We Hold These Truths: Our Dependence on God

The Declaration of Independence was the birth certificate of the United States of America. The words are still memorized by schoolchildren and can bring a tear to the oldest American eye with little effort. The principles they communicate have informed our history as a free people and inspired our neighbors in other parts of the world to stand up against all forms of tyranny. As we reflect upon the text this weekend we need to remember that our forebears were not declaring their independence from Divine Providence. Rather, they were trusting in the primacy of the Governance of God over their own lives and their noble undertaking.

They sought independence from a monarchy which had become tyrannical precisely because it had forgotten the implications of the primacy of Divine Providence. The principles set forth in that Declaration were a rallying cry which called forth extraordinary sacrifice. They were rooted in something much greater than political expediency. That is why those principles became a measuring stick against which all governments of men would be measured in the future.

The courageous men who signed this document were influenced by the great treasury brought to Western Civilization by the Christian Church. They believed there actually were truths to be held and that those truths are self evident. Those truths include the existence of unalienable rights which are given to all men and women by a Creator. They believed that those truths and those rights can be discerned by all men and women because they are revealed by the Natural Law which is written on all human hearts and is a participation in God’s law.

The words are still memorized by schoolchildren and can bring a tear to the oldest American eye with little effort.

I'm wondering what country the good deacon lives in. Because in America, schoolchildren are taught nearly nothing about about America's founding documents, and most of the "oldest Americans" are now in the process of bleeding the country dry. The deacon is long on sentimentality, short on reality.

If the founders were such deep Christians, then why when it came to writing the constitution - the binding law of the new nation - did they completely leave any mention of God out of it? I realize that some don't like to hear this, but objectively speaking, the constitution is a godless, secular document.

Why do we have to accomodate Muslim footbaths?
Why do we have Imams giving prayers to government legislatures?
Why do we allow families and children to be ruined through "no-fault" divorce?
Why do we allow homosexuals to "marry" and adopt children based on their sexual dysfunction?
Why do we allow women to whore around and have multiple children with multiple fathers, marrying none of them, then forcing strangers (the taxpayer) to pay for it all?
Why do we allow such godless filth on our public airwaves?
Why are we removing God's very commandments and all symbols of Christianity from public areas?
Why are the corrupt well connected New York bankers soaking the nation through usury and graft?
Why do we publicly fund art exhibits that show the Virgin Mother in a jar of piss?
Why have we murdered 50,000,000 of our most innocent, our very offspring?

The answer to all of these questions is because either our constitution allows for it, or can be interpreted to allow for it. In any case, there is no legal recourse in the primary document (the constitution) to prevent any of it. In a truly Christian nation, that TRULY held the doctrine of the Kingship of Christ, none of this would be possible.

The argument can be made that the founders had a lot going for them and that many of them were believers in one form or another, but the constitution, for all that's good in it, is NOT a Christian document.

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