CHRISTIAN SENSE
BY TOM SMIKOSKI
A publication devoted to making sense out of the twenty-first century.
MARCH OF THE GODLESS
By:TOM SMIKOSKI
On Saturday, November 2, 2002, Washington will be invaded by the godless.
Obviously, this is nothing new. After all, they are already present in
Congress, the Senate, and most assuredly the Supreme Court. But this
November will be different. While most Americans will be thinking about
the coming Christmas Season and preparing for Thanksgiving, the day we give thanks to
our God for His many Blessings, thousands of godless individuals will
march on our Capital.
This "Godless Americans March" is being orchestrated to halt the growth
of religion in government, which they say has taken place under George
Bush. They claim that America was founded as a secular nation. As a secular
nation there is no place for religion in politics or government. .
I strongly disagree. America was not founded as a secular nation, but as a
Christian nation. The Constitution does not guarantee the separation of
Church and State. The constitution only guarantees that we will not create
a state religion. We will not force people to join a Church. Our Christian
Government guarantees that people of any faith are welcome and are free to
worship however they want. This is true Christianity. .
Patrick Henry, one of our founding fathers and true patriots once
declared,"It cannot be emphasized too strongly that this great nation
was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions,
but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this reason peoples of other
faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity and freedom of worship
here." .
Our great Nation is a God-fearing nation who's very roots are intertwined
with the New Testament, and who's laws are based on the guidelines set forth
by God in the Ten Commandments. This is how our nation grew and prospered
for almost two hundred years. It has only been within the past forty years
or so that our nation has been steered away from religious principals and guided
down the path of perdition. This guiding was accelerated during the eight
years preceding Bush. .
What happened? What went wrong? What happened began in the early sixties,
but had its roots in Europe two hundred years ago. While we in the New
World were fighting for our freedom from England, there was a cultural
revolution taking place in Europe. While we in the New World were
establishing a Country based on Christian beliefs, they were tearing down
churches and attempting to destroy Christianity. We were building a
Christian Government, they were driving religion out of government. .
The Godless philosophy which swept across Europe became the very corner
stone of the Communist Party. Lenin banned religion from Russia claiming
there can be no coexistence between God and Communism. .
I believe that when Nikita Khrushchev slammed his shoe on the desk of the
United Nations and shouted "We will bury you" he meant philosophically and
not militarily. If that was the case, then despite the fall of Communism ,
they are on the verge of burying us. It was the exportation of their
philosophies to our universities and young people which spread through
our Country like a cancer, literally attempting to destroy us from the
inside out. Our young people no longer consider the Ten Commandments
or the Bible as a basis on which to consider right from wrong. Instead
they believe that "whatever feels good must be right". .
This is a far cry from the beliefs of our Founding Fathers. Make no
mistake, our forefathers founded this Nation on Religion. There was to
be no separation between Church and State. Far from it, Church and State
were to be working hand and hand. Our Constitution guaranteed it. .
Thomas Jefferson is considered by everyone to have been a strict
Constitutionalist. James Madison is sometimes called the father of the
Constitution. No one knew the Constitution better than these two
individuals. Yet, both Jefferson and Madison, had Congress appropriate
funds to help build missionary churches for the native Indians. Was
there a separation of Church and State? Obviously, the writers of the
Constitution were not aware of any. .
Our forefathers were very wise. They recognized the weaknesses of man.
They understood that power does indeed corrupt. For this reason they
established a system of checks and balances. They set up our government
with three branches. The Legislative (Congress) to write the laws. The
Executive (Presidency) to enforce the Laws. And Judicial (Supreme Court)
to insure that the Laws were Constitutional. .
Unfortunately many in Washington no longer believe in this process. They
pass laws which previously would have been ruled unconstitutional. They
pass these laws for their own personal gain and not for the benefit of
the Country. Many in Congress and the Senate push for immoral, unjust and
unconstitutional laws for financial and political gain. .
The Supreme Court whose job it was to prevent such laws is now as guilty
as very writers of the laws. The current Supreme Court no longer looks
at the Constitution as originally written. It no longer looks at the
thoughts and intentions of the writers. It no longer bases it's decisions
on the will of the Founding Fathers. The current Supreme Court has itself
become a Legislative body, re-writing the original document. .
