In recent years, I’ve found it rather impossible to ‘celebrate’ the Independence Day, or July 4th holiday. Too much of what the nation once stood for is being destroyed, and today those who would call themselves “patriots” seem to be the ones actually doing the destroying. Friend Brosephus has captured and shares my thoughts quite nicely in his post today, so without further ado, I point you in his direction. Thanks, Bro!
I woke up this morning, and the calendar said July 4, 2023. Independence Day in America is here. Funny thing is, I’m not in a celebratory mood at all. How do you celebrate independence when you know that people are not free to be independent in this country?
Maybe it doesn’t feel like Independence Day because the 4th isn’t a very significant date for independence. Yeah, I know the Declaration of Independence is dated July 4, 1776. In reality, the vote for independence actually occurred on July 2nd, and the document was signed on August 2nd.
That document reads in part:
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…
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