Doug Wilson's "Five Aphorisms for the Fourth" follows as a reminder that our celebrations are misguided if we don't realize how far we've fallen from what we used to have to celebrate, and that the celebrations are starting to ring hollow.
"The problem with George III was that he was from the House of
Hanover. The problem with Obama is he's from the House of Handover.
Christians who absolutize obedience to the 'existing
authorities' never seem to think that the Constitution is an existing
authority.
Shooting off fireworks without a real commitment to liberty now is
a red, white, and blue way of building tombs for the prophets.
To approve resistance to tyranny long-dead without resisting
tyranny here and now is . . . convenient somehow.
As we observe the 4th, recent events make it inappropriate to celebrate
our freedoms. It is appropriate, however, to reassert them."
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