I think what a lot of people are missing (or trying to forcibly remove) is that our nation was founded upon religious convictions and will only continue to remain a haven for the protection of liberty if Americans continue to have faith in those convictions.
President Calvin Coolidge stated it very well (this was in 1926 during his address on the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence):
"In its main feature the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document ...
Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man - these are not elements which we can see and touch ... They have their source and their roots in the religious convictions ...
Unless the faith of the American in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish. We cannot continue to enjoy the result if we neglect and abandon the cause ...
If anyone wishes to deny their truth ... the only direction in which he can proceed ... is ... backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people ...
We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them.
The things of the spirit come first.
锘縐nless we cling to that, all our material prosperity, overwhelming though it may appear, will turn to a barren sceptre in our grasp ... We must not sink into a pagan materialism.
We must cultivate the reverence which they had for the things that are holy. We must follow the spiritual and moral leadership which they showed.
We must keep replenished, that they may glow with a more compelling flame, the altar fires before which they worshipped."
馃嚭馃嚫 鉂わ笍馃晩馃馃椊馃挋
#liberty #makeamericagreatagain #America #wakeupamerica #religiousliberty #declarationofindependence #holinesstothelord #constitutionalrepublic #ingodwetrust #onenationundergod
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nationalreview.com/2014/07/calvin-coolidge-celebrates-americas-sesquicentennial-nro-staff/amp/
President Calvin Coolidge stated it very well (this was in 1926 during his address on the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence):
"In its main feature the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document ...
Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man - these are not elements which we can see and touch ... They have their source and their roots in the religious convictions ...
Unless the faith of the American in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish. We cannot continue to enjoy the result if we neglect and abandon the cause ...
If anyone wishes to deny their truth ... the only direction in which he can proceed ... is ... backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people ...
We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them.
The things of the spirit come first.
锘縐nless we cling to that, all our material prosperity, overwhelming though it may appear, will turn to a barren sceptre in our grasp ... We must not sink into a pagan materialism.
We must cultivate the reverence which they had for the things that are holy. We must follow the spiritual and moral leadership which they showed.
We must keep replenished, that they may glow with a more compelling flame, the altar fires before which they worshipped."
馃嚭馃嚫 鉂わ笍馃晩馃馃椊馃挋
#liberty #makeamericagreatagain #America #wakeupamerica #religiousliberty #declarationofindependence #holinesstothelord #constitutionalrepublic #ingodwetrust #onenationundergod
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nationalreview.com/2014/07/calvin-coolidge-celebrates-americas-sesquicentennial-nro-staff/amp/
