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Forsaken Roots

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My parents gave me this to read. This is one article out of the September 2008 The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor. I don't know if this article can be found online or not, but I feel it is so interesting and worth sharing, and so I typed the whole thing out! *lol*


VII Final Thoughts: Our Forsaken Roots


In America today, Christians, their faith and the principles of the Bible are denigrated; prayer to the God of the Bible in schools, in public, or in the workplace is outlawed; and to read in public certain parts of the Bible dealing with immoral behavior is considered to be a "hate crime."

Liberals have pushed the God of the Bible out of the public arena, and most Americans have drifted away from or never known Him and His Son, Jesus Christ. As a result, our country has gone into a moral, cultural, economic and political free fall which is now accelerating dramatically. Anger and hatred for Christians and the Biblical principles they espouse is actually rising rapidly in America today.

In these times, the faith of our Founding Fathers and how far we, as a nation, have moved away from those Biblical roots, is worth reflecting on. [The following was written (or compiled) by David Gillis.]

Did you know that 52 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence were orthodox, deeply committed Christians? The other four all believed in the Bible as divine truth, and in the God of scripture and His personal intervention.

Immediately after creating the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress voted to purchase and import 20,000 Bibles for the people of this nation.

Patrick Henry, who is called the firebrand of the American Revolution, is still remembered for his words, "Give me liberty or give me death." But in current textbooks the context of these words is deleted. Here is what he said: "An appeal to arms and the God of hosts is all that is left us. But we shall not fight our battle alone; there is a just God that presides over the destinies of nations. The battle sir, is not of the strong alone. 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 other may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death."

Was Patrick Henry a Christian? These are the words he wrote shortly before his death: "I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give to them, and that is the Christian religion. If they had that and I had not given them one cent, they would be rich. If they have not that, and I had given them the world, they would be poor."

Consider these words from George Washington, the Father of our Nation, in his farewell speech on September 19, 1796: "It is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible. Of all the dispositions and habits that lead to political prosperity, our religion and morality are the indispensable supporters. Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that our national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."

Was George Washington a Christian? Consider these words from his personal prayer book: "Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the lamb and purge my heart by the Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me more and more in the likeness of thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in thy fear, and dying in thy favor, I may in the appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto eternal life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind and let the world be filled with the knowledge of thy son, Jesus Christ."

Consider these words by John Adams, our second president, who also served as chairman of the American Bible Society. In an address to military leaders he said, "We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and true religion. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religion people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

How about our first Supreme Court Justice, John Jay? He stated that when we select our national leaders, if we are to preserve our nation, we must select Christians. "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 Quincy Adams, son of John Adams, was the sixth U.S. President. He was also the chairman of the American Bible Society, which he considered his highest and most important role. On July 4, 1821, President Adams said: "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."

Calvin Coolidge, our 30th President of the United States, reaffirmed this truth when he wrote, "The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country." In 1782, the United States Congress voted this resolution: "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools."

William Holmes McGuffey: "The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our notions on character of God, on the great moral Governor of the universe. On its doctrines are founded the peculiarities of our free institutions. From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology."

Of the first 108 universities founded in America, 106 were distinctly Christian, including the first, Harvard University, chartered in 1636. In the original Harvard Student Handbook rule number 1 was that students seeking entrance must know Latin and Greek so that they could study the scriptures.

"Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life, John 17:3, and therefore to lay Jesus Christ as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning. And seeing the Lord only giveth wisdom, let everyone seriously set himself by prayer in secret to seek it of him (Proverbs 2:3)." For over 100 years, more than 50% of all Harvard graduates were pastors!

It is clear from history that the Bible and the Christian faith were foundational in our educational and judicial system. However, in 1948, there was a radical change of direction in the Supreme Court.

It required ignoring every precedent of Supreme Court ruling for the prior 160 years. The Supreme Court ruled in a limited way to affirm a wall of separation between church and state in the public classroom. In the coming years, this led to removing prayer from public schools in 1962. Here is the prayer that was banished: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence on Thee. We beg Thy blessings upon us and our parents and our teachers and our country. Amen."

