NOTES taken from the Video AMERICA'S GODLY HERITAGE by DAVID
BARTON Except for specific quotes, the comments may be
paraphrased from David Barton, or in some cases, an
interpretation or additional comment by Dale Costner.
This video is meant to inform you about the truth of the
principles that America was founded on, but are intentionally not
being taught in public schools.
As a point of clarification, throughout the writings of the
Founders of the Constitution, they sometimes refer to
Christianity, sometimes religion, sometimes Godly principles, etc.
Also "Providence" was a term used commonly to refer to God. The
religion they are referring to is always Christianity and the God
is the God of the Bible. It was so well known at the time and
referred to in so many writings, that it was assumed in other
writings that everyone knew the religion they were talking about.
GEORGE WASHINGTON - 1755 FRENCH & INDIAN WAR
In the French & Indian war in 1755, George Washington
commanded 1300 troops against the Indians in a woodland battle.
Washington's officers (on horseback) and most of his troops were
cut down. At the end of the battle Washington was the only
officer that remained & still on horseback. Afterwards he found 4
bullet holes in his jacket & wrote to his wife that God had
protected him.
Fifteen years later, the Indian chief that fought against
Washington traveled a good distance to meet him when he heard
that he was in the area of the battleground. This chief stated
that he had commanded his braves to concentrate on killing
Washington and had personally shot at him 17 times. He wanted to
meet the man that "God wouldn't let die".
This exciting story and Washington's letter, used to be in
the American history books. In an effort to degrade American
heroes that depended on God, American history books are being
revised and this story & letter have been removed in this century.
PATRICK HENRY - AN AMERICAN PATRIOT
He is known for his saying "Give me liberty or give me death."
He also 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."
AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY - AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY
(and others)
It is interesting that the Founders of the Constitution of
the U.S. were the same people that were among the Founders of
the early religious evangelical societies that are still in
existence today. In 1813 the American Tract Society bound
together their tracts from many years past into a book and the
names of many of the Founders are included.
THE NEW ENGLAND PRIMER - 1795
The New England Primer was a reader used in what would be our
1st grade. It was first introduced in 1690 and taught for 200
years in America, until 1900. The Alphabet was taught with Bible
verses that begin with each letter of the alphabet. Also lessons
had questions about the Bible and the Ten Commandments.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
With the education that had a Godly influence, John Quincy
Adams received an appointment to Ambassador to Russia at 14 years
of age. He later wrote "The highest glory of the American
Revolution was this: that it tied together in one indissoluble
bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of
Christianity."
JOHN JAY
Jay was the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and one
of the three men most responsible for the writing of the
Constitution of the U.S. He said "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 &
prefer Christians for their Rulers." How long has it been since
the Supreme Court said to make sure you elect Christians for your
leaders? We have lost this guidance which made our country great.
GEORGE WASHINGTON - PRESIDENTIAL FAREWELL SPEECH
Washington was a public servant for 45 years. He was
President of the convention that gave us the Constitution. He
called for the 1st Amendment Bill of Rights. After 2 terms as
President, he gave a farewell speech which was heralded as the
most significant political speech ever given to the nation. It
has since been removed from American history books and it would
be rare to find it in any for at least the last 30 years. Why? -
In it he said "Of all the habits and dispositions which lead to
political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable
supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism,
who should labor to subvert these great pillars." Apparently the
people writing our history books want to change what our children
are taught about the connection between political prosperity and
religion and morality.
FORMS OF GOVERNMENT
The form of government established by the Founders of the U.S.
has lasted over 200 years. Some other countries have undergone
many different forms during this same period; such as France, 7
forms & Italy 40 forms.
MEN MOST QUOTED BY THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF THE U.S.
Political Science professors at the University of Houston
wondered if there was something unique about the government of
the U.S. They gathered 15,000 quotes from the Founders and
located where all of them came from. They then boiled that down
to 3,154 quotes that had significant impact on the founding of
America. It took them 10 years to finish the project, but they
found that the three men most quoted by the Founding fathers were
Blackstone, Montesquieu, and John Locke. They also found that the
Bible was quoted:
4 times more often than Montesquieu,
12 times more often than Blackstone, and
16 times more often than Locke.
