth Colony, the state of Massachusetts, and the other thirteen colonies. The compact established with clarity the unity of thought of its forty-one signers that the political and cultural vision was centered upon these words:

Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the northern Parts of Virginia . . .

America’s Mayflower Compact is rooted deep in the Christian development of Europe’s constellation of nations.

America’s Christian founding emanated from the Christianity which molded the many nations populating the European landscape.

Beginning with the miraculous life of St. Patrick, nations were being discipled in Christian thought by the time of Patrick’s death on March 17, 461.

See my March 16, 2026 article on Patrick's

work to save Western Civilization here.

Subsequently, the Middle Ages (500 AD-1500 AD) saw Christendom continue as the thought leader and instructor of the European nations.

Christian discipleship so enveloped culture on a national scale that in 1643, the Parliament of England made a covenant with God which also enveloped Scotland and Ireland. It is called the Solemn League and Covenant.

Christians had no problem with the idea of discipling nations and the idea of a national covenant with God was considered normal.

The multinational covenant begins:

We, Noblemen, Barons, Knights, Gentlemen, Citizens, Burgesses, Ministers of the Gospel, and Commons of all sorts, in the kingdoms of Scotland, England, and Ireland, by the providence of GOD living under one King, and being of one reformed religion, having before our eyes the glory of GOD, and the advancement of the kingdom of our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST, the honour and happiness of the King’s Majesty and his posterity, and the true publick liberty, safety, and peace of the kingdoms, wherein every one’s private condition is included.

Whereof the deplorable state of the church and kingdom of Ireland, the distressed estate of the church and kingdom of England, and the dangerous estate of the church and kingdom of Scotland, are present and public testimonies; we have now at last, (after other means of supplication, remonstrance, protestation, and sufferings,) for the preservation of ourselves and our religion from utter ruin and destruction, according to the commendable practice of these kingdoms in former times, and the example of GOD’s people in other nations, after mature deliberation, resolved and determined to enter into a mutual and solemn League and Covenant, wherein we all subscribe, and each one of us for himself, with our hands lifted up to the most High GOD, do swear . . .

And, because these kingdoms are guilty of many sins and provocations against GOD, and his Son JESUS CHRIST, as is too manifest by our present distresses and dangers, the fruits thereof; we profess and declare, before GOD and the world, our unfeigned desire to be humbled for our own sins, and for the sins of these kingdoms . . . to the glory of GOD, the enlargement of the kingdom of JESUS CHRIST, and the peace and tranquillity of Christian kingdoms and commonwealths.

Nations who lose national devotion to Christ decline into the savage tyrannies. Hence, the atheist states which defined and bloodied the 20th century.

The Russian dissident, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, recognized this as the crux of his own nation's political demise when he said, “This all happened because Russia forgot God.”

On September 14, 1993, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn spoke to the International Academy of Philosophy in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. The Academy is a private university.

The title of his lecture was:

We Have Ceased to See the Purpose

Solzhenitsyn noted the Russian philosopher Vladimir Solovyov who insisted that from the point of view of Christianity, morality (emanating from transcendent authority) and politics are closely linked. He went on to describe the devastation of a political empire without Christianity.

Solzhenitsyn spoke of man who has not ministered to the spiritual needs (direction and purpose) of his own soul. He spoke of man without clarity of destiny as man who is disoriented.

That lecture is found in The Solzhenitsyn Reader here.

This disconnectedness from our national roots in a divine calling is the disorder of a nation who has no memory of its roots. It is the disorder of the university disconnected from the entirety of the civilization in which it was birthed.

English novelist and popular historian, Tom Holland, wrote that the world’s oldest university, The University of Bologna, became, “a new nerve-center for the transfiguration of Christian society.”

Joseph Loconte, William E. Simon Fellow in Religion at the Heritage Foundation, agrees with Holland. He made reference to Holland's statement about Bologna, the world's oldest university, and said:

The recovery of its intellectual and spiritual vision is perhaps the most urgent task of our time.

It is why Americans stand in desperate need for bold leadership from Christian men who will right the ship of state.

In Oklahoma’s case, it means a Governor who will make the transformation of our university’s regent boards job one.

It means working through these boards to welcome the Christian West back into the lives and the education of our young people.

We’ll talk more on it all this Wednesday. In the meantime, Dr. Piper has much to say in his Washington Times article below.

Make plans to attend our Spring finale which features our four front-running Republican candidates on Wednesday, May 27 at noon in the Oklahoma History Center.

Ask your candidate his plan to remediate the university!

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