Dear Friends of �Dial Daily Bread�:
This is being written on the morning of our Independence Day. David McCullough�s NY Times best seller �1776� is a birthday gift to the nation. It tells fascinating details about �our� national beginning. What�s impressive is the account of divine providence (God�s miracles--in modern language!) that enabled �our� rag-tag Continental Army to triumph over George III�s disciplined military so he would send his warships home defeated. Our �army� was largely New England farmers commanded by a
greenhorn Virginian George Washington who despised them. Without that �divine providence� at Trenton �we� would never have gained �our� independence.
And why did �God� so bless the Thirteen [Rebellious] Colonies? Their goal was to establish a Protestant nation founded on the basic principle of the separation of church from the state, a nation without a king and a church to be blessed without a pope. The founding Fathers revered the idea that religious liberty of conscience was a divine right already granted by the Creator to every human being--not a �privilege� granted by an earthly government to certain people. In that culture of national
liberty where the Constitution would provide for checks and balances to hinder the growth of tyranny and prevent political and moral corruption, a national climate of uprightness would invite the blessings of heaven. That�s what happened! That �Providence� pretty well brought us through more than two centuries, even through our terrible Civil War in the aftermath of which �we� finally repudiated �our� crime of slavery. Lincoln was right: this nation was founded on the Protestant-developed idea
of liberty of soul, God�s intention being to bless the world and thus prevent the rise of Terrorism. Global respect for what the United States stood for morally would defend �us.� Shall �we� abandon those Protestant principles of liberty for all? God forbid!
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