Freedom 2

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So far, my fellow Americans, we still live in a free country. Freedom to govern ourselves is a gift from the founders who built a government-by-the-people . . and figured out a way for that to succeed where many others had failed. 

"America's founding was brilliant, a work of unsurpassed political wisdom. Where do we think that brilliance came from? Clean air and lots of trees? Rugged independence? The “American spirit”? No. The Founders were students. They knew their Bible, for starters, and that includes men like Jefferson who didn’t believe all of it. They knew their Hobbes and their Rousseau, their Locke and their Burke. They knew the Magna Carta, their English common law, and their European history."

Instead of the freedom to live a life of foolish consumption, we treasure the freedom to make life decisions according to our conscience - to pursue goodness, truth, and beauty. Don't take it for granted. It could go away. 

Freedom requires effort. Determine to make yourself a part of the solution instead of the problem. Read to educate yourself in the God-given freedom we have. I'll try to help.