No secular idiocy is greater than the belief that the conscience can replace God, the Bible and Judeo-Christian values as a producer of moral behavior.
America is no longer like that place where old Frenchmen gathered on a frigid Sunday morning to pray. It is, here and there, like the church with its head cut off but still regretting the operation.
Ronald Reagan knew who he was, who made the world, who created order and freedom in it, and, especially after the attempted assassination, that God had a distinct plan for his own life.