NOTE: Following piece highlights Christian history here in US.
Most of America’s early history was punctuated with
Judeo-Christian people and their values……read if you are interested. This Thanksgiving piece, shared by a member,
Pointedly Religious but Historical!
Today is the day that I am thanking God for
all of the blessings He has given me. I pray that I am worthy of those
blessings and use them to His glory.
Hopefully our roots are deep enough and
strong enough to keep our Country safe.
Happy Thanksgiving to all.
Tony P
Life is Good
In God We Trust
OUR REAL ROOTS: GIVE THANKS
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.
This 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 government school textbooks the context of these words is deleted. Here is what Henry 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."
This quote has been erased from our children's textbooks for more than 1/2 century.
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 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
Congress of 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 [by Earl Warren's Supreme
Court]. President Lincoln called him the "Schoolmaster of the
Nation." Listen to these words of Mr. McGuffey: "The Christian
faith 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. Here is the prayer that
Supreme Court 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 in our schools is 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. [Today, you'll not learn
that fact from any source.]
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."
These black robes ruled it is 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 why should God bless our Nation that has deliberately departed so far from Him?
Most of what you read in this article has been erased from our children's textbooks. Satan's hand-picked Revisionists have rewritten history to remove the truth about our country's Christian roots.
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