Published Monday, July 13, 2026 |
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MAY THE FIREWORKS CONTINUE |
I’M STILL HEARING FIREWORKS IN THE EVENING HOURS.
Because I live in the WOKE Peoples Republic of Norman, I hear complaints about the Independence Day fireworks being allowed to continue to ring when it is no longer July 4.
I told one of those complainers that she should be grateful she was hearing post-July 4 celebrations of 250 years of freedom and not the explosions of mortar landing in her front lawn.
We have that privilege because we live within the boundaries of a nation founded on the principles and laws inherent in Christianity rather than those nations not so fortunate.
When I think of nations not so fortunate . . .
I’m thinking of France and the role it played as the model of the growing secularism.
The American Revolution built an enduring light of freedom for the nations through its affirmation, in 1776, of the core of Christian political thought King George had neglected.
The French, in 1789, began under the banner of anti-Christian sentiment to execute what young Edmund Burke described in his 1790 Reflections on the American Revolution. He wrote of their savagery this way:
. . . they were murdering their fellow citizens, and bathing in tears, and plunging in poverty and distress thousands of worthy men and worthy families . . . authorizing treasons, robberies, rapes, assassinations, slaughters, and burnings throughout their harassed lands.
“France has brought undisguised calamities at a higher price than any nation has purchased the more unequivocal blessings! France has brought poverty by crime! The people impoverished; a church pillaged. |
Burke’s description brings to mind the work of America’s left, equally secular, and equally focus on the destruction of a nation.
In 1974, Russell Kirk published his Roots of American Order and noted that it was the Biblical foundations of the American mind that set the sail of the American state to prosperity and international prominence. He pointed out that the atheistic, anti-Christian French became a debacle. He wrote:
A principal difference between the French Revolution and the American Revolution was this: the American revolutionaries in general held a Biblical world view of man and his bent toward sin, while the French revolutionaries in general attempted to substitute for the biblical understanding as optimistic doctrine of human goodness advanced by the philosophies of rationalistic Enlightenment.
The American view led to the Constitution of 1787; the French view, to the Terror and to a new autocracy. |
Justice William O. Douglas wrote the majority opinion for the U. S Supreme Court in 1951 stating that:
We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a supreme being.
To hold that government may not encourage religious instruction would be to find in the Constitution a requirement that government show a callous indifference to religious groups. That would be preferring those who believe in no religion over those who believe. |
These voices from the past are a match for the sentiments voiced by today’s Vice President, J. D. Vance.
As Dr. Everett Piper points out in his article below, they are the sentiments of all our founders. And, by the grace of God, they are the sentiments of a new generation now occupying high places in Washington, D.C.
MAY THE FIREWORKS CONTINUE FOR ANOTHER 250 YEARS! |
DR EVERETT PIPER from Sunday, JULY 12, 2026
J.D. VANCE IS RIGHT. CHRISTIANITY BELONGS IN GOVERNMENT |
Recently, Vice President J.D. Vance granted a series of interviews to the New York Times, USA Today, FOX News, and others, in which he openly admitted that his Christianity influences every aspect of his life: his politics, his sense of duty, his ambition, and his moral priorities.
In one interview, he said, “My Christian beliefs encourage me to concentrate on the positive,” and he then went on to explain how his faith in Christ helps him resist the temptations of “power” and redirect his carnal impulses toward service rather than self. |
In another appearance . . .
Mr. Vance stated that he believes he has providentially been placed in office “for a brief period of time to do the most amount of good for God and for the country” that he can.
Yet in another . . .
The Vice President argued that the lessons of history clearly show the United States has a Christian foundation and that “Christianity is America’s creed,” a creed which has provided the “moral language” for America’s public and private life for the past 250 years.
In all these interviews, the Vice President was consistent. For him, Christianity is not just a Sunday affair or a “private matter” that he keeps to himself and confines to the four walls of the church, but to the contrary, J.D. Vance’s religion is an all-consuming, life-transforming, and culture-changing worldview that, if pushed out of our public square, will leave a moral vacuum for both the individual citizen and our body politic as a whole.
In summary . . .