Additionally, 34% of all quotes were from the Bible, and
another 60% of the quotes were from men who were using the Bible
to arrive at their conclusions. Added together, 94% of all the
quotes of the Founders had their origin in the Bible, which shows
the importance of God's word in their lives and of this Nation's
founding.
BLACKSTONE'S COMMENTARY & CHARLES FINNEY
Blackstone's Commentary on the Law, introduced in 1758,
became the law textbook for lawyers for 160 years, and the
Supreme Court quoted from it to settle cases. It gave Bible verse
references to the law. For instance the three branches of
government are based on Isaiah 33:22, the separation of powers is
based on Jeremiah 17, and the tax exemption for Churches on Ezra
7:24. Countries even next to the U.S., such as Canada and Mexico,
don't have tax exemption for churches.
While Finney was studying to become a lawyer, he became a
Christian and then a well known Evangelist in the 1800's,
primarily because he saw the truth of the Bible verse references
in Blackstone's Commentary.
SUPREME COURT - 1844 - VIDAL VS GIRARD
A Philadelphia school wanted to teach morals without using
the Bible. The Court said "Why may not the Bible, and especially
the New Testament, be read and taught as a divine revelation in
the schools? Where can the purest principals of morality be
learned so clearly or perfectly as from the N.T."
Any book teaching good morality would certainly be teaching
what the N.T. teaches, so why not use the original source which
doesn't change.
SUPREME COURT - 1892 - CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY VS U.S.
In another challenge the court ruled "Our laws and our
institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the
teachings of the Redeemer of mankind, and it's impossible that it
should be otherwise: and in this sense and to this extent our
civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian."
The court also quoted 87 different historical precedents to back
up its decision, from the Founding Fathers, Acts of the Founding
Fathers, Acts of Congress, etc, etc.
SUPREME COURT - 1811 - PEOPLE VS RUGGLES
There was a man who made attacks on Jesus in such a
blasphemous way that it made it to the Supreme Court and the
court ruled: "Whatever strikes at the root of Christianity tends
manifestly to the dissolution of civil government." They reasoned
that if you attack Jesus, you have attacked Christianity, & if
you have attacked Christianity, you have attacked the foundation
of the U.S., therefore an attack on Jesus or Christianity was
equivalent to an attack on the foundation of the U.S.
"SEPARATION", "CHURCH", & "STATE" do NOT appear in the
CONSTITUTION
Many people think it is part of the 1st Amendment, but it is
not. The 1st Amendment reads: "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishing of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof."
What the Founders DID NOT want was any ONE DENOMINATION of
the Christian religion to run the nation. They wanted to stay
away from what they had left in England, where the King was the
head of the Church. However the Founding Fathers and the Supreme
Court were quite clear that Christianity was the established
religion, and WAS to be involved in the government. This is
evident in the Supreme Court decision of 1796, Thomas Jefferson's
letter of 1802, and many other writings.
SUPREME COURT - 1796 - RUNKEL VS WINEMILLER
"By our form of government the Christian religion is the
established religion, and all sects and denominations of
Christians are placed on the same equal footing."
January 1, 1802 LETTER from PRESIDENT THOMAS JEFFERSON To the
DANBARY BAPTIST, of CONNECTICUT
In 1801 the Danbary Baptist Church heard a rumor that the
Congregationalist Denomination was going to be made the
National Denomination. This disturbed them as it well
should. Jefferson answered in his letter: "The 1st
Amendment has erected a wall of separation between church
and state, but that wall is a one directional wall, it
keeps the government from running the church, but it makes
sure that Christian principles will always stay in
government."
Please read that very carefully, it is supposed to protect
the church from the government, not the government from the
church. And it is supposed to guarantee that Christian principles
will always stay in government. This is where the "wall of
separation" originated, but it was another 146 years before a
non-Christian, liberal, Supreme Court distorted and reversed what
the Founders meant the Constitution to do.
The Congress went through twelve different iterations before
determining the final wording. It is evident from the other
wordings that what they wanted was to always have God's
principles in government, but not to have one denomination
running the nation, or any interference from the government into
religion. The 1st Amendment reads: "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishing of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof."
RESPONSE FROM THE HOUSE AND SENATE - 1853
Minority groups from time to time did keep trying to change
things to their way of thinking and in 1853 there was a group
that petitioned Congress for the separation of Christian
principles from government. The House and Senate had a one year
investigation of the matter.
