The decline of a nation

.....Immediately after creating the
Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress voted to purchase and
import 20,000 copies of Scripture for the people of this nation.
Patrick Henry, who is called the firebrand of the American Revolution, is
still remembered for his words, "Give me liberty or give me death"; but in
current textbooks, the context of these words is omitted. Here is what he
actually said: "An appeal to arms and the God of hosts is all that is left
us. But we shall not fight our battle alone. There is a just God that
presides over the destinies of nations. The battle, sir, is not to the
strong alone. Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the
price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God. I know not what course
others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death."

These sentences have been erased from our textbooks. Was Patrick Henry a
Christian? The following year, 1776, he wrote this: "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. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been
afforded freedom of worship here."

Consider these words that Thomas Jefferson wrote in the front of his
well-worn Bible: "I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of
the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole country will
soon be rallied to the unity of our creator." He was also the chairman of
the American Bible Society, which he considered his highest and most
important role. On July 4, 1821, President Adams said, "The highest glory of
the American Revolution was this: "It connected in one indissoluble bond the
principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."

Calvin Coolidge, our 30th President of the United States reaffirmed this
truth when he wrote, "The foundations of our society and our government rest
so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support
them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in
our country." In 1782, the United States Congress voted this resolution:
"The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible
for use in all schools." William Holmes McGuffey is the author of the
McGuffey Reader, which was used for over 100 years in our public schools,
with over 125 million copies sold, until it was stopped in 1963.

President Lincoln called him the "Schoolmaster of the Nation." Listen to
these words of Mr. McGuffey: "The Christian religion is the religion of our
country. >From it are derived our nation, on the character of God, on the
great moral Governor of the universe. On its doctrines are founded the
peculiarities of our free Institutions From no source has the author drawn
more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. For all these extracts
from the Bible, I make no apology."

Of the first 108 universities founded in America, 106 were distinctly
Christian, including the first, Harvard University, chartered in 1636. In
the original Harvard Student Handbook, rule number 1 was that students
seeking entrance must know Latin and Greek so that they could study the
Scriptures: "Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed
to consider well, the main end of his life and studies, is, to know God and
Jesus Christ, which is eternal life, John 17:3; and therefore to lay Jesus
Christ as the only foundation for our children to follow the moral
principles of the Ten Commandments."

James Madison, the primary author of the Constitution of the United
States, said this: "We have staked the whole future of all our political
constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves
according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments."

Most of what you read in this article has been erased from our textbooks.
Revisionists have rewritten history to remove the truth about our country's
Christian roots. You are encouraged to share this with others, so that the
truth of our nation's history will be told. This information shared is only
a drop of cement to help secure a foundation that is crumbling daily in a
losing war that most of the country doesn't even know is raging on, in, and
around them....

Deu 4:7 For what nation [is there so] great, who [hath] God [so] nigh unto them, as the LORD our God [is] in all [things that] we call upon him [for]?
Psa 33:12 Blessed [is] the nation whose God [is] the LORD; [and] the people [whom] he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Pro 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin [is] a reproach to any people.
Isa 60:12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, [those] nations shall be utterly wasted.

 

Daisy,
you might look here;
http://users.ipa.net/~les/congress.html

 

It is interesting to see just how easy it is to get off track and onto things that mean nothing in a certain issue. In this issue the the decline of the nation is based on how our nation had turned from moral biblical principles, not on IF someone during the time of our founding was really saved.
Our nation was not founded on the idea of any one person being a real Christian, but on the moral obligations to the Christian faith. Those obligations we have turned from today and we are seeing the results.

 

Jefferson has nothing to do with it. How our nation was founded and what it stood for is however. That is what we are departing from, not Jefferson.