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I do declare...
In honor of U.S. Independence Day, Matt Haughey posted the entire Declaration of Independence to his blog. I hadn't read it in years, and when I did so this morning, I was struck by two points: first, what a prime example of Enlightenment thinking the document is, and second, in a related matter, how it refers directly to "Nature's God"--the god of the Enlightenment--not the Judeo-Christian god.
Re-reading the document makes me proud to live in a country that was founded on such high ideals, even if we so frequently don't live up to them.
Posted by Stan Taylor on July 5, 2005 09:14 AM
Categories: Intellectual