The House Judiciary Committee on March 27, 1854 reported:
"Had the people during the revolution, had any suspicion of any
attempt to war against Christianity, that revolution would have
been strangled in its cradle." The Senate also made a similar
statement.
The report continued: "At the time of the adoption of the
Constitution and the Amendments, the universal sentiment was that
Christianity should be encouraged, but not any one sect. In this
age there can be no substitute for Christianity . That was the
religion of the Founders of the Republic and they expected it
remain the religion of their descendants."
"The great, vital and conservative element in our system is
the belief of our people in the pure doctrines and the divine
truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ."
SUPREME COURT - 1878 - REYNOLDS VS U.S.
After 1853 for the next 50 years or so there were some other
cases that worked their way through the courts and challenged
Christian principles in government. Each time precedents were
cited such as Jefferson's letter and they were defeated. One of
the cases was in 1878. Thomas Jefferson's letter was referred to
in its entirety. It was repeated that the 1st Amendment is to
protect the Church from the government, and Christian principles
are never to be separated from the government.
SUPREME COURT - 1947 - EVERSON VS BOARD OF EDUCATION
For the very first time in Court history, only eight words
were used from Jefferson's letter. They were taken out of context
and a brand new meaning applied, which reversed their original
intent. The Court stated: "The 1st Amendment erected a wall
between Church and State. That wall must be kept high and
impregnable." It didn't recognize that the wall was intended to
be a one way wall to keep government out of religion.
DR. WILLIAM JAMES - FATHER OF MODERN PSYCHOLOGY
In the 1940's the Supreme Court and many other courts were
being influenced by the philosophy of James who was a strong
opponent of religion in government. He had said: "There is
nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will
believe it."
The phrase "Separation of Church & State" began being
repeated over and over and this is born out in a court case in
Bear vs Colmorgan(sp?) in 1958. The Judge said: "If this court
doesn't stop talking about the Separation of Church and State,
everyone's going to think that's what the Constitution says."
SUPREME COURT - JUNE 25,1962 - ENGLE VS VITALE
This is the landmark case that removed prayer from the public
schools. It was even noted in the 1963 World Book Encyclopedia
that this was the first time that we had separation of religious
principles from public education.
The amazing thing is that it was done without citing any
precedent from other cases as is the normal procedure. Instead it
was an entirely new statement not based on any historical or
legal base. There were no quotes from previous legal cases!
Instead, it was a brand new doctrine which according to all the
previous legal decisions WAS IN VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION!
Nevertheless it took precedent over all the previous
interpretations of the Constitution which had cited many
precedents that disagreed with this new ruling.
THE "UNCONSTITUTIONAL" PRAYER
The case was over a 22 word prayer which the Court said
later was a "to whom it may concern prayer", a very bland prayer
that mentioned God only once, and Jesus not at all. It read:
"We acknowledge our dependence on thee, and we beg thy blessings
upon us, our parents, our teachers, and our country."
The Declaration of Independence was written & approved by the
same people as the Constitution and it refers to God four times.
Yet it has never been declared unconstitutional.
The prayer deals with four areas however which have been
dealt with prior to 1963 in a way which was in agreement with the
Biblical principles. After 1963 the courts have reversed their
position in these areas, which are:
us --- (students) parents --- (families)
teachers --- (schools) country --- (nation)
SUPREME COURT - JUNE 17,1963 - MURRAY VS CURLETT
This was the Madeline Murray O'Hare case against school
prayer.
SUPREME COURT - JUNE 17,1963 - ABINGTON VS SCHEMPP
Previous Courts had said that you couldn't have a school that
didn't teach Christian principles based on the Bible. Early
textbooks quoted the Bible and used it for teaching the alphabet.
This case reversed previous decisions and made a brand new
statement! It removed Bible reading and instruction from public
schools and stated: "If portions of the N.T. were read without
explanation, they could be, and had been, psychologically harmful
to the child." How could such a statement be made by anyone who
knows that the Founders of this successful government of America
was due to their belief in the N.T. as essential to the well
being of the nation and its' people?
At the time of the 1963 Court cases, they took a survey to
determine how many people believed in God or religion. They found
that only 3% didn't believe in God or religion. Although the
prayer was consistent with 97% of the people, the Court ruled
with the 3%. This is the first time that 3% became a majority
under which the 97% now had to live by.
