What Do We Celebrate on July 4th?

          In my humble opinion, the most important thing that we should celebrate on the 4^th of July is that document that changed the world and began with:

"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,"  (emphasis mine).

            This Great Nation was started by a document of one page, albeit a rather large page, still one page! We now have “elected elite” that take over 2,700 pages to allegedly screw up our health care system. Just think, this nation was created in one page! WOW, we could use some of those Founding Fathers Now!

            Please note that in the first two sentences “God” and “Creator” are mentioned. So much for the argument of Church and State separation. It would appear to a casual reader that the State is established by rights granted from “God, the Creator” and that it is His authority by which the United States was formed. Of course there are those who will argue that the state created God, at least so it seems today, and thus He should be relagated to a lesser position, if not ignored altogether.

            If we are “endowed by our Creator, we sure better continue to include Him in the debates and discourse of this great nation, or He just might take it all away from us.

            Happy Fourth from one of the many millions who served to keep us all in the ‘Land of the Free”. And PRAY that GOD may continue to Bless Us All and His special grace and protection on those brave men and women who today, as we celebrate, are serving us with their lives at risk around this troubled planet!