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We started out 'Under God' from our fathers of the country!
What has happened?
If we are not under God,
......what are we under?
I got a very good email and it makes me think!
I would like to share it with all that visit.
Patrick Henry is not quoted properly in our present day
school texts. "Give me liberty or give me death" is not
exactly all that he said or why!
Did you know that 52 of the 55 signers of the Declaration
of Independence were orthodox, deeply-committed Christians?
The other three all believed in the Bible as the divine truth,
the God of Scripture, and His personal intervention. It is
the same Congress that formed the American Bible Society.
Immediately after creating the Declaration of Independence, the
Continental Congress voted to purchase and import 20,000 copies
of Scripture for the people of this nation.
Patrick Henry, who is called the firebrand of the American
Revolution, is still remembered for his words, "Give me liberty
or give me death". But in current textbooks the context of these
words is deleted. Here is what he said: "An appeal to arms and
the God of hosts is all that is left us. But we shall not fight
our battle alone. There is a just God that presides over the
destinies of nations. The battle sir, is not to the strong alone.
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price
of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God. I know not what
course others may take, but as for me,
give me liberty, or give me death."
These sentences have been erased from our textbooks. Was
Patrick Henry a Christian? The following year, 1776, he wrote this:
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great
Nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on
religion, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone,
people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here."
Consider these words that Thomas Jefferson wrote on the front of
his well-worn Bible: "I am a real Christian, that is to say, a
disciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our
whole country will soon be rallied to the unity of our Creator and,
I hope, to the pure doctrine of Jesus also."
Consider these words from George Washington, the Father of our
Nation, in his farewell speech on September 19, 1796: "It is
impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible. Of all
the dispositions and habits that lead to political prosperity, our
religion and morality are the indispensable supporters. Let us with
caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained
without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that
our national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."
Was George Washington a Christian? Consider these words from his
personal prayer book: "Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my
thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood
of the Lamb and purge my heart by thy Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me
more and more in the likeness of thy son, Jesus Christ, that living
in thy fear, and dying in thy favor, I may in thy appointed time obtain
the resurrection of the justified unto eternal life. Bless, O Lord,
the whole race of mankind and let the world be filled with the
knowledge of thee and thy son, Jesus Christ."
Consider these words by John Adams, our second president, who also
served as chairman of the American Bible Society. In an address to
military leaders he said, "We have no government armed with the power
capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and
true religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious
people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
How about our first Supreme Court Justice, John Jay? He stated that
when we select our national leaders, if we are to preserve our Nation,
we must select Christians. "Providence has given to our people the
choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and
interest of our Christian Nation to select and prefer Christians for
their rulers."
John Quincy Adams, son of John Adams, was the sixth U.S. President. He
was also the chairman of the American Bible Society, which he considered
his highest and most important role. On July 4, 1821, President Adams
said, "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it
connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government
with the principles of Christianity."
Calvin Coolidge, our 30th President of the United States reaffirmed
this truth when he wrote, "The foundations of our society and our
government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be
difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be
practically universal in our country."
* In 1782, the United States Congress voted this resolution: "The
Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible
for use in all schools."
William Holmes McGuffey, author of the McGuffey Reader, was used for
over 100 years in our public schools with over 125 million copies sold
until it was stopped in 1963. President Lincoln called him the
"Schoolmaster of the Nation."
Listen to these words of Mr. McGuffey: "The Christian religion is the
religion of our country. From it are derived our notions on the
character of God; on the great moral Governor of the universe. On its
doctrines are founded the peculiarities of our free institutions.
From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from
the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I
make no apology."
Of the first 108 universities founded in America, 106 were distinctly
Christian, including the first, Harvard University, chartered in 1636.
In the original Harvard Student Handbook, rule number 1 was that
students seeking entrance must know Latin and Greek so that they could
study the Scriptures: "Let every student be plainly instructed and
earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and
studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life,
John 17:3; and therefore to lay Jesus Christ as the only foundation
of all sound knowledge and learning. And seeing the Lord only giveth
wisdom, let every one seriously set himself by prayer in secret to
seek it of him (Proverbs 2:3)."
For over 100 years, more than 50% of all Harvard graduates were pastors!
It is clear from history that the Bible and the Christian faith,
were foundational to our educational and judicial system. However,
in 1947, there was a radical change of direction for the Supreme
Court. It required ignoring every precedent of Supreme Court ruling
for the past 160 years. The Supreme Court ruled in a limited way to
affirm a wall of separation between church and State in the public
classroom.
In the coming years, this led to removing prayer from public
schools in 1962. Here is the prayer that was banished: "Almighty
God, we acknowledge our dependence on Thee. We beg Thy
blessings upon us and our parents and our teachers and our country.
Amen."
In 1963, the Supreme Court ruled that Bible reading was outlawed
as unconstitutional in the public school system. The court offered
this justification: "If portions of the New Testament were read
without explanation, they could and have been psychologically
harmful to children."
Bible reading was now unconstitutional, though the Bible was
quoted 94 percent of the time by those who wrote our Constitution
and shaped our Nation and its system of education and justice
and government.
In 1965, the Courts denied as unconstitutional the right of a
student in the public school cafeteria to bow his head and pray
audibly for his food. In 1980, Stone vs. Graham outlawed the Ten
Commandments in our public schools.
The Supreme Court said this: "If the posted copies of the Ten
Commandments were to have any effect at all, it would be to induce
schoolchildren to read them. And if they read them, mediated upon
them, and perhaps venerated and obeyed them, this is not a
permissible objective."
Is it not a permissible objective to allow our children to follow
the moral principles of the Ten Commandments?
James Madison, the primary author of the Constitution of the United
States, said this: "We have staked the whole future of our new nation,
not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the
future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each
of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles
of the Ten Commandments."
Today, we are asking God to bless America. But, how can He bless
a Nation that has departed so far from Him? Prior to September 11,
He was not welcome in America. Most of what you read in this article
has been erased from our textbooks. Revisionists have rewritten
history to remove the truth about our country's Christian roots.
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