As Passover comes, Ben Shapiro discusses how God brings freedom and requires responsibility:
Freedom has its own demands. God brought His people out of Egypt with the express purpose of leading them to Mount Sinai, where He would bestow upon them a different code of conduct: His code of conduct, the Torah. Liberty is not merely freedom from interference -- the so-called 'right to be left alone' -- it is the right to be left alone to pursue righteousness . There is no right to engage in evil; that is libertinism, not liberty. There is no right to participate in degeneracy; that is not freedom, but slavery to malice, greed and self-indulgence.
The obligations of freedom do not fade with time. 'In every generation,' reads the Haggadah, 'it is one's duty to regard himself as though he personally had gone out from Egypt, as it is written (Exodus 13:8): You shall tell your son on that day: 'It was because of this that God did for me when I went out of Egypt.' It was not only our fathers whom the Holy One redeemed from slavery; we, too, were redeemed with them, as it is written (Deuteronomy 6:23): He brought us out from there so that He might take us to the land which He had promised to our fathers.'
This is how Americans have brought much of our problems on ourselves: we've forgotten where we've come from. We rebelled against England for the taxes we suffered under, but the taxes we quietly endure now make those look like a pittance.
We've forgotten where we came from, and we've forgotten what God's done for us. And in doing so, we've become a gang of spoiled brats.
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