Freedom Under God

There are many theories of government, many political persuasions, many systems of social order, many philosophies as to the place and importance of people. But whatever the theories, this blessed freedom we have had has come because the Founding Fathers recognized, first, a living God as the supreme factor and force in the universe and in the affairs of men and nations, and, second, that man is an immortal child of God, responsible to Him in matters of conscience and responsible as brothers one to another. Anyone who would eliminate God from the foundation of his own freedom or from any social system would in fact be eliminating the very foundations of his own freedom whether he knows it or not. No matter what a person may think or suppose he thinks of Divine Providence, freedom is founded on the fact that God lives, that His commandments are basic to human happiness, that man is more than another order of animal, that he is a child of God whom an eternal Father made in His own image, and endowed with free agency and responsibilities, and limitless, eternal possibilities which no man can set aside. If the right of freedom were not God-given, if we were answerable only to ourselves, only to society, freedom would have little assurance of survival. The Founding Fathers knew this and acknowledged it. The fatherhood of God, and the free agency of man which God has given, are the foundation of freedom.