Posted on 12/22/2025 7:05:50 PM PST by bitt
There is a Christmas manufactured for display windows and marketing campaigns, bright, hurried, and quickly forgotten. There is the Christmas our Founders knew, quiet, severe, inward, and bound to something far older and more demanding than comfort. They did not inherit a nation wrapped in ribbon. They brought one into being through cold hands, empty stomachs, and resolute faith.
When George Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas night, there were no speeches to stir the heart and no crowds to bear witness. There was no certainty of success. There was only an obligation. The men who followed him were unpaid, underfed, and freezing. Many had no shoes. Some left blood in the snow behind them. Yet they crossed anyway, because surrender would have extinguished a fragile and unprecedented idea that free people could govern themselves under God, not kneel before kings.
To the Founding Fathers, the Nativity was not a decorative tradition or a gentle fable meant to soften the season. It was a moral framework. The image of power entering the world through humility rather than conquest reinforced a principle they believed essential to any free society: that legitimate authority arises from virtue, restraint, and service, not coercion. A child born without wealth, title, or force affirmed their conviction that liberty depends on leaders who govern themselves before governing others. In the Nativity, they saw a rebuke of tyranny and a reminder that freedom endures only when law is grounded in moral order. It was not a story that excused them from duty, but one that bound them more tightly to it, calling them to sacrifice comfort for conscience and power for responsibility.
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...and crept up on the Hessians and killed them in their sleep!
Merry Christmas!
Amen!
That was a biblical mode of attack
Great meme!
Excellent!
Here comes Santa Clause!
It needs to be on a tee-shirt.
Roger that!
The Founders understood Christmas better than we recognize.
Thank you! I got in my email but didn’t read it yet.
Whoa.
I will share tbis.
Thanks
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