Each year we celebrate the Fourth of July to commemorate not just independence, but to celebrate the anniversary of the first time in human history that a people declared as a matter of governance, that they carried with them freedom granted by God. I like to ask liberals and progressives: Where do you get freedom? If the answer is, “…from the law,” or “…from the Constitution,” that person has no concept of what freedom is. If one man has the power to grant another freedom through law or fiat, that is tyranny. We get our freedom from God. The Declaration of Independence begins with those cherished words: 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. But even before that most famous sentence, the Declaration cites God-given rights as the reason for making the Declaration to begin with. It says: “…and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them…”
Posted on: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 05:45:29 +0000
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