What happened in 1962-63 in a 12 month period was a RADICAL
REVERSAL of everything that had happened up to that point.
Removal of prayer, Bible reading and religious classes in
instruction was totally against the Constitution, but these NEW
RULINGS were simply ANNOUNCED by the Supreme Court as if a
dictator had taken over.
BIBLE STUDY COURSE FOR DALLAS HIGH SCHOOLS
As late as 1946 there was a Bible Study Course that was a
requirement for graduation. After 1963, what had been standard
for so many years, was not even an option to be taught anymore.
The freedom of speech and religion had been censored in the
public schools!
FURTHER CENSORSHIP & LOSS OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH & RELIGION
GUARANTEED BY THE CONSTITUTION
1965 The Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional for a
student to pray aloud.
1967 The Supreme Court declared a four line Nursery rhyme
used by a K-5 Kindergarten class was unconstitutional,
even though it didn't contain the word "God." The
Court said: "If someone heard it, it might cause
someone to think of God." (Now we have censorship of
our thoughts we might think!)
These kinds of court cases continued and in 1980 there was
one concerning what is called a "Passive Display."
SUPREME COURT - 1980 - STONE VS GRAHAM
A "passive display" would be like something hanging on a wall
like a picture, which doesn't require that you pay any attention
to it unless you want to. There was a passive display of the Ten
Commandments hanging in a school hallway with no requirement to
read it.
The Court ruled it was unconstitutional to display it in a
school. They said: "If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments
are to have any affect at all, it will be to induce the school
children to read, meditate upon, perhaps.. to venerate and obey
the commandments; this is not a permissible objective." Just
think, if it caused children to respect their parents or to
decide not to steal or kill... that would be unconstitutional!
What kind of mind-set is this, that is in charge of
preserving our freedom? If the Ten Commandments had come from
some philosopher instead of the Bible, would not they still be
allowed in schools and held in high regard? When the Court says
it's unconstitutional, aren't they saying that it's not what the
writers of the Constitution had in mind when they wrote it? Look
at what James Madison wrote.
JAMES MADISON - THE MAN MOST RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONSTITUTION
"We have staked the whole future of American civilization not
on the power of government, far from it. We have staked the
future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of
each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten
Commandments of God."
Note that the Founders based everything, not on the
Constitution, but on the Ten Commandments, which 200 years later
an out of touch Court says should not even be displayed because
it would not be permissible for it to be obeyed.
THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL OF NATIONAL MORALITY IN AMERICA SINCE THE
REJECTION OF GOD IN 1963
GEORGE WASHINGTON gave a
warning when he said: "Reason and experience both forbid us
to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of
religious principle." In other words, you will lose national
morality when you reject the religious principles found in
the Bible.
CONSIDER THE FOUR AREAS THAT THE "UNCONSTITUTIONAL" PRAYER DEALT
WITH AND HOW THE LOSS OF NATIONAL MORALITY HAS AFFECTED THOSE
AREAS
A. us - (the students)
1. Before 1963 pregnancies in girls ages 15 through 19
years had been no more than 15 per thousand for 15
years. After 1963 pregnancies increased 187% in the
next 15 years.
2. For younger girls, ages 10 to 14 years, pregnancies
since 1963 are up 553%.
3. Before 1963 sexually transmitted diseases among
students were 400 per 100,000. Since 1963, they were
up 226% in the next 12 years.
B. parents - (families)
1. Before 1963 divorce had been declining for 15 years.
After 1963 divorces increased 300% each year for the
next 15 years.
2. Since 1963 unmarried people living together is up 353%
3. Since 1963 single parent families are up 140%.
4. Since 1963 single parent families with children are up
160%.
C. teachers - (schools)
1. The educational standard of measure has been the SAT
scores. SAT scores had been going along rather steady
for many years before 1963. Since 1963 they took a
rapid decline for 18 consecutive years, even though
the same test has been used since 1941.
2. In 1974-75 the rate of decline of the SAT scores
decreased, even though they continued to decline. That
was when there was an explosion of private religious
schools. There were only 1000 Christian schools in
1965. Between 1974 to 1984 they increased to 32,000.
a. That could have an impact if the private
schools had higher SAT scores. In checking
with the SAT Board it was found that
indeed the SAT scores for private schools
were nearly 100 points higher than public
schools.
b. In fact the scores were at the point where
the public schools had been before their
decline started in 1963 when prayer and
Bible reading/ instruction was removed
from the schools.
c. The scores in the public schools were
still declining.