In 1963, the Supreme Court ruled that Bible reading was outlawed as unconstitutional in the public school system. The court offered this justification: "If portions of the New Testament were read without explanation, they could and have been psychologically harmful to children." Bible reading in public schools then became unconstitutional, though the Bible was quoted 94% of the time by those who wrote our constitution and shaped our nation and its system of education and justice and government.

In 1965, the Courts denied as unconstitutional the rights of a student in the public school cafeteria to bow his head and pray audibly for his food. In 1980, Stone vs. Graham outlawed the Ten Commandments in our public schools. The Supreme Court said this: "If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments were to have any effect at all, it would be to induce school children to read them. And if they read them, meditated upon them, and perhaps venerated and observed them, this is not a permissible objective."

Is it not a permissible objective to allow our children to follow the moral principles of the Ten Commandments? James Madison, the primary author of the Constitution of the United States, said this: "We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments."

Today we are asking God to bless America. But how can He bless a Nation that has departed so far from Him? As we continue to turn from our nation's Biblical roots; deny them; and substitute for them the gods of money, pleasure, sexuality, etc., the moral, cultural, economic, financial, and political freefall we are in as a country will continue. And that is the bottom line!
 

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Absolutely excellent. I have been researching our founders quotes for some time on the internet and I have not come across any decent reference. I don't know where you found this information but it is lost to the majority of people in this country. And if you should mention that this is the truth many will get angry with indignant disbelief. Instead of searching for the truth it would appear that most people are comfortable with denial and delusion. Such is life apart from Christ, the truth the resurrection and the life. There is no life apart from Christ and anyone apart from Christ can only fail, even if they can't see that, still it is the truth.

I must say that the insanity that purports such lies against Christ as to deny all this mountain of evidence makes me very angry. It is something that I fight against on a very regular basis. I don't think our father God is very thrilled about all of these lies either. However I am certain that satan revels in this grand deception. Still I know that God is in control and if even one of us stands up He can bring this nation back to its senses. However we are in His hands no matter what the world may say or do and I pray that His will be done. Whether here on when we face God in the next life each of us will answer for what we have done. Some of us will be granted the grace and mercy we don't deserve. Others will reap judgement only because they rejected the truth and Gods son Jesus. Whether people believe this or not doesn't even matter. God said it and our belief one way or the other will not change what God has said will be. In the end the words of God will come true and every knee shall bow and every toungue confess that Jesus Christ is lord. Willingly or unwillingly all shall confess the truth in the end. I find comfort in that despite the lies of this world. And my hope here is that my brothers and sisters will stand in the face of all adversity clinging to Christ and never ever denying the truth that is Christ Jesus.

Sealacamp
 
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Absolutely excellent. I have been researching our founders quotes for some time on the internet and I have not come across any decent reference. I don't know where you found this information but it is lost to the majority of people in this country.

Did you want to know?

The info came from a newsletter:
The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor
P.O. BOX 84904
Phoenix, Arizona 85071

Phone number is: 1-800-528-0559
Email: mcalvany@publishers-mgmt.com

Further study into our founders quotes etc...can be found in a book a friend referred me to called: "THE PATRIOT'S HANDBOOK", EDITED BY GEORGE GRANT.

My friend also sent me this review of the book:


REVIEW BY: W.J. RAYMENT (below)

Anthologies of the patriotic writings of our greatest statesmen and authors were at one time a part of every American's personal library. These well-thumbed volumes contained all the information vital to good citizenship, the U.S. Constitution, speeches and articles written by the Founding Fathers, biographies of all the President's and the patriotic poetry that so ably reflected the citizen's feeling for his country.

Collections such as these seem to have faded into the American past, leaving a great void in the education of the modern citizen. "The Patriot's Handbook: A Citizenship Primer for a New Generation of Americans" moves in to fill the void. This is a quality work. With selections from Jefferson, Washington, Madison, Lincoln, Ronald Reagan and others, the editor, George Grant could hardly go wrong.

