The Christian America

The Truth of The Christian America

The lies of liberal progressives have permeated our society and our culture to such an extent that Christians living in America today often submit to the idea that The United States of America was not founded as a Christian nation.  Even more so that the founding fathers never intended it to be so.

It is the purpose of this writing to expose the truth about our nation, the intent of it’s founding fathers and the lies of revisionist history.  Naturally we can not, at this time anyway post all of the available materials which stand to support the claim that America always was and still is, like it or not, a Christian nation!

Before I begin I’d like to publicly claim that I love what I love about America is what it was intended to be and not what it has become.  I believe that this nation grew from a fledgling nation to a world power faster than any other nation in recorded history because it, as a Christian nation, received the blessings of Almighty God and for no other reason. I also believe that because America, as a nation, has turned her back on God, that He has removed His lamp stand and His blessings.  All that remains of God in America is His light which can be seen in His children who inhabit this land.

Founding America

Mayflower Compact
November 11, 1620

In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the Faith, etc.

Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.

In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, 1620

Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776

The Unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united* States of America.

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness — That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed.

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 The First Lie
America was Never Intended to be a Christian Nation

Anyone who has reviewed early American documentation, including pee-colonial documents such as the first charters know that the early settlers all had a profound belief, reverence and dedication to the judeo christian God of Abraham Issac and Jacob.   Secondly it is also obvious that the people of the day were coming to America to escape the religious persecution they were suffering under the Anglican Church in England.

The liberal revisionist historians have redefined the idea of  escaping religious persecution to include other religions.  This is a deliberate distortion of history because anyone who has studied American history knows that 98% of those who migrated here were judeo  Christians.  These people came here for the liberty to practice, for lack of a better term, their brand of Christianity.  They did not come here to practice other religions they came to establish a free Christian nation.

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The Second Lie
The Christian Founders Were Deists!

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I . . . recommend my Soul to that Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.

Will of Samuel Adams

On the mercy of my Redeemer I rely for salvation and on His merits; not on the works I have done in obedience to His precepts.

From an autographed letter in our possession written by Charles Carroll to Charles W. Wharton, Esq., on September 27, 1825, from Doughoragen, Maryland.

Sensible of my mortality, but being of sound mind, after recommending my soul to Almighty God through the merits of my Redeemer and my body to the earth . . .

Will of William Cushing

Rendering thanks to my Creator for my existence and station among His works, for my birth in a country enlightened by the Gospel and enjoying freedom, and for all His other kindnesses, to Him I resign myself, humbly confiding in His goodness and in His mercy through Jesus Christ for the events of eternity.

Will of John Dickinson

I John Hancock, . . . being advanced in years and being of perfect mind and memory-thanks be given to God-therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing it is appointed for all men once to die [Hebrews 9:27], do make and ordain this my last will and testament…Principally and first of all, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it: and my body I recommend to the earth . . . nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mercy and power of God. . .

Will of John Hancock

This is all the inheritance I can give to my dear family. The religion of Christ can give them one which will make them rich indeed.

Will of Patrick Henry

Unto Him who is the author and giver of all good, I render sincere and humble thanks for His manifold and unmerited blessings, and especially for our redemption and salvation by His beloved son. He has been pleased to bless me with excellent parents, with a virtuous wife, and with worthy children. His protection has companied me through many eventful years, faithfully employed in the service of my country; His providence has not only conducted me to this tranquil situation but also given me abundant reason to be contented and thankful. Blessed be His holy name!

Will of John Jay

In the name of God, Amen. I, Daniel of Saint Thomas Jenifer . . . of dispossing mind and memory, commend my soul to my blessed Redeemer. . .

Will of Daniel St. Thomas Jenifer

First, I think it proper to express my unshaken opinion of the immortality of my soul or mind; and to dedicate and devote the same to the supreme head of the Universe – to that great and tremendous Jehovah, – Who created the universal frame of nature, worlds, and systems in number infinite . . . To this awfully sublime Being do I resign my spirit with unlimited confidence of His mercy and protection . . .

