Monday, November 18, 2013

A Christian, a Communist, and a Socialist...Who comes up with the Best Governmental System

3 men get together to create the world's most perfect governmental system to date. One is a Christian, one is a Socialist, and the other is a Communist. 

They all agree in the distribution of wealth. They believe that those who are rich should help the poor, however they disagree in how to go about it.



The Christian says that they should teach people the principles of Jesus and the Bible. He said that Jesus taught to give in secret and not let your right hand know what your left hand was doing. The Christian pointed to the Bible's command that pure and undefiled religion was to take care of the fatherless and widow. He said that children should be taught to read the Bible and learn Biblical principles of giving and taking care of his fellow man. He said that the rich should be ridiculed if they did not help their fellow man and that days of prayer and fasting should be nation wide for God to bless their new country. In this way there would be very few poor people and those who were poor would be taken care of by people whose hearts were moved by God. The Christian said that each man should provide for himself through the blessings of God and that God would judge those who did not help their neighbor in need. However, he said that the government's job was not to take money from one to give to another.





 The Socialist said that those ideals were all fine and good but he would pass laws that made people give to the poor. He did not like the idea of teaching people the Bible but believed that the goodness of humanity would flow from laws that took money from people by force. He believed that the rich should get richer and then the government would take that money from the rich and redistribute it to those the government deemed worthy. The Socialist believed in creating as many governmental programs as possible because people, in general, are not smart enough or intelligent enough to provide for themselves. The Socialist said people need those in the country who are smarter to tell them how to spend their money. The Socialist said that the government should take care of the needs of the people by regulating them as much as possible.


The Communist told the Christian and the Socialist that they still believed too much in the intelligence of the people to do the right thing on their own or make laws on their own. The Communist believed in going into people's homes and taking their money by force. He said the Socialist did not go far enough by just enacting laws to take people's money but that all homes and land belonged solely to the government and would be dolled out to Comrades close to the party. The Socialist said he would fine or put people in prison if they didn't pay the government what the government demanded but the Communist said that he didn't go far enough. He would kill those who did not give up their land and wealth to the government.






The Socialist said the government would offer to pay for abortions and contraceptives whereas the Communist said he would force women to have abortions and cut men's testicles off. The Christian was appalled at this idea and said that God promised the fruit of the womb as his reward.


Seeing that none of them could see eye to eye, the 3 men went their separate ways.


The ForeFather's Monument in Plymouth, MA, outlines the principles of true freedom

The Christian founded Plymouth, MA and sowed seeds for the first free government in the history of the world. His ideals that Law, Justice, Education, and Morality should all flow from Faith in the Word of God lit a light and birthed the greatest nation in the world. The Christian's government allowed men and women to work their own land without fear of government intrusion. The Christian's country flourished and grew and the Word of God was spread to all. The Christian's government encouraged all to read and write and one, a Mr. John Adams, said that it would be harder to spot a comet then meet an illiterate person. The greatness of the Christian's country has never been matched simply because of the principles taught that men and women should be encouraged to give but not forced, thus keeping a person's wealth in their own hands but making it clear that giving and kindness were not just expected of a Christian citizen, but required by God for His blessings.



French Revolutionary Guillotine

The Socialist went back to Europe where Greece and Iceland went bankrupt and people have very little freedom and liberty. The Socialist set up guillotines and chopped off the heads of wealthy people in a violent revolution. The Socialist country's wealth is distributed by the government and people have little say over when, how, and where their charity is going. The Socialist created a people who look to what the government and others can give them and look to the government to solve all their problems. The government cannot solve all problems, so people are depressed and constantly demanding more and more from a system that has no more to give

The Communist went to Russia, Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea, and China. He set up a government with so little value for human life that he taught his people to use children as a human shield. He trained men and women that their was no god and outlawed all mention of God and Church and the Bible. The Communist went into people's homes and stole everything and put several families in giant apartment buildings and demanded each person do the work the party told them to or die. The Communist taught people to forcibly take men and women and lay them on a table and cut babies out of their wombs and cut their manhood off. The Communist does not just take 40-50% of a person's paycheck, the Communist believes all the work a person does belongs to the state. The Communist does not allow one ounce of freedom of thought but blocks out all outside internet links so that the people eat, think, breathe what the party tells them too. In Communism, no one is allowed to believe and think on Jesus.

