Who is Your Countryman?

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.

Samuel Adams was never one to mince words. These words were part of a speech given by Mr. Adams at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776. You can see by this date that discussion was taking place about the impact that the recently voted upon Declaration of Independence would have. Freedom has consequences. Freedom demands a price. Samuel Adams knew this. So did his colleagues. Some of them were willing to pay that price, others were not.

In this nation today a crisis is brewing. It has been brewing for decades. There is a tempest beginning to blow across this land. Our very foundations are under assault by Marxist ideas. They have been for decades. Marxism is a political philosophy that stands in direct opposition to Holy Scripture. Christians cannot sit idly by while a God-less philosophy and its attendant oppression grows by the day. Yet, some are content to do so. Why?

Could it be that they are content with their ease? Could it be that they prefer wealth to sacrifice? Tranquility to Freedom? Only God knows.

So, who are your countrymen?