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(03/14/2008)
GOD and AMERICA
Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. (Matthew 21:42,43)

At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them. (Jeremiah 18:7-10)

Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. (Matthew 13:24-30)

Few would deny that Americans enjoy more personal freedom than any other people in the world today. And that's why millions have sought and found refuge and liberty within this country. And yet, we see signs of that liberty decaying all around us. A decay that becomes all the more obvious when we compare our nation today to the America of our founding fathers. For example, the total tax rate today for the average U.S. citizen is over fourty-five percent of their income. The tax rate that helped provoked the colonists to declare independence from Great Britain was less than twenty percent.

Beyond the rate of taxation our founding fathers realized that the larger the civil government the less personal freedoms its citizens enjoy. In 1816 one in approximately eighteen-hundred Americans were employed by the federal government. Today that number has swollen to approximately one in seventy-five -- a twenty-four-hundred percent increase. Over three crimes against property occur every second in the United States today. In 1983 tax payers spent over ten-billion dollars for jails and prisons -- an average of over sixteen-thousand dollars per inmate. It is estimated that one out of every three-hundred and fifty Americans is behind bars today -- the world's highest per-capita ratio. Compare this with historian James Adams' findings: "I have found only one case of a Colonial traveler being robbed in the whole century preceding the Revolution."

In 1985 two-hundred and sixty-one billion dollars was spent on education. That was more than twice what was spent in 1980 and over ten times the amount spent in 1970. The cost per student jumped from two-hundred and ninty-four dollars in 1956 to two-thousand nine-hundred dollars in 1982 and '83. Even allowing for inflation that's a jump of almost one-thousand percent. While expenditures and personnel have increased dramatically, the quality of education has declined. S.A.T. scores dropped consistently from 1963 to 1980 and beyond. And since then even educators' expectations for S.A.T. scores have been lowered. Twenty percent of all graduating high school students in 2007 were functionally illiterate. As a nation we are producing an increasing number of functionally illiterate adults.... This is in great contrast to early America. At the time of our independence John Adams wrote that "To find an American who could not read was as rare as a comet."

Add to this the killing of over fourty-five million children through abortion (1 out of 3 babies conceived die by abortion) since the 1973 Roe V. Wade court decision which legalized abortion-on-demand [despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans were against abortion in 1973 activist judges in the court ruled against the will of the people; and decades of misinformation and socialist propaganda has influenced many to believe that a woman has a so called "right" to murder her unborn child, in spite of the fact that medical science has proven conclusively that human life begins at the moment of conception, just as the Holy Bible says]; the breakdown of the American family through divorce and other social maladies so that today only seven out of one-hundred Americans are living in a traditional family where there is a father, mother and children (as of 2006 thirty-seven percent of babies in the U.S. are born to unwed mothers); an exponential increase in drug and alcohol abuse; the sexual revolution with its numerous casualties, including one in four sexually active adults now suffering from some form of venereal disease; the proliferation of homosexuality and its increasing acceptance as non-deviant behavior and the attendant AIDS epidemic; a shocking increase in suicide making it the second leading killer of teenagers and the eighth largest killer over-all; a weakening national defense, facilitated by liberal politicians and lawmakers with socialist agendas (i.e., covert communism) that makes us increasingly vulnerable to the many enemies of liberty; and a government economic philosophy which has brought us to the brink of a socialist state and threatens to bankrupt this nation.

We can see that our liberties are rapidly being lost. The home of the brave to a large extent has become the abode of weakness and moral cowardness, as we surrender our liberties, not so much to the enemy without, but to the one within. Samuel Adams, the father of the American Revolution said, "A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely over-throw the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtues they can not be subdued. But once they loose 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." Thomas Jefferson stated that "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

To secure our liberties we must first understand what produced them and then be prepared to pay the price to see them restored and maintained. How were those men and women who founded our country able to give birth to the most free nation the world has seen? What produced those seeds of liberty in their lives? What motivated and inspired them? Where did their ideas originate? As we take a look at some of the men's lives as well as some events that were significant in the founding of America, we will see that the most common theme was the firm belief that God is the giver of life, of liberty and of man's right to pursue happiness. Our founding fathers recognized that only where the Spirit of the Lord is, is there any real liberty. They understood that the degree to which a nation applies biblical truths to all of life, is the degree to which that nation secures its freedom.

To find evidence of this we'll have to go to sources other than our public text books. There has been a systematic deletion of religious reference from these books. In 1985 New York University professor Paul C. Vitz did a study for the U.S. Department of Education. After reviewing scores of books from primary readers to high school history text he found "It may be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a religious figure or for an individual's Christian beliefs to get into the pages of the history books." For example, one book states that "Pilgrims are people who make long trips." Vitz's final assessment: "When it came to the treatment of history, I can assure you that a bias against Christianity existed."

Absence of God in our public schools is even more amazing when one understands that the primary purpose for establishing schools in America was to teach everyone to be able to read and understand the Bible. Our first college, Harvard, in its original rules charged “every student to lay Christ in the bottom as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning.” In fact, of the first one-hundred and eight colleges in America, one-hundred and six were founded by and for the Christian faith. “In founding Harvard, Yale, and other American colleges, the propagation of Christianity as a leading purpose of higher, as well as of popular education, was avowed by their founders, and by all provisions and grants of government.”(The Bible in Schools, W. W. Everts, 1870, p. 9). Generations of American children were taught the fundamentals of life from public school text books whose pages contained copious amounts of scriptures from the Holy Bible (see The New Instructor, 1803, The American Spelling Book, 1816, The American Spelling Book, 1822, The Elementary Spelling Book, 1842, Right of the Bible in Our Public Schools, 1859, The Bible in Schools, 1870, Bible Readings For Schools, 1897). Patrick Henry, known as the "Orator of Liberty", said, “It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!”

The apostle Paul said, “For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.”(Rom. 13:11). The Lord exhorted his disciples saying, “Take ye heed, watch and pray”(Mark 13:33). Jesus warned what would happen should his people fall asleep spiritually: “But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat”(Matt. 13:25). The subverting of America's Judeo/Christian moral foundations and the systematic deletion of religious references, especially true Christian Biblical references, from public school text books over the last century is not accidental. “O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.”(Isaiah 3:12). The apostle Paul said “that now it is high time to awake out of sleep” because the spirit of slumber is lulling more Americans into spiritual atrophy, as agendas of secular humanism, moral relativism and superstitious “Christian” doctrines are being deliberately pushed on society, undermining our nation's true Biblical moral foundations, and threatening the very existence of our country (I Cor. 3:11). “If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?”(Psa. 11:3).

For more than 300 years, the majority of Americans believed the scriptures of the Holy Bible to be the very words of God. It was not until around the turn of the 20th century that large numbers of Americans began to put aside their Bibles in favor of mysticism, secular humanism and moral relativism. The philosophy of moral relativism, the idea that everything is ‘relative’ and nothing is ‘absolute’, is by no means a new concept. In fact, it is thousands of years old, and can be traced as far back as the book of Genesis, where these infamous words were uttered, “then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”(Gen. 3:5). Adam and Eve were the first humans to embrace the philosophy of moral relativism as they chose to "be as gods" and decide for themselves what is "good" and what is "evil", thereby opening the door of sin to the human race: “as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:”(Rom. 5:12): “For the wages of sin is death”(Rom. 6:23): “The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.”(Isa. 24:5). Perhaps nothing better illustrates how far removed from the Bible we have become in recent years than the majority opinion handed down in the 1992 Supreme Court case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey. In what is known as the “mystery clause” of the Casey decision, the justices offered their view that “at the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.” Sounds familiar? “and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”(Gen. 3:5).

In the late 1800s, two theologian “scholars”, Brooke Westcott and Fenton Hort, both involved in the occult, changed the ordinance of God's everlasting covenant, and revised (corrupted) the KJV Holy Bible that Americans had used and cherished for centuries. Westcott and Hort's theological beliefs did much to influence Europe and the United States of America in what is called higher criticism. To those embracing such beliefs, the Holy Bible is not given by inspiration of God, but is just another human book, and there is therefore no absolute standard of right and wrong. These two men despised both the true scriptures and the United States. Hort stated, “I dare not prophesy about America, but cannot say that I see much as yet to soften my deep hatred of democracy in all its forms.” (Arthur Hort, Vol. II, p. 34). Hort further stated, “it cannot be wrong to desire and pray from the bottom of one’s heart that the American union may be shivered to pieces.” (Life & Letters, Vol. 1, p. 459). Westcott and Hort worked underhanded with other socialists and Bible despisers to carry out their goal of undermining the scriptures and the faith of the people.

