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	Name:	Yankee06
	Subject:	Cheap Sentiment, Coins, & God
	Date:	8/24/2009 2:40:48 PM

-Cheap Sentiment, Coins, and God ---interesting huh??
-Cheap sentiment: I guess "sentiment," like beauty, depends on whose eyes are looking at it. Pesonally, I don't see flyovers, "in God We Trust", flags on porches, cars, etc., as cheap sentiment. These are symbols of what we believe in. (Sure, I know, Swastikas were symbols too). As we get older we sometimes get used to these things. But what about our young people. They no longer see these things intertwined into a living sense of what America is all about. Flyovers, flags, mottos, and other symbols are very important in making new citizens aware.
-God: I believe that even atheists should understand the importantance of the God concept in the birthing of America and in its continuance. AS important as teh God concept waas, Christianity was teh most important of teh God concepts (for Obama to stand up in Egypt and say that America is not a Christian nation was just stup[i ..errr, acted stupidly?. ..but that could be another discussion thread)
-But why is the concept of God important to Americans? because, as the Declaration states, our rights depend on our Creator. This is the most important concept in the Declaration and in the formation ofour independence. Because of this concept, our rights do not depend on any other man or group of men, or any other ideology. These rights are life, liberty, and teh pursuit of happiness; these are our rights as God's creatures. The Creator is ultimate authority as teh source of our freedoms, it is this upon which all our laws are based.
-Why is this important? Because if you take out God, and you are left with just a group of men saying these are our rights. Men are fallible. Another group of men could come along and say the first group of men were wrong, and we, the new group, are now correct, ...and here are your rights, --enter Marx and his communists/socialists; enter Hitler and his racists; enter...well, you know the rest.
-So if this is true, that our most basic rights are based on teh ultimate authority of God, a creator who gave us these rights as part of our human essence, ---then we must keep this concept at the core of our understanding of ourselves as free men and our country as the organization we ahve built to ensure these rights are protected and promoted. Not only must we keep this concept in front of ourselves, but especially in the forefront of teh next and future generations.
- We have to keep reminding ourselves of this, ...otherwise we risk losing the understanding of why we are the kind of people we are and why we are the kind of nation we are, --a nation of free men, not because some group of other men said that, but because the creator made us that way. Symbols, traditions, and education, as well as living examples, are the way we do that.