Posted by
Phillyfanatic(KGK) on Thursday, July 05, 2007 4:38:08 PM
This week is one to remember our 231 year history. It is one that should look at the people involved in our colonial history too. That would include ministers, lawyers, land owners, doctors, inventors, and military men who came from the farms and cities and manors of the rich. They wrote, read, debated, and even sinned as they wrestled with freedom , war and peace, revolution, Britain, Parliament, the King, culture ties, economic views, slavery and states rights. Can you imagine if pacifism ruled the day then? Can you imagine Rev. John Witherspoon telling Ameri can revolutionaries, that in order to win their Independence, they would have to lie down before the British soldiers and allowed themselves to be arrested??? Of course not. Freedom is not won without struggles, sometimes death, sometimes compromises. On the 4th, my wife and I went to a Block Party with families we did not know just around the varied blocks . We talked about family, freedom, our own area. Yet, afterwards, I really got inspired by watching two old movies about our Revolution. I watched The Howards of Virginia and 1776. Of course, there was movie poetic license. Still, the debates, the moves, the rhetoric, the tension, the love and the reliance on Providence(God) was very obvious. There is a song in the film, 1776, ' Rum, Molasses, Slaves'. All should listen to that song when understanding the roilsome battle getting Independence or freedom way back when. And oh, when liberals tell us that God has no interest in nations or that we have been blessed, please make them, force them, if need be, to read , watch, be inspired by the story of our Revolution and Independence. God has blessed this nation beyond any reason or understanding. His love for our people and struggles is amazing. One wonders if our national sins, our forgetting of His direction of all those people some 231 years ago, our drive to secular progressive ideology instead of our Judeo-Christian foundation and national forgetfulness of our roots. I pray not. But, one thing I do know, our youth needs to be educated about our freedoms , our Revolution, our sacrifices for freedom and our God. If they do not, we may become a footnote in world history.