Posted: 02 Jul 2017 Michael Snyder THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE BLOG
Why do we celebrate the 4th of July?
If you were to ask average people on the street this question, many of them would mumble something about “independence”, but the truth is that most Americans would not be able to tell you clearly why it is a holiday. According to Wikipedia, the 4th of July “is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence 241 years ago on July 4, 1776.” Unfortunately, most Americans have never read the Declaration of Independence, and if a similar document was authored today it would be banned from our public schools because it mentions God four times. We have allowed the liberal elite to gain such a stranglehold over our society that even our most cherished founding principles have become politically incorrect. If you ask most Americans to quote from the Declaration of Independence, almost everyone will give you something from this sentence… We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. This is one of the most famous sentences in the English language, but do most of us still proudly believe this? And if you happen to be someone that does not believe in God, then where do your rights come from? If they come from men, then men can take them away. But if they come from God, then nobody can take them away. This is a point that President Trump brought up in a major speech that he just delivered to a group of veterans… “Since the signing of the Declaration of Independence 241 years ago, America always affirmed that liberty comes from our creator. Our rights are given to us by God, and no earthly force can ever take those rights away. That is why my administration is transferring power out of Washington and returning that power back where it belongs to the people,” Trump said.It is so refreshing to hear a president talk like this, because these days most of our politicians are so careful to be politically-correct. And I am not just talking about Democrats. Many politicians that are supposedly “conservative” seem quite uncomfortable when matters of faith come up, and if you can get them to talk about God they usually want to switch topics as quickly as possible. But in the old days, Republicans and Democrats both acknowledged the importance of faith in our society. The following comes from an excellent article by Dr. Gary Scott Smith… Dwight Eisenhower insisted that the Founding Fathers “wrote their religious faith into our founding documents, stamped their trust in God upon our coins and currency, [and] put it squarely at the base of our institutions.” They strove to obey God’s commandments, live in freedom, and create a prosperous country. “The knowledge that God is the source of all power,” Eisenhower maintained, gave birth to and sustained America. Human dignity depended on the God-given rights that were “eloquently stated” in the Declaration of Independence.Of course in our day and time teens are actually being threatened with arrest for praying in school. If we truly want to restore our Republic, we can’t throw out the principles and values that the Republic was founded upon. The First Amendment guarantees that there will never be an official state church and that we will always get to worship God the way that we want, but there is absolutely nothing in there that says we must have a godless government. On the contrary, our founders were more influenced by the Bible than any other book, and they quoted from it more than any other book. Dr. Daniel L. Dreisbach is the author of “Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers“, and I have used this quote from him previously, but I wanted to use it again here because it fits my point perfectly… The founders, as I document in my new book “Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers,” lived in a biblically literate society. Their many quotations from and allusions to both familiar and obscure biblical texts confirm that they knew the Bible from cover to cover. Biblical language and themes liberally seasoned their rhetoric. The phrases and intonations of the King James Bible, especially, influenced their written and spoken words. Its ideas shaped their habits of mind.The biggest reason why our federal government is such a mess today is because it has pushed God completely out of the picture. So instead of defending life, our nation has murdered nearly 60 million children since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. Instead of defending liberty, the control freaks at the federal level are suffocating us with hundreds of thousands of laws, rules and regulations, and if you throw in the state and local levels, the number of laws, rules and regulations governing us is in the millions. And instead of promoting the pursuit of happiness, all of us have to work several months each year just to pay the dozens of different taxes and fees that various levels of government impose on all of us. But we don’t actually have to have such a system. If we got rid of our debt-based financial system and went to a much smaller federal government, we could abolish the income tax, the IRS and the Federal Reserve. Government is not the solution to our problems. As Ronald Reagan once famously said, government is the problem. If we work together, we can dismantle the monstrous federal bureaucracy that the liberal elite have spent decades constructing, and we can restore the Republic that our founders risked everything to establish. It won’t be easy, but we can get there, and the first step is getting back to the principles and values that made America great in the first place. |
Quotes
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It much be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. -Ronald Reagan
The battle is being waged now and it’s very vital and it’s going to be touch-and-go for the next generation. -David Horowitz
Scripture
John 8:32 MEV You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.
Headlines
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