Many are surprised to learn that among Westcott and Hort's allies was the Roman Catholic Church. For centuries, the standard policy of the Vatican was the suppression of all non-Catholic religious liberties in America. This policy of suppression of religious liberty would be responsible for prolonging one of the bloodiest civil wars in history, the American Civil War (1861-1865). When many in the southern states were becoming weary with the war, and some were ready to dis-arm and put an end to the bloodshed, the Pope's actions in 1863 would directly contribute to the continuation of the war for nearly two more agonizing years. Author William Grady, who has done extensive research on the subject, wrote:

“The average Christian student of American History is unaware of how close Leo's [Pope Leo's] predecessor [Pope Pius IX] came to dissolving the Union [the United States of America] during the Civil War years. For a sobering insight as to how the Vatican can interfere with foreign governments, consider the chaos incited by a single letter sent by Pius IX to Jefferson Davis in 1863. Responding to correspondence from Davis, dated 23rd September, 1863, the Pope's reply was formally addressed, "To Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, Richmond." This subtle salutation gave the Confederacy a badly needed vote of confidence from ‘His Holiness.’ What followed next is quite unnerving. Whereas the desertion rates of the Northern Armies showed 16 percent for Germans, 0.5 percent for native Americans, 0.7 percent for all others, the Irish figures sky-rocketed to 72 percent! ... The above figures indicate that out of every 10,000 Irish enlistees – almost all Catholics – there were over 33 times as many desertions as among all the other groups put together. The point to be made here is not only the historical one – that the Vatican intervened in the agonies of the American Civil War – but that, in a different context and in a different way, it can do the same in today's conflicts, be they military or political. And even more so in the future.” (Final Authority, pp. 225,226)

The papacy's desire to convert the whole of America to Catholicism was well known by many in the nineteenth century. Unfortunately, most historians today rarely, if ever, mention the fact that the American Civil War was not fought for the purpose of abolishing slavery. Though President Abraham Lincoln was personally against slavery, he assured the American people “that they were fighting a war for the restoration of the Union and not for the abolition of slavery.” (A Pictorial History of The Civil War Years, 1967, p. 50). In 1864 Abraham Lincoln said, “This civil war seems to be nothing but a political affair to those who do not see, as I do, the secret springs of that terrible drama. But it is more a religious than a civil war. It is Rome who wants to rule and degrade the North, as she has ruled and degraded the South, from the very day of its discovery. There are only very few of the Southern leaders who are not more or less under the influence of the Jesuits through their wives, family relations, and their friends.” Lincoln said that “if the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our schools, our most sacred rights, and our so dearly bought liberties, they would drive them away tomorrow... as traitors.” (Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, Charles Chiniquy, p. 294,295). President Lincoln was murdered April 15, 1865, and documented evidence suggests that the papacy played a key role in his assassination.

Commenting on the papacy's policy to suppress information, historian John Acton (1834-1902), commonly known as Lord Acton, wrote: “The Council instituted the index of prohibited books, which is the fourth article in the machinery of resistance.... The idea of drawing up a comprehensive list of all that no man should read commended itself to the zeal of Caraffa, having been suggested to him by Della Casa, who had published such a list at Venice.... A congregation was appointed to examine new publications, to issue decrees against them as required, and to make out catalogues from time to time of works so condemned. Besides this, censures were also pronounced by the Pope himself, the Inquisition, the Master of the Sacred Palace, and the Secretary of the Index, separately. In this way an attempt was made to control what people read, committing to oblivion the works of Protestant scholars, and of such men as Machiavelli, and correcting offensive texts, especially historians. Several such corrected editions were published at the time, and many things were reprinted with large omissions.” (Lectures on Modern History, ed. John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence, London: Macmillan, 1906). Commenting on the secretive Jesuit society, a Roman Catholic orginization, the 1904 edition of Webster's Universal Dictionary says: “The power of the organization lies largely in its close scrutiny into affairs, its secret methods.... For the means it has sometimes employed to accomplish its purposes in statecraft it has been condemned as unscrupulous in intrigue and deceptive in purpose, tending to the subversion of legitimate government.” (Webster's Universal Dictionary, 1904, p. 907). Historian Edmond Paris wrote: “It is the same today; the 30,000 official members of the [Jesuit] Society operate all over the world in the capacity of her personnel, officers of a truly secret army containing in its ranks heads of political parties, high ranking officials, generals, magistrates, physicians, Faculty professors, etc., all of them striving to bring about, in their own sphere,“l'Opus dei”, God's work, in reality the plans of the papacy.” (Secret History, Paris, pp. 27,30). Christian minister and historian, Charles A. Goodrich, said in 1830 that:
“The present depressed state of Popery, both in England, and on the continent [North America], is no proof that its leading principles [propagation of pagan doctrines, persecution of Protestant Christians] have been abandoned. By means of various revolutions, its power has been shaken, and, from motives of policy, it has been compelled to cease from blood [murder, burning people at the stake]; but, in the language of a distinguished divine of our own country, ‘not a principle of the system has been abandoned. All the wiles of ages are put in requisition now... to render the system still more powerful [influential]...’* “Within a short period, the attention of the Pope of Rome has been directed to North America, and systematic efforts are now making, under his immediate patronage, and at his expense, to introduce and establish this corrupt system, in various parts of our land.” “The question presents itself to the American people: ‘Shall this system find encouragement, in the land of the pilgrims?’ We fear not, indeed, that Popery can ever greatly flourish on the American soil.... Yet, while the friends of truth should not be needlessly alarmed, neither should they sleep. A holy vigilance should guard well the approaches of an enemy, whose triumphs here would be the ruin of that fair fabric, which cost our fathers so much toil to erect..... It is only necessary that the volume [Foxe's Book Of Martyrs] should be carefully and candidly read, to convince [any one], that the papal system is not that harmless, innocent thing, which some would represent. We wish not, indeed, that the papists should be persecuted; we would say, protect them in their private capacity, wherever they exist in the land; but beware of so encouraging them, as to bring the American people, under their temporal and spiritual domination.... A Church, which pretends to be infallible, will always seek the destruction of those, who dissent from it;” (Charles A. Goodrich, Book Of Martyrs, Hartford, Connecticut, 1830, pp. 3,4. *Dr. Beecher's Missionary Sermon).