Read here about the sadness of one woman's forced abortion



Paul in a letter to Timothy sums up the principle of giving that this country was founded upon. Not everyone will follow it but all should be taught to and many will! :) 

1 Timothy 6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. 8 But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. 9 Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

17 Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. 18 Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. 19 In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life.


America is great. America is free. The real America that is. Socialist and Communistic ideals have crept in and taken away what made this country so great. But I do not fear. You see, we went to Plymouth. I saw the foundation of this country. The lie that is America right now will not stand. Speak the Truth, the Truth will prevail!












Watch this movie and find out where our country started!!!


http://www.christianfilmtrailers.com/kirk-cameron/monumental-movie/

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Saving a country from the corruption of men.

   
                                      Veteran's Day

        All men are Dependent on God  

            The only time a man, woman, or  a country is justified to fight a war is when the cause is just, fair, and they have prayed diligently on their knees before God, free from sin themselves, and they have the conviction of God upon their souls. A person must be  free to volunteer out of a sense of honor, duty, and responsibility before God Only then can  a country  ask  people to fight to the death as in war.





   


The American revolutionary war, the Civil war, war against the Nazis, etc, those were wars with the conviction of God upon the hearts and minds of people.  








      Men and women should not fight because they they will receive an education paid for, or other superficial military benefits. Without the "goodness" of God, without a "good" righteous cause; men and women are just "murders", mercenaries, hired guns.

   




   
        Do not ever trust a man without a sincere devotion to God to save the country or keep his word.  Only someone filled with the power of God can live up to that expectation.  Obama sins because no one has preached to him the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit and convicted him of his sins.

 I think about John the Baptist here and Herod. He told Herod that taking his brother's wife was a sin.

       

               Most American's want to live honest, free,sinless lives. (sinless lives: do not want to take things that don't belong to them, by stealing  lying, falsely accusing others, punishing innocent people; abusing power, position, do not want to have affairs, do not want to disrespect their parents or elders, do not want to murder innocent children through contraceptives or abortion, etc.) But if you are paying taxes you are doing all of the above.

   
        The only road to freedom is in the power of God by preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ:    

   


        Turn from sin, turn to God and you will be free.  You will share in the freedom of the saints. You can live sinless pure, holy, honest lives before God and share with the Saints the blessings of God. God will protect you, lead you and provide for you.

Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. 17 For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”


        God's protection, and provision is there with the his anointing, he will ordain you with power as you preach the Good News of Jesus Christ dying for all men so all men may live free happy healthy lives under God's leadership of the Holy Spirit.  As the gospel is preached God's power to save our souls and heal the country and it's people does manifest itself.


     People will no longer say; "why doesn't God do something, why doesn't God answer my prayers?"  "Why doesn't he heal "Good" people?"  ...Everyone will see miracles as we trust God and preach his Gospel. For healing, health, protection, provision comes from God as we obey and preach the Good news of Jesus Christ.  

       That is where God's power is- in  preaching the "real" Gospel and miracles will happen... (the real gospel is not:: God loves you just the way you are. The real Gospel: is turn from sin, turn from people who sin, God will clean your mind to do sinless GOOD works, instead of works that are full of darkness and sin. God will lead you to sinless holy pure Christian ways of obedience to God's precious Holy sinless Word- the Bible. God will empower you  so you do not sin but turn people from sin to the love of God.


        Just like any Good father God always says :"Be Good", "do the right thing", "tell the truth," "don't steal", "don't lie", "love your brothers and sisters in the Lord", "Treat people good, the way you would want them to treat you", etc.  For God is very good and expects his children to be good also.
Meet with God today!                                                     The Holy Bible will tell you all about him!


Thursday, October 31, 2013

No! You really do not want to practice Halloween.

         
        No. You really do not “want” to participate in Halloween. Why?  You practice the principles of Halloween every day because you were “raped”, forced upon, broken, indoctrinated, lied to against your will.                                                                You didn’t OK this,  they did this  to you  without your permission.

         Halloween is about:

  “Make them do it”!

       
        The Supreme Court practices the principles of Halloween. They force you to believe that you are under their “authority”, “leadership”, they are making you think and do this by using the Technics known to you since childhood “Trick or Treat”.

