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Opinion / Religion - March 24, 2025 Part 1 - The Pursuit of Happiness. To paraphrase a famous quip from the classic movie, The Princess Bride, “I don’t think that means what you think it means.” By observation, most Americans seemingly think it gives them license to pursue whatever is an individual’s fancy or fantasy, and severely restricts every one else’s reaction and response to the unbridled pursuer’s every unusual whim. When our founders listed it among the big three “unalienable Rights” endowed to all people by our CREATOR, their understanding of its meaning was borrowed from the intrepid Pilgrims who landed on an American shore in 1620. The primary freedom the Pilgrims were pursuing into the New World was the free exercise of their religion. The Pilgrims, and our Founders 156 years later, understood this kind of religious freedom to include each person’s freedom to pursue their goodfruitful, personal relationship with the ONE TRUE LORDGOD of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; and, in their own cases as Christians, all that through our SAVIOR JESUS, SON of GOD Who is the ONE GOD’s Own Coming into creation for the salvation of every creature made in His Image who accepts the gift and shows it as his or hers. (LordGod being the Final Judge where evidence is lacking.) True happiness is lastingly found only in this pursuit, which in turn promotes the “general Welfare” of We, the People and secures for us the “Blessings of Liberty” as mentioned in the Preamble of our Constitution. More next week.
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