The Inquisition was a horribly wicked policy of the Roman Catholic church which lasted for six centuries. Early English dictionaries and encyclopedias reveal some of the facts surrounding the Inquisition. The following definition was taken from one such early English dictionary. Note the quality and quantity of information offered to the reader, unheard of in modern dictionaries:
“(in Spain, Portugal, &c.) an ecclesiastical court of the church of Rome, erected for the putting a stop to Heresy, and the punishment of Heretics. The rise and progress of this court seems to have been as follows.
Some have observed that before the conversion of the emperor Constantine the Great, none but the bishops examined into doctrines and punished Heresy with excommunication; but after the emperors became Christians, they ordered that such as has been convicted of Heresy and excommunicated, should be banished and their effects confiscated; this practice was continued till about the year 800 after Christ, when the power of the western bishops enlarged to the authority citing persons to their courts, and to convict and punish them by penances or imprisonment.
This continued till the XIIth century, when Heresy, as it was then called, being much increased by the Albigenses and Waldenses, pope Gregory the IXth in the year 1229 in a council held at Thoulouss, established new constitutions, committing the whole management of them to the bishops; but afterwards he thinking that the bishops were too indulgent, he committed the direction of this inquisition to the Dominicans, who for their cruelty were banished from Thoulouss by the inhabitants. And so this court was never firmly established in France; but was received by Italy, except the kingdom of Naples, and in Spain and Portugal and the countries depending.
This court or tribunal takes cognizance of Heresy, Judaism, Mahometanism, Sodomy and Polygamy; and the people of those countries so very much dread it, that parents deliver up their children, and husbands their wives to the officers, without so much as daring to murmur in the least.
In Portugal they erect a theatre capable of containing 3000 persons, on which they place a very rich alter; having seats fixed on each side of it, in the form of an amphitheatre, where the criminals are placed, and over against them there is a high chair, to which they are singly called by one of the inquisitors, to hear their crimes and condemnation.
The prisoners know their doom by the clothes they wear that day, for those who wear their own clothes are discharged, upon paying a fine: they that have a Santo Benito, or a strait yellow coat without sleeves, charged with a St. Andrew's cross, have their lives spared, but their effects forfeited to the royal chamber, and to pay the expenses of the inquisition: they that have flames of red serge sewed on their Santo Benito without any cross, are convicted of having been pardoned before, and threatened to be burnt, if ever they relapse again; but those which besides these have their own pictures round their Santo Benito, with figures of devils, are condemned to die.
The persons charged with or suspected of Heresy, are shut up in dismal dungeons, and there confined for several months, till they accuse themselves, being never let to know their accusers, or confronted by witnesses; their friends go into mourning for them as if dead, and dare not either solicit their pardon or come near them, and are often forced to fly their country for fear of being sent to the inquisition likewise.
Several other countries besides those above mentioned, have had inquisitions; but they have been laid down, by reason of the extraordinary severity and cruelty used in the punishment of those called offenders.
The power of the inquisition is also very much curbed in the republick of Venice, where it seems rather to be a political instrument to preserve the state than the church.
In the Indies it is severe to extravagancy, for those there must be the oaths of seven witnesses to condemn a person, yet slaves and children are allowed to be witnesses against him, and the person is tortured till he accuses himself, the slightest expression against the church or office of inquisition, which they call by the name of the holy office, is sufficient.
The New Universal Etymological English Dictionary, Nathan Bailey, London, 1756.

From the first permanent English settlement in America in 1607 (Jamestown, Virginia, named after the devout Christian King James I of England), Christianity and the Bible were interwoven into every facet of life. The Bible and its teachings dominated the lives of the vast majority of men, women and children in America; not because it was forced on them by the government or by the religious hierarchy, but because these freedom loving people desired to worship God “in spirit and in truth (John 4:23; Eph. 1:13). But by the late 1800s, as more and more Bible believing Americans became slothful in their spiritual lives, our Judeo-Christian morals began to decline at an alarming rate. Jesus admonished his followers to “rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.” (Luke 22:46). The Anglican Church of England had already begun its decent into apostasy by compromising with the papacy. In the proceeding decades (circa early 1900s), as ungodliness and worldly lusts became more prevalent in American society, many of our churches were infected with secular philosophies and lukewarm doctrines which opened the floodgates of ecumenical apostasy. “In the 1890s, the Christian church in Germany came to be dominated by what is called higher criticism.... These humanistic teachers sowed liberal doctrine like poison from Europe to the United States. By 1920, many major mainline U.S. Protestant denominations were given over to theological liberalism and watered-down belief systems.” During the first few decades of the 20th century many churches in America began to sink deeper and deeper into spiritual apostasy, due in part to the influence of spurious Catholic doctrines and European organizations and churches who's leaders were propagating the false notion that the true Holy Bible, the 1611 English Authorized Version (KJV), was an error ridden translation, or essentially just another book, and that it should not be accepted as the inspired infallible word of God. It was not until the United Kingdom officially rejected its Holy Bible, the KJV, in 1881 with the appearance of the corrupt Revised Standard Version, a supposed revision of the KJV, that their empire started to decay. The United States has followed suit and is becoming a declining world power, rotting from within because its people, too, has rejected the word of God. By replacing the Holy Bible with the scholarship of man, a pseudo-Christianity emerged and is now a dominating force in America.

In 1920 a small group of people, who's members were affiliated with the Communist Party, formed an organization called the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Their literature made it clear that the best way to take over the United States was to destroy American morality by undermining the Bible, the family structure and the public affirmation of the Christian faith. The ACLU's leaders and its followers declared that they found common ground with socialists around the world, including socialist theologians like Brooke Westcott and Fenton Hort.

In the early 1900s, socialism had begun to spread its roots in America. The attacks against the historical, traditional text of Christianity (the KJV Bible), and the assault against the U.S. Constitution was affecting the minds and hearts of Americans like an infectious disease, and many were beginning to bear corrupt fruit. In 1907 an activist socialist Supreme Court judge, Charles Evans Hughes, stated that “the Constitution is what the judges say it is.” Then in 1947, in order to advance their socialist anti-Christian agenda, activist judges on the Supreme Court used wording taken totally out of context from a private letter written by Thomas Jefferson in 1804. Jefferson (who did not participate in the drafting of the U.S. Constitution) sent this letter to the Danbury Baptist Convention affirming that “government should keep its hands off the free exercise of religion”, and not that government should prohibit any of its citizens (including governmental employees) from practicing the free exercise of religion, be it private or public. In the case of Everson v. Board of Education activist judges on the Court took one tiny snippet of Jefferson's letter (“wall of separation between church and state”) and misused it to further their anti-Christian-American agenda. This move by the Court was something that had never happened before in the history of the United States, because Congress has never given this power to any Court. “Now by its own authority, never authorized by Congress, the Court transferred a prohibition against the congressional establishment of a national church to a prohibition against any religious acts by the state government or their agents.” This was never intended by the framers of the United States Constitution. The so called “separation of church and state” is not to be found anywhere in the Constitution, nor was it ever eluded to in any of America's laws prior to 1947, a period of 340 years. (The Ten Offences, pp. 27,32,33)

The land of the free and the home of the brave is slowly but surely being taken over by liberal social elitists imposing their own new code of ethics of moral relativism on the people. “In our republican form of government, the people are supreme, not the courts. We lend authority to our elected representatives. The executive, legislative, and judicial branches are the bureaucracy empowered by government to execute the will of the people. Therefore, government, at all levels, exists to serve, and not to rule. And whenever liberal judges begin to ‘twist and shape’ the Constitution into any form they please, as [Thomas] Jefferson warned, we are no longer a free people but slaves of a dangerous liberal agenda.” (Courting Disaster, p. 96). Justice Antonin Scalia wrote, “Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.”

The mainstream liberal news media plays a big role in the corrupting of the American justice system. Columnist Thomas Sowell wrote, “One of the reasons judicial activists get away with ignoring the law and imposing their own pet notions instead is that much of the mainstream media treat the actions of judges as automatically legitimate and all criticism of them as undermining the rule of law.” He goes on to say, “The time is long overdue to stop treating judges as little tin gods who can do no wrong. An independent judiciary does not mean a judiciary independent of the law. If it does, then we can forget about being a free and democratic nation” Jonathan Mayhew who is considered by many to be the prophet of the American Revolution said, “Civil tyranny is usually small in its beginning, like 'the drop of a bucket,' til at length, like a mighty torrent, or the raging waves of the sea, it bears down on all before it, and deluges whole countries and empires.” Those “on the political left — especially in government, universities, law schools, and the media — are very much in favor of an activist court, and they vigorously defend the Court's usurpation of power. They know that Congress would never be able to convince the American people to support their liberal agenda — unlimited abortion, gay marriage, racial preferences, flag burning, banning the Ten Commandments, and discriminating against the free exercise of religion — so they do it through the courts.” (Courting Disaster, pp. 31,41,67).

With the steady departure from biblical moral values in our society, due in part to activist judges re-writing America's laws, an ever increasing philosophy of socialism, moral relativism, and an attitude of self-gratification which has seared the conscience of millions of Americans who have become “lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God” (II Tim. 3:4), our nation is decaying from within and is quickly becoming “the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit” (Rev. 18:2). For hundreds of years the overwhelming majority of Americans were united in their convictions of right and wrong, and good and evil, as a direct result of the teachings of the Holy Bible. But with the ongoing assault against traditional biblical values, Americans have never been more divided in their moral, ethical and political beliefs (the controversial 2000 Presidential election and the rift among our citizens over the Iraqi war, abortion and other moral issues clearly illustrates the great divide within our nation). The Lord Jesus Christ said that “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand” (Matt. 12:25). English jurist Lord Devlin said, “History shows that the loosening of moral bonds is the first stage of disintegration.”

