Does anyone know what freedoms you are fighting for?
Does anyone know what freedoms are unique to America?
I have asked before but no one is either willing or able to give me a straight answer.
It must be very important because you are prepared to invade sovereign nationsnd kill their inhabitants in its name. It must be very important because so many of you bang on about defending your 'freedoms'. But what are they.
Serious question.
The cornerstone fundamental to American freedom is this: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator, certain unalienable rights, including; Life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. All of the unique difference can be summed up in this one sentence.
There are indeed, other western civilizations who have freedoms and liberties, but the difference is found in where these freedoms are made possible. In other countries, the freedoms are granted by a document, perhaps a constitution? Upheld by courts and sponsored by government. But here, the freedom is not ordained by man, it is endowed by our Creator. And it is unalienable, it can't be granted by decree of a constitution or court, it can't be taken away by a politician or ruling body, it's something we can not be alienated from because we are born with it and entitled to it, because our Creator endowed it upon us.
Now your mind will immediately try to close up here, because this sounds a lot like "theocratic" type of government... Who's Creator? Well, that's the beauty of the whole thing... it doesn't matter who's. You'll find that only 5% of the human population are Nihilist. Meaning, roughly 95% of us believe in something greater than self. Whatever that thing is, which guides our spiritual beliefs and/or faith, even if it's nothing more than Mother Nature herself, THAT is what endowed us with these inalienable rights, and we can all come together, united as 'one nation under God', with the universal understanding of what that actually means... not a "Christian" God, but a universal concept of something greater than self, whatever that may be for the individual. We can set aside the debates over individual theocracy and religious dogma, we don't have to establish government on the basis of it, because we have this exceptional unique attribute of universal principle.
We just so happen to be a nation comprised of mostly believers in the God of Abraham. Therefore, many of the laws we pass and boundaries we establish, are rooted in what these people believe, as part of their faith. That is the great thing about our system, we are allowed to have free religious expression, and our religious thoughts and ideas are allowable when we determine laws, etc. We don't have to fear a theocracy, because the system prevents that, the same principles can't apply to a theocracy. I'm not saying we can pass religious law, but religion can most certainly influence our decisions on the law. THAT IS true Religious Freedom.