The selection of poetry is one that will please enthusiasts, with old standards such as "Paul Revere's Ride", by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and all the verses to the "Star Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott Key. It also contains "John Burns of Gettysburg", a humorous poem about an old Pennsylvania Farmer who fought in the Union ranks when Robert E. Lee and his Confederate Army over-ran his homestead. This work was recently featured in Military History Quarterly. There is also inspiring poetry, once popular, that is seldom seen in today's anti-patriotic environment.

Mr. Grant's collection of biographies of the Presidents begins with 15 men who are forgotten in the annals of American History, men who became Presidents of the United States before the acceptance of the Constitution. (They were elected under the Articles of Confederation, etc.) These include such luminaries as John Hancock and Henry Laurens (who had been held prisoner by the British during the Revolution and was finally released in a dramatic exchange for Lord Cornwallis). The biographies included in this volume are short, concise and loaded with interesting tid bits.

Mr. Grant includes the important founding documents that are seldom reviewed today, The Articles of Confederation, The Constitution of the Confederate States and the Northwest Ordinance. These documents form some of the basis of American legal and constitutional thought. The Bill of Rights and all of the Amendments to the Constitution receive their due.

The "Handbook" is broken up into four sections. It covers the founding of the country from The Viking's discoveries and Columbus's Voyages, through the arrival of the Pilgrims and runs up to the Revolutionary Period. The second section is called, "An Experiment in Liberty". It reviews the founding of the American Government. The third section, "Manifest Destiny" carries the reader through the Civil War. The final section, "The American Dream" covers modern times, with selections from H. L. Mencken, Woodrow Wilson, George C. Marshall and more.

Mr. Grant's selections for the final section are interesting. He has shown that he is not afraid of controversy by including the text of the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade, the supreme court decision that legalized abortion. His inclusion of another supreme court case, Brown v. The Board of Education demonstrates the prominent role judicial activism has taken in the formation of modern America. His final selection is the Lincoln Day speech of Alan Keyes that seems to sum up the tenor and thrust of this book:

"At every point in our history when we have had the choice between right and wrong, in the end we have chosen what is right. For that we can certainly be grateful. I believe we shall do it again. I believe we shall do it again because deep down we know that the real heroes in America are those who, in their families and in their daily lives, respect the truth that we must meet the obligations and sacrifices of freedom before we claim its privileges and benefits. Deep down we know that come what may--even if it means that we must sacrifice in our personal lives--we have to stand where our Founders stood: on the belief that no one has the right to do what is wrong, that if we build self-government on a true adherence to the principles of justice, then we shall hold up a beacon of right and hope for all of humankind to understand the true destiny of mankind."

This is a work that should not merely sit on the shelf of every American Citizen, it should be taken up and studied. Thumb prints and dog ears are the badges of a vital work and "The Patriot's Handbook" deserves a breast full.
 
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Absolutely excellent. I have been researching our founders quotes for some time on the internet and I have not come across any decent reference. I don't know where you found this information but it is lost to the majority of people in this country. And if you should mention that this is the truth many will get angry with indignant disbelief. Instead of searching for the truth it would appear that most people are comfortable with denial and delusion. Such is life apart from Christ, the truth the resurrection and the life. There is no life apart from Christ and anyone apart from Christ can only fail, even if they can't see that, still it is the truth.

I must say that the insanity that purports such lies against Christ as to deny all this mountain of evidence makes me very angry. It is something that I fight against on a very regular basis. I don't think our father God is very thrilled about all of these lies either. However I am certain that satan revels in this grand deception. Still I know that God is in control and if even one of us stands up He can bring this nation back to its senses. However we are in His hands no matter what the world may say or do and I pray that His will be done. Whether here on when we face God in the next life each of us will answer for what we have done. Some of us will be granted the grace and mercy we don't deserve. Others will reap judgement only because they rejected the truth and Gods son Jesus. Whether people believe this or not doesn't even matter. God said it and our belief one way or the other will not change what God has said will be. In the end the words of God will come true and every knee shall bow and every toungue confess that Jesus Christ is lord. Willingly or unwillingly all shall confess the truth in the end. I find comfort in that despite the lies of this world. And my hope here is that my brothers and sisters will stand in the face of all adversity clinging to Christ and never ever denying the truth that is Christ Jesus.