During the 20th century some profound events changed the very course and fabric of the United States of America. While “Christian America” including many of our political leaders “slept”, socialist judges took advantage of America's spiritual atrophy and usurped authority over Congress and began re-writing American law. In 1962, in the case of Engel v. Vitale, and in 1963, in the case of Abington School District v. Schempp, prayer was taken out of public schools and Bible reading was no longer permitted. Justice Potter Stewart adamantly dissented against the majority decision of the court saying that “to treat a simple prayer the same as the establishment and patronage of a church by the federal government makes a mockery of the dangers the First Amendment was aimed at preventing”. Saying prayers before school, according to Stewart, is no different than saying prayers to open the sessions of Congress or the Supreme Court itself. Regarding Bible reading in public schools, Justice Stewart went on to say, “For a compulsory state educational system so structures a child's life that if religious exercises are held to be an impermissible activity in schools, religion is placed at an artificial and state-created disadvantage. Viewed in this light, permission of such exercise for those who want them is necessary if the schools are truly to be neutral in the matter of religion. And a refusal to permit religious exercises thus is seen not as the realization of state neutrality, but rather as the establishment of a religion of secularism.” Justice Stewart was correct. While Congress turned a deaf ear and a blind eye, the Court was establishing the religion of secular humanism in the public school system, embracing a brave new one world government of socialism and helping to pave the way for the antichrist's ecumenical one world religion.

In 1980 the Supreme Court threw the Ten Commandments out of our public schools. Speaking for the majority in the case of Stone v. Graham, Justice Paul Stevens wrote: “If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments are to have any effect at all, it will be to induce the children to read, meditate upon, perhaps to venerate and obey the Commandments . . . [This] is not a permissible state objective under the Establishment Clause.” According to Justice Stevens, obeying the Ten Commandments in not “permissible”. This is quite an astonishing statement, given the fact that since the 1600s most of America's laws were based upon the Bible and the Ten Commandments. It is somewhat ironic that Justice Stevens, probably without even realizing it, touched on one very important truth in America's history: that being the positive effects of God's Commandments on our children at home, in church and in our public schools for hundreds of years. The “Establishment Clause” that Justice Stevens referred to in the Constitution has nothing whatsoever to do with forbidding Bible reading, prayer and posting the Ten Commandments in public schools. The Establishment Clause was not written to prevent government from practicing religion: the Establishment Clause was written to prevent government control of religion, because the framers of the Constitution were well aware of the negative affects of government monopoly on religion.

From the fist European settlers in America to the drafting of the U.S. Constitution, many of these men (women and children also) had either read about, heard first hand accounts of, or had witnessed for themselves the atrocities committed by a government established religion, such as that imposed by England under certain of its Kings and Queens in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. As had been the case in other European countries over the centuries, at times the English government imposed the religion of the Roman Catholic church upon its citizens and passed laws forbidding anyone from practicing any other form of Christianity. At the urging of the Catholic hierarchy, any Bible other than that sanctioned by the church of Rome was banned and burned, and Protestants who refused to accept the ‘official’ government established religion were severely persecuted: many were tortured before being burned at the steak along with their Bibles. America's first leaders were well aware of the history of the horrific Catholic Inquisitions in France, Spain, Germany, Italy, et al. The 3rd President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, said in his first Inaugural Address in 1801, “And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions....”

In recent decades secular humanists have omitted from public school history text books practically every reference to our nation's Christian foundations. Since the burning of Bibles is no longer in vogue in most civilized countries, certain religious educators, Catholic and other ecumenical denominations, have been teaching a revised version of history in order to destroy people's faith in the Bible and give their own particular religious dogma a positive image in the public eye. The assault against the true religion and the true Bible upon which most of America's laws are based continues relentlessly by the courts, the main stream news media, socialist politicians, and even certain professed ‘Christians’. The average student of the Bible and of history is usually somewhat shocked to learn the truth about certain popular ‘Christian’ sects and denominations.

While millions are being mis-educated today, the evidence of God's hand in our nation's history is overwhelmingly apparent for those who take the time to look. One place it can be found is in and on our nations monuments, buildings and national symbols.... As we enter the rotunda of the United States Capital building we pass through the large Columbus doors which contains scenes from the life of Christopher Columbus. These doors were hung in recognition of the journey Columbus made in 1492 when he discovered the new world. (Columbus' trip took much longer than he had anticipated due to one of many serious errors in Jerome's Latin Vulgate, the official Bible of his church. The Catholic church had drawn the dogma from II Esdras 6:42 that the earth was mostly dry land, causing Columbus to believe that sailing west to the Indies would be a very short trip. This error nearly resulted in a mutiny among his crew. It is an undisputed fact that Columbus was a papal zealot. Bartolome' de Las Casas, a Catholic priest who knew Columbus personally, said that “without doubt he was a Catholic and of great devotion.... In whatever letter or other thing he wrote, he put at the head ‘Jesus and Mary be with us on the way.’” Each day of the voyage, Columbus would have one of his young sailors pray aloud the “Ave Maria”, Hail Mary. “But when ye pray,” Jesus said, “use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.” (Matt. 6:7). The name of Columbus' ship was the “Santa Maria”, Saint Mary. Columbus was the first trans-Atlantic slave trader. (America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations, pp. 115,132,133). While some educators portray Columbus as a true Christian explorer, history reveals a man who was not loyal to the historical scriptures of Christianity, but loyal to the dogmas of the Roman church. The assault against Biblical Christianity comes, not only from secular sources, but from religious sources as well: religionists and others espousing a pseudo-pagan-Christianity masquerading as true Christians.) In Columbus' journals of his voyage to the New World he wrote:

“It was the Lord who put into my mind, I could feel His hand upon me, the fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous illumination from the Holy Scriptures. For the execution of the journey to the Indies I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps -- it is simply the fulfillment of what Isaiah had prophesied: no one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Savior, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. The fact that the gospel must still be preached to so many lands in such a short time -- this is what convinces me.”

Columbus' mission to spread “the gospel” of Jesus Christ to “many lands” was undermined by the influence of the Roman Church through its heretical teachings and false doctrines; the same church that deceived and conquered the peoples of Europe during the Dark Ages (circa A.D. 500 - 1500) by moving from a word based culture (the scriptures) to an image based culture (statues, symbols, relics, etc.). The average American reader in the 21st century knows little or nothing of real Catholicism, the Catholicism which first reached North America. While Columbus was seeking backers for his exploration, the Dominicans, agents of the papacy, were busy burning thousands of copies of the scriptures throughout Spain in an effort to keep its citizens ignorant of the truth, and thus conquer them. At the urging of Tomas de Torquemada, a Dominican priest, Ferdinand and Isabella, the Roman Catholic King and Queen of Spain, petitioned the pope, and in 1478 the horrific abominable Inquisition of the ‘holy mother’ church was revived, unleashing a new wave of satanic murder and mayhem against Protestant Christians and other non-Catholics. It must be remembered, that the reason Ferdinand and Isabella sponsored Columbus' journey was to find land and gold to finance the Inquisition and to conquer the New World for the pope. Columbus wrote in his Journal of the First Voyage on November 27th, 1492, “And I say that your highness ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics....” (America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations, p. 118). On his second voyage, Columbus brought twelve Franciscan monks, whose purpose was to convert the natives to Catholicism. Historian James W. Knox wrote that “As a result, whatever the missionary priests taught the conquered peoples was not from the word of God... but was the dogma of the Roman Church... nothing was established that bore any resemblance to the New Testament church or Biblical Christianity.”

It is to the great advantage of the United States that it was not to be dominated and “Christianized” by Spain. It is one of the marvelous curiosities of history that the extensive labors of the Romanized discovers, conquerors and colonists failed so consistently and so decisively. Had God not willed it so, America would have been founded, it's laws and government built upon, and it's people subjected to the none-biblical, yea, the anti-biblical system of papal rule priestcraft which plunged Europe into the Dark Ages for a thousand years. The history of the Holy Bible in the United States of America begins with the understanding that those who arrived first, without a Holy Bible, were not permitted to take root.

