I'm going to read the FIRST prayer delivered to the Continental Congress and it's going to blow your mind. Why have they fought so hard to erase this part of our history. I'm glad you asked [TRANSCRIPT 2 minute video]

X.com ^ | June 30, 2026 | Josh Howerton @howertonjosh

[ransomnote]

Josh Howerton

@howertonjosh

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Jun 30

I'm going to read the FIRST prayer delivered to the Continental Congress and it's going to blow your mind.

Why have they fought so hard to erase this part of our history. I'm glad you asked 

 

 

TRANSCRIPT BEGINS~~~

Josh Howerton: For listeners, this is going to blow your mind. You have no idea how much Christian...ah...sort of standards...were written into...you know all the ...many of the founding documents. 

All I'm going to do right here is read the prayer of the first of the Continental 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 our American States, who have fled to Thee from the rod of the oppressor and thrown themselves on Thy gracious protection, desiring to be henceforth dependent only on Thee. To Thee have they 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...."

Josh Howerton: Okay now I'm going to skip forward.

(ransomnote: he skipped the itallicized text below, and resumed reading starting with 'Preserve the health')

"defeat the malicious designs of our cruel adversaries; convince them of the unrighteousness of their Cause and if they persist in their sanguinary purposes, of 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 councils 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 amongst the 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 and our Savior.

Amen."

Josh Howerton: That, ladies and gentlemen, was the first prayer at the first Continental Congress. And then fast forward 250 years and you have people saying, 'in no sense was our nation founded on Christian principles in any way.

I got a little explanation for why this is. What you're seeing literally is, what you're seeing is Romans 1 in action. It says that when people exchange the truth of God for a lie, it says that they, 'suppress the truth in their unrighteousness.

So whenever an ideology becomes an idol, and by the way secularism is an ideology, that becomes an idol. Whenever an ideology becomes an idol truth suppression begins to happen. What does truth suppression look like? It looks like rewriting the entire founding of our nation so that it doesn't sound like in any sense Christian.

Now, why do they do that? Here's the strategy. Rewrite the past to control the future.

I just want to say that one more time. If we want the future of a nation, a society, a culture to be a godless, secular - honestly, gospel opposing future well then we have to rewrite the past in order to control the future. That's the strategy. That's why dudes like that are really important. That guy right there.

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ransomnote: The date/time the prayer was read was September 7, 1774, 9 o’clock a.m.

[ransomnote]

ransomnote: I really feel that the following two stories from the bible explains what we are witnessing when anti-God ideology permeates our government and society, and how a return to God is restoring our nation. I believe we must stay with God to preserve the good things Trump and his warriors, and all patriots are working to bring about. Howerton's observing the same thing- if we want a good society, we keep anti-god or secularism from becoming the idol Americans worship.

In the second story, we read of the wise king, "He rededicated the whole kingdom to the Lord and celebrated a great Passover feast."  I was blessed and grateful when President Trump's administration hosted a rededication service on May 17.

LIVE Rededicate 250 on May 17: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving 

Two Kings in the Bible: Stories of Warning and Choice

First Story: King Zedekiah Ignores God's Warning

A king named Zedekiah ruled the kingdom of Judah. Over time, the people had turned away from God and worshiped idols. God sent the prophet Jeremiah to warn the king. Jeremiah told Zedekiah that if he did not turn back to God, the powerful Babylonian army would attack, destroy Jerusalem, and take the people as slaves.

Zedekiah refused to listen. He did not change his ways or lead the people back to God. As a result, the Babylonians invaded. They burned the city and the Temple, captured Zedekiah, and forced most of the people into slavery in Babylon. This was a terrible time of punishment for turning away from God.

Bible Reference: 2 Kings 24:18-25:21 and the Book of Jeremiah (especially chapters 37-39).

