As America reaches a major milestone this July 4th, there will be elaborate fireworks, long parades and plenty of speeches about what this nation has accomplished and endured.All of that is worth celebrating.But if we're honest, the more pressing question isn't what we're commemorating, it's what we're handing down.
What we teach the next generation of Americans will determine what this country looks like at its next great milestone.Right now, we are in danger of handing them a version of America that has been stripped of the very thing that made it extraordinary in the first place: faith.SECRETS OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR BATTLEFIELDS EMERGE 250 YEARS AFTER AMERICA'S FOUNDINGLet me start with something that gets misquoted almost daily in our culture.The First Amendment does not say that God has no place in American public life.
It says Congress shall make no law establishing a religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.It was written by brave leaders who quoted Scripture and opened the Constitutional Convention in prayer.America's coming 250 years depend heavily on the faith we pass on to the next generation.
(Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images)America wasn’t born out of a desire to eliminate religion and become some sort of aimless, secular utopia.Instead, our founders built a nation where no single church would be compelled by the state, precisely because they believed faith was too important to be weaponized by government.The Declaration of Independence references God four times.
Our rights are described as endowments from a Creator.These rights don't come from a king, a parliament or a constitution.
They come from God.Government doesn't grant them.
Government is merely charged with protecting them.THE FOUNDING FATHERS WOULD SOUND THE ALARM ON AOC, MAMDANI AND OUR SLIDE INTO SOCIALISMThis is where we have lost the plot.Over the last several decades, we've allowed "separation of church and state" — a phrase that doesn't appear anywh...