Scrabble Anyone
by Tom Buchanan
December 10, 2004

Imagine playing Scrabble without a dictionary to challenge an opponent's play. Would the game lose all of its reason for existence? Would it be a pleasurable game to play? It would only last until the first player takes his turn because all of his letter tiles placed on the board in any order would be valid and he would be the winner.

Now this would seem to be an absurd way to play a game, wouldn't it? Why should life be any different. For centuries mankind has been living by the principles laid out in the Ten Commandments. The Founding Fathers realized that in order for the newly established form of government that they had suffered great pain and suffering to form would only work for a moral society based upon the teaching of Christianity.

John Adams said "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other." James Madison is quoted as saying "We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."

Yes, the founders of this great nation knew that for men to be free there had to be some guidelines with which to run our society. The plan worked well for a very long time and along came secular humanism, no rules, everything is permissible. It has become a society that has no rules. Just like Scrabble there is no resource to challenge anyone's play. No one is quite sure where they stand on any issues. Is this any way for a society to behave?

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