On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free.” On June 19, 1865, two and a half years after the proclamation was signed, federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to ensure that the news spread that all enslaved people were freed. There’s a biblical correlation here about the truth being known, and the truth setting and keeping you free. In Romans

Nietzsche’s proclamation, “God is dead,” is frequently misinterpreted. Rather than denying God’s existence, he was illuminating the seismic effects of a culture that distances itself from faith. Nietzsche perceived this departure as a profound crisis in which the foundations of meaning and morality become destabilized, and traditional values lose their inherent authority. In the absence of belief, he cautioned that society may grapple with a lack of grounding purpose, potentially ushering in an