Happy Birthday, America

Posted by Larry Miller on July 2, 2010 under Why | Read the First Comment

This weekend we celebrate Independence Day. Many wonder, “independence from what?” or “does it really matter?” Unfortunately, so many of our public schools no longer honor, or in many cases even educate the our children about the fifty six men put their names to our Declaration of Independence. Each one believed so strongly in the ideal of freedom that he pledged their life, his fortune and his sacred honor to the cause.

Each one, as they emerged from that hall in Philadelphia on that warm summer day in 1776 knew he had placed his neck in a British noose if their quest for liberty failed. Most were men of substantial means and many lost a great deal in the conflict… some, family members, some everything. But to each, the thing of even greater value that they refused to loose was their sacred honor.

The concept of honor seems somehow, quaint in today’s political environment where we quibble about the definition of ‘is’. But to a man, they would tolerate the loss of everything they counted of value before they would dishonor themselves, or their commitment to the others and the cause of freedom. To these men, this honor was sacred because they pledged themselves to this pursuit before and in the name of almighty God.

It is fashionable today for academics and others who find it beneficial to their agenda to attempt to tell us that the founding fathers were exploiting misogynistic racists. These “historians”, who should know better, are working from selected data and wishful thinking. Instead of taking the word of one of these over privileged and under worked propagators of misinformation, we might want to look at the words of one who was around at the time and traveled in the company of these signers.

Patrick Henry wrote in later years, “It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.” He should know. He was in the thick of the battle… and now some pencil necked professor is trying to tell us this patriot was wrong. I shall choose to accept the eye witness account.

This Virginia patriot told us further that, “It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.” This is something each of us can verify as we watch an increasing hostility to the Christian influence in our government and educational establishment. Why one can almost hear the banging of the hammers and the clanking of the chains as our shackles are being forged for us daily by those in high places.

So, as we celebrate the birthday of this wonderful country and we contemplate the struggle before us, let us remember it is not just for our own convenience, or even that of our children, It is keeping the faith with those who have sacrificed so much go give us this land of opportunity. It is how we realize our own sacred honor. In the same way that they relied on the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to see them through to victory, we must also. We do not have to stand against the godless onslaught alone.