There was a weekend conference that featured Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee. It was stated that America is
awash in paganism.
There are a number of disturbing things made by both Huckabee and Gingrich.
Yep, ideas and people had nothing to do with it.:roll: How about people achieved the revolution by utilizing their natural born rights!? The innate theory of rights promulgated by Locke and other enlightenment philosophers was the
only driving force to win the revolution, supernatural acts by god was in no way, a part of the equation.
Where specifically in the Constitution does it say that? Atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Unitarians, and others are not citizens!?:shock: It would do Newt well to
read Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists.
I would also disagree with the notion that we are awash in Paganism. :rofl
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible. -- George Washington
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. -- George Washington
"By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability and expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, altho' death was levelling my companions on every side." -- [George Washington] Letter to John A. Washington, July 18, 1755
"And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever." - [Thomas Jefferson] Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 18, 1781
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - [John Adams] Address to the Military, October 11, 1798
"I Pray Heaven to Bestow The Best of Blessing on THIS HOUSE, and on ALL that shall hereafter Inhabit it. May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof!" -- [John Adams] Letter to Abigail Adams, referring to the White House, November 2, 1800
"It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it [the Constitution] a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution." -- [James Madison] Federalist Papers, No. 37, January 11, 1788
"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 this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here." -- [Patrick Henry] Speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses, May, 1765
"The view which the rising greatness of our country presents to my eye is greatly tarnished by the general prevalence of deism which with me, is but another name for vice and depravity. I am, however, much consoled by reflecting, that the religion of Christ has, from its first appearance in the world, been attacked in vain by all the wits, philosophers, and wise ones aided by every power of man, and its triumph has been complete." -- [Patrick Henry] Letter to Betsy Aylett, his daughter, August 20, 1796
"Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security. The first Point of Justice, says a Writer I have met with, consists in Piety; Nothing certainly being so great a Debt upon us, as to render to the Creator & Preserver those Acknowledgments which are due to Him for our Being, and the hourly Protection he affords us." -- [Samuel Adams] Letter to Thomas Wells, November 22, 1780
"We have this day restored the Sovereign to whom all alone men ought to be obedient. He reigns in Heaven, and with a propitious eye beholds his subjects assuming that freedom of thought, and dignity of self-direction which He bestowed on them. From the rising to the setting sun, may His kingdom come." -- [Samuel Adams] Speech at the State House, Philadelphia, August 1, 1776