Celebrating America, Despite Our Divisions

We The People, Under God
This gets back to what America is all about: We the people, under God, getting to rule our own destiny. What a gift. But you wouldn’t know it from today’s headlines.

The decision to restore the people’s rule comes on the cusp of our nation’s birthday. On July 4th 2022, America will be 246 years old.

There is a reason that millions from around the world still clamor to come to America.

July 4, 1776 was the day in which the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, officially agreed by voice vote to adopt the final wording of the Declaration of Independence.

After 150 years of self-government under God in many of the colonies of British North America, the founding fathers, representing three million people — almost all professing Christians — voted for independence from Great Britain with dependence upon God.

The Declaration of Independence mentionsGod four times and says that our rights come from Him. One of the references to Deity comes near the end, as they said they were, “appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions.”

Our Christian Founders
Many books and documentaries today portray the founders as mostly deists or skeptics. But the reality is that the majority of them were committed Trinitarian Christians.

For example, 27 of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence had the equivalency of seminary degrees. Keep in mind that Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and several others were all started to train ministers of the Gospel (and didn’t go south until much later)….

Our Spiritual Roots

…Attorney Jenna Ellis made this remark in the program: “The religious component to the founders’ separating was actually a central part of our revolution.”

For example, the ministers played a pivotal role in the whole push for independence. And the Great Awakening, a Christian movement that affected so many Americans, helped unify the 13 disparate colonies into a more cohesive whole as communication between them increased.

Ben Franklin said of the impact of Rev. George Whitefield, the great preacher of the Great Awakening: “It was wonderful to see the change soon made in the manners of our inhabitants. From being thoughtless or indifferent about religion, it seemed as if all the world were growing religious.”…









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We are one nation, Under God, indivisible. We are an exceptional nation. There is much that still makes us great. There is much to celebrate here, despite current differences.

 

We are a great and exceptional nation.

 

We are a great and exceptional nation. I love my nation, but I know that it is not perfect, just like none of its citizens is perfect. We cannot improve ourselves unless we are able and willing to see our faults. We cannot improve our country unless we are willing and able to see its faults. We need to love our country and at the same time want it to be the best that it can be. We also need to love all Americans and help them to be the best that they can be. As all the Americans get better, America gets better.

 

God didn't we were under god, man did.

 

Man did what?

 

Wherever it says under god, god didn't say that, man did.