"Separation of Church and State" is a LEFTIST MYTH
"Separation of Church and State" is nothing but a Leftist anti-God, anti-Christian LIE concocted to silence Christians and replace God with State. There is NO SUCH STATEMENT OR DOCTRINE in ANY of our founding documents of a separation of Church and State.
It is the Left intentionally misrepresenting Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists, assuring them that we would respect and protect their religious freedoms from government interference. It's a personal letter, and not part of our Constitution. Thomas Jefferson himself had no part in the creation of our Constitution, nor did he participate in the Congressional debates at the Constitutional Convention. Neither did he even offer an opinion regrading it via letter or messenger on its creation to the Framers, for at the time, Thomas Jefferson was in France serving as our Ambassador and only knew of proceedings through newspapers and letters arriving from America weeks after the events detailed had occurred.
Did you know that Church services used to be held in the U.S. Capitol Building, and more specifically in the Chamber of the House of Representatives? True. And, these services were attended by Thomas Jefferson when he served as both Vice President and President. I'd like to see someone explain away this inconvenient FACT.
The FACTS are that the United States of America was founded upon Christian principles. But don't just take my word for it. Here's what the Founders themselves said ...
“We recognize no sovereign but Got, and no king but Jesus!” — John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress, April 18, 1775
“We have staked the whole future of America’s civilization…upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.” — James Madison
“The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.” — Noah Webster
“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.” — Patrick Henry¹
“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.” — John Jay, Letter to Jedidiah Morse, 1797
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” — John Adams
“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual. Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.” — John Hancock, History of the United States of America, Vol. II, p. 229.
“Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence toward Almighty God. What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be.” — John Adams, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, Vol. III, p. 9.
“I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last solemn act of my official life, by commending the Interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them to his holy keeping.” — George Washington, Address to Congress on resigning his Commission, December 23rd, 1783
“The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave… These may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institutes of the great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament.” — Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists, 1772
“In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed…No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.” — Noah Webster, Preface to the 1828 edition of Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language
“Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.” — Samuel Adams, Letter to John Trumbull, 1778
“The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.” — Benjamin Rush, On the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic. 1806
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¹Patrick Henry later traveled to France and became deeply involved in the French Revolution, where he started, like all the French Socialist revolutionaries, to become an atheist. This changed near the end of his life, when he returned to Christianity and would read the Bible for hours on end. On August 20th, 1796, he wrote to his daughter “Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of the number; and indeed, that some good people think I am no Christian. This thought gives me much more pain than the appellation of Tory; because I think religion of infinitely higher importance than politics; and I find much cause to reproach myself that I have lived so long, and have given no decided and public proofs of my being a Christian. But, indeed, my dear child, this is a character which I prize far above all this world has, or can boast.” On his deathbed two years later, his last words were, “Doctor, I wish you to observe how real and beneficial the religion of Christ is to a man about to die....I am, however, much consoled by reflecting that the religion of Christ has, from its first appearance in the world, been attacked in vain by all the wits, philosophers, and wise ones, aided by every power of man, and its triumphs have been complete.” In his Last Will And Testament, he wrote, “This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.”
(Page illustration is a print of the U.S. Capitol Building in 1800)
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