Daily Verse | Job 2:10
“Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?”

It’s the final Wednesday of May 2021, never to be repeated, ever again, as time unrolls day after day, like a carpet in perpetuity. I feel fortunate that I don’t have abibliophobia.

As Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, he affirmed that, “a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” While most of us know the most famous words of the Declaration—”We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”—how many of us know that about ⅓ of the document is a list of grievances the thirteen States held against the British Crown? These were the “causes which impel them to the separation.”

In the Declaration Jefferson writes, “The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.” He then goes on to list 27 “Facts,” most of which start with “He has …,” referring to King George III.

Here are the first two, for instance:

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

Another one:

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

So George III bribed public officials? Another one:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

Gee, that sounds familiar, doesn’t it? I seem to recall that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent precisely because of lawlessness such as independent administrators making new election laws just in time for the election, bypassing the Legislators who alone have the power to make new laws.

I’m beginning to think that it may be time for a new Declaration.

As I’ve been pondering our situation in the U.S., it seems to me that Thomas Jefferson gave us permission to start over. He writes, “–That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

Are we not now living in a time when our “Form of Government” has become “destructive of these ends”?

Seems to me that we could draw up a new and very long list of grievances against our ruling class, starting with the double standards in the application of our laws, the threats that senior officials are making against half the country, and the lawless illegal immigration of foreigners into our country allowed by our own government, the weaponization of the alphabet agencies (and the existence of the agencies themselves), the hatred and insidious doctrine of Critical Race Theory and Cultural Marxism that has been allowed to fester in our public institutions, the rules that force Christian institutions to violate their consciences, such as boys who think they’re girls being allowed in girls’ changing rooms or restrooms, and how “freedom of the press” has become a shield to protect the press from accountability when they are no longer publishing news but acting like an extension of the government.

There are probably hundreds of examples. How about it? Drop your ideas in the comment section.