Posted on 07/04/2012 6:08:22 PM PDT by rhema
Who does President Barack Obama think he is that he can change the wording of the Declaration of Independence? Again and again he presumes to quote the great Declaration while making a significant change: he omits the word “Creator.”
Americans know that the Declaration of Independence proclaims as a matter of fact that they “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” But when Obama recites this line, he omits the word “Creator.”
Listen carefully to how Obama censors that famous line. Here are his own words: “all men are created equal, that each of us are endowed with certain inalienable rights.” He doesn’t say who endowed us.
Obama has done this so often that it can’t be a slip of the tongue or a glitch of the teleprompter. Changing the words of the Declaration of Independence is part of Obama’s determination to remove everything religious and every mention of God from every aspect of our public life in order to fundamentally transform us from “one nation under God” into one nation under the Federal Government, especially the executive branch, with no higher power recognized.
On this Fourth of July, we should remind ourselves that the great Declaration of Independence is not only the proclamation of our independence and sovereignty, but is also the official affirmation of our belief and faith in God. The Declaration asserts God’s existence as a “self-evident” truth, and states that the purpose of government is to secure our God-given unalienable individual rights.
The Declaration contains five references to God — God as our Creator, God as supreme Lawmaker, God as the Source of all rights, God as the world’s supreme Judge, and God as our Protector.
Shortly before we started hearing fireworks for this year’s Fourth of July, the movie “For Greater Glory” opened in local theaters. It is a compelling dramatization of the Mexican government’s persecution of Christians from 1926 to 1929, a bloody piece of history that has hitherto been ignored by historians and filmmakers.
This wasn’t in some faraway Muslim country; it was in our next-door neighbor. It’s instructive for Americans, who have peacefully enjoyed religious liberty for more than two centuries, to realize the depth of hatred that some people have for religion in general and Christianity in particular.
The movie is a worthy addition to the genre of successful religious films that portray Christian heroes who died for their faith, such as “A Man For All Seasons” (Thomas More), “Becket,” and “The Robe.”
In 1926, the Mexican president, Plutarco Elias Calles, brutally enforced laws to suppress religion. Soldiers on horseback broke into churches, vandalized church property, killed priests, and strung up dead bodies on posts to terrify the people.
Government officials, an elite openly admiring Soviet Communism, were determined to destroy all visible evidences of religion, including the cross and other Christian symbols, the wearing of traditional garments by Catholic priests and nuns, and religious processions. Soldiers could order anyone to repeat “Long live the Federal Government,” with death the punishment for refusal.
Mexico’s Constitution required the schools to be active participants in the battle to secularize the country and suppress religion. The Constitution stated: “Education services should be secular, and, therefore, free of any religious orientation.”
About 90,000 Mexicans died in the fighting that ensued as the Christians, calling themselves Cristeros, resisted bravely. They got little or no help from the Vatican, but eventually, in 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized 25 Cristero saints and martyrs. The U.S. government apparently was interested only in protecting its oil interests.
Our first reaction to the killings in this movie is “of course, this can’t happen here.” The bloody part may be improbable in the United States, but the contempt for religion here is already evident.
It’s not difficult to imagine the hateful words of the Mexican President being repeated in the United States by the ACLU, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and various atheist litigators who are aggressively pushing supremacist judges to ban the Ten Commandments, our national motto, and crosses from schools and from every public place even when their purpose is to honor servicemen who gave their lives on our behalf.
Through speeches and regulations, President Obama is trying to eliminate all public references to religion, to force religious worship behind closed doors, and to coerce religious institutions into financing drugs and procedures that violate their religious faith. ObamaCare will force Christian hospitals, colleges and schools to pay for abortifacients, contraceptives and sterilizations for their employees.
If they don’t obey Obama’s orders, the penalty is financial death. It’s no wonder that Obama campaigned as a messiah in 2008 saying, “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”
Anyone know what the article is referring to? Which recent speech? I looked on the WH website, and there is nothing like this anywhere in the two remarks he gave/released for the Fourth.
Yeah, right. My conduct controls the universe. Cut the hyperbole and remember this is a forum of ideas. I can express anything I want.
Unless you want the SCOTUS to delcare that unconstitutional.
Point: Notice how, at first, the GOP and Romney were all “it’s a penalty” and “we don’t know if we can reverse this, it’s hard” and all of sudden Romney is on CBS walking the statements of HIS people back?
And McConnell has to mea cupla with “You can bet if we are the majority this is our number one priority”.
Trust them? I don’t. Been burned too many times.
We need a strong conservative in the WH and strong conservative leaders in Congress. We are not going to get that in 2012.
OK, I found it - September 2010 speech... On Youtube back then, and reposed on 15 Jun of this year, which probably confused the original author (Phyllis Schafley).
Antichrist.....he sure got some power from somewhere. All the dems vote the way he tells them to vote and all the republicans are scared to death of him.
That’s a clown list bro.
Massachusetts did not join into the RGGI.
Of course it isn’t a glitch, the obama apologists (ie he is new , getting his footing, bound to make mistakes because he is green to politics (is that racist?) is getting old
every time obama says anything (unless it is an uh uh uh uh um rare moment) is scripted and calculated
how anyone can edit the declaration of independence and have no news reports on it is obscene.-but what else is new?
NO ONE should edit this country’s declaration, no one!
did he even read the Declaration today? anyone know?
He's an effin' muzzie, end of story.
So why didn’t he substitute Allah.
Typical of muslims to revise Bibles, texts and what not other people’s histories and identities in order to reflect their own narcissism to the best spot they want to fashion it.
bkmrk
You think it matters what you want? Seventy percent of the people did not want ACA, but here we are. Oh by the way Romney is scum for what it did to Massachusetts, if you don't know that then maybe you should read Jim Rob's data file on him.
Obama has done this so often that it can't be a slip of the tongue or a glitch of the teleprompter.
Missing the trees for the forest, here.
"UNalienable", (that which is not subject to the rules or manipulations of humans), was the word the Founders used. not "in"alienable.
There are two edits in the line.
Safe to say, revolution is coming folks.
And yet there are so many who intend to sit on their Christian principles to ensure he gets re-elected...
Who needs congress when you’ve got executive orders?
Such “Christians” have a very weak understanding of their own righteousness (they have NONE, and NONE can be “earned” through works).
That, in a nutshell, is the basis of “liberalism” at least at the sheeperal, not the communist control-freak level - it’s a works-based righteousness model, and even worse, and more it’s a LAZY works-based righteousness model where you don’t actually sacrifice of yourself to do good works, but you force others to sacrifice of themselves to do good works to earn YOUR “righteousness”.
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