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 of 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
religious, 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 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 the 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 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 congressof the United
States recommends and approves the Holy
Bible for use in all schools."
William Holmes McGuffey is the author of the
McGuffey Reader, which 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
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 everyone 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 in
our educational and judicial system. However
in 1947, there was a radical change of
direction in 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 rights 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 school children to
read them. And if they read them, meditated
upon them, and perhaps venerated and
observed 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
11th, 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. You are
encouraged to please pass this on, or make
copies , and share with others, so that the
truth of our nation's history will be told.
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