July 4th is an inspirational time because it is a time to reflect on the leadership of individual Americans during a challenging time to secure the blessings God has given them. It is not a time to reflect on what new government programs were given to people and it is not a time to reflect on what new rights a government gave a people. It is not a time to reflect on how militarily secure a group of colonists felt quartering British soldiers in their homes while Indians were outside. It is also not a time to honor those that have conquered other countries. It is a time to reflect on a time when enlightened people looked within themselves and UNDERSTOOD what true authority was and that God grants each person rights as we are under his creation. To deny this is to deny your maker. At times in the history of the world, men will forge nations to bind themselves in the hopes of securing these God-given rights to life under a more peaceful existance with their fellow man. The mechanisms to which man occassionally binds himself will eventually become destructive to those original moral purposes for various reasons. At times the mechanisms we bound ourselves to will cease to function towards the betterment of our goals and the mechanisms will secure themselves, alienating the people they were created for. During this time it is the peoples duty to destroy these bonds, relinquishing the destructive mechanisms, and establish new means, moral and just, by which we can secure what God has blessed us with. That is what it truly means to defend ones country and rights, not to go to Iraq and kill over a 100,000 people. Plain and simple. And today I do not support the Iraq War, but I do support the enlightening spirit by which we learn what God has blessed us with and not kings. Without that understanding how will you know to thank God? That understanding is why I’m an American. God bless America and please spread the true spirit. If the celebration of July 4th is just tradition without practice today, then independence does not live today through you. Are you a practicing American?
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