We Have Forgotten our own History-And Are Paying the Price

Patriot Update

by David L. Goetsch There is value in knowing your past.  Knowing where you came from can provide guidance in determining where you are going.  Our past can be a springboard into our future or an obstacle we must overcome, but in either case there is value in knowing our past.  The same is true of nations.  Unfortunately, as a nation, we have forgotten our past or, better said, we are no longer being taught our past.  I could easily get distracted here and spend the remainder of this column enumerating the many shortcomings of public education, but these shortcomings are grist for another mill.  The point of this column is to show where we have strayed from our roots as a nation and the price we are paying for having done so.
It is symptomatic of our collective national ignorance that when we think of Sam Adams, most Americans think of beer.  Few Americans recognize Sam Adams as a Founding Father (he signed the Declaration of Independence), revolutionary statesman (he served in the Continental Congress and as Governor of Massachusetts), or an organizer of the Boston Tea Party.   For that matter, how many Americans recognize that today’s Tea Party patriots view the Boston Tea Party as their historical anticedent?
What is even worse though is that too few Americans recognize Sam Adams as the Founder who—one day before signing the Declaration of Independence—admonished his countrymen to remember that a free and independent nation could not long exist unless it rested on a solid foundation of virtue and religion.  This is, no doubt, why the secular humanists who control public education conveniently overlook Sam Adams when presenting their distorted version of American history.  If the longevity of our nation must rest on a foundation of virtue and religion, the liberals have a problem.  The views of Sam Adams—views that were widely accepted by his fellow Founders—certainly call into question the crusade of the left to rid our government of even a hint of Christian influence.


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