God and freedom assaulted in the Senate

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | July 19th 2007 | Janet Folger

[FarRockaway]

America, America, God shed His grace on thee. Why? It wasn't because we were His favorites. Nor because we were the richest. But there was something about America that wasn't found in other Western nations.

Blessed more than Mexico, Canada or any nation in South America that came looking for gold, as you can see at the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, America came looking for God.

Why has God blessed us so richly? Get a glimpse into Western Hemisphere history from a 1789 snapshot:

* In 1789, our first president, George Washington, was sworn in. He immediately kissed his Bible and went to the Capitol for a two-hour worship service. While the ACLU has sandblasted for decades, they still can't erase the fact that our nation was dedicated to God, in whom our national motto declares, "we trust."

* In 1789, the single richest colony in the world was … Haiti. The sugar-producing French colony was called "the jewel of the Caribbean." Import and export profits of Haiti exceeded those of the entire United States. Then, following a bloody riot, Haiti was dedicated to voodoo.

So America was dedicated to God, and Haiti was dedicated to Satan. Then, rag-tag America conquered the most powerful nation in the world and went on to become the richest nation in the world. Haiti went from the very richest to the very poorest nation in the world.

There are two things America loved most: God and freedom. But, last week we turned our back on both.

Like honoring a golden calf for our deliverance, last Thursday, I stood in horror watching the state-sanctioned prayer to false gods on the floor

[FarRockaway]

Why is it that the same people who insist that science is only permissble because standards of objective performance are used also insist that objective standards of performance not be applied to religion? America's historic religion has so failed to construct a society that we must import new theologies which have created.... It was not Hinduism which created the greatest nation in the history of the world. It was not a people devoted to Hindu gods who did so.

[ChurtleDawg]

do you know why Haiti was so profitable? virtually everyone there was a slave. Less than 1% of the population (all french Colonists) had 99% of the wealth. the rest were slaves. Haiti was little more than a giant forced labor camp.

[gdani]

Religious tolerance is one of the things that makes this country great & separates us from places like Saudi Arabia, China, etc, etc.

Unfortunately, too many think religious freedom applies only to their own beliefs, and not others'. It makes me think the complainers are not as secure in their own faith as they like to think.

[caveat emptor]

do you know why Haiti was so profitable? virtually everyone there was a slave. Less than 1% of the population (all french Colonists) had 99% of the wealth. the rest were slaves. Haiti was little more than a giant forced labor camp.

"If coal was the fuel of the machines of the industrial revolution, then sugar was the ever-cheaper fuel of the workers in the industrial revolution".

It's been years since I read much about sugar and slavery, but I believe the need for that "ever-cheaper fuel" drove the large increases in Atlantic slave trade during that period. Here are some stats from "The Atlantic Slave Trade, D.C. Heath and Company 1994", cited in Wiki's Atlantic Slave Trade.

"The Second Atlantic system was the trade of African slaves by mostly English, Brazilian, French and Dutch traders. The main destinations of this phase were the Caribbean colonies and Brazil, as a number of European countries built up economically slave-dependent colonial empires in the New World. Only slightly more than 3 percent of the slaves exported were traded between 1450 and 1600, 16% percent in the 17th century. More than half of them were exported in the 18th century, the remaining 28.5% in the 19th century.[7]"

[FarRockaway]

Did not know that. Stands to reason though.

I guess they thought they were getting a bargain to try voo-doo having started from French-slavery-philosophy.

But the slavery they are in today can hardly be described as doing well.

[FarRockaway]

Unfortunately, too many secularists fail to understand it is only Christianity which has maintained religious-freedom for non-Christians or anyone.

Show me 1 philosophy/country in the world where religious freedom is maintained for all peoples...that isn’t a Christian-founding nation?

The USA has religious freedom precisely because it was created as a Protestant Christian nation. People who are not Christian, who still want freedom-of-religion, should advocate for a Christian public identity and life because this is the only hope for preserving religious freedom.

You speak like freedom-of-religion will maintain itself when ruled by secularism. There is no evidence of this anywhere.
Europe is a secret-police state of repression against everything non-secular. There is no such thing as the liberal-panacea where all religions are protected. There is only a Christian nation where free-choice is protected by Christians. If you can refute it, try.

[MEGoody]

Wonder how long it’ll be before the usual ‘out founding fathers were only deists’ show up.

[MEGoody]

out = our (Need more coffee)

[John Leland 1789]

America ought to be a Christian nation. We were indeed. We ought to be again. God is a jealous God, though long-suffering (NOT tolerant).

We may be tolerant if we choose, but God will withdraw His hand of protection and blessing and we will find out what it means to be something like a Muslim nation then.

The answer is not by any means compulsory Christianity. The answer is: all who are Christians in faith and deed need to actively and openly evangelize Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and all men, with the message of the Cross of Christ; Christ died for our sins. Christ shed His Precious Blood as the full atonement for the sins of the world. God has reconciled the world unto Himself by the Cross of Christ. All who will flee to Christ for deliverance from sin and reconciliation with God receive eternal life and son-ship with God.

If the nation as a whole gives up its Christianity, we will be ruled by Islamist tyrants or communist tyrants. Both are here, by the way, eager to take over.

God will let them take over, too. It is reasonable recompense for our neglecting the heritage God allowed us to enjoy for so long.

God is not a concept or a religion. He is a PERSON, and He must be reckoned with.