Proud to be an American - 1

Proud to be an American – 1
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Friday, December 4, 2009

Washington achieved legendary status early in life with his heroic exploits during the French and Indian War. He never sought fame however; in fact he spent all his adult years trying to shun the public life…

Washington was the Electoral College’s unanimous choice for President of the United States. He expected to serve only one term, but was told that if he did not serve a second term the new republic would likely collapse… For almost 40 years this American legend had been trying to return to the peace and privacy of Mount Vernon and his wife Martha…

The United States of America is the freest, strongest, and most prosperous nation in human history. We owe this miraculous development in large part to the life one man – his bravery in battle, his perseverance through hardships, his patience with those who opposed him, his wisdom while in power. What was astonishing about this gallant Virginian, who rode a white horse, was that he actually lived by the ideals of which he spoke…

“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports” he (George Washington) said. “In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens? The mere politician, equally with pious man, ought to respect and cherish them… Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”

Washington knew well that a nation’s laws spring from its moral and that its morals spring from its religion. And the religion of which Washington spoke was clear to all who knew him: “It is impossible to govern rightly without God and the Bible,” he said.

In his essay “What I Saw in America,” the great English writer G.K. Chesterton observed that “America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence.” Chesterton was referring to the second paragraph of America’s founding document which states: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created the equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness...”

Thomas Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration, and believed it was sufficient to assert certain transcendent truths as self evident… He meant the God of the New Testament. Whether Jefferson was himself a Christian is in dispute.
But he understood the society in which he lived and who his audience was when he made the case for severing ties with Britain on grounds that England had “violated the laws of nature and nature’s God.”

George H. Kubeck, the above from Benjamin Hart’s book, “Faith and Freedom” Chapter 1.

P.S. President Barack Obama is mistaken if he believes that he can change our motto to the French and European one of Liberty – Equality – Fraternity. Class warfare, income distribution, and socialism have no foundation in our America. Let the reformation and education begin for the 2010 election.