 Do what they say or they will hurt you.





     
Godly

1. Human Sacrifice.  Abortion is sacrificing the lives of millions of innocent human beings for “the greater Good”, for population control, etc. It is Satanic, witchcraft; to condone and practice Human Sacrifice.

     2. Orgies.  Homosexual marriage is the most defiant sexual practice on the face of the earth. Sexual perversion has always been the center of all false religious cults.  Again this is a satanic principle, It is the philosophy of witches and all other “man made” religions. It is a practice and principle of Halloween.
     
     
Unselfish, personal sacrifice
3. Human Slavery.   Using words, propaganda, manipulation, deception, illusions to put spells on human beings mind's is an act of enslaving the human soul. Mind control, brain washing, and indoctrination are all Halloween principles and practices of Oppressive Regimes, “Kings”, tyrannies, dynasties, empires, governments, organizations.

    




Peace and Prosperity for all of the people. 
   4.Torture:  Good mothers who deeply love their children and want to be with them, protecting their children; raising their children as God planned it:  are tortured and forced into the "work force." When they want to be teaching their children to be "good" people. Children are left  tortuously  lonely and abused in day care centers. Men are tortured by having all their fatherly rights ripped out of their hands and women can kill the children they have fathered.  The IRS tortures people just by it's existence   Men are to work outside, on the farm  or for themselves and are forced into the "work force".   Torture is a practice and principle of Halloween. It  is practiced every day by American's and every day every one suffers.




Pro 29:2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth
rule, the people mourn.

Declaration of Independence:  Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

       Every injustice is an act of practicing Halloween:  “It’s all about ME!”  “If I want it I take it.”  Taking from others, things that do not belong to you, taking from others rights and other things you have not earned by and from God!
 

        Your government practices Halloween principles every day. The school systems practice Halloween Practices every day.  Big business practices Halloween every day.  Many churches practice the principles and philosophy of Halloween every day.

        Example of Christain, Godly principles: Everyone has the right to life, freedom and happiness but you can lose those rights if you abuse your rights  by hurting yourself or someone else’s rights.  Rights that can only be giving by God! He is the Father of all mankind. See below

     
  Halloween philosophies, practices and principles go back to the beginning: Adam and Eve.

  Satan is beguiling mankind to questioning God’s rightful true love, authority and principles.   










Gen 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had
made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in
the garden’?”
Gen 3:2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,
Gen 3:3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the
garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’
Gen 3:4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.
Gen 3:5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be
like God, knowing good and evil.”
Gen 3:6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the
eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave
some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
Gen 3:7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so
they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
Gen 3:8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the
garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the
garden.
Gen 3:9 But the LORD God called to the man, “Where are you?”
Gen 3:10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I
hid.”
Gen 3:11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I
commanded you not to eat from?”
Gen 3:12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the
tree, and I ate it.”
Gen 3:13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman
said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
Gen 3:14 So the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you
above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat
dust all the days of your life.
Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring  and
hers; he will crush  your head, and you will strike his heel.”
Gen 3:16 To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful
labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will
rule over you.”


