John Adams, writing to Abigail, about the Continental Congress' vote in favor of independence on July 2, 1776:
"The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more. You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. -- I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. -- Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not."
America is the only nation on earth built on a sentence spoken by Christ: render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, and unto God what is God’s.
Every other country in history handed the whole of man to the state, his labor, his allegiance, and his soul alike, or handed the state to a church and called the fusion holy.
America alone drew the line exactly where Christ drew it. It gave Caesar the coin, the law, the road, and the sword, everything that is Caesar’s, and then it stopped, because the conscience was never Caesar’s to take.
It belongs to God, and no congress, no king, no majority may claim it.
A government that claims everything it is owed and nothing it is not, a people standing directly before God with rights no ruler granted and no ruler can revoke.
We are not the only nation that speaks of freedom. But we are the only nation that figures out where true freedom lies (in the untouchable sanctuary of the soul) and then built a country whose entire purpose is to guard that sanctuary and never allow the government entry.
Our founders looked at the human conscience and said this is holy ground, given freely to God. Never government. Never kings. Never institutions.
“Let us begin by stating that communism and Christianity are at the bottom incompatible. One cannot be a true Christian and a true Communist simultaneously. How then is Communism irreconcilable with Christianity?
In the first place it leaves out God and Christ. It is avowedly secularistic and materialistic. It regards religion psychologically as mere wishful thinking, intellectually as the product of fear and ignorance, and historically as serving the ends of exploiters. Because of public opinion authorities have had to modify some of their anti-religous doctrines, but the official policy of the communist party is still atheistic.
In the second place the methods of communism are diametrically opposed to Christianity. Since for the Communist there is no Divine government, no absolute moral order, there are no fixed, immutable principles. Force, violence, murder, and lying are all justifiable means to the millennial end. Said Lenin, ‘we must be ready to employ tricking, deceit, and lawbreaking, withholding and concealing truth.’ That the followers of Lenin have been willing to act upon his instructions is a matter of history.
In the third place, the end of communism is the state. I shall qualify this by saying that the state in Communist theory is a temporary reality which is to be eliminated when the classless society emerges. But it is true that the state is the end while it lasts. Man becomes only a means to that end. And if any man’s so called rights or liberties stand in the way of that end, they are simply swept aside. His liberties of press or pulpit expression, his freedom to vote, his freedom to listen to what news he likes or to choose his books and even his friendships are all restricted. Man has to be a servant, dutiful and submissive, of the State, and the state is omnipotent and supreme.” - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr (from the sermon “Communism’s Challenge to Christianity”)
"Capitalist boss who doesn't work" is where you go awry and your argument collapses.
Also...if the capitalist boss DOES work, are you willing to give up your socialist fantasy? Asking for a country....
(3) that diligently seek him; and withal, most just, and terrible in his judgements, hating all sin, and who will by no means clear the guilty.
Do you mean this definition of God, @ThinkingOne3?
(2) working all things according to the counsel of his own immutable and most righteous will, for his own glory; most loving, gracious, merciful, long-suffering, abundant in goodness and truth, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin; the rewarder of them
(1) There is but one only, living, and true God, who is infinite in being and perfection, a most pure spirit, invisible, without body, parts, or passions; immutable, immense, eternal, incomprehensible, almighty, most wise, most holy, most free, most absolute;
Just witnessed one of the most absurd things in America
I was at JFK airport, already late, the security line was very long
Suddenly, I saw this big, muscular man in full military uniform
"Didn't know there is a war in New York..." I mumbled
Suddenly, staff approached and pulled him out of the line
"Thank you for your service" the TSA worker said with a big smile
"Excuse me? Why is this man skipping the line?" I shouted
"Sir, he fought for our country. Please show some respect"
"Whose country? I'm not American, so I don't need to participate in this military worship" I replied
"You got a problem?" he suddenly turned around
I stopped talking. He was getting aggressive, and American soldiers are known to be mentally unstable with PTSD
This veteran worship is another reason why Europeans think America is so ridiculous