Posted by
Curtal Friar on Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:39:58 AM
For those who doubt that America was founded as a Christian nation, here is a smattering of statements from the Founding Fathers, some of the first Presidents, some Supreme Court Justices, excerpts from Congressional reports and Supreme Court rulings, and others. Y'all make sure and show these to every naysayer you come across.
"It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protections and favor."
George Washington, First President of the United States
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
John Adams, Second President of the United States
"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 of 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 forever."
Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States
"Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour? - That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth? - That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity?"
John Quincy Adams, Sixth President of the United States"
"An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!...Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power...Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us...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!"
Patrick Henry, a Patriot to remember for all time.
"To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness, which mankind now enjoys...Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government - and all blessings which flow from them - must fall with them."
Jedediah Morse, "The Father of American Geography"
"I've lived, sir, 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...We've been assured in the sacred writings that unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. 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."
Benjamin Franklin, Signer of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States
"The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts."
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"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."
John Jay, First Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
"One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law...There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying as its foundations...I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society."
Joseph Story, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
"There is no dissonance in these declarations...These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation."
From Church of the Holy Trinity v. U.S., 1892
"Why may not the Bible, and especially the New Testament, without note or comment, be read and taught as a divine revelation...Where can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?"
From Vidal v. Girard's Executors, 1844
"The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other."
Alexis De Tocqueville, French visitor to America in 1831 and author of Democracy In America
"There is no country in which the people are so religious as in the United States...The great number of religious societies existing in the United States is truly inspiring: there are some of them for everything; for instance, societies to distribute the Bible; to distribute tracts; to encourage religious journals; to convert, civilize, educate;...to take care of their widow and orphans; to preach, extend, purify, preserve, reform the faith; to build chapels, endow congregations, support seminaries;...to establish Sunday schools;...to prevent drunkeness, etc."
Achille Murat, French visitor to America in 1832
The preceding quotes are just a drop in the bucket compared to all like writings throughout the course of American history. The United States of America was founded as a Christian nation, it was developed as a Christian nation, its laws and customs and precepts and mores were directly influenced by and taken from the Bible and Christian belief, and with hard work, our beloved America can be a Christian nation once again that shines its light for all to see.
Let's stand up and make our voices heard!