Active humanists and the liberal media have for years undertaken a concentrated effort to misinform the American public by attacking the "Religious Right" and rewriting America's Judeo-Christian history in a humanistic tone. The motto at the heart of the American experiment "in God we trust" has been exchanged for "in Man we trust."
Rewriting
History
The last three generations of Americans simply have not been
told the truth about American history as its Christian heritage has been
disparaged.
For example, ask most Americans if the "separation of
church and state" is in our Constitution, and they will answer yes. You can
scour the Constitution of the United States, and you will NOT find the phrase,
"separation of church and state" or anything close to it.
In the
Constitution of the Soviet Union, however, the doctrine of the separation of
Church and State is found: "In order to ensure to citizens freedom of
conscience, the church in the U.S.S.R. is separated from the State, and the
school from the church. Freedom of religious worship and freedom of
antireligious propaganda is recognized for all citizens" (Article
124). Article Twelve of the 1918 Soviet Constitution decrees that no church or
religious organization "shall enjoy the rights of judicial
person." Instruction of children under age 18 in religious matters,
whether in public or private, is against the law.
While the concept of
separation of church and state might be implied by
the First Amendment which
states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof....", it says nothing
about the "separation of church and state." And, even if you accept the
principle of the separation of church and state being implied by the First
Amendment, it's implication is not there to protect Americans from
religion, it is there to protect religious Americans from the government.
In their desire to promote their secular humanist
philosophy using the power of government, many
liberals today want to alter America's
Christian heritage and replace it with the
10 Planks of Communism. They want to
remove religion from our history and replace it with the Soviet doctrine of the
separation of Church and State. They don't want to safeguard denominational
neutrality by the state as the Founders intended, rather they want to
eradicate every vestige of religion from our public
institutions.
The Educational
Establishment
One reason we have lost so many of our religious
freedoms is that the liberal educational
establishment has worked hard to eliminate our knowledge of the
Judeo-Christian heritage of America. The facts nonetheless reveal the true
convictions of our founders. Without question, they believed that although no
one Christian denomination should dominate the nation, the principles of the
Bible and Christianity should underlie our government and American education as
well.
"It cannot be
emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by
religionists but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus
Christ." - Patrick Henry
"Providence has given to our people the
choice of their rulers and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest
of a Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers." - U.S.
Supreme Court Chief Justice, John Jay
"The liberties we talk
about defending today were established by men who took their conceptions of man
from the great central religious tradition of Western civilization
[Christianity], and the liberties we inherit can almost certainly not survive
the abandonment of that tradition. The decay of decency in the modern age, the
rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things,
as mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence
of the decay of the belief in man as someone more than an animal animated by
highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For unless man is something
more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are
no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey. This is the
forgotten foundation of democracy." [James Reston, "Faith of
Our Fathers, Living Still?" The New York Times, April 2,
1969]
Our children's history books are being rewritten so they
no longer hear the truth about the tremendous influence
of religious faith on America's founding fathers, on the great documents
they drafted to establish a true republic based, on the critical tripod of
liberty, life, and family. The revisionist history being taught now is devoid
of any reference to the Christian faith of our Founding Fathers as the old
stories, the old way that American history was taught, was revised to reflect a
more liberal, politically correct, homogenized and multicultural perspective.
Words like duty and honor and country have fallen out of vogue, and
the stories of the Christian faith of men like George Washington and Patrick
Henry and Noah Webster and so many others, Daniel Webster, Andy Jackson, Chief
Justice John Marshall - magnificent Christians - these stories are simply left
out.
While many may squabble over who among the founding fathers was
a Christian, no knowledgeable historian of early American history can deny the
fact that the concept of a Creator God who endowed His creation with
"unalienable rights" was an essential underpinning of the American experiment.
Indeed, the Declaration of Independence states, "We hold these
truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." These rights were derived not
from a government that was transitory, but from a Governor who was eternal. It
was the role of government to defend these rights and not dilute or remove
them.
The revisionists extend the influence of their
world view outside the classroom as well into
nearly every segment of American life. Descriptions and tours of the nation's
capitol, for example, fail to point out that the Ten Commandments are inscribed
in the marble of the United States Supreme Court, that there is a beautiful
stained glass window in the U.S. Capitol depicting President George Washington
kneeling in prayer, and that at the top of the Washington Monument - the
highest point in the nation's capital is embedded a plaque which boldly
proclaims in Latin, "Praise Be Unto God."
Arbitrary
Law
In the 1892 Supreme Court ruling in Church of the Holy
Trinity vs. U.S. (citing 87 precedents), "Our laws and our institutions
must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of
Mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise and in this sense and to
this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian."
Throughout history, the U.S. Supreme Court continually cited previous cases in
order to maintain our Christian Constitution. However, in 1962, for the first
time in American history, the court cited no previous cases and ruled in
Engel vs. Vitale that; because of Separation of Church and State, the
government needed to be separated from Christian principles. So, the simple
school prayer, "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon thee and we
beg thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers, and our country" became
unconstitutional and the eradication of Christianity from public institutions
began.
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. [Isaiah 5:20]
The Supreme Court, the President, or Congress do not shoulder the entire blame for these profound changes in the American cultural fabric. Far from it. Indeed, past generations of Christians and other religionists who were not involved in society or who sat silently by as the culture embraced the secular worldview are also greatly responsible.
Restoring
America
The future of America will either be a national revival or
it's total destruction. We're on the edge now of real national
self-destruction. The past few generations of Americans have witnessed the
collapse of moral and ethical values unlike any time in our history. We're
looking at the very strong probability of economic collapse, unless there is a
tremendous change. We're going to spend ourselves, tax ourselves into total
oblivion.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. [2 Chronicles 7:14]
The essence of what God is requiring of the Christians in America is
repentance. If we Christians think that simply by political involvement we're
going to turn the country around, we're crazy. If we think that we can adopt an
antagonistic triumphalism that says we're going to get organized and throw all
the bad guys out and take over, we will be brought face to face with our own
sinfulness.
We must recover the original American vision and we must
put into practice 2 Chronicles 7:14. Our First Continental Congress understood
this concept as is evident in the words of John
Jay.
What we need is a Christian nation - compared to the pagan
nation we're becoming. By "Christian nation," I don't mean that everyone is
forced to be a Christian or forced to go to church or to believe in God. People
are free to be Buddhists, atheists, or whatever. The job of government is not
to convert or force conversion to any kind of faith. The job of the government
is to do for the people what they can't do for themselves. And the job of
bringing people to faith belongs to the private citizens, the churches, the
synagogues and the religious leaders of our nation. That separation should
always be kept. What I mean by a Christian nation is a nation whose laws are
self-consciously built on the laws and principles of the Bible.
We
have allowed organizations like the ACLU to strip away every vestige of our
Christian heritage for long enough. We are tired of them destroying our country
by declaring God unconstitutional. Our nation was founded on the principles
laid out by the God of the Bible and we're saying ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Where there
is no foundation, there are no laws and what results is anarchy brought forth
by moral relativism. Their way has failed. The time has come for us to take
back that which once was and let the healing begin.
"Let us look
forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below
the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden times, and let us
gather around it an inscribed for our motto: "Liberty and Union, one and
inseparable, now and forever," and exclaim, Christ first, our country next!" --
Andrew Johnson
