Have you read the declaration of independence lately? Just the first couple paragraphs should give you goosebumps (see below).
These men risked their lives, so that we can...what?
I used to think it meant so that we could live free. Have a government whose responsibility it is to represent us.
But that the government is doing any different, we are also to blame. Where is the fight for our rights today? We have allowed ourselves, and I am also to blame, to be too busy to do anything about it. Oh, its the government, and it's corrupt, but hey who cares.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,"
We have forgotten what made us a great nation. And instead of pressing forward, we press remote controls. Instead of standing for our rights, we have laz-e-boys. Instead of fighting unjust taxes or demanding accountability of how our taxes are spent we wrap up our lives in debt, sit in front of tv and computer screens.
And instead of praying to God, we find peace in a bottle, or pill, or sermon of acceptance.
I challenge you to read the following, and wonder what your rights are today?
I challenge you to read entire document, and what happened to the signers of that document, then look at the legislation in place today, and underway, and see if that's what they had in mind.
And I challenge you, to get down on your knees and ask for guidance in this hour.
Read the first little bit below. Or read it in its entirety. And ask yourself, is our government living up to the vision of these brave men.
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world...
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