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In recent years, "religious freedom" has taken on new meaning in the United States. People twist the phrase, even going so far as to form a group called "Freedom from Religion" whose unspoken yet evident purpose is to attack Christianity. There are even those who try to argue that our Founding Fathers were not intending to establish a Christian nation. The thing is, no matter how people try to twist it, the Truth never changes . The signers of the Declaration of Independence knew what it would take for a new nation to survive and thrive. As the authors of Under God stated, " In declaring their independence from earthly power and authority, out Founding Fathers declared their dependence upon the Almighty God: 'with firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence.' " Samuel Adams said, " We have this day restored the Sovereign, to Whom alone men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and... from the rising to the setting sun, may...

We've lost ourselves. Somehow, in all the chaos and the noise around us, we have lost sight of everything that is truly important, everything that once set us apart. We have stopped taking a stand, and as a result we have let others walk all over us in the name of "progress." We have become a country ~which would rather protect a chicken than a baby ~in which people barely bat an eye when a woman publishes a video of herself having an abortion ~in which a woman writes a selfish letter to the unborn child she is planning on killing (one she calls Thing), and gets praised for making a choice "for her" ~in which a boy was given detention for sharing his lunch with a classmate who had less ~with people so afraid of offending others that they hide their own beliefs ~where people are attacked for supporting the Biblical definition--God's definition--of marriage ~where it is accepted and expected for people to sleep together before they are married in...