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WHAT A SHAME! LONG BUT WORTH READING
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 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 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 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 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 school
children 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. You are
encouraged to make
copies, and share with others, so that the truth of our nation's history
will be told.
In summation, it is no wonder
America is in a total state of
moral
decay!
Web published by Bill aka Mickey Porter 07-03-13.
LEAVING ON A
SPIRITUAL NOTE
If you do not know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, please take this
moment to accept him by Faith into your Life, whereby Salvation will be
attained.
Ephesians 2:8 - 2:9 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith;
and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest
any man should boast.
Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seen.”
Romans 10:17 “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the
word of God.”
Open this
link about faith in the King James Bible.
Romans 10:9 “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord
Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the
dead, thou shalt be saved.”
Open this
link of Bible Verses About Salvation, King
James Version Bible (KJV).
Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and
sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of
soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the
thoughts and intents of the heart.”
Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is
eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of
God;”
Micah 6:8 “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth
the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk
humbly with thy God?”
Philippians 4:13 "I can do all things through Christ which
strengtheneth me."
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