Independence Day 2025
It is “Independence Day” in America
“Independence Day, the day after the President signed into law the funding for a police state. The law requiring a police state to fulfill it was always there since 1996. But now it has its funding.
Hitler had his enabling act. We have had an enabling act in place for 31 years. But yesterday we finally funded it.
And make no mistake. This police state will grow and eventually devour everyone. It will start with immigrants and immigrant adjacent. The concentration camp in Florida is a prototype, and just the beginning. But if you think it stops there, you are a fool or you do not know history, or both.
Welcome to the new America. The land of the increasingly unfree and the home of power hungry cowards.”
Scott Hicks
Celebrating Independence Day this year feels more like a funeral. 🙁
Unless God moves…it is…
These days I’m really being forced to rely on my puny faith for hope. If my hope is not beyond America, then I have none; America disappears at the horizon, but the Kingdom of God spreads forever.
God forgive America for our sins, and teach us to walk in your ways. If this Independence Day is the time for the beginning of our national death, teach us to die well, and to honor you in death even as we await resurrection. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Robert F,
Well said and amen.
“In plain terms, this legislation translates to a loss of health care — and food subsidies — for tens of thousands if not millions of children. And to think that evangelical America claims God chose Trump to lead the country and, presumably, the world. By now, surely, we should stop saying America is a Christian nation. Jesus Christ and the religion he inspired are all about helping the poor, the meek, the hungry, the homeless.”
“If Republicans are representing themselves as Christians while cutting essential aid to the neediest among us, then we might infer that they’re all going to hell. Trump is no more Christian than he is a Republican. Yes, this is a man who sells Bibles engraved with his own name at the top and “God Bless America” on the cover ($99.99 on eBay). Hypocrite, have thee no shame? I’d be willing to wager that Trump hasn’t read so much as a Psalm, much less a book he seems to think he co-authored. Trump famously doesn’t read much of anything. He makes Sarah Palin like Jane Austen”
Kathleen Parker (a conservative) in
the Washington Post
“Republicans don’t believe in the separation of church and state.
They do, however, believe in the separation of Jesus and Christianity.”
— John Pavlovitz
Question…who is Scott Hicks?
Scott Hicks is an immigration lawyer and Methodist pastor who is active on Facebook.
Michael, what is the origin of the barbed wire flag picture?
Aïda Amer is the original artist.
It is a response to the loss of human rights and this administration.