ACLU is helping to set up the ANTI CHRIST of the ONE WORLD GLOBAL GOVERNMENT
by Jane Fairchild on Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 11:36am
ACLU – American Civil Liberties Union of America is ripping off our nations Eagles wings so we no longer will be able to fly in FREEDOM as a Nation under GOD
Where is ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union of America when we need them the most for nations that have NO FREEDOMS but instead ACLU is protecting Americas number one enemy the same enemy that has made other NATIONS have no FREEDOMS as in Iran.
My personal interruption of ACLU is American Communist (Anti Christ) Liberties Union.
ACLU – American Civil Liberties Union is not about protecting the American Principles and Freedoms and Rights of the American people but ACLU is a vital part of the Anti-Christ Spirit to destroy America and our American Freedoms and Rights as America was founded upon.
It is a well known fact that ACLU is more concerned about ripping the seams of America apart with the Christian and Jewish roots than supporting AMERICA people for what we stand.
ACLU is constantly tearing down crosses, trying to take the 10 commandments that are displayed in our Government sites, taking prayer out of schools, anything that is Christian and/or Jewish the ACLU is known to want to get rid of all of us.
America was built upon Christian and Jewish principles of the Torah and Gods Word. When these great men whom founded these American principles - they always included the core to be based upon God and Gods Word.
For ME personally - I WILL STAND UP TO THE ENEMIES OF GOD (THE GOLIATHES OF GOD) and I will FIGHT and in the END I will win for if GOD be for me, whom can be against me. As King David wrote 'Though 10,000 rise up against me - God is for me... I am not ASHAMED of who I am. My family fought for the FREEDOMS we have in America today.
My brother, Vietnam Veteran - spent 2 years living in a fox hole living on sea rations. When they ran out of sea rations they killed dogs to have something to eat. Today he suffers from PTSD and Agent Orange. Do you think our American Government gives a DAMN that our soldiers as my own brother have risked their lives to protect us from COMMUNISM in America. But today the MODERN DAY COMMUNISM is through ISLAM IDEOLOGY and ACLU is protecting ISLAM but not protecting what our founding Fathers of America set our American Principles on with GOD and GOD's WORD...
My Uncle, Koren War Veteran. He then got his career at the Department of Interior as a Manager/Director in Washington DC.
My Father, WW II Veteran. Spent over 5 years in the middle of this war. He was in charge of his own troop whom built the Burma China Bridge so our American troops could get over to the war. He even was a chaporone driver for the General of the United States Army at that time. He earned two purple hearts and a bronze star and many other badges of honor.
Do you truly think our AMERICAN GOVERNMENT TODAY - truly gives a DAMN about our American war heros - as the only reason they show respect is that they want the votes.... Our own Commander in Chief of our entire military, President Obama, has never fought for any of our freedoms in America...
Do you truly believe his lies that he gives a DAMN about our military and our soldiers whom fight our enemies?
My Grandfather - WW I Veteran.
My Great Grandfather (Childs) Civil War Veteran - and after the war he became a US Marshall. He also homestead land in America in Nebraska and gave a portion of his land for a Methodist Church to be built in the area. He was 'saved' in that very church and he came to know FREEDOM in Jesus...
My 5th Great Uncle President James Monroe - 7th United States President of America. My 3rd great grandmother's maiden name was Monroe and she was the niece of President Monroe. This is where I got my scotch and irish blood.
On my grandmother's side - my blood reaches to Rabbi Eli Fischer. He immigrated out of Germany to American the early 1900's. It was even anti-jewish even then in Germany. So to cross him over the Germany lines - his friends covered him up with manure (which was dangerous as he could have suffocated or died from the toxin fumes) and in a wagon they crossed over the Germany lines to get him out. He immigrated to America and homesteaded land in Nebraska on a farm.
My elderly cousin, whom I greatly love, Marian, still lives on this exact farm land.... He is buried in our family cemetary in the country about 1 mile from this homestead.
I am NOT ASHAMED that JEWISH true blood runs through my veins as this is an honor.
