Quintessential Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge Comments: "In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but spiritual conceptions. Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man—these are not elements which we can see and touch. They are ideals. They have their source and their roots in religious convictions. They belong to the unseen world. Unless the faith of the American people in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish. We cannot continue to enjoy the result if we neglect and abandon the cause. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth and their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress." -- Calvin Coolidge

Your current financial problems if you have them may be the result of the current economic crisis which to a great extent was caused by lapses of ethics on Wall Street, on Main Street and last but not least in the halls of Congress. My thesis is that if we had more folks who believed in religion, we may not have had the economic and financial system meltdown we experienced in 2008 and 2009. In short, whether you believe in God as I do, or not, religion is good for society because it provides mankind a set of rules such as the Ten Commandments which men and women should use in conducting their interactions with each other.

Whether you believe in my theory or not, it is an uncontroverted fact that the Declaration of Independence is a document based upon religious principles. It may be time to get with the program and accept the place religion should have in our society. Your well being financially and otherwise, as well as the success of our country, may depend on it.