Why Not Put The Lie Out With The Snake?

Matthew 12:25  "And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand"

The wonderful thing about being an American is that we are all free to do as we please, as long as what we do does not infringe on the rights of others or break established national or state laws. Though this is wonderful, this same freedom applies to EVERYONE, regardless as to their spiritual condition before our Creator. For instance, all are free to either go to Church, or reject Church attendance. All are free to worship the Creator, Jesus Christ, or worship other gods or goddesses. In other words, each and every person is free to choose their own spiritual pathway, their own holy writings, their own higher being(s) they will or will not worship. This is the essence of being an American, a citizen of the United States of America - we are free to choose.

Having said this, though, I need to quickly point out that having the freedom to choose does not necessarily mean that the choice each person will make will be Godly or right. An American can make the choice to buy a gun then, having purchased that gun, use it irresponsibly and cause his own death. Freedom is all that America guarantees, the freedom to choose. I served 20 years in the United States Air Force protecting your freedom to choose, as did many others that I know of, and would have willingly given my life to insure that you retained that freedom. That's what America is about - freedom.

But America is also about something else, about something greater than freedom. Contrary to what the Liberal and the Liberal media will tell you, America was founded by Christians, by people who believed that the Holy Bible is the Word of God without error, and that Jesus Christ is the only way to an eternal relationship with God in Heaven. Just as Satan, in the form of a snake, crawled into the Garden of Eden long ago to deceive Adam and Eve; that same Snake has crawled into our schools, our media, our libraries, and our workplaces bringing a message of "Separation of Church and State". What the Snake means by these four words is, quite simply, "Eradicate Christianity and its teachings from our schools, our courts, our institutions, our universities. This nation was founded to get away from the excesses of religious thought in other nations. Keep such thought in the Church, where it belongs."

Years ago Charles Finney, the Great Evangelist, was converted to Christianity by reading all the citations of Scripture that were given as evidence for proper behavior in the legal briefs that he read. The Scripture, often sited in American Law, converted many to Christ. Yet today judges are condemned for citing Scripture in court, and one judge had to disobey the ruling of a higher court when it demanded he remove a plaque of the Ten Commandments he had posted in his courtroom. When I was growing up, each school day began by reciting the "Pledge of Allegiance To The United States Flag". Following this, we all exercised a moment of prayer (albeit silent) to our Creator. The Snake has come in and removed these school disciplines because, as you know, "There must be a separation of Church and State".  The result? The last few years we have seen a number of school murders, where children have taken guns to school to kill those they were angry at. When I was growing up this was inconceivable - but today, it seems almost commonplace.

Do I think that we should entertain the idea of a State sanctioned Religion? No, absolutely not! This excess is the main contributing factor that built the Roman Catholic Church and, in turn, led to the terrible and torturous behavior of the Great Inquisition. But the idea of separation of Church and State has been twisted, in our modern era, far beyond that which the Founders of America envisioned. The earliest settlers from Europe, arriving on the Mayflower, accomplished their mission while following "The Mayflower Compact", which literally reads:

"In ye name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyall subjects of our dread soveraigne Lord, King James, by ye grace of God, of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland king, defender of ye faith, &., haveing undertaken, for ye glory of God, and advancement of ye Christian faith, and honor of our king and countrie, a voyage to plant ye first colonie in the Northerne parts of Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly & mutualy in ye presence of God, and one of another, covenant & combine our selves togeather into a civill body politick, for our better ordering & preservation & furtherance of ye ends aforesaid; and by vertue hearof do enacte, constitute, and frame such just & equall lawes, ordinances, acts, constitutions, & offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete & convenient for ye generall good of ye Colonie, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witnes wherof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cap-Codd ye 11. of November, in ye year of ye raigne of our soveraigne lord, King James, of England, France, & Ireland ye eighteenth, and of Scotland ye fiftie-fourth. Ano. Dom. 1620."

The first (non-native American) citizens of the Mayflower came to this country for the purpose of  "advancement of ye Christian faith". Why was this country initially founded? To ADVANCE the CHRISTIAN faith. There was no overwhelming idea of separation of Church and State in the Mayflower Compact. Those who were on the Mayflower were both loyal citizens of England as well as devout Christians by the Grace of God. In time, those who founded this country from Europe became, because of the immoral and unjust treatment of England, incensed against the Mother Country, and rebelled against its authority. This led to the "American Revolution" which eventually established the United States as a separate and sovereign nation UNDER GOD. Liberalism would have you believe that America was founded and settled on the concept of Separation of Church and State. The truth is, this country was founded and settled by CHRISTIANS for CHRIST. Patrick Henry, one of our Founding Fathers, said:

"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 this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."  {Steve C. Dawson, God's Providence in America's History (Rancho Cordova, CA: Steve C. Dawson, 1988), p.9:6.}

Noah Webster, another Founding Father, said:

"[T]he religion which has introduced civil liberty, is the religion of Christ and his apostles, which enjoins humility, piety and benevolence; which acknowledges in every person a brother, or a sister, and a citizen with equal rights. This is genuine Christianity, and to this we owe our free constitutions of government ... The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and law ... 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, History of the United States (New Haven: Durrie & Peck, 1832), p. 300, ¶ 578 & p. 339, ¶ 53}

Dr. Jedediah Morse, The Father of American Geography said:

"To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys. In proportion as the genuine effects of Christianity are diminished in any nation ... in the same proportion will the people of that nation recede from the blessings of genuine freedom... All efforts to destroy the foundations of our holy religion, ultimately tend to the subversion also of our political freedom and happiness. Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all the blessings which flow from them, must fall with them." {Jedediah Morse's Election Sermon given at Charleston, Mass. on April 25, 1799}

George Washington, our first President, said:

