As we celebrate America's birthday, we remember that our Founding Fathers promulgated a particular worldview for our nation in the Declaration of Independence.
Our national motto succinctly summarizes these beliefs: "In God we trust." "In God we trust" is the nail upon which our Constitution hangs.
The beautiful yet double-edged sword of our Constitution is that as a citizen, you do not have to embrace our nation's official worldview.
The founding of our nation was not without challenges and some tragic irony.
In our nation's second struggle for independence, President Lincoln, while speaking at the battlefield site in Gettysburg, framed it by referring to our founding: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure." Our nation survived this horrific ordeal and, in the following century, became the most powerful nation on earth.
We began as a nation under God, trusting Him, and asking for His guidance and blessings, for blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD. Do we pursue Him or embrace the untethered woke philosophy of doing whatever you want? What is your cornerstone? Virtually all politicians still conclude their speeches with "God bless America." We'll have to do more than just honor God with our lips.
It's the only path to freedom that this nation, under God, with a government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/07/our_third_battle_for_independence.html
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