What Did They Die For?
May 25, 2008
Ask any man on a battlefield why he is fighting and he will say for the man next to him. Ask him again and he will say for freedom. We live in a generation that takes our freedom for granted as if it is a right and not a responsibility. For every day of freedom we enjoy in America roughly fourteen men gave their lives. This number does not include the millions who are wounded. These men thought this was a worthy price to pay for our freedom.
True freedom has its basis in God. True tyranny has its basis in man. Today as a nation we reject God. We have so swallowed the concept of separation of church and state that we now consider belief in Jesus Christ makes one unfit to hold public office. What will step into the vacuum when God is gone? Man will! Our founding fathers never used the word democracy in the constitution. Democracy means “rule by the common people.” In 1787 at the constitutional convention John Adams argued, “The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable; they are no keepers at all. They can neither act, judge, think, or will.” We live in a Republic that was born “with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence.” Today as we oust God we seek to exalt man. Our population is easily swayed by a fine speech. All a man must do is boldly promise the benefits of freedom without the price tag. History teaches there is more to the story. The price of democracy, or rule by the common people without God will be far greater than the price of freedom. Democracy always leads to anarchy and then totalitarian rule.
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