The right calls the left evil.

The left calls the right evil.

In the twentieth century the left, unchecked, killed eighty-five million of their own people.

The right, unchecked, killed fifteen million of their own people and fifteen million more in war.

What we learned in the twentieth century is this:

The right is correct, and the left is evil.

The left is correct, and the right is evil.

When we removed God from our politics, over one hundred million people died for us to learn a lesson He had already told us:

Humans are evil.

We've learned that the only way to stop ourselves from producing Hell on Earth is to remember three things:

1. We need God. We must believe that human beings have intrinsic value. This is a truth you cannot derive from naturalism. Thus, we need God.

2. While it is true that all people are intrinsically valuable, it is also true that all people are evil. We need the perpetual battle between left and right inside a democratic state forever; because if either side wins, we all lose.

3. We need free speech. Without it, we don't have the necessary tension between the right and left that keeps us all in line (this is why all dictator regimes remove free speech).

If we lose any of these, we recreate Hell on Earth. That’s not speculation. That’s been proven by history. The experiments have been run and the data has been collected.

When I first started building what is now known as Free Speech Ministries, I did it because I believed we were living in a unique time; one where it was more reasonable than not that we would lose everything that makes America great in my lifetime. A time where it seems more likely than not that we are going to again descend into the Hell of the previous century.

I felt compelled to do something about it.

But as I studied, my perspective changed. While we are at a pivotal moment, one where we stand to lose everything, this moment is not unique.

There is nothing unique about this at all.

The reality is that we are always in danger of loosing the balance between the right and the left. The necessary path is the balance between the two; the give and the take, the push and pull... the left and the right need to keep fighting against each other, but neither side can be allowed to win.

Since this tension must always exist, we are always in danger of loosing the balance and one side winning. Since we are always in danger of one side wining, we are always in danger of recreating Hell on earth. And since we are always in danger of recreating Hell on earth, we are always in need of brave people who are willing to stand up and fight to protect the balance.

We are not unique.

We are not special.

It is simply our turn.

This is not theory. This is not the musing of a man in an ivory tower with nothing else to do but contemplate humanity. There is nothing light-hearted or casual about this.

Death, destruction, torture, famine, and all sorts of hell on earth are breathing down our necks.

This isn't an academic thought experiment. We've lost too much to allow ourselves to think anything of the sort.

This is the world we live in.

And those who refuse to take it seriously will inevitably contribute to the next round of atrocities.

Not because they are somehow morally worse than I am (as we've already covered, we are all worse than we want to believe), but because they have not done their homework. Anyone who thinks the horrors of yesteryear cannot rear their heads today, simply has not taken the precautions necessary to make sure they don’t end up on the wrong side of history.