"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." {Henry Halley, Halley's Bible Handbook (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1927, 1965), p. 18}

John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, said:

"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, The Correspondence and Papers of John Jay, Henry P. Johnston, ed. (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1890), Vol. IV, p. 393, Oct. 12, 1816.}

John Quincy Adams, the sixth President of the United States, said:

"[T]he birth-day of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birth-day of the Savior [and] forms a leading even in the progress of the gospel dispensation ... [T]he Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth [and] laid the corner stone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity." {John Quincy Adams, An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport at their Request on the Sixty-First Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence (Newburyport: Charles Whipple, 1837), pp. 5-6.}

Christ and Christianity was not just the ideology of the Founding Fathers of America, but was also in the hearts and minds of the fledgling American population: Alex de Tocqueville, French historian who visited the U.S. in the early 1800's, wrote:

"Upon my arrival in the United States, the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention ... The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other ... Religion in America ... must ... be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions of that country ...  From the earliest settlement of the emigrants, politics and religion contracted an alliance which has never been dissolved."  {Alexis de Tocqueville, The Republic of the United States of America and Its Political Institutions, Reviewed and Examined, Henry Reeves, trans. (Garden City, NY: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1851), Vol. I, p. 335.}

Contrary to what the "Separation of Church and State" Snake will tell you, many early State constitutions recognized the influence of Christ and Christianity in it's system of government. An Excerpt from the Tennessee constitution of 1796 reads:

"Article VIII, Section II. No person who denies the being of God, or a future state of rewards and punishments, shall hold any office in the civil department of this State." {The Constitutions of the United States of America with the Latest Amendments (Trenton: Moore & Lake, 1813), pp. 342, 344.}

And the oath required for office in State of Delaware (1776) required that the candidate affirm:

"I, ____________, do profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, and in the Holy Spirit, one God, blessed for ever more; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine inspiration."

Though our school textbooks today focus on evolution, and teach that the Pilgrims came to America to establish a separation of Church and State, the truth is quite different from the hogwash. Early American schoolchildren were taught IN THE SCHOOLS about Jesus and the Bible through the efforts of William Holmes McGuffey, Publisher of the MCGUFFEY READERS, read and used in every early classroom that used published textbooks. In the preface to the McGuffey's Eclectic Fourth Reader (Cincinnati: Winthrop B. Smith & Co., 1853), p. 3, the author wrote:

"From no source has the author drawn more copiously than from the Sacred Scriptures. For this I certainly apprehend no censure. In a Christian country, that man is to be pitied, who, at this day, can honestly object to imbuing the minds of youth with the language and spirit of the Word of God."

Would that our educators and leaders in our schools held the same high esteem for the Sacred Word of God. If they did, I dare say that we would have seen NO school shootings and killing, as we have seen in the past few years.

The House Judiciary Committee Report, March 27, 1854 stated, after a one year study brought about by a lawsuit (certainly brought before the committee by a Liberal group) to force the separation of Church and State:

"Had the people, during the Revolution, had any suspicion of any attempt to war against Christianity, that Revolution would have been strangled in its cradle ... At the time of the adoption of the constitution and the amendments, the universal sentiment was that Christianity should be encouraged, not any one sect ... in this age there can be no substitute for Christianity ... That was the religion of the founders of the republic and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants ... the great vital and conservative element in our system is the belief of our people in the pure doctrines and divine truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ."

And later Harry S. Truman, our thirty-third President, would warn the nation that:

"The basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul. I don't think we emphasize that enough these days. If we don't have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a ... government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State!" {Steve C. Dawson, God's Providence in America's History (Rancho Cordova, CA: Steve C. Dawson, 1988), p.13:1.}

We have allowed Liberalism to so entrench our government that Christianity is slowly being removed from every public platform. This is the way of Satan, the Serpent, to twist the truth into a lie. He came to Eve in the Garden (Genesis 3:1) and said:

 ... that is, "Are you sure that's what God said?" Eve, rather than grabbing a garden hoe and running the Snake out of the Garden, listened to his reasoning - to the fall of man. This nation was established by Christians to promote, not the teachings of Islam, or Mormonism, or Ba'Hai', or Buddhism - but the teachings of Jesus Christ our Lord. This nation was designed to ALLOW other religions to co-exist within the realm of freedom so each citizen of this country could freely choose Christ OR the alternative. However, contrary to what the Snake might say, this nation was founded by Christian people on Christian principles and Christ-like ideals. This was established truth, and clearly reflected in our schools and government institutions up until a few decades ago. The Snake has entered in to the Land, and whispers "is that REALLY what was said? Wasn't America founded by people who were NEUTRAL to Christ - and shouldn't this neutrality be reflected in all aspects of our public life?" No, that's not the truth. It's a twisting of the truth, a lie, but not the truth.

The only hope this country has is to return to its ideological roots. To realize - in Law, in the Classroom, in Government, in Medicine, in all aspects of our society - that this nation was and is founded on Jesus Christ and His truths, as presented in the one and only Holy Bible. If we keep on meandering down this liberally invented "separation" road, we will eventually hit the same low that Sodom and Gomorra hit - and will eventually be hit by the same Divine judgment. You control this government by your vote. Vote! Vote, not by the "Party Line", but by the "Character Line". Is your candidate a Christian? Does he or she believe, without equivocation, the truths of God's Word? Do they apply the Word of God in their lives? For too long we have locked Christ out of the Voting Booth - and look at where it's got us.

America is a great and wonderful country, a free country founded on Christ and His Word. Don't let the Snake fool you. The Snake does not come to offer compromise, but exists to cause division and chaos. Chase him out, and his lie, too -  and return to the truth that your forefathers knew - that this nation will only retain its greatness, as long as it realizes its foundation is in our Great Savior, Jesus Christ.