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Continental Congress On Sept. 11, 1777 approved the import of 20,000 copies of the Holy Bible, in response to the shortage caused by the Revolutionary War. "The use of the Bible is so universal and its importance so great that your committee refers the above to the consideration of Congress, and if Congress shall not think it expedient to order the importation of types and paper, the Committee recommends that Congress will order the Committee of Commerce to import 20,000 Bibles from Holland, Scotland, or elsewhere, into the different parts of the States of the Union. Whereupon it was resolved accordingly to direct said Committee of Commerce to import 20,000 copies of the Bible." Link Our Founding Fathers opened the first Congress in prayer and the first Congress approved importing or printing 20,000 Bibles and now, revisionist and activist judges tell us we cannot let children pray in school or read Bible stories.

This story's on Christian websites all over the net. It's at best incomplete. Here's a nicely researched piece .(Scroll down to 'TIMELINE').

What actually happened: a three-man committee advanced a resolution to recommend the purchase. Congress voted narrowly (7-6) to approve a resolution directing another Committee to purchase the bibles, but apparently never acted on it, being busy, as the link says, 'prosecuting a war of some sort'.

"Congress voted narrowly (7-6) to approve a resolution directing another Committee to purchase the bibles, but apparently never acted on it, being busy, as the link says, 'prosecuting a war of some sort'."

Obviously the rebel scum lost the war after this turn away from God and the Bible. It's been moral degeneracy ever since.

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"This story's on Christian websites all over the net. It's at best incomplete."

The link to Internet Infidels was well researched. However, my comment is "at best" complete. I will agree that it can be found on numerous Christian websites, but it can also be found in the Library of Congress site HERE. (Scroll about 2/3 down the page.)

Strange coincidence about the Sept 11th date.