Posted on 12/23/2018 6:17:07 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Of the 55 men working on the constitution, 52 considered themselves to be evangelical Christians. They envisioned school children praying in class as well as teachers using the Bible for educational purposes.
When Thomas Jefferson was made president of the Washington, DC, public school system he placed the Bible and Isaac Watt's hymnal as the two primary reading texts! This is why Biblical morality was taught in public schools until the early 1960's.
Government officials were required to declare their belief in God even to be allowed to hold a public office until Oct. 1960. God was seen as the author of natural law and morality. If one did not believe in God one could not operate from a proper moral base. And by not having a foundation from which to work, one would destroy the community.
So firm were they in their resolve that the same day Congress passed the first amendment (Sept. 25, 1789), they also approved a resolution requesting President George Washington to proclaim "...a day of public thanksgiving and prayer...."
America considered itself to be a Christian nation. Read your history. Even when we moved the American Indian to the reservations it was to evangelize them. Historically.
‘Of the 55 men working on the constitution, 52 considered themselves to be evangelical Christians.’
so these individuals did specify in the country’s founding document that it was specifically a Christian nation...?
Matt 7:21: Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
They proclaimed America to be a Christian nation by the things they did. And no one had to question that fact.
And as some of us knew, toleration was just another slippery stepping stone down the slope.
Now they demand absolute spprobation or they de-person us.
If it is anything destructive to society, the leftists are for it.
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