Before I read the text, I want to quote from an article on the Wallbuilders website entitled, “Is America a Christian Nation?” It is a lengthy article, so I have time for just a portion which reads as follows:
Constitutional law professor Edward Mansfield (1801-1880) acknowledged (the following):
In every country, the morals of a people – whatever they may be – take their form and spirit from their religion. For example, the marriage of brothers and sisters was permitted among the Egyptians because such had been the precedent set by their gods, Isis and Osiris. So, too, the classic nations celebrated the drunken rites of Bacchus. Thus, too, the Turk has become lazy and inert because dependent upon Fate, as taught by the Koran. And when in recent times there arose a nation [i.e., France] whose philosophers [e.g. Voltaire, Rousseau, etc.] discovered there was no God and no religion, the nation was thrown into that dismal case in which there was no law and no morals. . . . (in the case of) the United States, Christianity is the original, spontaneous, and national religion.
Founding Father and U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall agreed. He said:
With us, Christianity and religion are identified. It would be strange, indeed, if with such a people our institutions did not presuppose Christianity and did not often refer to it and exhibit relations with it.
Christianity is the religion that shaped America and made her what she is today. In fact, historically speaking, it can be irrefutably demonstrated that Biblical Christianity in America produced many of the cherished traditions still enjoyed today, including:
A republican rather than a theocratic form of government;
The institutional separation of church and state (as opposed to today’s enforced institutional secularization of church and state);
Protection for religious toleration and the rights of conscience;
A distinction between theology and behavior, thus allowing the incorporation into public policy of religious principles that promote good behavior but which do not enforce theological tenets (examples of this would include religious teachings such as the Good Samaritan, The Golden Rule, the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount, etc., all of which promote positive civil behavior but do not impose ecclesiastical rites); and
A free-market approach to religion, thus ensuring religious diversity and security for the rights of religious conscience.
Consequently, a Christian nation as demonstrated by the American experience is a nation founded upon Christian and Biblical principles, whose values, society, and institutions have largely been shaped by those principles. This definition was reaffirmed by American legal scholars and historians for generations5 but is widely ignored by today’s revisionists.
American Presidents (also) Affirm that America is a Christian Nation
Notice a few representative statements on this subject by some of the forty-three previous presidents:
The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were. . . . the general principles of Christianity.7 JOHN ADAMS
[T]he teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally….impossible for us to figure to ourselves what that life would be if these teaching were removed.8 TEDDY ROOSEVELT
America was born a Christian nation – America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scripture.9 WOODROW WILSON
American life is builded, and can alone survive, upon . . . [the] fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago.10 HERBERT HOOVER
This is a Christian Nation.11 HARRY TRUMAN
Let us remember that as a Christian nation . . . we have a charge and a destiny.12 RICHARD NIXON
Today our nation is struggling as Christian influence has diminished. On a national level we are not so much governed by the fear of God as was past generations of Americans. Should the Lord delay his coming the only way we can prolong days of freedom in America is to return to the Lord. Now may we pray . . .
Now look with me at Deuteronomy chapter six, verse one (read 6:1-15):
1Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
2That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
3Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
4Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
5And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
6And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
7And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
8And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
9And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
10And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
11And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
12Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
13Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.
14Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
15(For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
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It is obvious from this reading Israel’s national prosperity depended on obeying the commands of God. The nation was to love the Lord. They were to fear God and to keep his commandments. In so doing they would secure national prosperity and prolong their days in the land.
America would do well to follow this example. We must beware lest we forget the Lord and serve other gods. Sadly, many within our borders are at war with the concept of the Judeo-Christian ethic upon which the freedoms of the American Republic rests. Thus, since the early 1990s the nation has engaged in an intense culture war that rages on today. Clearly the nation is divided. Today there is no national consensus for civil government upon which Americans are united. This is the fruit of a fundamental change that has occurred in America over the past 100 years or so.
Ed Vitagliano writes, “For well over a century, secular progressives (the ungodly) in the United States have worked tirelessly to alter the very nature of our Republic. In all of the ways that count the most, they have very nearly succeeded. Moreover, they never asked most Americans for permission to do so . . . Like an invasive virus, this new ideology—alien to our Founding Fathers—spread throughout the bloodstream of American power in the early 1900s. Progressive ideas captured not only law schools—producing critical, progressive U.S. Supreme Court decisions by mid-century—but also many Christian seminaries.”
I encourage you to read this booklet (The Progressive Threat to the American Republic). The content of this message will help you discern why we are facing a battle for the future of freedom in America. The better you discern what is going on in America the better equipped you will be to stand up and fight for a free Republic.
