A Suggested Letter to the Editor of Your Local Newspaper
Applicable today, the confusion of many now trying to decide which candidates for government service best represent the civic and economic interests of our families and businesses is understandable. The decline in the quality of what is taught about American history, morality, government and free enterprise comes at no surprise with the secularization of government education and, in my opinion, this is NOT the fault of the great majority of teachers.
Articles in the local Ames Tribune* opinion page by an atheistic professor in the religion department of Iowa State University suggest that he MAY not understand two things. One is the Judeo-Christian Bible and the other is American history.
The tone of one's deeply felt religious belief, be it God-honoring or otherwise, and values sought for government, law and education, ARE INSEPARABLE. Much older than any other text, the Bible has remained intact down throughout history. The reasons are many, but one is that it resonates with human life experience. The moral law, John 3:16 and Psalm 23 have no equal. The Bible tells the truth and it DOES NOT GLOSS OVER the evil done in the name of religion.
The power of government comes from the people who fund the gigantic bank called the Public Treasury. We pay for courthouses, schools, highways, salaries of public servants, etc. Good government is a tool for protecting life and liberty for the pursuit of happiness. The God-honoring American Declaration of Independence is universal and immortal in scope. That Declaration and Bill of Rights, added later to the Constitution, are the design, and the Constitution is the tool for implementing that design.
Patriotic Americans applaud diversity. They recognize, however, that worldly concoctions for diversity that tear down family values, morality and appreciation for the American idea, IN GOD WE TRUST, are evil and totally unacceptable.
"Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for support of societies as the natural affection is for the support of families. The Amor Patriae is both moral and a religious duty. It comprehends not only the love of our neighbors but millions of our fellow creatures, not only the present but of future generations. This virtue we find constitutes a part of the first character of history."
The above essay on patriotism by Dr. Benjamin Rush was published in 1773. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence. A devout Christian, Rush established Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and served as professor of medical theory and clinical practice at the University of Pennsylvania from 1791 to 1813.
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