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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

A MESS

Rachel pretty much said it all in her post. But, I would just like to harp on the preciousness of the document we were able to read. We are taught all about the American Revalution and how is was a great and honorable thing... but do we really know? I am... I wasn't there. How much have we ever really searched out what the people on the other side have said about the matter. Wesley's writing is a prime example. It was unfortunate that we talked so much about suffering when that wasn't even Wesley's point. He says that the suffering they thought they were afflicted under was really a result of a misunderstanding of what liberty really is (and a lack of intellect at all)... mean while, he says real liberty is being "stamped on the ground amidst the calamity and confusion." I'm not saying every thing we know is a lie and it was really the revolutionists that were evil and la, la, la. But I am saying that we have a man of God here, who makes valid, intelligent, and scriptural arguments against the beginnings of the revolution. I just want you to think. This is in no way to dishonor men who died to give us "liberty"- actions trickle down from the head. They were following orders. They believed in the cause that there superiors told them. So, by looking at this argument from someone on the opposing side of the American Revolution... what do we know to be truly the cause? The Civil War was just about States Rights, right? Do you feel the same about the nasty British ? I think it is such an honor that Honors exposes us to stuff like this. To, if nothing else, get us thinking.

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