| Monday, March 3, 2008 |
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| Written by Kevin Boling | ||
| Monday, 03 March 2008 | ||
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Liberty: Why Fight the Battle Again?
Liberty is a precious commodity. The truth is that very few people in the history of the world have experienced freedom. Perhaps no people on earth have experienced it the way certain Americans have by the grace and providence of God. Of course, just because something is precious does not mean that it will always be valued. Unfortunately, people tend to take for granted what they have, adopt a myopic outlook in terms of the way things are, and thereby fail to rightly value the liberty they do have. In other words, most people don’t look beyond their own generation. They do not look to the past or to the future. Consequently, they think things have always been the way they are and they don’t realize how much better it used to be. Further, they don’t see the erosion going on before them and think things will always be as they are. Thus, if we don’t know what liberty used to be, if we think we have it good now, if we don’t see the dangerous course on which we find ourselves, there will come a point in time when liberty will cease to be.
J. Gresham Machen wrote in similar fashion back in 1949. Speaking of the tolerance of religions liberty and the freedom citizens hold to teach their children whatever they deem appropriate, he wrote, “Tolerance was a great achievement for our forefathers. But now, apparently, in America, it is being given up…the danger is certainly great. Unless there is tolerance on the part of the state, any great spiritual advance, whatever its direction may be thought to be, will be hindered. It will not, I suppose, be prevented. Men of real convictions now as always may perhaps maintain their convictions even under hostile government. But why should the battle for freedom be fought again? Why should we not retain the freedom which, at such great cost, our fathers won?
On today’s edition of “Calling for Truth,” we will consider Machen’s questions and talk about liberty and the Christian Worldview.
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