by Jeffrey Ludwig, New American Prophet, ©2026
(Jul. 28, 2026) — The U.S. Supreme Court is not as “supreme” as the Supreme Being Who created this world and gave birth to consciousness itself.
Consciousness included free will, but includes the understanding that free will is only “free” to the extent that an omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent Being (God) determines the vast but limited boundaries of that freedom. Thus, when Adam was beguiled into munching on that “fruit” from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil along with Eve (and as a result of her tempting him), he reduced our condition from that of perfect, eternal relations with Almighty God to that of being a species that is aberrant and wanton.
In the early 1960’s, American civilization began to turn its back on its self-image as a country defined by its commitment to Creator God and to a Biblical worldview. Although founded by different Biblical orientations in the original thirteen colonies (Congregationalists, Baptists, Anglican, Quaker, etc.), these denominations had a uniform respect for the Holy Bible and for Almighty God’s role in founding, keeping, and expanding our country and the constitutional freedoms we cherished.
Additionally, this essential Biblical and Christian emphasis was combined with checks and balances so that we would not fall into fluctuation among the three types of government described by Aristotle: tyranny, oligarchy, and democracy.
Checks and balances were instituted in our Constitution whereby the government would be prevented from gaining too much power became a systematic cure-all against potential tyranny by an individual on the one hand and chaotic “democracy” with tyranny of the majority on the other side. Stability without despotism and freedom without chaos was the underlying desideratum.
Importantly, our first President, George Washington, frequently used the term “Providence” to point to our dependence ultimately on the Lord God Almighty to order this complex process as well as provide an ongoing unity to the country despite the denominational variety of the founding body (the Constitutional Convention).
The vision of our Founders of a balanced republic moved forward through the 19th century overseeing the dramatic expansion of the Louisiana Purchase which more than doubled our country’s size, and the upheaval of the Mexican War leading to our appropriation of our Southwest territory. There was also an ongoing struggle over states’ rights in relation to the federal government, and, in particular, the application of states’ rights in relation to the institution of slavery. The Civil War with the freeing of the slaves and assertion of the unity of our country re-established our bond with our English values since England had already abolished slavery in 1833.
As we turn into the 20th century, a shift took place. We began to see the influence of socialist ideas upon the governmental philosophy of the United States. Instead of Providence leading the events of history as Washington and the other founders of our country believed, John Dewey, one of our leading professors of philosophy, as a student came under the influence of George Morris at John Hopkins who introduced him to Hegelian dialectic thinking which thinking was later adopted by Karl Marx.
According to Hegel, history was moved into the future by a “dialectical process.” The dominant ideas/ideals of a period of history were the “thesis.” These were at some point challenged by another model of reality called the “antithesis.” This led to a rejection of the original thesis model and a wholly new model – the “synthesis” – became the new thesis. This dialectical model applied to the entire march of history.
Following Hegel, Karl Marx, another student of Hegel, concluded that the dialectic would eventually lead to the withering away of the state and reveal a new, communist reality where economics would be fair and all people would be taken care of “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
With this immersion in dialectical reasoning, John Dewey as a professor at Columbia University changed the landscape of educational philosophy and the thinking about what makes for a good citizen. Learning the wisdom of the ages as the goal of learning was for Dewey too far away from the realities of everyday life. Practical applications of education within a context of the good of all became central.
Of course, the question arises “what is the good of all?” But the answer to that question would seem to lead back to the pre-Hegelian, pre-Marxist non-dialectical model of accepting Biblical values within a context of the great thinkers of Western civilization. But of course that is just what the Marxists and John Dewey with his thousands of pages of obscurantism did not want.
The role of the government expanded under the progressive Presidents, especially under Wilson, and then under FDR with the alphabet agencies his administration created (WPA, CCC, FDIC, etc.). This represented an expansion of federal power, not of democracy, but these agencies created the illusion that the problem of mass unemployment in the Great Depression could be resolved by having large-scale federal employment. However, unemployment remained high so that in even in 1938 unemployment was officially 19%.
Throughout the years of progressivism and then the New Deal, faith in God was a mainstay of American society although with the repeal of prohibition under FDR, drunkenness once again became an American “hobby.”
However, less than twenty years after WWII, three decisions by the SCOTUS finally wiped out the official dependence of government on attunement to the Providential Will of Almighty God – the God of Christianity– which view was so precious to Washington and the Founders. The decisions were Torcaso v. Watkins (1961), where the Court voted 9-0 to strike down a Maryland requirement that public officials declare belief in God. In a footnote in that decision, Justice Hugo Black listed “Secular Humanism” alongside atheism as “religions” and thus entitled to equal protection. Atheism was thus given an equivalent legal status with faith in God. Then, in 1962 and 1963 prayer and Bible reading in public schools were officially declared unconstitutional (Engel v. Vitale, 1962, and Abington School District v. Schempp, 1963).
Following those three decisions in the early 1960’s, that decade became a decade of civil rights violence, hippies, anti-Vietnam protests, “revolution for the hell of it” (Abbie Hoffman), LSD, widespread smoking of marijuana joints, introduction of long hair for men, psychedelic pads, the Black Panthers, student takeovers of college campus buildings, and multiplying angry screeds about environmental collapse.
But most of all, the Founders’ understanding of Divine Providence as the key to our freedom and success as a country was officially removed from our legal and institutional understanding of the USA as a country.