It would be over a century later before colonization occurred in America. Historian B. F. Morris wrote that during the intervening century, the manifest Providence and presence of God is seen as clearly as any time in history: "More marked and decided changes affecting science, religion and liberty occurred in that period than had occurred in centuries before." And all these changes were just as to determine the Christian character of this country. It was during this time that the Protestant reformation was occurring. The Bible, God's word, which had been hidden from many by the Roman religious system during the dark ages was now being translated, distributed and read and acted upon. As the Scripture went into the hearts of men, religious and civil liberty began to follow. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many constitutions, compacts and charters of liberty were written -- these would never have come into existence without the translation of the Holy Bible into the languages of the common people, English, German, et al, (namely the KJV 1611-1769). In 1647 the American Colony of Connecticut along with the Colony of Massachusetts passed the Old Deluder Satan Law to prevent the abuse of power over an illiterate population ignorant of the true scriptures, as had been the case in Catholic countries in Europe and abroad. The law stated: “It being one chiefe project of that old deluder, Sathan, to keepe men from the knowledge of the scriptures, as in former time.... It is therefore ordered...[that] after the Lord hath increased [the settlement]... to teach all such children as shall resorte to him, to write and read....” (America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations, p. 179).

When Mary Tudor (Bloody Mary) became queen of England in 1553, she was determined to roll back the Reformation and reinstate Roman Catholicism. Mary had strong ties to Catholic Spain. She married Philip II of Spain and induced the English Parliament to recognize the authority of papal Rome. Mary met with a great deal of resistance from Protestant reformers in her own country. Mary showed no signs of compromise. The persecution of Protestants expanded. The era known as the Marian Exile drove thousands of English speaking people abroad with little hope of ever seeing their home and friends again. God used this exodus experience to advance the Reformation. A number of English Protestants settled in Geneva, and the Church of Geneva produced an English Bible – the Geneva Bible. Other English Bibles were being produced by Christian translators such as Wycliffe, Tyndale and others during the Reformation period prior to Queen Mary's rise to the throne, even as England, under the church of Rome's influence, “prohibited the translation or ownership of the English Bible”. These fires of persecution burned the New Testament truths into the very hearts of the people. The great Christian Historian, John Foxe (A.D. 1516–1587), describes person after person burned at the stake for owning the scriptures in English. The following are but a few of the hundreds of martyrs and thousands of Bibles burned:
 
. Thomas Curson was martyred in 1530 for “having the New Testament of Tyndale’s translation, and another book containing certain books of the Old Testament, translated into English...”
. Lawrence Staple was martyred in 1531, “For having the Testament in English, the five books of Moses...”
. Christopher, a Dutchman from Antwerp, was martyred in 1531, “[F]or selling certain New Testaments in English.”
. Walter Kiry was martyred in 1531, because he “had and used...The Testament in English...”
. John Mel was martyred in 1532, “For having and reading the New Testament in English, the Psalter in English...” (Foxe, vol. 5, pp. 29, 32, 37, 38).

William Tyndale himself was burned at the stake in October, 1536 for translating the Bible into English. When the flames arose, just before Tyndale died, he prayed, “Lord, open the King of England’s eyes.” And God answered his cries. Not long after the reign of bloody queen Mary, God appointed an evangelical Christian to the throne, King James the VI of Scotland & I of England, a godly man who believed “all scripture is given by inspiration of God”. Led by the Spirit of God, King James chose a dedicated team of God fearing Christian translators to faithfully and accurately translate the Bible into English. The result was the 1611 Authorized Version, the Holy Bible used and preserved by faithful Christians to this day. While many public school history text books portray King James I of England as some sort of arrogant, egotistical, self-indulgent, intolerant dictator, King James' own words prove that the charges made against him by his critics are false (World History, The Human Experience, 1992, p. 488; United States History, 1998, pp. 45,59); Civilization, Past and Present, 1996, p. 404). Unlike the Roman Catholic church, who's official policy was to torture and murder those who rejected its authority and spoke out against its corrupt bible and its false doctrines, King James was against such sadistic practices, stating, “I will never allow in my conscience that the blood of any man shall be shed for diversity of opinions in religion, but I should be sorry that Catholics should so multiply as they might be able to practice their old principles upon us.”(Fraser, p. 38).

When the Pilgrims crossed the Atlantic ocean on the Mayflower and arrived in America they carried with them the Geneva Bible which was soon replaced by the 1611 Authorized Version (or King James Version as it later became known). The text of these two Bibles are essentially the same with only minor differences (see In Awe Of Thy Word, the first and only documented history of the words of the Holy Bible). Generally speaking, the early English Bibles which follow the traditional received text type, such as the Gothic, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Great, Geneva, and Bishops’ are the same. Nevertheless, God permanently replaced earlier English Bibles with the Majestic King James Bible (Authorized Version) for the English speaking people of the world, because the KJV was the seventh and final polishing of the English Bible, made unique among all English Bibles because it was and still is the only Bible whose translators invited the input of all interested English-speaking Christians before it was published. It has endured centuries of attacks by critics and remains uncorrupted. The Authorized Version (KJV) remains faithful to the traditional received text of Christianity. “The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.” (Psalms 12:6,7).

On September 12, 1782, the U. S. Congresses endorsed and "highly approv[ed]" the printing of the Holy Bible and recommended this edition of the Bible (the KJV – printed by American patriot Robert Aitken) to the inhabitants of the United States for public and private use. In 1812, President Madison signed a federal bill which economically aided the Bible Society of Philadelphia in its goal of the mass distribution of the Bible. (“An Act for the relief of the Bible Society of Philadelphia” Approved February 2, 1813 by Congress). Noah Webster said in 1832 that "The principals of all genuine liberties and applied laws and administrations ought to be drawn form the Bible and sustained by its authority. The man therefore who weakens or who destroys the divine authority of that book may be accessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer."

In April of 1607, after four long months at sea, one-hundred and four English colonists landed on the south coast of Virginia, where they set up camp on a sandy stretch of land near what is now Virginia Beach. One of the first acts of the colonists after they landed in Virginia on April 26 was to erect a wooden cross on the shore at Cape Henry. They named their settlement Jamestown, in honor of King James I of England, and then kneeled down to dedicate the new land to Jesus Christ. It was at the foot of this cross that Rev. Robert Hunt led the newly arrived settlers of the Virginia company in public prayer, thanking God for their safe journey, and recommitting themselves to God's plan and purpose for this new world. The Virginia Charter of 1606 reveals that part of their reason for coming to America was to propagate "the Christian religion to such people as yet live in darkness and miserable ignorance of the true knowledge and worship of God."

Within the Capital rotunda can be seen the painting of the departure of the pilgrims from Holland to America. A leader of the pilgrims, William Brewster, has an open Bible on his lap with the words, "The New Testament of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ." On the sail of the small ship can be seen the phrase, "God with us." This marks well the entire lifestyle of these men and women who have been called the parents of our Republic. From their earliest years in England through the establishment of the Plymouth colony their words and actions reveal their entire life was centered around God and doing his will.

William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth Plantation for thirty-three years relates how in their early years in Scurvy, England these peoples lives "became enlightened by the word of God and had their ignorance and sins discovered unto them, and began by His grace to reform their lives." But this enlightening brought much persecution from the religious system of England, and after some years of enduring evil the pilgrims "shook off this yoke of anti-Christian bondage and joined themselves by a covenant of the Lord into a church estate in the fellowship of the Gospel to walk in all His ways whatsoever it should cost them, the Lord assisting them."

This desire to worship God freely was costly. They were exiled to Holland where they encountered persecutions, poverty and much hard work, but by God's grace and their faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ and his word they were able to overcome the difficulties. After twelve years in Holland they decided to sail to the new land of America. Their decision was prompted by a desire to find a home where they could more freely worship God and that was more conducive to raising godly children. They were also motivated, in the words of Bradford, by "a great hope and inward zeal of laying some good foundation, or at least to make some way thereunto for the propagating and advancing of the Gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world. Yeah, though they should be but even as stepping stones unto others for the performing of so great a work."

