Putting God’s interests first makes it so that an individual has the free agency to do as much good as he wants. He has the free agency to align himself with a group of other individuals that also hold the same values and voluntarily contribute to it. And God will hold him responsible for what he does with his free agency.

The next question to answer after that is, if the Comma could have been original, and then tampered with within the first two-hundred years after writing, where is the evidence that it was even there to begin with?

There is in fact a possibly fitting example of this that happened 50 years ago this week. Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, the first men to walk on the moon conducted a number of activities that perhaps you’ve not heard of.

The danger of this is that while these systems often begin with the distribution of wealth in mind (in the name of income inequality), this ideology grows like a cancer into the realm of ideas. Eventually (or concurrently), ideas simply become another currency to be controlled for the sake of the group. And you’re in big trouble if the group ever wants you to stop talking.

t’s hard to imagine a world before airplanes. Human flight seems so normal now, yet in McCullough’s book we get to witness the reactions of people to seeing a man fly in something for the first time.

We remember on this day in history those who ran toward an almost certain death, not away from it, because liberty for others mattered to them. Some today think words are violence when the men who charged the beaches of Normandy actually faced real violence of the worst kind.