It’s time to change direction. It’s been a slow crawl away from America’s founding principles. We have been the proverbial fog in the pot. In many things we have gone 180 from the original intent. You can trace back over the last century the picking away of true American history and slowly removing God from our governance. Yes I said our governance. The more I study American history and I mean real American history, the more I see how important faith and Biblical principles were to the founders.
The United States IS a Christian nation. Any rudimentary study of America's founding shows that faith was interwoven with much of what they did. Many religious leaders greatly influenced the writers of the founding documents as well as some of the founders were religious people. Much of the principles put forth in our constitution were based on teaching and morals from the Bible. Looking at the original intent as well as many rulings since shows this.The evidence can fill volumes. The congress held church services in the capital, sought counsel from religious leaders, opened congress in prayer and even paid for the first printing of the Bible in America to name just a few.
Prayer was an important part of writing the constitution. They were struggling to agree on points for the constitution. Ben Franklin, the oldest delegate, asked to address the convention. He reminded them of the Divine Protection they had witnessed in the struggle to break free from Britain. He reminded them that they had gone to prayer often during this struggle and that their prayers were answered. He said “I have lived, sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?” He implored that they seek the “assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in his assembly every morning before we proceed to business..” Their discussions changed after that. They began making progress, though it was slow, the process gained new life and a new focus. They worked together to form a form of government that has stood the test of time and has been a light and a beacon to the world ever since.
Slowly over time we have not passed on the truths and faith of our founding fathers and the true beginnings of our nation. America is truly an exceptional nation. The first of it’s kind. One where we acknowledge that our rights come from God and not the government. One where the people are in charge of what government can and cannot do not the other way around. We need to take back the education of our children. Teach them our history, the good and the bad, the truth and the principles and remove the lies, twists and omissions in the modern history books.
July 4th is a day we remember not just celebrate this great nation but to work to bring her back to that standard and keep her there.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.- Declaration of Independence
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.-Preamble to the Constitution
