blessedness

When the Founders spoke of the “pursuit of Happiness,” what they meant might be understood today as in essence “pursuit of Blessedness.”

It interprets the Declaration of Independence’s “pursuit of happiness” as “pursuit of blessedness,” and Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts writes that a good life is found above all in “religious devotion and spirituality.”

The monstrous blessedness of being wraps them into a moment.

The wretchedness of slavery, and the blessedness of freedom, were perpetually before me.

On his arrival each one is brought before three judges, Rhadamanthus, Minos, and Acacus, who pass sentence and send the wicked to everlasting torment and the good to a place of blessedness called the Elysian Fields.