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12:07 PM Thursday, July 29, 2010

Focusing on the reason for the Fourth of July brought a lot of things to mind that most of us overlooked or have forgotten — starting with how and why our nation was founded.

People came to this country in search of religious freedom. They wanted to be able to worship God and not be afraid of persecution. They focused their lives in God. God was involved in anything they did.

The Founding Fathers did the same, in the founding of our nation, but we have strayed so far from what the Founding Fathers wanted for this country. They would turn over in their graves if they saw what was happening today to our country.

Our religious freedoms are being eroded more every day and I think that is why we are seeing the disasters that we see almost every day — terrible floods, earthquakes, (and) the terrible oil spill. ...

I feel that this may all be judgment for the sin that is so rampant in our country. What years ago would be considered sin is now accepted as the norm. God will not continue to bless a nation that has forgotten God, as our nation surely has.

We need to get back to the basics, which includes giving God his place in our lives and our government. Our Founding Fathers were not ashamed to admit that they were Christians. That’s why our nation became so great, but we have lost our greatness. The way to get that greatness back is to put God back in everything that we do, including our government.

Betty J. Clouse

Middletown

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