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America’s next 250 years depend on passing faith and freedom to our children

Patriotism and religion should help guide America to its next important milestone

By Patti Garibay Fox News

Published July 2, 2026 5:00am EDT

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As America reaches a major milestone this July 4th, there will be elaborate fireworks, long parades and plenty of speeches about what this nation has accomplished and endured. All of that is worth celebrating.

But if we're honest, the more pressing question isn't what we're commemorating, it's what we're handing down. What we teach the next generation of Americans will determine what this country looks like at its next great milestone.

Right now, we are in danger of handing them a version of America that has been stripped of the very thing that made it extraordinary in the first place: faith.

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Let me start with something that gets misquoted almost daily in our culture. The First Amendment does not say that God has no place in American public life. It says Congress shall make no law establishing a religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. It was written by brave leaders who quoted Scripture and opened the........

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