As the days of Christmas and Chanukah approach, it is time for us to pause a moment and reflect on how we came to where we are today and if where we are headed is the direction we really want to be going.



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This is worth remembering because it is true. Those of you that graduated from school after the early 60's were probably never taught this. Our courts have seen to that!

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 omitted.

Here is what he actually 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." The accompanying 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 religions, 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 in 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." 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 nation, 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. For 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 No. 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 for 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 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 share with others so that the truth of our nation's history (His Story) will be told.

In centuries past countless thousands have learned to read by reading the Bible, the only book the family owned or could afford.


"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16, KJV

This information shared is only a drop of cement to help secure a foundation that is crumbling daily in a losing war that most of the country doesn't even know is raging on, in, and around them.
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Regards,
Dan

Yes - Morals seem to be mostly absent from our society. The founders of constitution were moral men of great vision. They got it right, or at least as close as we (humanity) have ever made it before...too bad it couldn't last.

The Constitution is a wonderful moral code for governments. It is hard to find any fault with it...but is there some way to protect those virtues better?


http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/writings...in_on_const.htm

http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/art...s/0300const.htm

Hyper,

I find myself agreeing with you way too often...a scary future awaits us all.

In 1741, before there was an America, Jonathan Edwards delivered his most famous sermon, Sinners at the Hands of an Angry God, where he proposed that God had abondoned the North American continent because the people had become wicked and had turned against Him.
http://members.aol.com/jonathanedw/Sinners.html


Does this sound familiar?

Subsequently America was founded several decades latter and rose relentlessly into the richest and most powerful nation on earth over the next 225 years. Every step along the way huge swaths of the populus and their politicians and preachers said it was BECAUSE we had Gods favor. Evidently forgetting what Edwards said, as well as what every Edwards clone has said since. You see declarations of our fall from Gods favor are as regular as touts of his grace, just far less numerous.

Was Edwards right or wrong? Maybe he was just like us Bears, he had the right idea but his timing was off. Admittedly 200+ years is extraordinarilly bad timing. How could he have been right after all if all the markers of our greatness and thru that God's favor came long after 1741? Maybe the wealth and power aren't the markers of that favor.

I'll leave it there before I become too provacative.

What God told Samuel would be the result when Israel asked for a king instead of being ruled by God during the Judges period.......sound familiar?

10 Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king. 11 He said, "This is what the king who will reign over you will do: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. 12 Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. 14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. 15 He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. 16 Your menservants and maidservants and the best of your cattle [2] and donkeys he will take for his own use. 17 He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. 18 When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the LORD will not answer you in that day."
19 But the people refused to listen to Samuel. "No!" they said. "We want a king over us. 20 Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles."
21 When Samuel heard all that the people said, he repeated it before the LORD . 22 The LORD answered, "Listen to them and give them a king."

Huh?

Here I thought those guys were all Deists. Anyway, could you provide the sources of your data? Good researchers always document their work with footnotes.

Like Reagan said, trust but verify.