Freedom

A friend sent me this today and I thought it merited sending on. It's so true!

In just a few days we will celebrate the birth of our great nation. For most Americans, our defining characteristic is freedom. We live in the land of the free. We send troops abroad to defend our freedom. To be American is to love freedom. Except that we don't really know what it means to be free, so we choose other ways to bind ourselves. Why would we do that? Why would Paul have to warn the Galatians to not submit again to the yoke of slavery? Who would want to go back to slavery? Well, almost all of us. We talk about loving freedom, but mostly we want other people to take care of us. This is why the politics of fear work so well even in this "freedom loving" country of ours. This is why most Americans don't really mind saying to our current administration that it's okay to spy on us, that it's just fine to detain people indefinitely without due process, and that we don't really care that our government tortures people, even if they might be innocent of any crime. Spying, secret detention, and torture: Are these the things for which our founding fathers set us free? We have chosen bondage to these things because they're easy and make us comfortable. But freedom is difficult. Claim your freedom as Christians in this nation. Do not submit again to the yoke of easy tyranny in the name of the "public good." After all, once you've sold your neighbor's freedom at a cut rate, yours is as good as gone, too.

Muthah