Second Story: King Josiah Turns Back to God

Another king named Josiah ruled Judah many years earlier. During his reign, workers found an old copy of the Book of God's Law in the Temple. When Josiah heard the words, he was sorry for how the people had sinned. He tore his clothes in grief and immediately began big changes.

Josiah destroyed the idols and false altars across the land. He called the people together, read God's law to them, and led everyone in a promise to follow God again. He rededicated the whole kingdom to the Lord and celebrated a great Passover feast. Because he humbled himself and turned the nation back to God, the Lord promised that the full destruction of Judah would not happen during Josiah's lifetime.

Bible Reference: 2 Kings 22:1-23:30 and 2 Chronicles 34-35.

These stories show how leaders' choices to follow or ignore God affected their entire nation.

[sauropod]

bkmk

[frank ballenger]

Another time.

The US cent Valley Forge Sesquicentenery stamp. Note the news reporter on the left who reported the story of observing Washington alone at prayer.

https://postalmuseum.si.edu/object/npm_1980.2493.2415

[dadfly]

oh, but don’t you know, according to the modern historians, they were all dyed in the wool, enlightenment deists (however they define that), just parading as Christians for political purposes—that hypocrite, jacobin, bible rewriting, anti-christ, unitarian, Thomas Jefferson, leading the parade, along with Washington, Payne, Hamilton, etc.

right.

[Macoozie]

“through the merits of Jesus Christ, Thy Son and our Savior.”

doesn’t really sound so Judeo, but just a bit more Christian in my estimation.

[boxlunch]

https://www.youtube.com/live/PJkUY7jEepU?is=sgkK5v5bJJUzmqRh
Excellent talk by David Barton of Wallbuilders this past April on exactly this topic. It is very very good, full of facts and quotes from the founding fathers. About 45 minutes

[Nateman]

The Soviet Union was officially Godless. How did that work out for them?

[Verginius Rufus]

Is that from the First Continental Congress (1774) or the Second Continental Congress (1775f.)? It refers to bloodshed, which really begins with Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, shortly before the Second Continental Congress began to meet.

[EnderWiggin1970]

Ironically, so far as I know there was not a single Deist among the Founders. There were a few Theistic Rationalists, which was a distinct thing altogether. The key difference is that deists didn’t pray to their ‘clockmaker’ deity as He wasn’t listening; theistic rationalists did so, with no evidence of insincerity on their part. But theistic rationalists tended to make their own minds the supreme judge of all things, judging what parts of Scripture they liked and which they could ignore or dispense with. Come to think of it, there are an awful lot of theistic rationalists today, though very few are familiar with that term.

[Sacajaweau]

I believe this has been proven as just a tale.

[PeterPrinciple]

But theistic rationalists tended to make their own minds the supreme judge of all things, judging what parts of Scripture they liked and which they could ignore or dispense with. Come to think of it, there are an awful lot of theistic rationalists today, though very few are familiar with that term.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theistic_rationalism

Theistic rationalists believe natural religion, Christianity, and rationalism typically coexist compatibly, with rational thought balancing the conflicts between the first two aspects.[4] They often assert that the primary role of a person’s religion should be to bolster morality, a fixture of daily life.[4]

Theistic rationalists believe that God plays an active role in human life, rendering prayer effective.[4][5] They accept parts of the Bible as divinely inspired, using reason as their criterion for what to accept or reject.[6] Their belief that God intervenes in human affairs and their approving attitude toward parts of the Bible distinguish theistic rationalists from Deists.[7]

[dadfly]

thanks for that.

i get the distaste among some new line evangelicals, old line protestants, modern calvinists and the like for the so called ‘Enlightenment’ (really the Renaissance), but really, i think our American revolution, and the modern technological world it created, was in part as much a child of it as was the bloody french one. all things human are double-edged. the difference: ours and our Founders (although many were killed, ruined and maimed) was obviously God blessed; the french had no part with God in theirs, imho.

if these men were such hypocrites, i have to wonder why God let them succeed so brilliantly in such a long shot endeavor. anyway, my two cents.