A friend sent me these words from Jedediah Morse (who was the father of Samuel Morse, the inventor of Morse Code) and I immediately thought: these words are as true today as they were back in 1799. There is no freedom of any kind without God.
"To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys. In proportion as the genuine effects of Christianity are diminished in any nation, either through unbelief, or the corruption of it's doctrines, or the neglect of it's institutions; in the same proportion will the people of that nation recede from the blessings of genuine freedom, and approximate the miseries of complete despotism. All efforts to destroy the foundations of our holy religion, ultimately tend to the subversion also of our political freedom and happiness. Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of govenment, and all the blessings which flow from them, must fall with them."
Jedediah Morse, 1799
CHOOSE THE RIGHT PATH: Reflections on how faith and political realities combine.
