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Rewriting
History
The last three generations of
Americans simply have not been told the truth about American history. 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."
Most people do
not realize that the First Amendment says nothing about the "separation of
church and state." It simply states that "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof...."
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.
The concept of separation of
church and state in our Constitution is not there to protect Americans from
religion. It is there to protect Americans from the government. But in their
desire to promote their secular humanist philosophy using the power of
government, many liberals today want to alter America's heritage and remove
religion from its history. Their desire is not to safeguard denominational
neutrality by the state. It is to eradicate every vestige of religion from our
public institutions.
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.
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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.
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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. 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 their influence outside the classroom as well into nearly
every segment of American life. Descriptions and tours of the nation's capitol
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
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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. 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.
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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 - the only alternative is a pagan nation. 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 or atheists.
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 |
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