What is unity?
It is the state of being joined together...."to be as one".
The blending of many different pieces into one common entity.
We live in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...
yet lately, we seem very divided.
Almost 250 years ago, our nation was oppressed by a
British government who demanded they pay taxes
for things they didn't agree with.
The nation stood together against this common
enemy and declared it's independence!
The founding fathers knew that divided we would fall!
If the American people were split up into little groups,
they would eventually bicker among themselves and never
make progress against the true enemy that oppressed them.
So I ask you....how united is our nation right now?
Do we Americans have a common enemy?
Are we fighting it or are we fighting among ourselves?
The pledge of allegiance for our country is as follows:
Allegiance means loyalty. This is a promise to be loyal to
your country which is to stand indivisible!
In 1954 during the threats from the Communist, President Eisenhower
added the words "under God" to this pledge. Why?
The Washington Post quoted him as saying...
...the new version would add "spiritual weapons
which will forever be our country's most powerful resource"
The phrase was not his own....they were borrowed from
Abraham Lincoln and his Gettysburg Address....
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
I believe our nation is seeing the pains of an internal war.
The elections this fall will be a big factor in determining how well
this nation created of the people, by the people and for the people
will survive the next few decades.
"In God We Trust" is the country's motto....is it yours?