“Protestants, however, are - by-and-large - grossly ignorant about history. They also rarely know much about scripture. These things are shown here by Protestants every day.”
Truly? Maybe these Protestants knew something about history since they could smell tyranny an ocean away. Or Maybe grossly ignorant Protestants somehow “Forrest Gumped” their way to founding this country, which most humbly gave the glory to God.
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. Part of our commitment should be to raise Old Glory across the nation’s flagpoles and be grateful we live in a nation committed to these ideals.
From errantskeptics.org
Samuel Adams
“A general dissolution of Principles and Manners will more surely overthrow the Liberties of America than the whole Force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader . . . If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security.” Samuel Adams, The Writings of Samuel Adams, ed., Harry Alonzo Cushing (G. P. Putman’s Sons, 1908), Vol. 4, p. 124.
“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
“We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient.” “He reigns in Heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let his kingdom come.” Samuel Adams
“How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words.” Samuel Adams
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. Samuel Adams
Fisher Ames
“Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples, captivating and noble. In no book is there so good English, so pure and so elegant; and by teaching all the same book, they will speak alike, and the Bible will justly remain the standard of language as wellas of faith.” Fisher Ames: Author of the First Amendment
Alexander Hamilton
“For my own part, I sincerely esteem it a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.” Alexander Hamilton
“I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man.”. Alexander Hamilton
Much more here:
http://errantskeptics.org/Quotes_Founding-Fathers.htm
I always chuckle when a Catholic who views scripture as secondary to the magesterium claim Protestants who view scripture as their only source don’t know scripture.