Will of Henry Knox

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In the name of God, Amen. I, John Langdon, . . . considering the uncertainty of life and that it is appointed unto all men once to die [Hebrews 9:27], do make, ordain and publish this my last will and testament in manner following, that is to say-First: I commend my soul to the infinite mercies of God in Christ Jesus, the beloved Son of the Father, who died and rose again that He might be the Lord of the dead and of the living . . . professing to believe and hope in the joyful Scripture doctrine of a resurrection to eternal life . . .

Will of John Langdon

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With an awful reverence to the great Almighty God, Creator of all mankind, I, John Morton . . . being sick and weak in body but of sound mind and memory-thanks be given to Almighty God for the same, for all His mercies and favors-and considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the times thereof, do, for the settling of such temporal estate as it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life . . .

Will of John Morton

I desire to bless and praise the name of God most high for appointing me my birth in a land of Gospel Light where the glorious tidings of a Savior and of pardon and salvation through Him have been continually sounding in mine ears.

Robert Treat Paine, The Papers of Robert Treat Paine, Stephen Riley and Edward Hanson, editors (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1992), Vol. I, p. 48, March/April, 1749.

[W]hen I consider that this instrument contemplates my departure from this life and all earthly enjoyments and my entrance on another state of existence, I am constrained to express my adoration of the Supreme Being, the Author of my existence, in full belief of his providential goodness and his forgiving mercy revealed to the world through Jesus Christ, through whom I hope for never ending happiness in a future state, acknowledging with grateful remembrance the happiness I have enjoyed in my passage through a long life. . .

Will of Robert Treat Paine

To the eternal, immutable, and only true God be all honor and glory, now and forever, Amen!. . .

Will of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

[F]irst, I give my soul to a holy, sovereign God Who gave it in humble hope of a blessed immortality through the atonement and righteousness of Jesus Christ and the sanctifying grace of the Holy Spirit. My body I commit to the earth to be buried in a decent Christian manner. I fully believe that this body shall, by the mighty power of God, be raised to life at the last day; ‘for this corruptable (sic) must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality.’ [I Corinthians 15:53]

Will of Rufus Putnam

My only hope of salvation is in the infinite, transcendent love of God manifested to the world by the death of His Son upon the cross. Nothing but His blood will wash away my sins. I rely exclusively upon it. Come, Lord Jesus! Come quickly!

Benjamin Rush, The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush, George Corner, editor (Princeton: Princeton University Press for the American Philosophical Society, 1948), p. 166, Travels Through Life, An Account of Sundry Incidents & Events in the Life of Benjamin Rush.

I believe that there is one only living and true God, existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. . . . that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are a revelation from God. . . . that God did send His own Son to become man, die in the room and stead of sinners, and thus to lay a foundation for the offer of pardon and salvation to all mankind so as all may be saved who are willing to accept the Gospel offer.

Lewis Henry Boutell, The Life of Roger Sherman (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Company, 1896), pp. 272-273.

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I think it proper here not only to subscribe to the entire belief of the great and leading doctrines of the Christian religion, such as the Being of God, the universal defection and depravity of human nature, the divinity of the person and the completeness of the redemption purchased by the blessed Savior, the necessity of the operations of the Divine Spirit, of Divine Faith, accompanied with an habitual virtuous life, and the universality of the divine Providence, but also . . . that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom; that the way of life held up in the Christian system is calculated for the most complete happiness that can be enjoyed in this mortal state; that all occasions of vice and immorality is injurious either immediately or consequentially, even in this life; that as Almighty God hath not been pleased in the Holy Scriptures to prescribe any precise mode in which He is to be publicly worshiped, all contention about it generally arises from want of knowledge or want of virtue.

