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 Samuel Adams's life work."
Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the first major draft of the Declaration of Independence, penned a letter years later to Samuel Adams on March 29, 1801. He said that as he approached matters of state, he would ask himself: "[I]s this in keeping with the words of Sam Adams, the patriarch of liberty?"
Although many people today try to minimize the role of God in our nation's founding, the fact is that the Lord is mentioned four times in the Declaration of Independence.
For example, the Declaration mentions the importance of conforming to natural law, as it refers to "the laws of nature and of nature's God."
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