God Bless America!

"Liberty regards religion as its companion in all its battles and its triumphs, as the cradle of its infancy and the divine source of its claims. It considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom.”– Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

"Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith."  -- Alexis de Tocqueville

“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.” -- George Washington

Our Founding Fathers knew the importance of religion and freedom.  This country was founded on religious principles.

"Alexis de Tocqueville, the brilliant French writer who toured America in the 1830s in preparation for his magnum opus, Democracy in America, was struck by the difference between American and French notions of freedom. The American Patriots viewed religion as essential to freedom, while French radicals saw religion as freedom's enemy. Yet the French Revolution descended into massive bloodletting, and concluded with military rule under Napoleon, while the Americans successfully created and sustained a republic without horrific violence (until the Civil War, of course). Tocqueville believed that Americans' friendliness to religion made all the difference, for faith kept the worst excesses of liberty in check. In America, Tocqueville wrote, "freedom sees religion as its companion.""  --Thomas S. Kidd, USA Today, What the Founders knew: Faith enhances freedom, October 15, 2010

As we watch the decline of religious observance and morals in this great nation of ours, sadly, we also see the decline of liberty and freedom.  As the wise Frenchman pointed out nearly 200 years ago, liberty and religion go hand in hand.

Thankfully, we still have religious freedom in this country and there are still men and women of faith who will practice and defend religion and morality. Thereby preserving liberty in this wonderful nation of ours.

God bless America!

That's my two cents.