American children have prayed and read the Holy Bible in schools for 355 years (1607 – 1962), Congress recommended Bibles for America and funded Christian missionaries, the third verse of our national anthem says, “And this be our motto, ‘In God is our trust”.
Join Christians across the USA and declare: The Lord is the God of the USA and we are His people.
George Washington - First President of the United States of America
“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 protection and favor.”
- George Washington
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable.”
- George Washington
We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions…
- George Washington, Thanksgiving Proclamation 1789
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 Thy 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 thy 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 Thee and Thy son, Jesus Christ.
- George Washington, Prayer
True religion affords to government its surest support.
- George Washington
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.
- George Washington (this quote is unconfirmed)
Samuel Adams - Signer of the Declaration of Independence
I … [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.
- Samuel Adams
We have this day [Fourth of July] restored the Sovereign to whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in Heaven, and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His Kingdom come.
- Samuel Adams
The name of the Lord (says the Scripture) is a strong tower; thither the righteous flee and are safe (Proverbs 18:10). Let us secure His favor and He will lead us through the journey of this life and at length receive us to a better.
- Samuel Adams
The rights of the colonists as Christians…may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institutes of the Great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament.
- Samuel Adams
United States Congressional Endorsement of the Bible and God
Congress printed a Bible for America and said:
“The United States in Congress assembled … recommend this edition of the Bible to the inhabitants of the United States … a neat edition of the Holy Scriptures for the use of schools.”
- United States Congress 1782
Congress passed this resolution:
“The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.”
- United States Congress 1782
By Law the United States Congress adds to US coinage:
“In God We Trust”
- United States Congress 1864
John Adams -President of the United States of America, First Vice President, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Signer of the Bill of Rights, and Signer of First Ammendment
The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.
- John Adams
The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.
- John Adams
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.
- John Adams
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
- John Adams
I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.
- John Adams
The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.
- John Adams
[The Fourth of July] ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.
- John Adams
As the safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and the blessing of Almighty God, and the national acknowledgment of this truth is not only an indispensable duty which the people owe to Him.
- John Adams
We recognize no sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus.
- John Adams and John Hancock (uncomfirmed quote)
Abigail Adams - Wife of John Adams
“The Scriptures tell us righteousness exalteth a Nation.”
- Abigail Adams
Patrick Henry - Early America Leader
There is a book [the Bible] worth all the other books ever printed.
- Patrick Henry
It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great Nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
- Patrick Henry (uncomfirmed quote)
John Jay - First Chief-Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is their duty – as well as privilege and interest – of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.
- John Jay
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.
- John Jay
John Hancock – Signer of the Declaration of Independence
…that all may bow to the scepter of our Lord Jesus Christ and that the whole Earth may be filled with his glory.
- John Hancock, as Governor of Massachusetts 1791
We recognize no sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus.
- John Adams and John Hancock (uncomformed quote)
Benjamin Rush, Signer of the Declaration of Independence
“The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.”
- Benjamin Rush
Let the children…be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.
- Benjamin Rush
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion…
- Benjamin Rush
John Witherspoon – Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Continental Congress
“He is the best friend to American liberty, who is most sincere and active in promoting true and undefiled religion, and who sets himself with the greatest firmness to bear down on profanity and immorality of every kind. Whoever is an avowed enemy of God, I scruple not to call him an enemy to his country.”
- John Witherspoon
John Dickinson – Signer Constitution of the USA, Continental Congress
“The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source — from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.”
- John Dickinson
Benjamin Franklin
“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.”
- Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jeferson – President
God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.
- Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson Memorial
The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man
- Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson Memorial
Daniel Webster – Early American Politician
Education is useless without the Bible.
- Daniel Webster
Noah Webster - “Schoolmaster of the Republic”
Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America’s basic text book in all fields. God’s Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.
- Noah Webster
In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed … No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
- Noah Webster, Preface Noah Webster Dictionary, 1828
Joseph Story – Supreme Court Justice
“I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society. 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 its foundations.”
- Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, Harvard Speech, 1829
United States of America National Anthem - Francis Scott Key
“And this be our motto, ‘In God is our trust’”
- USA National Anthem, Third Verse
USA Constitution – First Ammendment
“Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth…”
- US Constitution, Before signature text declaring our Christian Nation
Note: “Year of our Lord” means Jesus Christ is Lord of the USA. (Founding fathers didn’t use year of the Lord)
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion [Christian denomination], or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
- US Constitution, First Ammendment (Christian religious freedom brackets added)
Andrew Jackson – President of the United States of America
“[The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests.”
- Andrew Jackson
Abraham Lincoln – President of the United States of America
