Our Christian Heritage
To understand the standard of justice that is the very foundation of our Constitution let’s turn to history, comparing the failure of humanistic atheism in the former Soviet Union with the success story of United States for the first two hundred years as “one nation under God.” This leaves little to be doubted!
On November 19, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln delivered his stirring Gettysburg Address a few months after the great battle, which marked the turning point of the Civil War.
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is engraved in enduring stone within the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. This memorial is not primarily erected to remember how great Lincoln was, but the truth and solemnity of what was said is what made him great!
Lincoln’s opening remark was to remind the people of what brought our forefathers to this nation and the standard upon which this nation was conceived and brought forth.
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great Civil War testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated can long endure.”
Lincoln concluded his address by saying:
“that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we hear highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the earth.”
The standard upon which this nation was so conceived and dedicated was clearly established by the highest court of our nation in 1892 where it said:
“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 civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian.”
These teachings “of the Redeemer of Mankind” include the Old and New Testament precepts upon which our Constitution was founded. At the constitutional Convention on June 28, 1787, Benjamin Franklin made this statement:
“We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ‘except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.’ I firmly believe this; and also I believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel.”
Benjamin Franklin helped draft the Declaration of Independence, and was one of its signers. During the signing ceremonies, John Hancock warned his fellow delegates:
“We must be unanimous; there must be no pulling different ways; we must all hang together.
“Yes,” Franklin replied, “We must indeed all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
Declaring a national day of prayer and fasting following the first Battle of the Bull Run, President Lincoln said:
“It is fit and becoming in all people, at all times, to acknowledge and revere the Supreme Government of God; to bow in humble submission … in full conviction that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.”
Our Constitution and Declaration of Independence were drafted upon the foundation of the Old and New Testament precepts as the standard of right and justice. This “full conviction,” has proved to be the “testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated can long endure,” as Lincoln said more than 150 years ago.
The evidence that our Founding Fathers built America on Judeo-Christian principles is written on nearly every building, memorial and monument in our nation’s Capital.
In fact to name a few:
1). “The heavens declare the glory of God” (psalm 19:1) is engraved on a wall of The Library of Congress.
2).A sculpture of Moses with the Ten Commandments appears over the east portico of the Supreme Court and several other places throughout the Court.
3). “Holiness to the Lord” is engraved into a tribute block of the Washington Monument.
4). A heart felt prayer from President John Adams is carved into the stone fireplace in the White House State Dinning Room: “I pray to heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that hereafter inhabit it.”
This Christian Heritage is what Darwinism (i.e., humanistic atheism as our national religion) is stealing from this nation through the use of RAW JUDICAL POWER in the name of “Separation of Church and State”. Freedom of religion is not to be understood as forced teaching of Darwinism!