Will of Richard Stockton

Principally and first of all, I bequeath my soul to God the Creator and Giver thereof, and body to the Earth . . . nothing doubting but that I shall receive the same again at the General Resurrection thro the power of Almighty God; believing and hoping for eternal life thro the merits of my dear, exalted Redeemer Jesus Christ.

Will of Jonathan Trumbul

I entreat you in the most earnest manner to believe in Jesus Christ, for there is no salvation in any other [Acts 4:12]. . . . [I]f you are not reconciled to God through Jesus Christ, if you are not clothed with the spotless robe of His righteousness, you must forever perish.

John Witherspoon, The Works of John Witherspoon (Edinburgh: J. Ogle, 1815), Vol. V, pp. 276, 278, The Absolute Necessity of Salvation Through Christ, January 2, 1758.

 These just a few examples of the hundreds upon hundreds of documents which prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that these men were Christians and not deists as revisionist historians would have you believe.

There are countless numbers of hand written letters, both personal and official which not only declare America to be a “Christian” nation and that men like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and the men above, to name a few were indeed Christian men.

American Schools & Universities

Schools were originally created in America for the soul purpose to teach people to read so that they could read their bibles.  Eventually writing and mathematics were added but at first reading was taught in homes using the bible.

Question: Who founded the institutes of higher learning in America?
Christian Ministers!  It is a fact that 106 of the first 108 schools in America were founded on “Christian” faith.

Question: What did they Believe?

Harvard College
The mottos of Harvard were:
For the Glory of Christ
For Christ and the Church.

The word Veritas, on the college seal, means “Divine truth”.

Princeton University
Princeton University’s motto was:
Under God’s Power She Flourishes.

Princeton’s seal consisted of a seated woman and written above her head the Hebrew Tetragrammaton name of God, YHVH. The Latin motto inscribed across the top is Psalm 36:10, “In Thy light we see light.” The Hebrew phrase Uri El, which is written on a ribbon, alludes to Psalm 27:1 “God is my light.” Under the woman’s feet is inscribed the scripture, I PET.II.1-2, admonishing students to desire of the pure milk of God’s Word.

Brown University
The motto of Brown University stated:
In Deo Speramus (In God We Trust).

Rutgers University
In 1776, inspired by the motto of the University of Utrecht, Netherlands, which was “Son of Righteousness, Shine upon Us”, Rutgers University chose for its official motto:

Son of Righteousness, Shine upon the West Also.

American University
Pro deo et patria – For God and Country

 Brown University
In deo speramus – In God We Hope

Colgate University
Deo ac Veritati – For God and for Truth

Columbia UniversityIn lumine Tuo videbimus lumen – In Thy light shall we see light

Dartmouth College
Vox clamantis in deserto – The voice of one crying in the wilderness

 Duke University
Eruditio et Religio – Erudition and Religion

 George Washington University
Deus Nobis Fiducia – In God Our Trust

Again this is a partial list of the “secular” schools in America who to this say carry with them a motto which claims a faith even more so their roots in Christianity.

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The First Congress and the First Bible 

In 1777, about a year after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the American colonies were suffering under the embargoes imposed by the British. Among the important commodities that were in short supply were Bibles. This shortage of Bibles at such a critical time prompted a request to be placed before Congress to print or import more. A committee was appointed to study the situation, and then reported to Congress that:

“… the use of the Bible is so universal, and its importance so great… your Committee recommend that Congress will order the Committee of Commerce to import 20,000 Bibles from Holland, Scotland or elsewhere, into the different ports of the States of the Union.”

Congress agreed with the committee’s recommendation and ordered the Bibles to be imported.

As the Revolution continued, the shortage of Bibles remained a problem. In an effort to resolve the problem, in 1781, Robert Aitken, the publisher of The Pennsylvania Magazine, petitioned Congress for permission to print the Bibles on his presses here in America rather than import them. His request stated that his Bibles would be an “edition of the Holy Scriptures for the use of schools.” Congress approved his request, and appointed a committee to oversee the project.