I am a born-again, Torah believing, Bible believing radical CHRISTIAN ZIONIST. I believe the ONLY TRUTH, WAY, and LIFE is only through YESHUA's blood. YESHUA/JESUS was the chosen lamb of God, slain before the foundations of this world. His blood is what needs to go on the DOOR POSTS of our HEARTS and MINDS.... for there is coming a TERRIBLE DAY - when the DEATH ANGEL will pass through again... only this time if you do not have the BLOOD OF YESHUA/JESUS upon the doorposts of your heart and mind - you will be SIFTED and thrown into an eternity of DEATH, HELL, and unquenchable FIRE that will torment you day and night as you will never be able to sleep or have peace again....
The BLOOD OF JESUS
Accept YESHUA/JESUS TODAY - before it is too late....
The Way, the TRUTH and the LIFE - watch video.
http://youtu.be/25DcLoGG74A
I AM NOT ASHAMED OF WHOM GOD CALLED ME TO BE... and I will STAND TO THE END even if our American Government in time will place a gold star upon me and separate me from those whom follow the GOVERNMENT and the ONE WORLD GLOBAL GOVERNMENT - I will STAND... until the day that I leave this earth.
I STAND TALL with YESHUA/JESUS AS MY LORD until death do I part from this world and then I go into HIS HANDS.... I AM NOT ASHAMED that this STAND will cost me everything...
Come on... I am READY!!!
The separation of the true WHEAT from the TARES is beginning.... let me be SIFTED and I will STAND until that gold star is placed upon me and I face the NEW HOLOCAUST of this world for Christian Believer to face...
I WILL NEVER DENY JESUS AS MY LORD....
What are you willing to sacrifice?
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Rather than ACLU coming against our God centered principles of America – why does ACLU do some good for a change and help people whom suffer in nations as IRAN and CHINA and nations as this.
If ACLU had their way – they would take GOD out of everything within America…. This nation of America has only been blessed as it has because of God but there will come a day soon when God will simply walk away from America as a nation and our eagles wings will be ripped so we no longer can fly above. ACLU will destroy the wings of the eagles for freedom and instead of a prosperous nation under God we will become the nation with torn eagle wings that no longer can fly.
If you go to the ACLU site (listed below) – you will find how ACLU is wanting to protect the MUSLIM freedom of religion and their ‘right’ for Islam mosques and Islamic Shari’a Laws to be established in areas of America.
ACLU protects the RELIGIOUS FREEDOMS AND RIGHTS of an enemy of the western world through ISLAM IDEOLOGY rather than protecting us as a nation built on the FOUNDATIONS AND PRINCIPLES OF GOD AND GOD’S WORD.
ACLU is constantly ripping apart the Christian and Jewish freedoms…. ACLU is ripping off the our nations Eagle Wings so the American Freedoms that we know we be no longer for we will not be able to fly in FREEDOM as an Eagle....
This is why my interpretation of ACLU is American Communist (or Anti Christ) Liberties Union….
For ACLU is following and represents the Anti-Christ spirit that wants to become the one WORLD GLOBAL GOVERNMENT AND RELIGION.
In IRAN today, where this nation’s government follows ISLAM and ISLAMIC SHARI'A LAWS – the people of this nation have NO FREEDOMS, NO RIGHTS, and they are KILLED. If a person is found to be CHRISTIAN – they are told by this ISLAM SHARI’A LAW to deny Christ and embrace ISLAM or be killed. This is FREEDOM of religion for them.
I can give you story after story of what happens in IRAN today currently under ISLAM IDEOLOGIES and ISLAM SHARI’A LAW of this same kind of story.
Look around, and really look… Look at the nations whom embrace ISLAM IDEOLOGY and ISLAM SHARI’A LAWS and tell me ‘WHERE IS THE PEACE WITHIN THESE NATIONS?’
Look at the nation of IRAN, or EGYPT, or PAKISTAN, or SAUDI ARABIA, or SOMALIA and many other nations whom have embraced the ISLAM IDEOLOGY and ISLAM SHARI’A LAWS and tell me “WHERE IS THE PEACE?”
This is what ACLU in America is doing to us in America as they allow ISLAM IDEOLOGY to have more FREEDOMS and RIGHTS than our CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES OF GOD and GOD’S WORD….
ACLU is following the ANTI-CHRIST SPIRIT (Satan, the Prince of the Air, Darkness) to bring NOT FREEDOM TO AMERICA, but BONDAGE AND DEATH TO AMERICA….