Upon arriving in America, before leaving the ship, the pilgrims drew up their own governmental compact which states, "Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first colony in the Northerne Parts of Virginia; doe, by these Presents, solemnly and mutually in the Presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick." This document, The Mayflower Compact (signed on 11 Nov. 1620), placed the pilgrim's civil government on a firm Christian base and was the beginning of American constitutional government. Upon arriving on shore, the pilgrims fell to their knees and blessed and thanked God and confirmed their reliance upon Him.

In the next decade God led many other men and women to America, individuals who had the same desire for religious and civil liberty. In the spring of 1630 some one-thousand Puritans sailed to America under the leadership of John Winthrop. A statue in the Capital honors this man whom historian John Fiske called "The Moses of the great Puritan exodus." While at sea in passage to America Winthrop wrote a model of Christian charity which contains their reasons for starting a new colony and the goals they wished to accomplish. Winthrop spoke of their desire to "be as a city upon a hill, that all the people of the earth could look upon and then say of their own land, 'Lord make it like that of the Puritan colony'."

President Reagan often spoke of this vision that our pilgrim and Puritan fathers had for America: "You may call it mysticism if you will, but I have always believed there had to be some divine plan that put these great continents here, in the western hemisphere between the two great oceans, to be found by people who had such a love of freedom and a desire for that kind of freedom in their hearts: that they would uproot themselves from their home-lands and from every part of the world come here to create this country."

We have been an example throughout the world as a godly nation. However, as we have forgotten that it was the Lord who made us a nation we have also failed to be a model of Christian charity in various ways. We must remember as Winthrop wrote that "If we shall deal falsely with our God and His work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world." How tragic that this prophetic insight has begun to be fulfilled.

Within the Capital rotunda is a carved relief of a gentleman who most certainly did not deal falsely with his God. Quaker William Penn was given the land between New York and Maryland in 1681. He said that "My God that has given it to me will, I believe, bless and make it the seed of a nation." In 1682 Penn wrote the colony's frame of government to establish "laws that shall best preserve true Christian and civil liberty in opposition to all un-Christian, licentious and un-just practices, whereby God may have His due, Caesar his due and the people their due." Thomas Jefferson called Penn "The greatest law-giver the world has produced." Penn, who's wisdom was "derived from that book of Gospel statutes", recognized Christian character as the basis of good government. At a later time William Penn told the Russian tsar, Peter the Great, that "If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God: and to do that, thou must be ruled by Him."

Not only was God the foundation of these colonies, but the Christian religion was central to every other colony in America as well. These early Americans saw that God desired to establish for Himself a nation where the church of Jesus Christ had the liberty to grow to maturity and to be a light to the entire world. When we speak of our founding fathers we are in a large part speaking of their colonial clergy. They not only educated the people, but were involved in every aspect of the life of America. Many statues in our Capital honor these clergy-men who colonized our states, wrote our laws and constitutions, established our schools and universities, trained our leaders and served as judges and lawyers: they were actively involved in every aspect of the development of America. Ministers literally discipled our nation. Besides founding colonies and writing our laws, they preached many sermons dealing with government in public affairs. These election sermons, artillery sermons, and thanksgiving and fast-day sermons began as early as 1633 and continued until the late 19th century.

How ironic it is to see in recent years the persecution that has been leveled against Christians for attempting to participate in the political process. In a nation literally founded and nurtured by Christians and built upon Biblical principles, how can it be that some people would prevent devout Christians from being involved in public policies as well as holding elected office?

Our forefathers understood that the birth of this nation marked the birth of the first Christian nation in history. Christian, not because all who founded it were Christians, but because it was founded upon Christian principles. Our sixth president, John Quincy Adams stated, “The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected, in one indissoluble bond the principle of civil government with the principles of Christianity.” Known as the “Father of the Constitution”, our fourth president, James Madison said, “We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We’ve staked the future of all our political institutions upon our capacity…to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.” (1778 to the General Assembly of the State of Virginia). The Supreme Court has concurred with this a number of times. For example, in 1892 it declared, "Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise. And in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian. This is a Christian nation."

Tragically, many of our modern day judges and politicians no longer share the same biblical convictions as those of earlier generations of Americans. The founding fathers and successive leaders (Presidents, Congressmen, judges, et al) for centuries clearly understood the importance of our biblical Christian foundations. If we, as a nation, will turn back to God from our present course of deterioration, there may still be hope for the United States. “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” (II Chron. 7:14). “And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.” (Isa. 1:26)

The colonist's Christian beliefs and their firm reliance upon God's protection proved invaluable throughout the Revolutionary war and the establishing of the nation of the United States of America. This protection of God was certainly upon the father of our nation, George Washington. Washington, in a letter to his brother reported, "But by the all powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human expectation." When the war for independence began Washington was selected as General of the Army of the United States. The day after he took charge he issued orders requiring, "All Officers and soldiers not engaged in actual duty to attend divine services; to implore the blessings of heaven upon the means used for their safety and defense."

The colonists continued to pray and rely upon God throughout the war. During the harsh winter of 1777 and '78 when the American troops were suffering at Valley Forge, Washington could often be found upon his knees within the woods, laying the cause of his bleeding country at the throne of grace. In the prayer room of the Capital we can see in the stained glass window the kneeling figure of George Washington. Behind him a prayer from the first verse of Psalms sixteen is etched, "Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust."

Washington was observed by his troops, his Officers and various civilians to regularly pray in his tent as well as in secluded groves. On May sixth 1982, President Reagan remarked on this event in his national day of prayer proclamation: "I've said before that the most sublime picture in American history is of George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge. That image personifies a people who know that it is not enough to depend on our own courage and goodness, we must also seek help from God, our Father and preserver."

Contained within our constitution and declaration are ideas that our biblical concepts, such as the rule of law, fair trial under the law, religious freedom, private property rights and the recognition that rights are granted not by their government, but by God. These ideas and others would never have come forth in America were it not for God and the Bible -- both permeated the early life of this nation.

For example, after rededication of the constitution George Washington was elected as the President. The inauguration was on April 30th, 1789. On the morning Washington was inaugurated, a general prayer meeting was held in New York city to commit the new government to the holy protection and blessings of the Most High. This was not unique because, as we have already seen, private and public prayer permeated colonial America.

Through some of the people and events that shaped America's beginning, we have seen that God and those principles found in His holy word, are primarily the source and the basis for our nations existence and freedoms. Our U.S. house of representatives summed it up well in a resolve passed in 1854. Based on an extensive study of the influence of Christianity in America, Congress declared, that as a nation our posterity, past and future will be dependant upon Almighty God. They went on to say that "The great and vital element in our system is the belief of our people in the pure doctrines and divine truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ."

Those outside America have recognized the source of our liberty and greatness as well. In the 1830's the French political philosopher, Alexis de Tocqueville, came to America to discover the source of our freedom and greatness. He concluded: "On my arrival in the United States, the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention. And the longer I stayed there, the more I perceived the great political consequences resulting from this new state of things. The Americans combined the notion of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.... I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her... rivers, and it was not there; in her fertile fields and boundless prairies, and it was not there; in her rich mines and her vast world commerce, and it was not there; not until I went to the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflamed with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good; and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."

Alexis de Tocqueville further stated that the United States Of America is "the place where the Christian religion has kept the greatest real power over men's souls; and nothing better demonstrates how useful and natural it is to man, since the country where it now has the widest sway is both the most enlightened and the freest."

The great nineteenth century statesman and politician, Daniel Webster said, "If we and our posterity shall be true to the Christian religion, if we and they shall live always in the fear of God and shall respect His commandments,... we may have the highest hopes of the future fortunes of our country. But if we and our posterity neglect religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity."