Justice Scalia once asked, "What secret knowledge, one must wonder, is
breathed into lawyers when they become Justices of this Court". He went
on to say that, "day by day, case by case, The Court is busy designing a
Constitution for a Country I do not recognize". .
Our original Justices used the intentions of the framers in interpreting
the Law. They recognized that this Country was founded on Religious
principles. An example of this recognition can be found in the words
of our first Chief Justice to the Supreme Court, John Jay. "Providence
has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty
as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian Nation to select
and prefer Christians for their rulers." .
Further examples of Court rulings are as follows: .
In 1811, "Whatever strikes at the root of Christianity tends to the
dessolution of civil government."
In 1844, The Supreme Court ruled that, "the Bible and especially the New
Testament be taught in our public schools and its glorious principles of
morality".
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In 1892, in the case of The Church of the Holy Trinity vs The United
States, the Court ruled, "Our laws and our institutions must necessarily
be based upon the teachings of the Redeemer of Mankind. It is impossible
that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent, our
civil laws and our institutions are emphatically Christian….this is a
religious people…this is a Christian Nation." .
The interpretation of the Constitution, claiming that we are a Christian
Nation, continued from the founding of our Nation, throughout the nineteenth
century, and even well into the twentieth century: .
In 1952, The United States Supreme Court ruled:, "We are a religious people
whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being…When the State encourages
religious instruction or cooperates with religious authorities…it follows
in the best of our traditions. It then respects the religious nature of
our people and accommodates the public service to their spiritual needs.
To hold that it may not would be to find in our constitution a requirement
that the Government show a callous indifference to religious groups. That
would be preferring those who believe in no religion over those who do
believe.. We find no Constitutional requirement which makes it necessary
for government to be hostile to religion and to throw its weight against
efforts to widen the effective scope of religious influence".
This last ruling is very interesting because it goes against current
beliefs. Today we are constantly being told that religion has no place
in Government. Yet, isn't that showing a "callous indifference" and
favoritism towards "those who believe in no religion over those who do
believe." .
In 1954, Chief Justice Earl Warren, of a very liberal court, said, "I
believe that no one can read the history of our country without realizing
the Good Book and the Spirit of the Saviour Jesus Christ from the beginning
have been our guide and our genius".
No single essay could ever list the many statements from our Founding
Fathers, nor the many Supreme Court rulings to show the connection between
the United States of America and Christianity. There are volumes of books
and essays which describe this relationship. Yet, the Godless deny any
connection. .
Religion has been removed from the classrooms. The very mention of God
or Christianity are forbidden. The History books are being re-written
with any mention of God edited out and discarded. It is no wonder that
our children are growing up believing what they believe. They are being
deprived of some very basic fundamental truths about the beginning of our
Country. .
This November the Godless will march on Washington. This is their
Constitutional right. According to Patrick Henry they have that right
because we are a Christian Nation founded on, "the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
For this reason peoples of other faiths (even those without Faith) have
been afforded asylum, prosperity and freedom of worship here." .
However, they are marching to remove religion from Government. This cannot
be permitted. We must continue to pray for our Government, our leaders and
our Country. We must continue to elect politicians who are pro-religion.
We must continue to keep our Country as "one Nation under God". .
We must bring back into Government prayer, morality and the Ten Commandments. We must remove evil godless individuals from congress, the Senate, Supreme Court and all areas of Government. We must do these things and do then quickly before it is too late.
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The best way to accomplish these things is through prayer. For our God is a powerful God and He will act if we ask Him. So pray, pray and pray some more. Pray unceasingly
God Bless
TOM SMIKOSKI
Sources:.
Although many of the quotes used were found in numerous sources, the wording came from the following.
Freedom Flyer Ministries
http://freedomflyer.org/church_state_nv.htm
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Skellig St. Michael
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/1389/
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Restoring America
www.restoringamerica.org/archive/ religion/christian_nation.html - .
Raiders News Update
http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/lead-story.htm
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