Our Country's REAL Christian Roots

Did you know that  52 of the 55 signers of
The Declaration of Independence were orthodox,
deeply committed Christians?
The other three all believed in the Bible as  the divine truth,
the God of scripture, and His personal intervention.  

  It is the same congress that formed 
the American Bible Society.
Immediately after creating the  
Declaration of Independence,
the Continental Congress voted to purchase
and import 20,000 copies of scripture 
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 others may take,
but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.'  
These sentences have been erased from our textbooks.

Was Patrick Henry a Christian? 
The following year, 1776, he wrote this:
 'It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often
that this great nation was founded not by religionists,
but by Christians; not on religion, 
but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
For that reason alone,
people of other faiths have been 
afforded freedom of worship here.'

Consider these  words that Thomas Jefferson wrote 

on the front of his well-worn Bible:  

'I  am a Christian, 
that is to say a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus.
I  have little doubt that our whole country 
will soon be rallied to the unity of our Creator and,
I hope, to the pure doctrine of Jesus also.'  

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 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 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 religious people.
It is wholly inadequate to the 
government of any other.'  

How about our first 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 is the author 
of the McGuffey Reader,
which was used for over 100 years in our public schools 

with over 125 million copies sold until it was stopped in 1963.
President Lincoln called him the 'Schoolmaster of the Nation.'

  Listen to these  words of Mr. 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 one 
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 1947, there was a radical 

change of direction in the Supreme Court. 

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 was now 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?

Most  of what you read in this article 

has been erased from our textbooks.
Revisionists have rewritten history 

to remove the truth about our country's Christian roots.
I, Mary Jones, the designer of this web page,  

encourage all who read and agree with the words herein, 

to share it with others, so that the truth 

of our nation's history may be told.

The original web site that this came from 

is no longer available.

But we know it was done by:

Mary Jones.


May 2008