You know, I could have sworn that I wrote about this topic earlier, but searching my blog’s archives by category and keyword, I couldn’t find anything…so here goes (and I’m bracing myself).
Yesterday was our Independence Day here in the United States, and I remember every year what is probably one of my most controversial beliefs as an American Citizen: I believe that the Revolutionary War was a sinful, wrong act.
There, I said it, and it’s out in the open 
Now I’m not suggesting that we should simply strike the colors and call up the Queen across the Atlantic, begging for forgiveness and a return to colony rule. I love the freedoms we have in the USA, and it’s far too long since we won that war anyway. Reintegration (both socially and economically) with the UK is impossible, especially since we’re way too powerful to ever let that happen (for now).
As a Christian, however, I believe we had no moral justification for revolt. I point simply to Jesus’ call to “render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s” when asked about taxes. And I think historians would be hard pressed to claim that American colonists were more oppressed than Jews under first century Roman rule.
Anyway, just wanted to spit that out there. I still feel immensely lucky to have been born into this land of rights and such, and I do love the fireworks every year
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