Charles A. Goodrich, a Christian minister and researcher in the nineteenth century, said, “Thus it is evident that wickedness and infidelity are certainly, though sometimes slowly, punished by Him who is just, although merciful: and if he has hitherto graciously refrained from visiting the sins of this nation with the punishment which they deserve, let us not be vain of that exemption: let us not attribute it to any merit of our own; but rather let it afford an additional motive to our gratitude and praise; let us unfeignedly thank him for his tender mercies daily vouchsafed to us; and, while we bow before him in humble adoration, let us earnestly endeavour to preserve our worship of him, free from all ungodliness and superstition.” (Charles A. Goodrich, Book Of Martyrs, Hartford, 1830, p.66,67)

Since the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the birth of The United States Of America on July 4th, 1776 our nation has been under spiritual attack and many people have been influenced by a number of un-biblical religious denominations and cults. Spiritual warfare over the hearts, minds and souls of Americans began years before 1776 and continues unabated to this day. Over the years there has been an increase in the number of un-biblical and anti-biblical doctrines of men [Free Masonry, Catholicism, Mormonism, Scientology, Jehovah's Witnesses, not to mention Eastern mysticism, et al] which have crept into our nation as well as our churches and homes. The corrupt religious system of Rome, for instance, has gained popularity in the States with the influx of Roman Catholics since the mid to late 1800's. This coincides with the increasing acceptance of so called “Christianized” pagan holidays by many professing ‘Christians’.

The Lord Jesus Christ forewarned his disciples that in the latter days many would come in his name “and shall deceive many” (Mark 13:6). He repeatedly urged us to “Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things” (Luke 21:36). He said, “Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.” (Luke 22:46). Sadly, many people today have failed to heed the Lord's words and have fallen asleep spiritually. “But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat” (Matt. 13:25). With the proliferation of Charismatic type ‘Christian’ movements across North America in recent decades, millions of Americans, including the majority of our political and religious leaders, have compromised true Christian standards and true holiness, and have been given over to a reprobate mind. Having lukewarm forms of godliness, many have compromised God's word and replaced the words of the Holy Bible with psychology, philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: who change the truth of God into a lie, and worship and serve the creature (man) more than the Creator (the Lord Jesus Christ) who is blessed for ever. (II Tim. 3:1-5; Col. 2:8; Rom. 1:22-27)
“I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.” “I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.” “for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.” ( Isa. 66:4; Ezk. 23:30; Hos. 4:12)

In the book of Hosea God said, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6). Jesus said, “Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.” (Matt. 22:29). As the mainstream liberal (socialist) news media, Hollywood movie producers, major TV networks and others continue their all out campaign of mis-information – mis-leading the American people – and as most Americans, including many who claim to be ‘Christians’, have turned away their ears from the truth and have been turned unto fables, America will surely pay a great price for her rebellion. If there was ever a time when we needed to return to the true God with our whole heart, the time is now. The day of reckoning is upon us.



All U.S. citizens to receive National ID card by 2008
Every man, woman and child will soon be required “to receive a mark [a Micro-
chip Implant - ID number] in their right hand, or in their foreheads” (Rev. 13:16,17).

Benjamin Franklin said, ”They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."  

See also CATHOLIC INQUISITION VIDEO  

and ANTICHRIST REVEALED IN SCRIPTURE

FOOTNOTE

THE PRICE OF FREEDOM
The Signers of The Constitution

On July 4, 1776, delegates to the Continental Congress voted to accept the declaration of Independence in Philadelphia’s Independence Hall.  On August 2, fifty-six men signed their names to the historic document, giving birth to a new nation as they declared their independence from Great Britain.

Have you ever wondered what happened to the men who signed the Declaration of Independence?  Who were these "super-patriots"? Most were well-educated, prosperous businessmen and professionals.  Two dozen were lawyers or judges; nine were farmers or plantation owners; eleven were merchants.  Among them were also physicians, politicians, educators, and a minister; several were sons of pastors.

Here is the documented fate of that gallant fifty-six.

Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy.  He sold his home and properties to pay his debts and died in rags.

Thomas Nelson, Jr., of Virginia, raised $2 million to supply our French allies by offering his property as collateral.  Because he was never reimbursed by the struggling new government, he was unable to repay the note when it came due – wiping out his entire estate.  In the final battle of Yorktown, Nelson urged George Washington to fire on his home as it was occupied by British General Cornwallis.  Nelson’s home was destroyed, leaving him bankrupt when he died.

Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly.  He served in the congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.

Vandals and enemy soldiers looted the properties of Bartlett, Ellery, Clymer, Hall, Gwinnet, Walton, Heward, Rutledge, and Middleton; the latter four captured and imprisoned.

Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed and his wife imprisoned.  She later died from the brutal treatment she received. 

After signing the Declaration, Richard Stockton, a State Supreme Court Justice, rushed back to his estate near Princeton in an effort to save his wife and children.  Although he and his family found refuge with friends, a Tory betrayed him.  Judge Stockton was pulled from bed in the night and beaten by British soldiers.  Then he was jailed and deliberately starved.  After his release, with his home burned and all of his possessions destroyed, he and his family were forced to live off charity.

John Hart was driven from his wife’s bedside as she was dying.  Their thirteen children fled for their lives.  His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste.  For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished.  A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart

Lewis Morris and Philip Livingston suffered fates similar to Hart’s.

John Hancock, one of the wealthiest men in New England, stood outside Boston one terrible evening of the war and said,  "Burn, Boston, though it makes John Hancock a beggar, if the public good requires it."  He lost most of his fortune during the war, having given over $100,000 to the cause of freedom.

Caesar Rodney, Delaware statesman, was gravely ill with facial cancer. Unless he returned to England for treatment, his life would end.  Yet Rodney sealed his fate by signing the Declaration of Independence. He was one of several who fulfilled their pledge with their lives.

As a captain in the Continental Army, Nathan Hale volunteered to penetrate enemy lines to spy for the American cause.  He was captured by the British.  On the day of his execution by hanging in September 1776, Hale spoke these last words: "I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

In all, five of the fifty-six were captured by the British and tortured.  Twelve had their homes ransacked, looted, confiscated by the enemy, or burned to the ground.  Seventeen lost their fortunes.  Two lost their sons in the army; another had two sons captured. Nine of the fifty-six lost their lives in the war, from wounds or hardships inflicted by the enemy.

These were only a few of the examples of the sacrifices made by those fifty-six courageous men who boldly pledged their all to support the Declaration of Independence.  Of those who took the pledge to defend the sovereignty of their nation and the liberty of its people, many were forced to pay a heavy price before that bold vision could be realized.

It is important to remember this about them:  despite the hardships they encountered -- regardless of the heavy price exacted by that pledge -- not a single one of them defected or failed to honor his pledge.  These men of means, prosperity, and security, who enjoyed much ease and luxury in their personal living, considered liberty to be so much more important than security that they pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor.  And they fulfilled that pledge.  And freedom was born.

Declaration of Independence of the United States of America

The Holy Bible and America's Founding Fathers

The Holy Bible was found to have directly contributed to 34 percent of all quotes by the Founding Fathers. This was discovered after reviewing 15,000 items from Founding Fathers, (including newspaper articles, pamphlets, books, monographs, etc.). The other main sources that the Founders quoted include: Montesquieu, Blackstone, Locke, Pufendorf, etc., who themselves took 60 percent of their quotes directly from the Bible. Direct and indirect quotes combined reveal that 94 percent of all of the quotes of the Founding Fathers are derived from the Bible.

What Leading Americans have said about the Bible

"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." George Washington, 1st president of the United States – Haley's Bible Handbook, 18.

"My custom is to read four to five chapters [of the Bible] every morning immediately after rising from my bed. It employs about an hour of my time..." John Q. Adams, 6th president of the United States, in a letter to his son, September 1811.

"That book [the Bible], sir, is the rock on which our republic rests." Andrew Jackson, 7th president of the United States – Haley's Bible Handbook, 19.

"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education." Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States – Distilled Wisdom, 36.

"The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life." Herbert C. Hoover, 31st president of the United States – (Charles E. Jones. The Books You Read (Harrisburg, PA: Executive Books, 1985), 116.

"The nearer I approach to the end of my pilgrimage, the clearer is the evidence of the divine origin of the Bible" Samuel F.B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph – Henry M. Morris. Men of Science - Men of God (El Cajon, CA.: Master Books, Creation Life Publishers, Inc., 1990), 47.

"Why may not the Bible, and especially the New Testament, without note or comment, be read and taught as a divine revelation in the [school] - its general precepts expounded, its evidences explained and its glorious principles of morality inculcated?... Where can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?" U.S. Supreme Court, court's opinion written by Justice Joseph Story in 1844 – Vidal v. Girard's Executors, 43 U.S. 205-206.

