Think About it -- Happy 250th America!

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Carl Chinn

Carl Chinn

Jul 4, 2026

This week we celebrate 250 years of American liberty. That liberty wasn’t achieved on July 4^th, 1776 any more than it started then, but it’s the best date marker we have.

Persistent efforts continue by many to shape the entire purpose and process of our history into something to support modern immoral ideologies. Many say Washington, Jefferson, Franklin and other architects of our nation’s founding were anything but, Christian. Volumes are written by smart people who continually work to rewrite any history of those founders being Christian. There seems to be an obsession to rewrite, twist, omit or otherwise deny any connection to Christ of our founders and the documents they recorded. Any simple search of the internet is full of “evidence” they were anything but, Christians.

This same dissention and agenda driven separation from truth applies to scriptures as well. Many continue to rewrite, twist, omit or otherwise deny selected truths of scripture.

The past is critical to effectively evaluating the current and carefully navigating the future. Deliberate distortions of the past (taking Christian principles out of our founding or, worse yet, redefining Christianity itself) are dangerous.

The first two sentences in the declaration of Independence each speak of our God and Creator. The very last sentence states, “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

The last of the three founding documents of the United States (the first 10 amendments to the constitution, aka the “Bill of Rights”), produced in 1791, opened with the 1^st amendment being about our faith and the faith of others.

It reads (in part), “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”

The general history of that proclamation is that of welcoming all faiths into our population. We find ourselves today however, as the ones being urged to shut up and get out. While giving quarter to others, others are now moving Christian values out.

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When my wife and I celebrate Independence Day, we do so with unwavering thanks to Jesus Christ who influenced our founders and pray that we, as a nation, move away from immoral ideologies that threaten our identity as a Christian nation and back to firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence.

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