Our Christian Founding Fathers

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 actually 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 to 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 religions, 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 real
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 " 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 Statesreaffirmed 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 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 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 for 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? Prior to September 11, He was not
welcome in America. 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.