Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Boston Beer Company Ad Omitting "Endowed ( by Our Creator)" is Inaccurate. 08/14/14

Boston Beer Company Ad Omitting "Endowed ( by Our Creator)" is Inaccurate.

Last last July 4th, the Boston Beer Company, brewers of Samuel Adams Beer ran an ad using the Declaration of Independence but inaccurately omitting reference to God "endowed ( by our creator)". 

“No people will tamely surrender their liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the contrary, when people are universally ignorant, and debauched in their manners, they will sink under their own weight without the aid of foreign invaders.” — Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, 1775 

"No other theory is adequate to explain or comprehend the Declaration of Independence. It is the product of the spiritual insight of the people. We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create our Declaration. Our Declaration created them. The things of the spirit come first. Unless we cling to that, all our material prosperity, overwhelming though it may appear, will turn to a barren sceptre in our grasp. If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it. We must not sink into a pagan materialism. We must cultivate the reverence which they had for the things that are holy. We must follow the spiritual and moral leadership which they showed. We must keep replenished, that they may glow with a more compelling flame, the altar fires before which they worshiped." - Calvin Coolidge

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