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By Ray Barmore
First off, let me make three things very clear.
It is not my intent to have the Church dominate this great country, but to reinstate Christian principles and guidelines back into the behavior of society. History and current events have demonstrated that when any group of humans establish themselves and their religion as the absolute governing body, it leads to disastrous results. Some examples are (1) The Crusades, (2) Witch Hunts (3) Turkey 1890’s and presently (4) Afghanistan and (5) Iran.
Secondly, there is nothing in the constitution that mentions or even infers any type of separation of the church and state. Concerning religion, the constitution, Article 1 states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” It’s interesting to note that the very next statement is: “or abridging the freedom of speech.” I bring this up because every time an individual is refused the right to mention God, it is actually a violation of both of these components of the first amendment. For example, every time a student or coach is refused the right to pray before a sports game, or to mention God during a school speech, it is a direct violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.
The third thing, if you ask most Americans; what is the purpose of the ACLU, they will state “to enforce the Constitution.” The ACLU is a very liberal organization and therefore their interpretation of the Constitution and the Amendments are very liberal and I don’t believe accurate. It seems that the ACLU believes if you tell enough people the same thing enough times, people will start to believe it, i.e. separation of church and state.
Their website states that they “defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country” including “freedom of speech; association and assembly; freedom of press and freedom of religion.
I don’t see it. In my opinion, they don’t support freedom of speech (restricting student’s and others speech about God); association and assembly (Boy Scouts) and freedom of religion (see above).
This country has numerous examples of our Founding Fathers belief in God and their desire to instill this belief in our government and citizens. Below are several examples of our Founding Fathers and early Presidents’ beliefs and philosophies.
America's Founding Fathers Believed in the Christian Church as part of Everyday Life.
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!
John Quincy Adams
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: that it connected in one indissoluble bond civil government with the principles of Christianity.
Noah Webster
The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
George Washington
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.... No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency ... We ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained.
John Adams
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. So great is my veneration of the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it, the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectful members of society.
Thomas Jefferson
The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty. A student's perusal of the sacred volume will make him a better citizen, a better father, a better husband.
Abraham Lincoln
The Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man . . . But for it we could not know right from wrong.
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.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Andrew Jackson
The Bible is the rock on which our Republic rests.
Ulysses S. Grant
Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts and practice them in your lives. To the influence of this book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
Benjamin Franklin
A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know the price of the rights which God has given them, cannot be enslaved.
Thomas Jefferson
I tremble for my country when I consider that God is just and his justice cannot sleep forever.
Theodore Roosevelt
In this actual world, a churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoff at, or ignore their Christian duties, is a community on the rapid downgrade.
Woodrow Wilson
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
Fisher Ames
Don’t allow the Bible to be pushed out of the classroom.
Benjamin Rush
Wrote an article stating that if we ever removed the Bible from the classroom, we would have an explosion of crime.
How then, have we gotten to the point that everything we had done for the first 200 years in this country is now suddenly wrong and unconstitutional?