WAKE UP AMERICA – we in America have become like it was in the beginnings of the Jewish Holocaust in Germany long before the war. We closed our eyes and buried our heads in the sand and said ‘go away, I do not want to see it’… and we in America did not become involved until after over 6 million people were slaughtered…. Then we became involved.
Currently in IRAN today – this is their story from the people: (This is only one small story of thousands).
Iranian Pastor Faces Brutal Choice by Islamic regime in IRAN: Reject Christian Faith or Die
A U.S. State Department official expressed outrage and pressed Iran to reverse a court decision that gives an Iranian pastor an outrageous and suicidal...al, choice:
Reject his Christian faith, or die.
The 32-year-old pastor, Yosef Nadarkhani, was arrested in October 2009 for apostasy because he objected to the teaching of Islam to Christian children at Iranian schools. He was sentenced to death by hanging late last year, a verdict that he appealed to Iran’s Supreme Court.
Late last month, the appeal appeared to have been granted, as his lawyer indicated to a news agency on July 3. But an Iranian human rights agency now says the ruling actually imposes the recant-or-die choice, according to CNSNews.com.
A U.S. State Department official issued a statement Wednesday expressing dismay at the prospect.
“While Iran’s leaders hypocritically claim to promote tolerance, they continue to detain, imprison, harass, and abuse those who simply wish to worship the faith of their choosing,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.
“We join the international community in continuing to call on the Iranian government to respect the fundamental rights of all its citizens and uphold its international commitments to protect them.”
The indictment against Nadarkhani, a father and evangelical pastor who became a Christian at age 19, accused him of organizing evangelistic meetings, sharing his faith, inviting others to convert, running a house church, and “denying Islamic values,” CNSNews reports.
After his death sentence, his appeal appeared to win a reversal of the fate of hanging.
But the victory was not as clear-cut as it seemed, and Nadarkhani now has been told that he may face new charges or the case could be returned to the original sentencing court in northern Iran’s Gilan province, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency, an association that Iranian human rights advocates established in 2009.
Now, it appears that the Gilan court will “question the defendant again in order to determine whether he believes in Islam or not. If he is a Muslim, YosefNadarkhani must be released. If it is determined that he is a Christian, he may repent from his faith. Otherwise, if he insists on his beliefs, the death penalty must be carried out,” CNSNews quotes the agency as saying.
And the advocacy group Christian Solidarity Worldwide said, that, despite reports that the death sentence had been reversed, “in reality the Supreme Court appears to have added a precondition requiring him to renounce his faith, or face execution.”
Although Nadarkhani didn’t practice any faith before he became a Christian at 19, he was born to Muslim parents and Islamic law dictates that a child of Muslim parents is considered to be a Muslim.
Although apostasy is not an offense in the Iranian penal code, CNSNews reports that Iran’s constitution includes a clause demanding that, if a basis for a judicial ruling does not exist in the law, judges must turn to “reliable Islamic sources or a valid fatwa.”
The most recent execution of a Christian in Iran for his faith took place 21 years ago, when Assemblies of God Pastor Hussein Sodmand was hanged after refusing to recant, according to CNSNews.
Source: http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Iran-pastor-Christian-hanging/2011/07/07/id/402786
The video below is ‘what’ the IRAN PEOPLE FROM IRAN are sending me personally:
Please watch video at this link. (Jane comment to ACLU: HEY ACLU - America Civil Liberties Union of America - instead of tearing down Christian crosses and Christian things and Jewish things and our Christian/Jewish Rights in America - why not go over to IRAN and actually do some good for people whom need FREEDOMS and RIGHTS....) LIVE FREE OR DIE - آزاد زندگی میکنم یا در راه آزادی میمیرم
Where is ACLU for people in IRAN – how are they truly helping for the FREEDOMS of people?
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This is what is happening TODAY CURRENTLY in the nation of Australia:
Muslim leaders call for traditional Islamic laws to be fully adopted in Australia.
youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfdZDJhjEaE
WAKE UP AMERICA - We will be next. Did you know that Dearborn Michigan in USA was going to try to install Shari’a Islamic Law in place for this Muslim Community City - but Jay Seklulow (ACLJ-American Center of Law and Justice) has been fighting this....? WHERE IS ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) when these things happen? Rather than being concerned in taking rown a cross or destroying a statute of the 10 Commandments in a government public place - why not against this...
