That is not true, but like it or not our government was founded on Judeao Christianity. the evidence for Christianity is everywhere in Washington DC.
There isn’t a building there that Christianity isn’t on display. Why? You tell me.
Ours is the same congress that formed the American Bible Society that immediately after creating the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress voted in 1777 to purchase and import 20,000 copies of scripture for the people of this nation.
Why?
Patrick Henry said, "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here”
Why?
Thomas Jefferson wrote in his Bible: "I am a 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."
Why?
George Washington 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."
Why?
How about our first Court Justice, John Jay?
He said 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."
Why?
John Quincy Adams the sixth U.S. President who 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."
Why?
Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States 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."
Why?
William Holmes McGuffey is the author of the McGuffey Reader, which was used for over 100 years in our public schools ( over 125 million copies sold) until it was stopped in 1963. President Lincoln called him the "Schoolmaster of the Nation."
McGuffey said…. "The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our notions on 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."
Why?
James Madison, a 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."
Why?
Of the first 108 universities founded in America, 106 were Christian, including the first.
Harvard University, chartered in 1636. In the original Harvard Student Handbook rule it stated 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 everyone 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 Christian pastors.
Why?
When did the drafting of the Constitution take place SirAlec? I believe it says "In the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven."
Why?
If the framers had wanted to strip everything about religion away why include a reference to the Lord?
The evidence is overwhelming that we were at that time a Christian nation, and that most the founding fathers, had a belief in God, and Jesus Christ.
From the first Charter of Virginia that talked of “propogating of the Christian religion to such people as yet live in darkness” to the U.S Constitution that was approved by the founders…..”IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD”… as the Supreme Court concluded in 1892 (just little over 100 years after the Constitution was written) “this is a Christian nation”….and as Benjamin Franklin himself said to those at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia,
“I have lived…a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth-that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice,(Matthew 10:29) is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured, sir, in the sacred writings, that “except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. (Psalm 127:1) I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel.”
What do you want to do…. strip the United States of its history because you don’t like the fact that we started out as a Christian nation?
History speaks for itself. REferences to Christ were in every aspect of society from churches to public schools to the public square.
Today so it seems that there are threatened people who hate Christianity so much that they will go to every extreme to rid the world of anything Christian. They try to wipe the historical record away.
Well its way to late for that………because the founders already did that in more ways than one.
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