Let Us Not Forget That We Remain A Christian Nation
And let us not forget that every state constitution preamble references belief in God.
8.13.2009
By Chris Janelli
Let us not forget that we remain a Christian nation, which was founded by Puritans who founded the Congregational Church in America. According to Faith of Our Fathers (www.faithofourfathers.net), “America was indeed founded by bible-believing Christians and based on Christian principles. When they founded this country, the Founding Fathers envisioned a government that would promote and encourage Christianity. All but two of the first 108 universities founded in America were Christian. This includes the first, Harvard, where the student handbook listed this as Rule #1:
“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 for our children to follow the moral principles of the Ten Commandment.”
In 1777, the Continental Congress voted to spend $300,000 to purchase bibles, which were to be distributed throughout the 13 colonies! And in 1782, the United States Congress declared, “The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.”
Our founding fathers held strong beliefs in God that they were not afraid to voice, many of which have been found in their letters and writings. To wit,
Written in the front of Thomas Jefferson’s personal 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."
In a letter dated April 21, 1803, Jefferson wrote this to Dr. Benjamin Rush (also a signer of the Declaration of Independence):
“My views...are the result of a life of inquiry and reflection, and very different from the anti-Christian system imputed to me by those who know nothing of my opinions. To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines in preference to all others.”
On April 18, 1775, a British soldier ordered John Hancock and others to “disperse in the name of George the Sovereign King of England.” Adams responded to him saying:
“We recognize no sovereign but God, and no king but Jesus!”
In an October 13, 1789 address to the military, John Hancock said:
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
In a letter dated June 28, 1813 to Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock wrote:
"The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity."
In 1785, in Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments, James Madison wrote:
"It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage. Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.”
"We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."
And let us not forget that every state constitution preamble references belief in God.
Maryland 1776: “grateful to Almighty God”
Pennsylvania 1776: “grateful to Almighty God”
Virginia 1776: “we owe our Creator”
Alaska 1956: “grateful to God”
Hawaii 1959: “Grateful for Devine Guidance”
How did we get to where we are today? Complacency compounded by the failure of the American educational system to teach American history. Our children and young people have been indoctrinated to socialism in the name of democracy. To read more about that, go to: http://distressedpatriots.us/patriots8.html
We have allowed ourselves as a people to forget that we are a Constitutional Republic that should be governed under the Rule of Law rather than under the Rule of Radicals and a Chicago Thugocrocy. To read more, go to: http://distressedpatriots.us/patriots42.html.
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