Some years ago, I was interviewed by a TV station about the issue of abortion. I had been matched up with a representative of Planned Parenthood; and after the interview, I happened to ride down the elevator with the woman who was my opponent.
I mentioned that Christianity was part of our Constitution, and she shot back: “Christianity is not in the Constitution!”
Well, she got me there; and I had to do some catch-up reading. It’s true that Christianity is not in the Constitution (unless of course you include the date at the very end, which says “in the Year of our Lord….”) It’s true that Article VI states that “no religious Test shall ever be required” as a qualification to any office or public trust.
They Brought the Persecution With Them
But there’s more to it. As every schoolboy knows, one of the main reasons why the Pilgrims (and many other immigrants in later years) came to the New World was to escape religious persecution. But the early settlers brought with them the same persecution from their homeland. For example, the Puritan fathers of Massachusetts Bay Colony ran a theocracy and did not tolerate those of other religions. And in various places, Baptists, Catholics, and Congregationalists were either prohibited from holding public office, driven from the area, or just plain executed.
We’ve got to fix this, thought the Founders of our country. Madison and Jefferson were among those who shaped the idea that the government should not officially support any “sect” of Christianity. This thinking went into the writing of the Constitution, and thus Christianity was not promoted in that document. But the Founders certainly did not have in mind some kind of atheist utopia, where our civic leaders abandon all moral direction or support of Christianity.
Chocolate Cake Argument
A closer look at our governing ethos certainly shows Christianity as an essential part. The Declaration of Independence, for example, has several references to God. The document appeals to the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” and that all men are “endowed by their Creator” with unalienable rights (attention, Mr. Obama: this phrase is really here). At the end, it asks for “a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence….”
The Smithsonian Institute, in a recent article, describes America as a “secular republic.” This phrase, however, doesn’t do justice to our form of government any more than a list of ingredients in a cookbook make up a chocolate cake. In baking a cake, there is also action and good will, with the purpose of making something that is both good and pleasing. There is a person behind the baking of a cake. And there are people and a purpose behind the acting out of our government.
Yank Christianity Out of Government
You can’t yank Christianity out of our government any more than you can yank the soul out of a man and still call him a man. Has our government recognized Christianity? You bet. Just look at the credit in granite given to Christianity and the moral laws in our monuments and public buildings in Washington, D.C. Take a look at the newly-released Sons of Liberty Radio YouTube video that shows impressive footage of Bible quotes and presidential mentions of God and Christianity in our nation’s capital. (Disclosure: Sons of Liberty Radio partners with our firm, TreeFrogClick). Bet you didn’t know that there were tiny Bible verses engraved into the walls of the Washington monument. Or that carved into the cornerstone of the wings of the Capitol building is the speech of Daniel Webster, which culminates in the words:
And all here assembled … with hearts devotedly thankful to Almighty God for the preservation of the liberty and happiness of this country, unite in sincere and fervent prayers that this deposit, and the walls and arches, the domes and the towers, the columns and the entablatures now to be erected over it may endure forever.
So where is the true America? Its guiding principles are in its soul — in Christianity.
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Speaking of Christianity, there is an old saying “You find an atheist in a foxhole”.
America was founded on Christian Theory and principals creating Tort laws…not on one religion or any specific God. We had the right to believe or not to believe. But the religious still hold that God is to rule everyone and everything. God by his own code never does anything and can’t do anything we are on our own. The religious inbitting of religion is unreal. Take any religion and put it in power and see what the other religions do. That is why the founders wanted religion out of the government. We were to be “free” from religious persecutions yet to this day we still suffer it…
Leave religion and mythological Gods in the Churches and let those that wish to study or believe in fairy tales go there to do what ever it is they wish to do. All the magic worship and blood drinking voodoo belongs in churches not in government.
Government law is by necessity for commerce and protection and should not infringe with moral judgements and we have far to much of that now pluging up our courts and jails. The rule of law was created from rational thoughts and empirical social testing needs to protect society. The constitution and laws of Tort are the books of social order for people not Gods. A book of mythology is not and never will be found in a law library or used as case law in courts.
We need to get religion out of every level of government.
There is only One true God (Jesus Christ)! The rest are gods. You are a fool! (The Bible tells me so)! Without the moral laws given in the Bible, there would be no law at all. (Just look at Obama and his lack of moral convictions to see how depraved man can be!) I suspect you are one of his worshippers.
We would be in fantastic shape now if it weren’t for atheist,communist,marxist and people like the one above! You take God out,the morals go,love goes,respect goes and all of the good things of life.
You cannot exist like a real human being without the love of your fellow man and GOD!
Look at the greedy,selfish,immoral,vile,vulgar,power hungry scum we have in the WH now. They will finish doing us in if we let them keep it up.
The communist have been too busy in the background for way too many years now and they are slithering out from under their rocks ! They have the perfect despicable puppet to help push us over the brink!
Ovomit may be able to take God out of everything he touches and forces on us,but he will NEVER be able to take God out of our hearts!!!
GOD DAMN them all before they destroy this once great nation! We need God so very,very much to make it happen!
Sorry, That sould have read “you WON’T find an atheist in a fox hole”
Without the mention of Jesus “Christ”, how does it make these quotes etc. “Christian”! God or ‘god’ comes in many forms, and does not necessarily mean it’s Christian. Our country was based on Christianity with the Pilgrims and Puritans, but the Revolutionary Founders were not for the most part Christian, but most were Freemasons. It is because of “Freedom of Religion” ANY form of ‘religion’ can be practiced, including Satanisn, Atheism, Islam, Freemasonry, Buddism etc. If the writers’ of the Constitution truly wanted this to be a Judeo-Christian nation it would have been easy to include it in the document. Unfortunately, they did not!
As a college prof.once said to me,” You can take religion out of government, but you can not take God out of government..”
You know, people made fun of and are still making fun of Glenn Beck…. but one thing for sure… everything he has said has come true.. but the masses refused to believe it… so we have no one but ourselves to blame…