With the Fourth coming along, an important question is reinvigorated for Americans, are you American?

This may seem like a simple question, answered with “MURICA, F*CK YEA.” One of the most dangerous things is this line of thought.

What does it mean to be? We as humans tend to get lost in the past. Always thinking that it was better, because we are not acclimated to the present.

Instead of living in the now, many of us live in the past and try to make the future using the past.

To truly change the future you must be aware of the past, but use the present to change the future.

Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again” implies America was great before.

Oh look! Here’s some spoiled, lazy, entitled, millennial who thinks he knows what life and hard work are! If that is your original thought, you are missing the point.

America’s “greatness” were relative greatness. How can you claim a country is great when so many people starve to death, while others are filthy rich?

How can you claim a country is great when people spend their whole life trying to protect their wealth?

A common defense is, oh, it’s their wealth they deserve it. Wealth is a concept that exists between nations. This is what has always existed.

The founding brothers invoked this very idea when they wrote the constitution and declaration of independence. They were at a different point in time, different circumstances.

There must be amendments to the constitution, many more. Because words that are written down do not change, this leads to a misunderstanding of the words, and leaves the individual with merely an interpretation of the words.

This very thing occurs within all things, religion and science alike. Our way of teaching and understanding leads to try to understand these in depth understandings of others.

Science has more merit in this way, because it is based on physical observations, but the more abstract things become, the less this method is viable.

The very way in which religious texts are understood are in direct contrary to themselves. People would undoubtedly argue this, but whether or not you argue this, it remains true.

If you are learning about God through someone else interpretation, you aren’t learning about God, you’re learning as they see God. In this sense, you aren’t learning anything but the concept of their God.

Polytheism, Monotheism, Atheism, they all begin to make sense in this way. You might not believe in God, but you have to believe in something. Everything is given its meaning. The true connectedness of all people, that is God. The understanding of our existence, that is God.

Aren’t I hypocritical for saying about using other people’s interpretations of God or Gods, or no Gods? God refers to something, I am merely trying to show what that thing is.

This must be true, ultimately true itself, because without the understanding of existence, there is no God, there is no nothing.

If no one exists, nothing exists.

If you are not someone striving for the helping, understanding, and accepting all people, you're no American at all, just a liar.