TDIH: Samuel Adams on Virtue & Society
Hint: We might have a problem.
“[T]he publick Liberty will not long survive the total Extinction of Morals,” Samuel Adams wrote on this day in 1776. An interesting quote, given recent events?!?!
A longer version of the quote is below. Food for thought.
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"I have long been convincd that our Enemies have made it an Object, to eradicate from the Minds of the People in general a Sense of true Religion & Virtue, in hopes thereby the more easily to carry their Point of enslaving them. . . . [T]he publick Liberty will not long survive the total Extinction of Morals. . . . Could I be assured that America would remain virtuous, I would venture to defy the utmost Efforts of Enemies to subjugate her." -- Samuel Adams
Sadly we have become exactly what Samuel Adams warned would destroy us. Not sure it can be stopped and/or reversed. Time will tell. Meanwhile I keep trusting in God knowing He sees it all and is in control.
An amoral society can only lead to subjugation.