Today in Dearborn, Michigan USA – which has become mostly MUSLIMS in this area – Dearborn Michigan has wanted to establish ISLAM SHARI’A LAW in this city. Jay Sakulow of ACLJ (American Center of Law and Justice) has been fighting cases in this area to ban Shari’a Law – but ACLU is fighting that the Muslims of this area of their FREEDOMS AND RIGHTS to have Shari’a Law.
This is happening TODAY in Dearborn Michigan USA – Where is ACLU to protect the Christians of their FREEDOM OF SPEECH?
Is Sharia Law Being Practiced in Dearborn Michigan
http://youtu.be/BUdYsvA3wg0
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This is the ACLU Site and what they represent in America:
http://www.aclu.org/
American Civil Liberties Union
Because freedom can't protect itself. (Jane comment: No, ACLU is allowing freedom for terrorists and religions as ISLAM to have FREEDOMS and FREEDOM OF SPEECH, but for the Christian and Jew - we are beginning to not have the same protection of FREEDOM)
Protecting the Religious Freedom of Muslims
Photo: Ramin Talaie/Corbis
Religious freedom is one of America's most fundamental liberties, and a central principle upon which our nation was founded.
Unfortunately, though, throughout America's history, almost every religious group has been the target of discrimination at one point or another. Tolerance and fairness have generally prevailed, but only after principled voices have transcended prejudice and hatred.
Most recently, Muslim communities in the U.S. have faced a disturbing wave of bigotry and outright hostility. From religiously motivated discrimination and attacks on existing and proposed Islamic centers to misguided congressional hearings, Muslims in America are being unfairly targeted simply for exercising their basic constitutional right to religious liberty.
We must always — especially in times of controversy — vigilantly uphold our core values. When we violate one group's freedom, everyone's liberty is at stake. And the ACLU will continue to defend the civil rights of everyone in our country.
ACLU would probably even protect the FREEDOMS AND RIGHTS of Hitler himself rather than seeing the enemy that Hitler was and the holocaust....
THESE ARE THE ISSUES THAT ACLU IS FOCUSING ON: (As ACLU wants the MUSLIMS to be protected in America)
BE HONEST WITH ME – HOW IS ACLU PROTECTING AMERICA AND OUR AMERICAN PEOPLE – WHEN THEY EMBRACE AN ENEMY OF AMERICA AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE?
Some of the issues we're specifically focusing on include:
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ACLU: Fight Hate Speech with More Speech
ACLU And CAIR Urge Court To Uphold Ruling Blocking Oklahoma Sharia And International Law Ban »
ACLU Submits Testimony For Rep. King’s “Radicalization” Hearing »
ACLU And Broad Coalition Tell Rep. King Of Concerns About Muslim “Radicalization” Hearing »
ACLU And Broad Coalition Tell Rep. King Of Concerns About Muslim “Radicalization” Hearing »
Portland Mosque Litigation Settled »
Groups Seek End To Religious Questioning At The Border By Federal Agents »
Debunking the Mythical "Sharia Threat" to Our Judicial System »
Our War Is Not Against Islam » (Jane note: No ACLU is not in war against ISLAM but embracing ISLAM but their (ACLU) war is against CHRISTIANS AND JEWS and banning GOD out of America).
ACLU Lens: King Hearing Relies on False Premises, Discriminatory Attitudes »
King Hearing Was Counterproductive and Discriminatory »
Will Peter King's Hearing Carry Stigma Like Joseph McCarthy's? »
Questioned at the Border: Aun Hasan Ali »
ACLU: Fight Hate Speech with More Speech »
Map - Nationwide Anti-Mosque Activity »
ACLU and NYCLU Support Religious Freedom and Park51 »
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ACLU and NYCLU Stand Up for Religious Freedom and Park51 »
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Blocking Faith, Freezing Charity »
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Headscarfs: Fashion or Faith? »
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Muneer Awad v. Paul Ziriax, Oklahoma State Board of Elections, et al. »
Valentine v. City of Douglasville »
KindHearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development, Inc. v. Geithner et al. »
Nothing to Fear: Debunking the Mythical "Sharia Threat" to Our Judicial System »
Bans on Sharia and International Law »
Mosques and Community Centers »
ACLU Statement for a Hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights Regarding the Civil Rights of American Muslims »
ACLU Statement for House Homeland Security Committee Hearing on the So-Called "Radicalization" of the American Muslim Community »
Q&A: The Myth of "Radicalization" »
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech...