Sealacamp


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Absolutely excellent. I have been researching our founders quotes for some time on the internet and I have not come across any decent reference. I don't know where you found this information but it is lost to the majority of people in this country. And if you should mention that this is the truth many will get angry with indignant disbelief. Instead of searching for the truth it would appear that most people are comfortable with denial and delusion. Such is life apart from Christ, the truth the resurrection and the life. There is no life apart from Christ and anyone apart from Christ can only fail, even if they can't see that, still it is the truth.

I must say that the insanity that purports such lies against Christ as to deny all this mountain of evidence makes me very angry. It is something that I fight against on a very regular basis. I don't think our father God is very thrilled about all of these lies either. However I am certain that satan revels in this grand deception. Still I know that God is in control and if even one of us stands up He can bring this nation back to its senses. However we are in His hands no matter what the world may say or do and I pray that His will be done. Whether here on when we face God in the next life each of us will answer for what we have done. Some of us will be granted the grace and mercy we don't deserve. Others will reap judgement only because they rejected the truth and Gods son Jesus. Whether people believe this or not doesn't even matter. God said it and our belief one way or the other will not change what God has said will be. In the end the words of God will come true and every knee shall bow and every toungue confess that Jesus Christ is lord. Willingly or unwillingly all shall confess the truth in the end.
I find comfort in that despite the lies of this world. And my hope here is that my brothers and sisters will stand in the face of all adversity clinging to Christ and never ever denying the truth that is Christ Jesus.

Sealacamp
:amen: :amen:

God's will WILL be done - on earth as it is in heaven. That is my prayer & petition.
And in fact, as I read prophecy, even as they advance and push for more evil and silence the voice of God in this world, they're still fulfilling His very Word spoken that it will come to pass.

I don't know whether this will be the election liberalism waves its flag in victory or if it will be the next one - but it's coming very soon if not already here.

In any case, the world is heading towards fulfilling God's prophetic word - He will have the last word and judge every soul and every sin and reign triumphantly forever.
:amen:

Soli Deo Gloria
 
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Absolutely excellent. I have been researching our founders quotes for some time on the internet and I have not come across any decent reference. I don't know where you found this information but it is lost to the majority of people in this country. And if you should mention that this is the truth many will get angry with indignant disbelief. Instead of searching for the truth it would appear that most people are comfortable with denial and delusion. Such is life apart from Christ, the truth the resurrection and the life. There is no life apart from Christ and anyone apart from Christ can only fail, even if they can't see that, still it is the truth.

I must say that the insanity that purports such lies against Christ as to deny all this mountain of evidence makes me very angry. It is something that I fight against on a very regular basis. I don't think our father God is very thrilled about all of these lies either. However I am certain that satan revels in this grand deception. Still I know that God is in control and if even one of us stands up He can bring this nation back to its senses. However we are in His hands no matter what the world may say or do and I pray that His will be done. Whether here on when we face God in the next life each of us will answer for what we have done. Some of us will be granted the grace and mercy we don't deserve. Others will reap judgement only because they rejected the truth and Gods son Jesus. Whether people believe this or not doesn't even matter. God said it and our belief one way or the other will not change what God has said will be. In the end the words of God will come true and every knee shall bow and every toungue confess that Jesus Christ is lord. Willingly or unwillingly all shall confess the truth in the end. I find comfort in that despite the lies of this world.

And my hope here is that my brothers and sisters will stand in the face of all adversity clinging to Christ and never ever denying the truth that is Christ Jesus.

Sealacamp



Oh man, I am sitting here with tears in my eyes after reading this. THANK YOU for posting this, just what I needed to read, I am so disappointed and heavy hearted over that stoopid atheist bus campaign in London, but this has lifted me just when I needed it. God is good.


Thank you Sealacamp.

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