Did you know: The Declaration of Independence is a deeply religious document?
Did you know: The Declaration of Independence is a deeply religious document? By Jerry Newcombe, CP Op-Ed Contributor Tomorrow, another Fourth of July will be upon us. Why do we celebrate on July 4th? Of course, it's America's birthday, dating back to 1776. That's when 56 men agreed by voice vote for the final wording of our nation's birth certificate. The Declaration of Independence. A month late,r they began to sign it. Samuel Adams said at that signing on August 1, 1776: "We have this day restored the Sovereign to whom alone men ought to be obedient. He reigns in Heaven, and with a propitious eye beholds His subjects assuming that freedom of thought and dignity of self-direction which He bestowed on them. From the rising to the setting sun, may His kingdom come!" In an Oxford University Press book on this often-neglected Founding Father, author Benjamin H. Irvin, writes: "The Declaration of Independence represented in many ways the culmination of Samu...