- First Amendment, United States Constitution
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Map - Nationwide Anti-Mosque Activity
A map highlighting anti-mosque incidents across the country over the past five years.
(Notice how ACLU has a map of Anti-Mosque Activity so that in time we can be killed if we do such a thing in the future.)
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As a TRUE AMERICAN that believes in our FOUNDING ROOTS are you willing to STAND UP and not let ACLU prosper and come against our FOUNDING AMERICAN ROOTS as they (ACLU) protects the RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS of our enemies within ISLAM IDEOLOGIES and ISLAMSHARI’A LAWS (that is all about BONDAGE and non freedom of people). Or do you want to bury your head in the sand and say go away I don’twant to even think about it as our AMERICAN FREEDOMS are being stripped away by ACLU and ACLU is tearing the wings off our EAGLE in AMERICA for FREEDOM – so one day we as a nation of an eagle will only have ripped off wings so that we no longer can FLY IN FREEDOM….
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Our American Roots ~ Remember!
Posted: June 7, 2011 | Author: blogsensebybarb | Filed under: education, life, blogsense, America, Christianity, history,character training, citizenship | Tags: American, history, roots, Christianity, pilgrims, puritans, Jamestown, Plymouth Colony, Tyndale, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreete | 3 Comments »
I often hear in the media today that America has never been an truly Christian nation, and that those who presume so are deceived. You decide.
OUR AMERICAN ROOTS: Many have recently argued that our beginnings were not essentially Christian. I suppose that depends on your definition of Christian, but the central focus, and the source of strength, wisdom, and consolation in the early American settlements was the God of the Bible. Yes, there were different ‘denominations,’ different perspectives of how this God worked, and if he did or didn’t interfere in the everyday lives of individuals, but nevertheless, God was central to the early literature, the poetry, and architecture i.e. the location of the church was central even as God was central to their lives. “No group has played a more pivotal role in shaping American values than theNew England Puritans. The seventeenth-century Puritans contributed to our country’s sense of mission, its work ethic, and its moral sensibility.”
To understand the Puritans (of the Massachusetts Bay Colony) or the Pilgrims (of Plymouth), it is necessary to have a bit of an understanding of English history. In the 1450′s, the first printing press was built, the first published work from that press was the Gutenberg Bible Until this time, the only people who had access to the Holy Scriptures were the priests. With the invention of the printing press, it became conceivable that even the common man could obtain a copy of the Bible if translated into common English. William Tyndale saw to that and was beheaded for his efforts. As more and more individuals gained access to a Bible, these same individuals developed their own understanding of the words, the message contained therein.
The history and literature of that period reflects the beliefs and daily lifestyle that centered on a relationship with our benevolent Almighty God. We don’t hear much about this today, even in historical or literary studies because it just isn’t politically correct – no room for secular humanism! But the truth is written in the lines of Anne Bradstreet (1612 – 1672), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882), Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888), Washington Irving (1783 – 1859), Nathanial Hawthorne (1804 – 1864), Emily Dickenson (1830 – 1886), James Fenimore Cooper (1789 – 1851), and so many more who captured the time, the life, the struggles, and the victories of these early Americans.
Aboard the Mayflower, the leaders drafted the Mayflower Compact
Governor William Bradford (1590 – 1621) Bradford was selected as Governor by the survivors of the Mayflower crossing, the first settlers to endure both the crossing and the settling of the New England coast of Plymouth. Some were Pilgrims (or Separatists) wanted to break away from the Chruch of England. The others were called Puritans because they wanted to establish a “pure church that would offer a model for the churches in England.” They both wanted to be FREE to worship as they saw fit. They wanted Freedom of religion!