3. Of the nation's top academic scholars, three times as
many come from private religious schools, which
operate on one-third the funds as do the public
schools.
D. country - (nation)
1. Since 1963 violent crime has increased 544%.
3. Illegal drugs have become an enormous & uncontrollable
problem.
2. The nation has been deprived of an estimated 30
million citizens through legal abortions just since
1973.
THOMAS JEFFERSON said: "The reason Christianity is the best
friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion
in the world that deals with the heart."
Jesus says do not hate, don't lust in your heart (Mt.5:21). That
takes care of adultery, stealing, killing, etc.
The Founders pointed out that Christianity was the only
religion that could stop crime before it started because all
crime came out of the heart. If you deal with the heart problem,
you won't have to deal with crime.
JOHN ADAMS said: "We have no government armed with power which is
capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality
and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and
religious people, it is wholly inadequate to the government of
any other."
We have only to look at history to know that there is no
government big enough to make you do what is right if you aren't
guided by morality & religion.
JEREMIAH 6:16 "Thus says the Lord, Stand in the ways, and see,
And ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk in it:
Then you will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will
not walk in it.'"
Since saying NO to Biblical principles
AMERICA HAS BECOME A WORLD LEADER IN:
DIVORCE
TEENAGE PREGNANCIES
VOLUNTARY ABORTIONS
ILLEGAL DRUGS
ILLITERACY (in the Industrial World)
What were the "old paths" which were good, that had been
established by our Founders? Each state passed a State
Constitution which had requirements they considered most
important for those who would represent them. Generally they were
along the line of the Delaware Constitution in 1776 which stated:
"Everyone appointed to public office must say: 'I do profess
faith in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ his only son,
and in the Holy Ghost, one God & blessed forevermore: and I do
acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old & New Testaments to be
given by divine inspiration.'" This was consistent with the
constitution because it did not recognize one denomination over
another or require you to belong to any particular denomination.
But it did require that you understand God's principles and God
as authority. They recognized that to be governed by someone
without these principles would eventually undermine and destroy
the very freedoms that they had fought so hard to gain.
A 3rd requirement in their Constitution was a requirement
that every public official must acknowledge a belief in future
rewards & punishments. This was the idea of accountability to God
even after leaving office.
Ungodly people will not use Godly principles to run a Nation.
That's why the Founders were so emphatic about keeping Christian
men in office. If you look at it from the standpoint that God
will only bless a Nation operating under Godly principles, you
can see how important it is to have Christian people in office.
DOES A NATION ANSWER TO GOD?
This was a question the American Founders dealt with on the
floor of the Constitutional Convention. They concluded that a
nation doesn't have a spirit or a soul. Therefore when a nation
dies, it is dead and won't be resurrected later to answer for
it's failures, as a person will be who does have a spirit & soul.
GEORGE MASON said: "As nations cannot be punished or rewarded in
the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of
causes & effects Providence punished National sins by National
calamities." Providence was commonly used by the Founders to
refer to God.
God's judgement on a Nation because of it's corrupt leaders
is evidenced many places in the Bible. A couple of them are: 1.
Because of the corruption of King Ahab and his wife Jezebel, the
nation went without rain for three years. The righteous had to
suffer too even though they had no part in it. 2. King David
was normally good King, but because of his disobedience to God
when he numbered his army, a plague came upon the nation and
wiped out 70,000 people. The Nation suffered because of the
leader.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - JUNE 17,1787
"We need God as our friend not our enemy. We need him to be
our ally not our adversary. We need to make sure that we keep
God's concurring aid." He called for regular daily prayer to be
sure we kept God alongside what we were doing in the Nation. If
this was needed by our leaders, why would it not be good for
children to be able to pray in school and learn & prepare for
this important facet of life?
THOMAS JEFFERSON MEMORIAL
Part of the inscription on Jefferson's Memorial: "Indeed, I
tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that
His justice can't sleep forever."
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
When Lincoln was asked if God was on his side in the Civil
War, he replied: "Sir, my concern is not whether God is on my
side. My great concern is to be on God's side."