As work to begin printing Bible neared completion, the chairman of the Congressional committee reported to Congress:

“He [Robert Aitken] undertook this expensive work at a time when from the circumstances of the war an English edition of the Bible could not be imported, nor any opinion formed how long the obstruction might continue. On this account particularly he deserves applause and encouragement.”

In 1782, the full Congress approved the Bible, and printing began. This Bible became the first English Bible ever printed in America, and in the front of that Bible was the Congressional endorsement:

“Whereupon, Resolved, That the United States in Congress assembled… recommend this edition of the Bible to the inhabitants of the United States.”

Later, this act of Congress prompted an American historian write:

“Who, in view of this fact, will call in question the assertion that this is a Bible nation? Who will charge the government with indifference to religion when the first Congress of the States assumed all the rights and performed all the duties of a Bible Society long before such an institution had an existence in the world!”

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The Third Lie
The Separation of Church and State

The “separation of church and state” phrase which has today become so familiar, was taken from an exchange of letters between President Thomas Jefferson and the Baptist Association of Danbury, Connecticut, shortly after Jefferson became President.

The election of Jefferson – America’s first Anti-Federalist President – elated many Baptists since that denomination, by-and-large, was also strongly Anti-Federalist. This political disposition of the Baptists was understandable, for from the early settlement of Rhode Island in the 1630s to the time of the federal Constitution in the 1780s, the Baptists had often found themselves suffering from the centralization of power.

Consequently, now having a President who not only had championed the rights of Baptists in Virginia but who also had advocated clear limits on the centralization of government powers, the Danbury Baptists wrote Jefferson a letter of praise on October 7, 1801, telling him:

“Among the many millions in America and Europe who rejoice in your election to office, we embrace the first opportunity . . . to express our great satisfaction in your appointment to the Chief Magistracy in the United States. . . . [W]e have reason to believe that America’s God has raised you up to fill the Chair of State out of that goodwill which He bears to the millions which you preside over. May God strengthen you for the arduous task which providence and the voice of the people have called you. . . . And may the Lord preserve you safe from every evil and bring you at last to his Heavenly Kingdom through Jesus Christ our Glorious Mediator”.

Letter of October 7, 1801, from Danbury (CT) Baptist Association to Thomas Jefferson, from the Thomas Jefferson Papers Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.

However, in that same letter of congratulations, the Baptists also expressed to Jefferson their grave concern over the entire concept of the First Amendment, including of its guarantee for “the free exercise of religion”:

“Our sentiments are uniformly on the side of religious liberty: that religion is at all times and places a matter between God and individuals, that no man ought to suffer in name, person, or effects on account of his religious opinions, [and] that the legitimate power of civil government extends no further than to punish the man who works ill to his neighbor. But sir, our constitution of government is not specific. . . . [T]herefore what religious privileges we enjoy (as a minor part of the State) we enjoy as favors granted, and not as inalienable rights”.

In short, the inclusion of protection for the “free exercise of religion” in the constitution suggested to the Danbury Baptists that the right of religious expression was government-given (thus alienable) rather than God-given (hence inalienable), and that therefore the government might someday attempt to regulate religious expression. This was a possibility to which they strenuously objected-unless, as they had explained, someone’s religious practice caused him to “work ill to his neighbor.”

Jefferson understood their concern; it was also his own. In fact, he made numerous declarations about the constitutional inability of the federal government to regulate, restrict, or interfere with religious expression. For example:

“[N]o power over the freedom of religion . . . [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution” . Kentucky Resolution, 1798

The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia, John P. Foley, editor (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1900), p. 977; see also Documents of American History, Henry S. Cummager, editor (NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1948), p. 179.

“In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the general [federal] government”. Second Inaugural Address, 1805

 Annals of the Congress of the United States (Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1852, Eighth Congress, Second Session, p. 78, March 4, 1805; see also James D. Richardson, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897 (Published by Authority of Congress, 1899), Vol. I, p. 379, March 4, 1805.