William Bradford was one of the first Americans to be published in the New land. His Of Plymouth Plantation was an impressive journal he kept detailing the crossing itself and the initial workings of the new colony, the new village of Plymouth and the government they established. Here is a brief excerpt:
Can we re-discover our ROOTS???
William Tyndale – translator of the Bible to English so every believer could read the holy Word for himself!
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America's Godly Heritage
Active humanists and the liberal media have for years undertaken a concentrated effort to misinform the American public by attacking the "Religious Right" and rewriting America's Judeo-Christian history in a humanistic tone. The motto at the heart of the American experiment "in God we trust" has been exchanged for "in Man we trust."
Rewriting History
The last three generations of Americans simply have not been told the truth about American history as its Christian heritage has been disparaged.
For example, ask most Americans if the "separation of church and state" is in our Constitution, and they will answer yes. You can scour the Constitution of the United States, and you will NOT find the phrase, "separation of church and state" or anything close to it.
In the Constitution of the Soviet Union, however, the doctrine of the separation of Church and State is found: "In order to ensure to citizens freedom of conscience, the church in the U.S.S.R. is separated from the State, and the school from the church. Freedom of religious worship and freedom of antireligious propaganda is recognized for all citizens" (Article 124). Article Twelve of the 1918 Soviet Constitution decrees that no church or religious organization"shall enjoy the rights of judicial person." Instruction of children under age 18 in religious matters, whether in public or private, is against the law.
While the concept of separation of church and state might be implied by the First Amendment which states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof....", it says nothing about the "separation of church and state." And, even if you accept the principle of the separation of church and state being implied by the First Amendment, it's implication is not there to protect Americans from religion, it is there to protect religious Americans from the government.
In their desire to promote their secular humanist philosophy using the power of government, many liberals today want to alter America's Christian heritage and replace it with the 10 Planks of Communism. They want to remove religion from our history and replace it with the Soviet doctrine of the separation of Church and State. They don't want to safeguard denominational neutrality by the state as the Founders intended, rather they want to eradicate every vestige of religion from our public institutions.
The Educational Establishment
One reason we have lost so many of our religious freedoms is that the liberal educational establishment has worked hard to eliminate our knowledge of the Judeo-Christian heritage of America. The facts nonetheless reveal the true convictions of our founders. Without question, they believed that although no one Christian denomination should dominate the nation, the principles of the Bible and Christianity should underlie our government and American education as well.
"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 Henry
"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of a Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers." - U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, John Jay
"The liberties we talk about defending today were established by men who took their conceptions of man from the great central religious tradition of Western civilization [Christianity], and the liberties we inherit can almost certainly not survive the abandonment of that tradition. The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as someone more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey. This is the forgotten foundation of democracy." , April 2, 1969][James Reston, "Faith of Our Fathers, Living Still?"
Our children's history books are being rewritten so they no longer hear the truth about the tremendous influence of religious faith on America's founding fathers, on the great documents they drafted to establish a true republic based, on the critical tripod of liberty, life, and family. The revisionist history being taught now is devoid of any reference to the
Christian faith of our Founding Fathers as the old stories, the old way that American history was taught, was revised to reflect a more liberal, politically correct, homogenized and multicultural perspective.
Words like duty and honor and country have fallen out of vogue, and the stories of the Christian faith of men like George Washington and Patrick Henry and Noah Webster and so many others, Daniel Webster, Andy Jackson, Chief Justice John Marshall - magnificent Christians - these stories are simply left out.
While many may squabble over who among the founding fathers was a Christian, no knowledgeable historian of early American history can deny the fact that the concept of a Creator God who endowed His creation with "unalienable rights" was an essential underpinning of the American experiment. Indeed, the Declaration of
Independencestates, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." These rights were derived not from a government that was transitory, but from a Governor who was eternal. It was the role of government to defend these rights and not dilute or remove them.
The revisionists extend the influence of their world view outside the classroom as well into nearly every segment of American life. Descriptions and tours of the nation's capitol, for example, fail to point out that the Ten Commandments are inscribed in the marble of the United States Supreme Court, that there is a beautiful stained glass window in the U.S. Capitol depicting President George Washington kneeling in prayer, and that at the top of the Washington Monument - the highest point in the nation's capital is embedded a plaque which boldly proclaims in Latin, "Praise Be Unto God."
