One more for good measure ok R2. I stand by my original statement. America was patterned after Christianity.
The bible and its use in schools:
“[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivation and noble. The reverence for the Sacred Book that is thus early impressed lasts long; and probably if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.”
Fisher Ames, Author of the House Language for the First Amendment
“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... What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be. I have examined all [religions]… and the result is that the Bible is the best Book in the world. It contains more of my little philosophy than all than all the libraries I have seen.”
John Adams
“The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.”
John Jay, Original Chief-Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Is the intent of the First Amendment to “create a complete and permanent separation of the spheres of religious activity and civil authority.” ?? As stated by a contemporary Court member.
This absurd claim completely reverses the Founders’ intent:
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.”
George Washington
“One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law…There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity s lying at its foundations…I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society.”
Joseph Story, U.S. Supreme Court Justice; Father of American Jurisprudence
“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 I also believe that without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel.”
Benjamin Franklin
“[T]he Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth. …[and] laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.”
John Quincy Adams
“I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism…It is only necessary for republicanism to ally itself to the Christian religion to overturn all the corrupted political and religious institutions in the world.”
Benjamin Rush, Signer of the Declaration
“[T]he religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and his apostles…and to this we owe our fee constitutions of government.”
Noah Webster
“[N]ational prosperity can neither be attained nor preserved without the favor of Providence.
John Jay, Original Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
“You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ…Congress will do everything they can to assist you in this wise intention.”
George Washington
“[T]he Christian religion is superior to every other…But there is not only an excellence in the Christian morals, but a manifest superiority in them to those which are derived from any other source.”
John Witherspoon, Signer of the Declaration
“From the day of the Declaration, the people of the North American Union and of its constituent states were associated bodies of civilized men and Christians…They were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of the Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledged as the rules of their conduct. The Declaration of Independence cast off all the shackles of this dependency. The United States of America were no longer Colonies. They were an independent nation of Christians.”
John Quincy Adams
“Christianity…was the religion of the founders of the republic, and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants.”
House Judiciary Committee
“[T]he Holy Scriptures…can alone secure to society, order and peace, and to our courts of justice and constitutions of government, purity, stability, and usefulness. In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments [protections] around our institutions.”
James McHenry, Signer of the Constitution
“Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement…[T]he very existence of the republics…depend much upon the public institutions of religion.”
John Hancock
“The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God; the responsibility to Him for all our actions, founded upon moral accountability; a future state of rewards and punishments; the cultivation of all the personal, social, and benevolent virtues;-these never can be a matter of indifference in any well-ordered community. It is indeed difficult to conceive how any civilized society can well exist without them.”
Joseph Story, U.S. Supreme Court Justice; Father of American Jurisprudence
“[T]o promote true religion is the best and most effectual way of making a virtuous and regular people. Love to God and love to man is the substance of religion; when these prevail, civil laws will have little to do…The magistrate (or ruling part of any society) ought to encourage piety…[and] make it an object of public esteem. Those who are vested with civil authority ought…to promote religion and good morals among all under their government.”
John Witherspoon, Signer of the Declaration
“I had the honor of being one among many who framed that Constitution…In order effectually to accomplish these great ends, it is incumbent upon us to begin wisely and to proceed in the fear of God; and it is especially the duty of those who bear rule to promote and encourage piety [respect for God] and virtue and to discountenance every degree of vice and immorality.”
Henry Laurens, President of Continental Congress; U.S. Diplomat; Selected as Delegate to the Constitutional Convention
“[It is] the duty of all wise, free, and virtuous governments to countenance and encourage virtue and religion.”
John Jay, Original Chief-Justice U.S. Supreme Court
The bible and its use in schools:
“[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivation and noble. The reverence for the Sacred Book that is thus early impressed lasts long; and probably if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.”
Fisher Ames, Author of the House Language for the First Amendment
“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... What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be. I have examined all [religions]… and the result is that the Bible is the best Book in the world. It contains more of my little philosophy than all than all the libraries I have seen.”
John Adams
“The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.”
John Jay, Original Chief-Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Is the intent of the First Amendment to “create a complete and permanent separation of the spheres of religious activity and civil authority.” ?? As stated by a contemporary Court member.
This absurd claim completely reverses the Founders’ intent:
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.”
George Washington
“One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law…There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity s lying at its foundations…I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society.”
Joseph Story, U.S. Supreme Court Justice; Father of American Jurisprudence
“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 I also believe that without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel.”
Benjamin Franklin
“[T]he Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth. …[and] laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.”
John Quincy Adams
“I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism…It is only necessary for republicanism to ally itself to the Christian religion to overturn all the corrupted political and religious institutions in the world.”
Benjamin Rush, Signer of the Declaration
“[T]he religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and his apostles…and to this we owe our fee constitutions of government.”
Noah Webster
“[N]ational prosperity can neither be attained nor preserved without the favor of Providence.
John Jay, Original Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
“You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ…Congress will do everything they can to assist you in this wise intention.”
George Washington
“[T]he Christian religion is superior to every other…But there is not only an excellence in the Christian morals, but a manifest superiority in them to those which are derived from any other source.”
John Witherspoon, Signer of the Declaration
“From the day of the Declaration, the people of the North American Union and of its constituent states were associated bodies of civilized men and Christians…They were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of the Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledged as the rules of their conduct. The Declaration of Independence cast off all the shackles of this dependency. The United States of America were no longer Colonies. They were an independent nation of Christians.”
John Quincy Adams
“Christianity…was the religion of the founders of the republic, and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants.”
House Judiciary Committee
“[T]he Holy Scriptures…can alone secure to society, order and peace, and to our courts of justice and constitutions of government, purity, stability, and usefulness. In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments [protections] around our institutions.”
James McHenry, Signer of the Constitution
“Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement…[T]he very existence of the republics…depend much upon the public institutions of religion.”
John Hancock
“The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God; the responsibility to Him for all our actions, founded upon moral accountability; a future state of rewards and punishments; the cultivation of all the personal, social, and benevolent virtues;-these never can be a matter of indifference in any well-ordered community. It is indeed difficult to conceive how any civilized society can well exist without them.”
Joseph Story, U.S. Supreme Court Justice; Father of American Jurisprudence
“[T]o promote true religion is the best and most effectual way of making a virtuous and regular people. Love to God and love to man is the substance of religion; when these prevail, civil laws will have little to do…The magistrate (or ruling part of any society) ought to encourage piety…[and] make it an object of public esteem. Those who are vested with civil authority ought…to promote religion and good morals among all under their government.”
John Witherspoon, Signer of the Declaration
“I had the honor of being one among many who framed that Constitution…In order effectually to accomplish these great ends, it is incumbent upon us to begin wisely and to proceed in the fear of God; and it is especially the duty of those who bear rule to promote and encourage piety [respect for God] and virtue and to discountenance every degree of vice and immorality.”
Henry Laurens, President of Continental Congress; U.S. Diplomat; Selected as Delegate to the Constitutional Convention
“[It is] the duty of all wise, free, and virtuous governments to countenance and encourage virtue and religion.”
John Jay, Original Chief-Justice U.S. Supreme Court