“[O]ur excellent Constitution . . . has not placed our religious rights under the power of any public functionary”.  Letter to the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1808

Thomas Jefferson, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Albert Ellery Bergh, editor (Washington D. C.: The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1904), Vol. I, p. 379, March 4, 1805

“I consider the government of the United States as interdicted [prohibited] by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions . . . or exercises”. Letter to Samuel Millar, 1808

Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, editor (Boston: Gray and Bowen, 1830), Vol. IV, pp. 103-104, to the Rev. Samuel Millar on January 23, 1808.

Yet again there is so much historical evidence that the so called “wall of separation” was never intended to be what it has become.

Getting back to the First Amendment (The Establishment Clause)

This should be renamed the anti-establishment clause!

Congress shall make no law (congress shall establish no law)

respecting an establishment of religion (with respect to or concerning the establishment of religion)

or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,

Lets stop here for a moment.  One does not have to be a rocket scientist to understand that the framers and authors of our constitution are stating that the government needs to stay our of the affairs of religion (Christianity).  At the time this was written America was a constitutional republic designed to protect “individual liberty”.  America at the time was 98% Christian.

Are we expected to believe that the framers of our nation intended that the government have the right to enact laws which control individual liberty specifically in the area of how they practice their brand of Christianity?  That’s exactly what we are expected to believe!

 My question is: if there is a wall of separation between church (religion) and state, why does that same wall not apply to:

• 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

 Everyday we hear people screaming about the protection of freedom of speech, the press, the right of assembly and of redress yet somehow the “establishment of religion is excluded” in spite of the fact that it is included in the same clause?

Because America is no longer a constitutional republic!

America has become a democracy where the rights of the individual make way for the rights of the “majority”!

The chief characteristic and distinguishing feature of a Democracy is: Rule by Omnipotent Majority. In a Democracy, The Individual, and any group of Individuals composing any Minority, have no protection against the unlimited power of The Majority. It is a case of Majority-over-Man.

In 1787 at the Federal (framing) Convention our founders condemned the “excesses of democracy” and abuses of any Democracy of the unalienable rights of The Individual by The Majority.

A Republic, on the other hand, has a very different purpose and an entirely different form, or system, of government. Its purpose is to control The Majority strictly, as well as all others among the people, primarily to protect The Individual’s God-given, unalienable rights and therefore for the protection of the rights of The Minority, of all minorities, and the liberties of people in general. The definition of a Republic is: a constitutionally limited government of the representative type, created by a written Constitution–adopted by the people and changeable (from its original meaning) by them only by its amendment–with its powers divided between three separate Branches: Executive, Legislative and Judicial. Here the term “the people” means, of course, the electorate.

Also worthy of consideration is the following:

James Madison: The Federalist (no. 55)

“As there is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust: So there are other qualities in human nature, which justify a certain portion of esteem and confidence. Republican government (that of a Republic) presupposes the existence of these qualities in a higher degree than any other form. Were the pictures which have been drawn by the political jealousy of some among us, faithful likenesses of the human character, the inference would be that there is not sufficient virtue among men for self government; and that nothing less than the chains of despotism can restrain them from destroying and devouring one another.” (Emphasis added.)

The most interesting part of all of this is that America is still populated by a Christian majority.  Some 90% of all Americans are professing Christians.  The majority is not ruling!

What are we then?  Were not a constitutional republic because individual liberties are basically mythical.  We are not a democracy, if we were Christians would be ruling the roost.

What type of government protects the rights of the minority over individual rights or the rights of the majority as put forth by republics and democracies?

My personal opinion is that America has become imperialistic.

By Definition imperialism is: the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies.

In any event we, as Christian Americans, must stand on the truth that America was and still is a Christian nation.  We should plead that case as fervently as we preach the gospel so that all of the glory can go where it rightfully deserves to be.  At the feet of our Lord and our God!  Amen!

God Bless America!

 

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