"There is sin and evil in this world. and we're enjoined by Scriptures and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might [...] We will never give away our freedom. We will never abandon our belief in God."

"Those who live in that totalitarian darkness [...] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination over all the peoples of the earth. They are the focus of evil in the modern world."

"The greatest evil is conceived and ordered in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice [...] they sometimes speak in soothing tones of brotherhood and peace, because, like other dictators before them, they're always making their "final territorial demand."
                                     President Ronald Reagan
                                     "Evil Empire Speech"
                                     March 8, 1983

"The American experiment in democracy rests on this insight voiced by William Penn when he said, "If we will not be governed by God, we must be governed by tyrants."

"This puts us in opposition to [...] modern day secularism [...] their value system is radically different from that of most Americans. And while they proclaim that they are freeing us from superstitions of the past, they've taken upon themselves the job of superintending us by government rule and regulations. Sometimes their voices are louder than ours, but they are not yet a majority."
                                     President Ronald Reagan
                                     March 8, 1983
                                     (Emphasis added)

"We're approaching the end of a bloody century plagued by a terrible political invention - totalitarianism [...] Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root [...] It was not the democracies that invaded Afghanistan [...] What they desire is the fruits of war and the indefinite expansion of their power and doctrines."

"The hard evidence of totalitarian rule has cause in mankind an uprising [...] the rejection of the arbitrary power of the state, the refusal to subordinate the rights of the individual to the superstate." (superpower?)

"We ask only that these systems begin by living up to their own constitutions [...] The very repressiveness of the state ultimately drives people to resist it, if necessary, by force."

"Who would voluntarily choose to purchase government propaganda instead of independent newspapers [...] opt for land to be owned by the state instead of those who till it, want government repression of religious liberty, a single political party instead of free choice?"
                                     President Ronald Reagan
                                     June 8, 1983
                                     (Parenthetical material added)

Thus spoke the two great men whose will, ideas and leadership won the cold war against totalitarianism during the 1980s. They are still alive today, but age and sickness have robbed them of physical and mental vigor; like us, they are merely mortal.

For their leadership, we owe both of them our admiration and thanks. And, do not those of us who still have vigor owe it to them to take up their cause and continue their fight? To oppose the evil of totalitarianism, no matter where or when, while we can, with all our might?

As President Reagan said, in what has been called his "evil empire" speech, a "secular value system" did not yet command a majority in 1983. But that has changed. For decades, atheists have waged demographic war against European Christians and their culture. They have employed diverse weaponry: The Supreme Court's unlawful decision in Everson v. Board of Education (1947), mandating the deChristianization of State and local governments. Congress granting immigration preferences to "persecuted" immigrants in 1948. Congress eliminating quotas on non-European immigration in 1965. Thirty years of unlawful Supreme Court decisions overturning state laws on contraception, abortion and homosexuality.

The elites who subscribe to this "secular value system" designed, built and now preside over an atheist, multicultural and multilingual Tower of Babel. Whether they pose as "Democrats" or "Republicans", they constitute a single political party. They have seized complete control of the federal government.

It is a totalitarian government. It is a government that commands us to acknowledge its total supremacy; it will not allow us to pledge allegiance to a nation under God.

It is an illegitimate government. It is a government that pretends that the Constitution secures a right to kill unborn children whereas in fact it does not. It is a government that pretends that the Constitution secures no right to keep and bear arms whereas in fact it does.

Now it is our federal government that owns (or regulates) land to the detriment of those who till it, that foists upon its citizens propaganda masquerading as independent media, and that represses the Christian religion.

Now, it is the federal government that fails to live up to its own Constitution, that seeks to plant regimes with bayonets, that invades Afghanistan, that desires the fruits of wars and the unlimited expansion of its power and doctrines, that preaches its supremacy as a superpower, and plans its eventual domination over all the peoples of the earth.

Now, it is the United States federal government that is the focus of evil in the modern world.

Now, as before, this great evil is conceived and ordered in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices. The offices are those of the federal government. The evildoers are quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth shaven cheeks who issue "final territorial demands." They are officials of the federal government.

Will Christians serve this evil empire? It is never licit to cooperate formally in evil - even at the behest of one's own government.

Will Christians continue to serve in the federal government's armed forces, and participate directly in attacks against innocent human beings, whether they live in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran or Syria?

Will Christians continue to serve a federal government that by threat of force denies the rights of States and citizens to protect unborn human beings?

Will Christians cooperate with the "quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails" who hijacked the federal government out from under our Constitution?

Or, as John Paul II would have us do, will we refuse to cooperate with evil?

Or, as President Reagan would have us do, will we oppose evil with all our might?