Constitutional law professor Edward Mansfield (1801-1880) acknowledged (the following):
In every country, the morals of a people – whatever they may be – take their form and spirit from their religion. For example, the marriage of brothers and sisters was permitted among the Egyptians because such had been the precedent set by their gods, Isis and Osiris. So, too, the classic nations celebrated the drunken rites of Bacchus. Thus, too, the Turk has become lazy and inert because dependent upon Fate, as taught by the Koran. And when in recent times there arose a nation [i.e., France] whose philosophers [e.g. Voltaire, Rousseau, etc.] discovered there was no God and no religion, the nation was thrown into that dismal case in which there was no law and no morals. . . . (in the case of) the United States, Christianity is the original, spontaneous, and national religion.
Founding Father and U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall agreed. He said:
With us, Christianity and religion are identified. It would be strange, indeed, if with such a people our institutions did not presuppose Christianity and did not often refer to it and exhibit relations with it.
Christianity is the religion that shaped America and made her what she is today. In fact, historically speaking, it can be irrefutably demonstrated that Biblical Christianity in America produced many of the cherished traditions still enjoyed today, including:
A republican rather than a theocratic form of government;
The institutional separation of church and state (as opposed to today’s enforced institutional secularization of church and state);
Protection for religious toleration and the rights of conscience;
A distinction between theology and behavior, thus allowing the incorporation into public policy of religious principles that promote good behavior but which do not enforce theological tenets (examples of this would include religious teachings such as the Good Samaritan, The Golden Rule, the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount, etc., all of which promote positive civil behavior but do not impose ecclesiastical rites); and
A free-market approach to religion, thus ensuring religious diversity and security for the rights of religious conscience.
Consequently, a Christian nation as demonstrated by the American experience is a nation founded upon Christian and Biblical principles, whose values, society, and institutions have largely been shaped by those principles. This definition was reaffirmed by American legal scholars and historians for generations5 but is widely ignored by today’s revisionists.
American Presidents (also) Affirm that America is a Christian Nation
Notice a few representative statements on this subject by some of the forty-three previous presidents:
The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were. . . . the general principles of Christianity.7 JOHN ADAMS
[T]he teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally….impossible for us to figure to ourselves what that life would be if these teaching were removed.8 TEDDY ROOSEVELT
America was born a Christian nation – America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scripture.9 WOODROW WILSON
American life is builded, and can alone survive, upon . . . [the] fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago.10 HERBERT HOOVER
This is a Christian Nation.11 HARRY TRUMAN
Let us remember that as a Christian nation . . . we have a charge and a destiny.12 RICHARD NIXON
Today our nation is struggling as Christian influence has diminished. On a national level we are not so much governed by the fear of God as was past generations of Americans. Should the Lord delay his coming the only way we can prolong days of freedom in America is to return to the Lord. Now may we pray . . .
Now look with me at Deuteronomy chapter six, verse one (read 6:1-15):
1Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
2That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
3Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
4Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
5And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
6And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
7And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
8And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
9And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
10And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
11And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
12Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
13Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.
14Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
15(For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
.
It is obvious from this reading Israel’s national prosperity depended on obeying the commands of God. The nation was to love the Lord. They were to fear God and to keep his commandments. In so doing they would secure national prosperity and prolong their days in the land.
America would do well to follow this example. We must beware lest we forget the Lord and serve other gods. Sadly, many within our borders are at war with the concept of the Judeo-Christian ethic upon which the freedoms of the American Republic rests. Thus, since the early 1990s the nation has engaged in an intense culture war that rages on today. Clearly the nation is divided. Today there is no national consensus for civil government upon which Americans are united. This is the fruit of a fundamental change that has occurred in America over the past 100 years or so.
Ed Vitagliano writes, “For well over a century, secular progressives (the ungodly) in the United States have worked tirelessly to alter the very nature of our Republic. In all of the ways that count the most, they have very nearly succeeded. Moreover, they never asked most Americans for permission to do so . . . Like an invasive virus, this new ideology—alien to our Founding Fathers—spread throughout the bloodstream of American power in the early 1900s. Progressive ideas captured not only law schools—producing critical, progressive U.S. Supreme Court decisions by mid-century—but also many Christian seminaries.”
I encourage you to read this booklet (The Progressive Threat to the American Republic). The content of this message will help you discern why we are facing a battle for the future of freedom in America. The better you discern what is going on in America the better equipped you will be to stand up and fight for a free Republic.
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