"I congratulate you on the successes of our two allies. Those of the Hollanders are new, and therefore pleasing. It proves there is a God in heaven, and that he will not slumber without end on the iniquities of tyrants, or would-be tyrants, as their Stadtholder. This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe, at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together. It is our glory that we first put it into motion, & our happiness that being foremost we had no bad examples to follow. . . ."
The Pope's Easter message was a powerful reminder for all of us of the need for light in a world of darkness and oppression.
America's founding ideas were based on an understanding of Creator-endowed individual rights to life and liberty--an enlightened view which informed the Framers of America's Constitutional limits on those entrusted with power in government.
Our duty it is to pass on those essential ideas of liberty to future generations.
“The Most Effective Means of Preserving Liberty”
The most effective means of preserving liberty is to lock and load.
Religion,Morality, and Knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, Schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.Passed by the same Congress that formed and adopted the US Constitution and again by the Congress of 1789 while it was forming the promised Bill of Rights. Note: Benjamin Rush,Thomas Jefferson (and others promoted the use of the Bible in schools. Noah Webster in his History of the United States— as in the dictionary of the English Language before that -promoted the idea of educating our youth in Christianity.Joseph story said in his Commentaries on the Constitution,1833 and his textbook on the Constitution ,1840
Taught the general if not universal sentiment in America when the (First) Amendment was adopted was that Christianity ought be encouraged by the State.HOw sad we have allowed educators to “progressivly lead our youth from
those principles important to our forefathers.