Posted: Jun 09, 2015 3:25 am
Just one more Christian zealot that has no understanding of early American history. She can repeat the phrase "liberty and justice for all" but ignores or is unaware of the fact that most of those that put their signature to this were slave holders.
She cites Patrick Henry as saying, "Give me liberty or give me death," but seems to ignore or be unaware that at the same time Henry was giving his speech he was building a plantation and buying slaves. "Give me liberty or give me death" did not apply to anyone other than Henry himself and his well off planter friends. People like Washington and Jefferson.
Likewise this commitment to liberty by "founding fathers" did not apply to native Americans any more than it did to African Americans or the common man in the colonies. "Liberty and justice for all" meant liberty for men of property and justice for them. Everyone else be damned.
The common person gained nothing by the American Revolution. They were no better or worse off otceher than thinking they were free of something that never really affected them. The rights of a common man, let alone those of slaves or native American, were not changed or improved by the Declaration of Independence or the ratification of the Constitution.
We only have to look at England itself, Canada, and Australia to see that the American revolution was for nothing other than personal gain by a few.
The English Bill of Rights of 1689 had already established most of the rights of common people that the Constitution of the United States enumerated.
This deluded girl seems also, like many Christians, to be unaware that the term, "One nation under God," is a recent invention never utter by any founding father.
I find it amusing that this girl says that astrology won't save you and there are no answers in the stars, you only have to look to the creator of the stars for answers.
She cites Patrick Henry as saying, "Give me liberty or give me death," but seems to ignore or be unaware that at the same time Henry was giving his speech he was building a plantation and buying slaves. "Give me liberty or give me death" did not apply to anyone other than Henry himself and his well off planter friends. People like Washington and Jefferson.
Likewise this commitment to liberty by "founding fathers" did not apply to native Americans any more than it did to African Americans or the common man in the colonies. "Liberty and justice for all" meant liberty for men of property and justice for them. Everyone else be damned.
The common person gained nothing by the American Revolution. They were no better or worse off otceher than thinking they were free of something that never really affected them. The rights of a common man, let alone those of slaves or native American, were not changed or improved by the Declaration of Independence or the ratification of the Constitution.
We only have to look at England itself, Canada, and Australia to see that the American revolution was for nothing other than personal gain by a few.
The English Bill of Rights of 1689 had already established most of the rights of common people that the Constitution of the United States enumerated.
This deluded girl seems also, like many Christians, to be unaware that the term, "One nation under God," is a recent invention never utter by any founding father.
I find it amusing that this girl says that astrology won't save you and there are no answers in the stars, you only have to look to the creator of the stars for answers.