     Here are a few interesting and important little known facts about American public school education. The primary purpose for establishing schools in America was to teach everyone to be able to read and understand the Bible; not the corrupt text of the superstitious religious organization of the Middle Ages, but the traditional preserved text of Christianity. Our first college, Harvard, in its original rules charged “every student to lay Christ in the bottom as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning.” In fact, of the first one-hundred and eight colleges in America, one-hundred and six were founded by and for the Christian faith. “In founding Harvard, Yale, and other American colleges, the propagation of Christianity as a leading purpose of higher, as well as of popular education, was avowed by their founders, and by all provisions and grants of government.”(The Bible in Schools, W. W. Everts, 1870, p. 9). Generations of American children were taught the fundamentals of life from public school text books whose pages contained copious amounts of scriptures from the Holy Bible (see The New Instructor, 1803, The American Spelling Book, 1816, The American Spelling Book, 1822, The Elementary Spelling Book, 1842, Right of the Bible in Our Public Schools, 1859, The Bible in Schools, 1870, Bible Readings For Schools, 1897). Patrick Henry, known as the "Orator of Liberty", said, “It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!”

     The same superstitious religious organization that for centuries suppressed the true scriptures and burned both Bibles and martyrs, is the same religious organization responsible for helping to take the Holy Bible out of our public school class rooms and corrupting the true scriptures today (see Right of the Bible in Our Public Schools, Religious Freedom and Catholicism, Early Corruption Of The Scriptures, and Papal Sovereignty). The following books are confirmation of the afore mentioned facts:

The New Instructor, 1803  

The American Spelling Book, 1816  

The American Spelling Book, 1822  

The Elementary Spelling Book, 1842  

Religious Freedom and Catholicism 		  Right of the Bible in Our Public Schools, 1859  

The Bible in Schools, 1870  

Bible Readings For Schools, 1897  

Early Corruption Of The Scriptures  

Papal Sovereignty, 1917


And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. (Revelation 18:4,5)

For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. (1 Thessalonians 5:3)

Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. (Isaiah 26:20,21)

For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
But unto you that fear my name [and his name is called The Word of God – Rev. 19:13] shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts. (Malachi 4:1-3)


"Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes... but for mine holy name’s sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen...." (Ezekiel 36:22,31)
"This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD." (Isaiah 54:17)


HISTORICAL BOOKS & DOCUMENTATION OF FACTS

FOXE's BOOK OF MARTYRS, 1563  

DEFENSE OF THE TRUE HOLY SCRIPTURES, 1583  

CONFUTATION OF THE RHEMISH TESTAMENT, 1583  

FOOT OUT OF THE SNARE: Jesuits in England, 1624  

DISCOVERY OF THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY, 1679  

PAPAL PERSECUTION OF FRENCH PROTESTANTS, 1712  

THE PERSECUTION OF PROTESTANTS, 1714  

TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE INQUISITION, 1722  

PROPHECIES ON THE CHURCH OF PAPAL ROME, 1776  

THE INQUISITION IN SPAIN, 1800s  

THE HISTORY OF THE INQUISITION, 1816  

THE INQUISITION UNMASKED, Volume 1, 1816  
THE INQUISITION UNMASKED, Volume 2, 1816  

NOTES ON THE RHEMISH TESTAMENT, 1817  

APOSTASY OF THE CHURCH OF ROME, 1818  

THE MYSTERY OF POPERY UNVEILED, 1821  

ROMANISM VERSES THE BIBLE, 1827  

BOOK OF MARTYRS, Charles Goodrich, 1830  

BOOK OF MARTYRS, Martin Ruter, 1830  

TRIAL OF ANTICHRIST, 1830  

HISTORY OF THE INQUISITION, 1834  

POPISH FRAUDS DETECTED & DISCLOSED, 1835  

REVOCATION OF THE EDICT OF NANTES, 1839  

HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF IRELAND, 1841  

A HISTORY OF THE HOLY CATHOLIC INQUISITION, 1843  

PAPAL ROME AS IT IS, 1843  

POPERY, THE ENEMY OF SCRIPTURE, 1844  

THE JESUITS, AS THEY WERE AND ARE, 1845  

CHRIST AND ANTICHRIST, 1846  

POPERY AND THE UNITED STATES, 1847 		  RECORDS OF RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION, Volume 1, 1848  
RECORDS OF RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION, Volume 2, 1849  
RECORDS OF RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION, Volume 3, 1851  

THE INQUISITION REVEALED, 1851  

DEALINGS WITH THE INQUISITION, 1851  

THE BRAND OF DOMINIC, 1853  

WHAT POPERY IS WHEN ARMED WITH POWER, 1853  

A PROTESTANT's APPEAL TO CATHOLIC STANDARDS, 1853  

POPERY UNMASKED, 1854  

HISTORY OF THE JESUITS, 1854  

MODERN JESUITISM, 1855  

THE PAPAL CONSPIRACY EXPOSED, 1855  

THE BIBLE IN SCHOOLS, 1870  

PAPAL TRUTHFULNESS, 1879  

PAPAL CURSES, 1880  

THE ENGINEER CORPS OF HELL, 1883  

THE REVISION REVISED, 1883  

THE JESUITS; A COMPLETE HISTORY, 1885  

THE ITALIAN INQUISITION, 1885  

IRELAND AND THE POPE, 1888  

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL LAYMAN's HANDBOOK, 1891  

THE TRADITIONAL TEXT OF THE HOLY BIBLE, 1896  

CAUSES OF CORRUPTION OF THE TRADITIONAL TEXT, 1896  

BIBLE READINGS FOR SCHOOLS, 1897  

THE INQUISITION IN MEXICO, 1899  

THE PAPAL COURT, 1902  

ROMANISM: A MENACE TO THE NATION, 1912  

THE JESUITS IN HISTORY, 1914  

PAPAL SOVEREIGNTY, 1917  

THE SUPPRESSED TRUTH, 1922

————————— Articles and Books by Various Authors —————————

1 JOHN 5:7 - KJV "ERRORS"  

ABORTION FACTS  

ALLEGED KJV ERRORS: Easter/Passover  

AMERICA: REPENT OR PERISH!  

ANOTHER BIBLE - ANOTHER GOSPEL  

APOCRYPHA  

ARE YOU A MORMON ?  

BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHETS  

BIBLE VERSIONS - WHICH IS THE REAL WORD OF GOD?  

CHRIST'S MASS - HISTORY REVEALS THE TRUTH  

CHRISTMAS 2000 Years Before Christ  

CORRUPT LEXICONS AND DICTIONARIES  

COULD THIS BE THE MARK OF THE BEAST ?  

FOX's BOOK of MARTYRS  

FREE MASONRY EXPOSED  

GOT MORALS ?  

HISTORY OF BAPTISM  

HISTORY OF THE RED LETTER EDITION  

IMPORTANT NEWS ARTICLES  

IN AWE OF THY WORD  

IN DEFENSE OF ERASMUS  

IS SUNDAY SACRED AND HOLY ?  

JESUS' BIRTH - THE UNTOLD STORY  

KING JAMES VERSION BIBLE FACTS  

KJV 1611 - THE MYTH OF EARLY REVISIONS 		  LUCIFER: ANGEL OF LIGHT - FATHER OF LIES  

NEW AGE BIBLE VERSIONS  

OLD TESTAMENT TEXTS  

ONLY ONE GOD  

PROPHECIES OF THE MESSIAH FULFILLED IN JESUS CHRIST  

REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY  

RETURN TO THE OLD PATHS -- EXCERPT FROM THE MORNING STARS  

ROMAN CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT CONFESSIONS ABOUT SUNDAY  

SCRIPTURES FROM THE HOLY BIBLE  

SEPTUAGINT  

SPIRITUAL   ADULTERY  

THE BIG BANG  

THE CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD (by a former priest)  

THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND  

THE GOD OF HEAVEN OR THE god OF THIS WORLD ?  

THE ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT  

THE SEVEN SEALS OF THE HOLY BIBLE  

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS  

THE TRUE SABBATH  

WHAT'S WRONG WITH HALLOWEEN  

WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED ?  

WHO IS KING JAMES ?