In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man’s welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.
- Abraham Lincoln
I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.
- Abraham Lincoln
This nation under God
- Abraham Lincoln, Gettysberg Address and inscribed on Lincoln Memorial
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God … and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
- Abraham Lincoln
Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh. (Matthew 18:7)
- Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Memorial
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
- Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Memorial
Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation…
- Abraham Lincoln
“Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulties.”
- Abraham Lincoln, President, March 4, 1861 inaugural address
United States Supreme Court
“This is a Christian nation”
- United States Supreme Court Decision in Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892
“Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian…This is a Christian nation”
- United States Supreme Court Decision in Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892
Washington Monument
Holiness to the Lord (Exodus 28:26, 30:30, Isaiah 23:18, Zechariah 14:20)
- Washington Monument
Search the Scriptures (John 5:39)
- Washington Monument
The memory of the just is blessed (Proverbs 10:7)
- Washington Monument
May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence
- Washington Monument
In God We Trust
- Washington Monument
“Praise be to God” (engraved on the monument’s capstone in Latin as “Laus Deo”)
- Washington Monument
James Madison – A Primary Author of the Constitution of the United States of America
“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.”
- James Madison
“Religion [is] the basis and foundation of Government”
- James Madison
“Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.”
- James Madison
Northwest Ordinance - July 13, 1787
Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.
- Northwest Ordinance, Article 3
Original Harvard University Student Handbook 1636
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 Christ in the bottom, 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 (Prov. 2.3).
- Original Harvard University Student Handbook
William McGuffy – author of McGuffy Reader, which was used for over 100 years in American schools as the primary textbook
The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our nation, on the 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 this author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible, I make no apology.
- William McGuffy, author of McGuffy Reader
Congress – First Prayer in Congress
O LORD, OUR HEAVENLY FATHER, high and mighty King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, who dost from Thy throne behold all the dwellers on earth, and reignest with power supreme and uncontrolled over all the kingdoms, empires and governments; look down in mercy we beseech Thee, on these American States, who have fled to Thee from the rod of the oppressor, and thrown themselves on Thy gracious protection, desiring henceforth to be dependent only on Thee; to Thee they have appealed for the righteousness of their cause; to Thee do they now look up for that countenance and support which Thou alone canst give; take them, therefore, Heavenly Father, under Thy nurturing care; give them wisdom in council and valor in the field; defeat the malicious design of our cruel adversaries; convince them of the unrighteousness of their cause; and if they persist in their sanguinary purpose, O let the voice of Thy own unerring justice, sounding in their hearts, constrain them to drop the weapons of war from their unnerved hands in the day of battle! Be Thou present, O God of wisdom, and direct the counsels of this honorable assembly; enable them to settle things on the best and surest foundation, that the scene of blood may be speedily closed, that order, harmony and peace may be effectually restored, and truth and justice, religion and piety prevail and flourish among Thy people. Preserve the health of their bodies and vigor of their minds; shower down on them, and the millions they here represent, such temporal blessings as Thou seest expedient for them in this world, and crown them with everlasting glory in the world to come. All this we ask in the name and through the merits of Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Our Savior. Amen.
- First Prayer in Congress September 7, 1774, Jacob Duche, Carpenters Hall, Philadelphia
Calvin Coolidge- President of the United States of America
“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.”
- Calvin Coolidge
Harry S. Truman – President of the United States of America
“The fundamental basis of this Nation’s law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings which we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul.”
- Harry S. Truman
“This Nation was established by men who believed in God. … You will see the evidence of this deep religious faith on every hand.’
- Harry S. Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower – President of the United States of America
“Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the most basic, expression of Americanism. Thus, the founding fathers of America saw it, and thus with God’s help, it will continue to be.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
“I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.”
- Theodore Roosevelt, President
“This is a Christian nation.”
- Harry Truman, President
“[The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
Ronald Reagan – President of the United States of America
Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible.
- Ronald Reagan
Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country, providing them with the strength, character, convictions, and faith necessary to withstand great hardship and danger in this new and rugged land. These shared beliefs helped forge a sense of common purpose among the widely dispersed colonies — a sense of community which laid the foundation for the spirit of nationhood that was to develop in later decades.
- Ronald Reagan
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers’ abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights which they found implicit in the Bible’s teachings of the inherent worth and dignity of each individual. This same sense of man patterned the convictions of those who framed the English system of law inherited by our own Nation, as well as the ideals set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
- Ronald Reagan
For centuries the Bible’s emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such as private charity, the establishment of schools and hospitals, and the abolition of slavery.
- Ronald Reagan
“The Congress of the United States, in recognition of the unique contribution of the Bible in shaping the history and character of this Nation, and so many of its citizens, has by Senate Joint Resolution 165 authorized and requested the President to designate the year 1983 as the ‘Year of the Bible.’”‘
- Ronald Reagan
Inside the Bible’s pages lie the answers to all the problems that mankind has ever known. I hope Americans will read and study the Bible.
- Ronald Reagan