Gorgeous sunset from Mt Tabor park. Lots of big, downed trees on the north and east side of the park from our ARCTIC WINDS three weeks ago. But honestly the damage wasn’t quite as bad as I feared. I guess the historic shelter took a pretty good hit but that part of the park was cordoned off.
I was intrigued so I looked up the average high and low temperatures across WA for August of 1899. Olga's average low of 45F is pretty impressive as it's about 4 degrees colder than anything we've seen in the last 50 years. The fact it's so much colder than every other location on the west side does make me wonder if there was an error with the thermometer at that time or maybe it was just incredible cold winds blowing off the straight.
The Seattle average high for the month was almost 10 d
OK I guess they were not really Christians. A few were. Most of them were somewhere in between Deists and Christians. They thought the Bible provided a good moral code and good principles for how to govern.
They did seem to believe people had a sinful nature and that the power of government must be limited to prevent it from becoming tyrannical. However they also did not believe in anarchy and said that limited government was only possible with a moral and religious people. They created a constitutional republic and warned about the dangers of a direct democracy.
The "all men are created equal" could be derived from Genesis 1:27. It's sad we could not live up to those ideals throughout our ugly history.
America though was in many ways like a sanctuary nation (like sanctuary cities today) for people around the world fleeing from religious persecution and tyrannical governments in other countries.
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