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1 | Are we really "1 nation under God? | Bible general Archive 1 | Makarios | 16739 | ||
PART 2 of 2 ---------------- From the beginning of our nation's history, religion had a place in politics, in education, and in every aspect of American life. Consider the following: * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - George Washington, First President "It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." Halley's Bible Handbook (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1927, 1965), p. 18 * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President "But for [the Bible] we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare...are to be found portrayed in it." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Roy P. Basler, ed. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Union Press, 1853), p. 542, September 7, 1864 * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - "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." History of the United States (New Haven: Durrie and Peck, 1832), p. 339, ΒΆ 53 * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - "Blessed is that nation whose God is the Lord." (Psalms 33:12) "Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." (Proverbs 14:34) http://www.BibleTreasureChest.com Ok dougboy777, if you claim that the Founding Fathers were only Deists and not Bible believing Christians, then where are your sources? Please show us your sources and where you obtained your information like I have here. As for me, I AM a Christian and not afraid to say it! Are you a Christian, dougboy777? If not, I pray that you would honestly take the example of the Founding Fathers here and accept Jesus as Lord! Blessings to you, Nolan |
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2 | Are we really "1 nation under God? | Bible general Archive 1 | dougboy777 | 16743 | ||
Part 2 of I don't know how many Historian Barry Schwartz writes: "George Washington's practice of Christianity was limited and superficial because he was not himself a Christian... He repeatedly declined the church's sacraments. Never did he take communion, and when his wife, Martha, did, he waited for her outside the sanctuary... Even on his deathbed, Washington asked for no ritual, uttered no prayer to Christ, and expressed no wish to be attended by His representative." [New York Press, 1987, pp. 174-175] After Washington's death, Dr. Abercrombie, a friend of his, replied to a Dr. Wilson, who had interrogated him about Washington's religion replied, "Sir, Washington was a Deist." These ones are attributed to Thomas Paine, consider reading a book he wrote called, "The Age of Reason" "The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation.'' "Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half of the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind "What is it the New Testament teaches us? To believe that the Almighty commited debauchery with a woman engaged to be married; and the belief of this debauchery is called faith." "Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange belief that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies." "The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in vision, and credulity believe. Stories of this kind had been told of the assassination of Julius Caesar." |
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