“Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.” – Excerpt from Patrick Henry’s “give me liberty, or give me death” speech to the Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775.
I cannot conclusively prove everything that follows here, but this is my sense of things so far…
Considered rationally, “Majesty of Heaven,” the way Patrick Henry used the term, probably means the ordinary, cosmological disposition for universal being more commonly referred to as “god!”
God cares, but not the way most people want, and expect, god to care.
It is nothing personal!
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