{"id":146325,"date":"2026-07-07T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146325"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:22:08","slug":"ct-marvin-olasky-still-a-restless-nation-unless-we-rest-in-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146325","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Marvin Olasky&#8211;Still a Restless Nation, Unless We Rest in God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In\u00a0the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/billofrightsinstitute.org\/activities\/gettysburg-address-annotated\/\">said<\/a>\u00a0America was \u201cconceived in liberty.\u201d Today we might call that our country\u2019s unique selling proposition. While other nations emphasized biological unity, America in the 20th century finally became a liberty theme park where people of all skin colors and ethnicities could together enjoy the thrill rides of building families and careers.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On our national roller coaster, we\u2019ve had the right to wave&nbsp;hands&nbsp;as long as we do not hit the noses of our neighbors. George Washington defined this liberty theme park well in a Bible-oriented&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/loeb.columbian.gwu.edu\/george-washingtons-letter-hebrew-congregation-newport-rhode-island\">letter to a Jewish synagogue<\/a>&nbsp;in 1790: \u201cEveryone shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him afraid\u201d (an allusion to Micah 4:4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Legal racial segregation has disappeared, but on our 250th anniversary tomorrow, we should remember a roadblock that appeared shortly before our 200th: In 1973, the US Supreme Court ruled that unborn children had no right to life. A redefinition of liberty followed in Justice Anthony Kennedy\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/anthony-kennedys-sweet-mystery-life-selfs-impossible-demands\/\">1992 defense of abortion<\/a>: \u201cAt the heart of liberty&nbsp;is the right to define one\u2019s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, liberty meant\u00a0\u201clive and let live\u201d\u2014but live within a common reality that does not include file cabinets marked \u201cmy facts\u201d and \u201cyour facts.\u201d That\u2019s not true now. Post-Kennedy and within postmodernism, we feel entitled to live with\u00a0internet algorithms that feed us only the news we feel fit to imprint on our brains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/2026\/07\/still-a-restless-nation-unless-we-rest-in-god-america-250\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AKOUNAujbW\">https:\/\/t.co\/AKOUNAujbW<\/a> Still a Restless Nation, Unless We Rest in God<\/p>&mdash; Ken Ragsdale (@ken_ragsdale) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ken_ragsdale\/status\/2073382871708922004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln\u00a0said\u00a0America was \u201cconceived in liberty.\u201d Today we might call that our country\u2019s unique selling proposition. While other nations emphasized biological unity, America in the 20th century finally became a liberty theme park where people of all<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146325\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,133,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-history","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146325"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146330,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146325\/revisions\/146330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}