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - AS AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE
"Whoever will introduce into public affairs the principles of
Christianity will change the face of the world."
CHARLES FINNEY - The Billy Graham of the 1800's
"The Church must take right ground in regard to politics.
Politics are a part of a religion in a country and Christians
must do their duty to the country as part of their duty to God.
He will bless or curse this nation according to the course
Christians take in politics."
If God's people don't make it into office, God's principles
won't make it into office. WE MUST NOT BE ISOLATED, WE MUST GET
INVOLVED! PROVERBS 18:1 "A man who isolates himself seeks his
own desires; he rages against all wise judgements."
Apparently there are people that do not want us to know what
the Constitution and its' Founders really said, or that our
freedom and liberty is based on God's principles put in place by
Christians. Instead they use these freedoms to fight against
Christians and God's principles, to take away freedoms the
Founders sought to guarantee.
Christians used to be involved in politics, but they have
been discouraged from doing so for the last 50 years or so. Even
earlier there was a controversy among Christians about where they
should be involved to do the most good. The emphasis was on being
an Evangelist, Missionary, Doctor, or Teacher, but not a
Politician.
When Christians started moving out and not running for
government office, they turned it over to people who didn't
believe in many of the Godly principles that had been so
important in it's founding.
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A RELIGION IN THE SCHOOLS BUT IT MAY BE
HUMANISM OR ATHEISM or ???
1963 & 1986 SUPREME COURT rulings defined Secular Humanism as a
legitimate religion, lawfully equivalent to Christianity. The
religion of Secular Humanism rejects the supernatural in their
philosophy and places man as supreme, and able to control his
own destiny.
1977 SUPREME COURT ruled that Atheism is a legitimate religion,
lawfully equivalent to Christianity. Atheism says there is no
God and therefore there should be no practice of religion.
The Court said that whatever you believe with all your heart
that affects the way you act, that's your religion. Satanic
activity and Witchcraft are other religions that are recognized
and receive tax-exempt status as well. However the only time you
hear the cry of "separation of Church and State" is to get
Christian materials, etc. out of schools. If all form of religion
needs to be removed from schools, why is not the cry used against
representation of witches on Halloween? Or when there is no
prayer and practice of believing in God going on in the school,
why not cry out against the religion of Atheism or Humanism,
which is the religion of exclusion of God.
Non-recognition of God is being practiced every day in
schools and it is being forced on all, including those who desire
to pray and read the Bible. Christians are attacked for believing
in the religion upon which America was founded while other
religions are being allowed with no comment. An American should
be able to speak of his roots in Christianity proudly and it
should be taught in the schools.
To refer to God's principles in the Bible is to stand for
what made America a free country, with liberty for all. To reject
the Scriptures is to reject our heritage and the foundation
principles which men fought and died for to obtain. What is
called right-wing extremism today by intolerant liberals is
really a mis-label. It is really what this country was founded
upon and was the normal middle of the road conservatism for a
long time afterward. It is the extremists that have put the label
on, to divert attention from their own far out position (with
respect to the Founders) of Secular Humanism & Atheism.
Separation of Church & State is not a part of our history and
not a part of our law until relatively recently. It is certainly
not Biblical, and most people don't know that it was lifted from
Jefferson's letter out of context to say the opposite of what the
rest of his letter says.
The religion of Christianity and the Biblical principles were
the very basis for the Constitution & held in the highest regard
by the writers of the Constitution. They so wanted it to remain a
part of the government and the schooling that it is outrageous
that we are having censorship today of their writings which are
in support of Christianity and the Bible. It is intolerable that
the Supreme Court could get away with a decision that is in total
disagreement with the Constitution. It can't be emphasized too
much that the Constitution and the Founder's intentions were to
protect the exercise of Christianity in the government. Any
ruling otherwise is inconsistent with the Constitution, and is a
deliberate distortion without any basis.
The 1963 decision that was based on no precedent and is now
used as a precedent for everything since, needs to be shown for
what it is. It was a total reversal from what was right, and
another reversal is necessary to put it back right. We have a
Godly heritage which has been robbed from us by the 3% who made a
lot of noise about "separation of Church & State". The only way
to reverse this trend is to get informed about the truth of our
heritage and start fighting to gain it back.