Mr. Vance sees the Christian faith as the foundation of America’s moral and social order, diametrically opposed to the radical secularism of the left, and, he argues, our nation is dramatically weakened by excluding it. The Vice President is right, and he stands in good company. The 19th-century abolitionist, Harvard professor, and the first editor of The Atlantic Monthly, James Russell Lowell, once said:
The worst kind of religion is no religion at all, and these men living in ease and luxury, indulging themselves in the amusement of going without religion, may be thankful that they live in lands where the gospel they neglect has tamed the beastliness and ferocity of the men who, but for Christianity, might long ago have eaten their carcasses like the South Sea Islanders, or cut off their heads and tanned their hides like the monsters of the French Revolution. |
He went on
When the microscopic search of skepticism, which had hunted the heavens and sounded the seas to disprove the existence of a Creator, has turned its attention to human society and has found a place on this planet ten miles square where a decent man can live in comfort and security, supporting and educating his children unspoiled and unpolluted; a place where age is reverenced, infancy respected, manhood respected, womanhood honored, and human life held in due regard- when skeptics can find such a place ten miles square on this globe, where the gospel of Christ has not gone and cleared the way and laid the foundation and made decency and security possible, it will then be in order for the skeptical literati to move thither and then ventilate their views.
But so long as these men are dependent upon the religion which they discard for every privilege they enjoy, they may well hesitate a little before they seek to rob the Christian of his hope, and humanity of its faith, in that Savior who alone has given to man that hope of life eternal which makes life tolerable and society possible, and robs death of its terrors and the grave of its glooms. Hilaire Belloc, the early 20th-century essayist, poet, polemicist and historian, agreed with Mr. Lowell and added:
The modern world imagines that it has outgrown religion. It has done nothing of the kind. It has merely forgotten it. And because it has forgotten it, it no longer understands itself.
Men do not realize that the whole framework of their moral judgments, their political habits, and even their intellectual methods [was] formed within a Christian society and cannot exist long outside it. When that framework breaks, they will not find themselves enlightened, but bewildered; not free, but enslaved; not rational, but confused. |
Messrs. Belloc, Lowell, and Vance are essentially saying the same thing that John Adams said in the earliest days of the birth of our nation:
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people and is wholly inadequate for the government of any other. We should all be thankful that our current Vice President is willing to suffer ridicule and mockery from our culture’s political intelligentsia and educated elites by reminding us of the obvious: Religion should never be a private matter.
Without Christianity in the public square, our country . . . indeed, every country, will inevitably become a hell on earth. |
Find Dr. Piper's complete article here. |
Find more Everett Piper here: Everett Piper (dreverettpiper.com, @dreverettpiper), a columnist for The Washington Times, is a former university president and radio host.
He is the author of “Not a Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth” (Regnery).
He can be reached at epiper@dreverettpiper.com.
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TY ENGLAND LEADS IN SINGING GOD BLESS AMERICA |
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TY ENGLAND & GRACE REFORMED BAPTIST HOMESCHOOL SINGS GOD BLESS AMERICA |
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APRIL 1, 2026 MEETING: ALEX GRAY |
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NOTES FROM MARCH: TEENPACT |
THIRTY YOUTH Home Schoolers from Elgin, Oklahoma TPUSA Students |
Grace Reformed Baptist Church Homeschoolers from Elgin, Oklahoma led the Pledge of Allegiance |
KENDRA WESSON JOINS RYAN WALTERS AND TEACHER FREEDOM ALLIANCE |
Kendra Wesson is stepping aside from other responsibilities to work full time with Ryan Walters and the Teacher Freedom Alliance (TFA) with a goal of providing teachers a pro-America Christian environment within which to work.
Thus far, the effort has been massively successful as thousands of teachers are fleeing the pro-Marxist teacher unions including the National Teachers Association (NEA).
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DECEMBER 3 MEETING: SAMANTHA FULNECKY INTERVIEW With OCPAC Foundation President Bob Linn and Senator Shane Jett |
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Senator Shane Jett was pointed in his query and his followup remarks.
Shane Jett's first question begins at: 9:38 mark. Shane's blistering salvo to the University begins at the 11:21 mark.
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LEGISLATIVE COMMENDATION GABE WOOLEY |
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WES LANE, PRESIDENT SALT & LIGHT LEADERSHIP TRAINING SALLT |
Wes Lane was the keynote speaker and once he finished, it was clear why he has had so much success challenging the church to step forward in boldness.
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We anticipated the professionalism of Jen Nicole's voice, but her moving presentation of the Christmas season was breathtaking. She opened the meeting by leading us in "O Come All Ye Faithful" and brought tears to our eyes as she followed Wes Lane singing "O Holy Night."
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TPUSA Students were in attendance Supporting Samantha |
SHANE JETT MESSAGE TO POLITICAL CLASS |
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Our Spring finally will also feature a July 4 celebration as well as the gubernatorial panel.
The fall season begins Wednesday, September 16 with Dr. James Lindsay.
Then, on Wednesday, October 7, Dr. Lauren Schwartz will talk about her role in reversing the trend in academia regarding "gender affirmation."
Regarding November 4, we are waiting confirmation.
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