Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,

so that you may be able to prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12 2. This is resistance and reformation on the Fight, laugh,

Feast Network. In 1930, an extraordinary group of southern historians, poets, political scientists, novelists,

and journalists published a prophetic collection of essays warning against the looming loss

of the Founding Father's original vision, including contributions from such literary

luminaries as Robert Pin Warren-Woren, Donald Davidson,

Alan Tate, Andrew Nelson, Lytle, Stark Young, and John Crow Ransom, the symposium entitled,

I'll take my stand, poignantly voiced the complex, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual consternation of men

standing on the precipice of catastrophic cultural change. The men were alarmed by what they

perceived to be a steady erosion of the rule of law in modern American life.

They feared that our liberties were facing a fearsome challenge from the almost omnipresent

and omnipotent forces of monolithic government.

They said, when we remember the high expectations held universally by the

founders of the American Union for a more perfect order of society, and then consider the

state of life in this country today, it is bound to appear to reasonable people that somehow the experiment has very

nearly proved abortive and that in some way a great Commonwealth has gone wrong.

They were determined to warn against the creeping dehumanization of ideological secularism

that they believed was already beginning to dominate American life. There is evidently a kind of

thinking that rejoices in setting up a social objective which has no relation to the individual.

Men are prepared to sacrifice their private dignity and happiness to an abstract social ideal

and without asking whether the social idea produces the welfare of any individual man whatsoever. They knew they were standing against

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