Independence Day

Independence Day is this week. From what did we gain independence?

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I wrote the following to our paper in response to an atheist who said we were not a Christian nation and did not have any Christian influence in our founding fathers:

I would like to address the letter by Mr X [name removed here] with American Atheist Inc. Mr X would appear to argue that our county was not founded on Christian or Religious values of any kind.

Now a simple look at what could be considered our countries first document will help clear this right up. So with that in mind lets look at the document used to declare our separation from England, the Declaration of Independence and in particular near the beginning of the document:

“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.”

To say that the founding fathers did not believe we were created by a Creator would be to ignore the Declaration of Independence.

And did the founding fathers feel that Creator was God, well I will leave you with this quote and you can decide:

“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God?” From Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, 1794.