No offense or blasphemy intended, just something to ponder. It occurred to me in church today, how very much like the story of the “stone the builders rejected” the United States resembles this story. All the immigrants from around the world came here due to religious persecution or as prisoners or slaves or servants and from this stock and great melting pot of civilization, this great nation was built that all men had certain inalienable rights and through these rights ideas that would not have been allowed or be considered heresy were allowed and innovations were made by allowing those freedoms. What a revelation.