We are not the country the founders envisioned

Now that all the bread and circuses are over and many millions have been spent celebrating the Fourth of July, it might be good to remember what we really are celebrating. This is especially important as many change history to suit their agendas.

The Founding Mothers and Fathers believed in a religious humanism. All people were valued from conception to natural death because the Creator had given each person a share in divine life attributes. This idea was directly a response to the “Divine Right of Kings and Queens” notion that God had given a special right only to the monarchy. Our forefathers and mothers believed that God had gifted all human life.

America was not founded upon a hierarchy of rights of select few, but on an equality of rights and a responsibility to act out one’s rights in mutual respect for the same rights of others. Thus, there was not to be a government-preferred religion, but freedom to live out one’s faith in the marketplace was to be sacred. God is honored and recognized in our founding documents, in our founding leaders’ speeches and writings and in their behaviors in respect for religion as a positive aspect of America’s society. It was the role of religion to teach responsible freedom within the context of mutual respect for the divinely gifted rights of others.

In our more and more self-centered society today, one wonders if this ideal of mutual freedom is even recognized. The government has given “right” over life and death to one sex; given certain special populations “rights” over others’ rights; made their lack of belief in God the government supported “religion” of America. Government has established a class of people supported by an ever-growing minority of workers who must work in such a way that their right to the pursuit of happiness is denied by the workload needed to support giveaway programs. No American is so hard of heart as to deny real need. But politicians have twisted these programs into ways to buy votes and entrap people in a government-run life. None of our founders would have died for such a view of America!