Saturday, February 28, 2004

 

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....

Please share this with as many as possible and make the ill-informed aware
of what they once had.

posted by David 9:59 AM

 

Miller Delivers Floor Speech on 'Deficit of Decency' in America WASHINGTON

US Senator Zell Miller (D-GA) today delivered the following statement on the

floor of the United States Senate addressing several social issues facing the

country:

"The Old Testament prophet Amos was a sheep herder who lived back in the

Judean hills, away from the larger cities of Bethlehem and Jerusalem.

Compared to the intellectual urbanites like Isaiah and Jeremiah, he was just

an unsophisticated country hick. "But Amos had a unique grasp of political

and social issues and his poetic literary skill was among the best of all the

prophets. That familiar quote of Martin Luther King, Jr. about 'Justice will

rush down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream' are Amos's

words. "Amos was the first to propose the concept of a universal God and not

just some tribal deity. He also wrote that God demanded moral purity, not

rituals and sacrifices.



This blunt speaking moral conscience of his time warns in Chapter 8, verse 11

of The Book of Amos, as if he were speaking to us today: That 'the days will

come, sayeth the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land. Not a

famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the Lord.

'And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east.

They shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find

it.'



'A famine in the land'. Has anyone more accurately described the situation we

face in America today? 'A famine of hearing the words of the Lord.' "But some

will say, Amos was just an Old Testament prophet - a minor one at that - who

lived 700 years before Christ.



That is true, so how about one of the most influential historians of modern

times? "Arnold Toynbee who wrote the acclaimed 12 volume A Study of History,

once declared, 'Of the 22 civilizations that have appeared in history, 19 of

them collapsed when they reached the moral state America is in today.'

"Toynbee died in 1975, before seeing the worst that was yet to come. Yes,

Arnold Toynbee saw the famine. The 'famine of hearing the words of the

Lord'. Whether it is removing a display of the Ten Commandments from a

Courthouse or the Nativity Scene from a city square. Whether it is

eliminating prayer in schools or eliminating 'under God' in the Pledge of

Allegiance. Whether it is making a mockery of the sacred institution of

marriage between a man and woman or, yes, telecasting around the world

made-in-the-USA filth masquerading as entertainment.



"The Culture of Far Left America was displayed in a startling way during

the Super Bowl's now infamous half-time show. A show brought to us courtesy

of Value-Les Moonves and the pagan temple of Viacom-Babylon.



"I asked the question yesterday, how many of you have ever run over a skunk

with your car? I have many times and I can tell you, the stink stays around

for a long time. You can take the car through a car wash and it's still

there. So the scent of this event will long linger in the nostrils of America

"I'm not talking just about an exposed mammary gland with a pull-tab attached

to it.



Really no one should have been too surprised at that. Wouldn't one expect a

bumping, humping, trashy routine entitled 'I'm going to get you naked' to end

that way. "Does any responsible adult ever listen to the words of this

rap-crap? I'd quote you some of it, but the Sergeant of Arms would throw me

out of here, as well he should.



And then there was that prancing, dancing, strutting, rutting guy evidently

suffering from jock itch because he kept yelling and grabbing his crotch. But

then, maybe there's a crotch grabbing culture I've unaware of. "But as bad as

all this was, the thing that yanked my chain the hardest was seeing that

ignoramus with his pointed head stuck up through a hole he had cut in the

flag of the United States of America, screaming about having 'a bottle of

scotch and watching lots of crotch.' Think about that. "This is the same flag

that we pledge allegiance to. This is the flag that is draped over coffins of

dead young uniformed warriors killed while protecting Kid Crock's bony butt.

He should be tarred and feathered, and ridden out of this country on a rail.

Talk about a good reality show, there' s one for you. "The desire and will of

this Congress to meaningfully do anything about any of these so-called social

issues is non-existent and embarrassingly disgraceful. The American people

are waiting and growing impatient with us. They want something done.



"I am pleased to be a co-sponsor of S.J. Res. 26 along with Senator Allard

and others, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States

relating to marriage. And S.1558, the Liberties Restoration Act, which

declares religious liberty rights in several ways, including the Pledge of

Allegiance and the display of the Ten Commandments. And today I join Senator

Shelby and others with the Constitution Restoration Act of 2004 that limits

the jurisdiction of federal courts in certain ways. "In doing so, I stand

shoulder to shoulder not only with my Senate co-sponsors and Chief Justice

Roy Moore of Alabama but, more importantly, with our Founding Fathers in the

conception of religious liberty and the terribly wrong direction our modern

judiciary has taken us in.



"Everyone today seems to think that the U.S. Constitution expressly

provides for separation of church and state. Ask any ten people if that's not

so. And I'll bet you most of them will say 'Well, sure.' And some will point

out, 'it's in the First Amendment.' "Wrong! Read it! It says, 'Congress shall

make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free

exercise thereof.' Where is the word 'separate'? Where are the words 'church'

or 'state.'



"They are not there. Never have been. Never intended to be. Read the

Congressional Records during that four-month period in 1789 when the

amendment was being framed in Congress. Clearly their intent was to prohibit

a single denomination in exclusion of all others, whether it was Anglican or

Catholic or some other. "I highly recommend a great book entitled Original

Intent by David Barton It really gets into how the actual members of

Congress, who drafted the First Amendment, expected basic Biblical principles

and values to be present throughout public life and society, not separate

from it. "It was Alexander Hamilton who pointed out that 'judges should be

bound down by strict rules and precedents, which serve to define and point

out their duty.' Bound down!



That is exactly what is needed to be done. There was not a single precedent

cited when school prayer was struck down in 1962. "These judges who legislate

instead of adjudicate, do it without being responsible to one single solitary

voter for their actions.



Among the signers of the Declaration of Independence was a brilliant young

physician from Pennsylvania named Benjamin Rush. "When Rush was elected to

that First Continental Congress, his close friend Benjamin Franklin told him

'We need you. . . we have a great task before us, assigned to us by

Providence.'



Today, 228 years later there is still a great task before us assigned to us

by Providence. Our Founding Fathers did not shirk their duty and we can do no

less.



"By the way, Benjamin Rush was once asked a question that has long interested

this Senator from Georgia in particular. Dr. Rush was asked, are you a

democrat or an aristocrat? And the good doctor answered, 'I am neither '. 'I

am a Christocrat. I believe He, alone, who created and redeemed man is

qualified to govern him.' That reply of Benjamin Rush is just as true today

in the year of our Lord 2004 as it was in the year of our Lord 1776. "So, if

I am asked why - with all the pressing problems this nation faces today - why

am I pushing these social issues and taking the Senate's valuable time? I

will answer: Because, it is of the highest importance. Yes, there's a deficit

to be concerned about in this country, a deficit of decency. "So, as the sand

empties through my hourglass at warp speed - and with my time running out in

this Senate and on this earth, I feel compelled to speak out. For I truly

believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It's yellow"

posted by David 9:58 AM