the conquest of freedom

            The founding fathers established this nation with the absolute intention that she would maintain her goodness if her people would maintain their sense of virtue. These men set up a very firm moral foundation upon which to build the rest of this great nation, in order to bless the lives of her future people. Thomas Jefferson and the signers of the Declaration of Independence confirmed the existence of “self-evident truths” that applied to all men, and were “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” Although they are indeed self-evident and unalienable, in order to maintain their efficacy and prevalence in today’s society, they must be upheld through enduring effort. Thus each individual has a moral responsibility to exercise his or her free agency to attain, maintain, and spread freedom in the face of an increasingly secular culture.

            Each man and woman upon the earth has been endowed with free agency; each is able act for him/herself as part of God’s plan, and this free agency can never be taken away. However, freedom can be denied or reduced by the conditions of man, by way of law or natural circumstance. Thus free agency is the power to choose, and is absolute, whereas freedom is the power to carry out those choices, and can be restricted. Consequently, when the Lord guided the formation of this country, He provided for the exercise of agency, within the margins of American freedom. Hence, it becomes our responsibility, as God-fearing partakers of this freedom, to exercise that agency to extend the arm of freedom. If not, we forsake that which has been divinely crafted for our benefit.This nation is changing, and the shift is in the direction that leads one further from God. Said Abraham Lincoln “We have forgotten God . . . we have imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of their own.” The increasing secularism of our nation is depriving the current and future generations of the great benefits of this nation. Margaret Thatcher, the .. . . once told the students of Brigham Young University that “You use the name of God in your Constitution, and yet you can’t use it in your schools.” If the citizens of this great nation proceeds to do away with the values and virtues that the Founding Fathers upheld, there may be spanning consequences that affect the liberty that the Founding Fathers also tried to uphold. The more that the United States chips away at the Christian values in the government, the weaker the groundwork of our government will become, and the less the Lord will watch over the maintenance of this nation. Without faith and conviction in moral responsibility, the foundation upon which our forefathers built will inevitably fall. Thus each citizen of this great nation must exercise his or her God-given free agency to continue the fight for the conquest of freedom.