Arbitrary Law
In the 1892 Supreme Court ruling in Church of the Holy Trinity vs. U.S. (citing 87 precedents), "Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of Mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian."
Throughout history, the U.S. Supreme Court continually cited previous cases in order to maintain our Christian Constitution. However, in 1962, for the first time in American history, the court cited no previous cases and ruled in Engel vs. Vitale that; because of Separation of Church and State, the government needed to be separated from Christian principles. So, the simple school prayer, "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon thee and we beg thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers, and our country" became unconstitutional and the eradication of Christianity from public institutions began.
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. [Isaiah 5:20]
The Supreme Court, the President, or Congress do not shoulder the entire blame for these profound changes in the American cultural fabric. Far from it. Indeed, past generations of Christians and other religionists who were not involved in society or who sat silently by as the culture embraced the secular worldview are also greatly responsible.
Restoring America
The future of America will either be a national revival or it's total destruction. We're on the edge now of real national self-destruction. The past few generations of Americans have witnessed the collapse of moral and ethical values unlike any time in our history. We're looking at the very strong probability of economic collapse, unless there is a tremendous change. We're going to spend ourselves, tax ourselves into total oblivion.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. [2 Chronicles 7:14]
The essence of what God is requiring of the Christians in America is repentance. If we Christians think that simply by political involvement we're going to turn the country around, we're crazy. If we think that we can adopt an antagonistic triumphalism that says we're going to get organized and throw all the bad guys out and take over, we will be brought face to face with our own sinfulness.
We must recover the original American vision and we must put into practice 2 Chronicles 7:14. Our First Continental Congress understood this concept as is evident in the words of John Jay.
What we need is a Christian nation - compared to the pagan nation we're becoming. By "Christian nation," I don't mean that everyone is forced to be a Christian or forced to go to church or to believe in God. People are free to be Buddhists, atheists, or whatever. The job of government is not to convert or force conversion to any kind of faith. The job of the government is to do for the people what they can't do for themselves. And the job of bringing people to faith belongs to the private citizens, the churches, the synagogues and the religious leaders of our nation. That separation should always be kept. What I mean by a Christian nation is a nation whose laws are self-consciously built on the laws and principles of the Bible.
We have allowed organizations like the ACLU to strip away every vestige of our Christian heritage for long enough. We are tired of them destroying our country by declaring God unconstitutional. Our nation was founded on the principles laid out by the God of the Bible and we're saying ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Where there is no foundation, there are no laws and what results is anarchy brought forth by moral relativism. Their way has failed. The time has come for us to take back that which once was and let the healing begin.
"Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden times, and let us gather around it an inscribed for our motto: "Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever," and exclaim, Christ first, our country next!" -- Andrew Johnson
Where is ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union of America when we need them the most for nations that have NO FREEDOMS but instead ACLU is protecting Americas number one enemy the same enemy that has made other NATIONS have no FREEDOMS as in Iran.
My personal interruption of ACLU is American Communist (Anti Christ) Liberties Union.
ACLU – American Civil Liberties Union is not about protecting the American Principles and Freedoms and Rights of the American people but ACLU is a vital part of the Anti-Christ Spirit to destroy America and our American Freedoms and Rights as America was founded upon.
It is a well known fact that ACLU is more concerned about ripping the seams of America apart with the Christian and Jewish roots than supporting AMERICA people for what we stand.
ACLU is constantly tearing down crosses, trying to take the 10 commandments that are displayed in our Government sites, taking prayer out of schools, anything that is Christian and/or Jewish the ACLU is known to want to get rid of all of us.
America was built upon Christian and Jewish principles of the Torah and Gods Word. When these great men whom founded these American principles - they always included the core to be based upon God and Gods Word.
For ME personally - I WILL STAND UP TO THE ENEMIES OF GOD (THE GOLIATHES OF GOD) and I will FIGHT and in the END I will win for if GOD be for me, whom can be against me. As King David wrote 'Though 10,000 rise up against me - God is for me... I am not ASHAMED of who I am. My family fought for the FREEDOMS we have in America today.
My brother, Vietnam Veteran - spent 2 years living in a fox hole living on sea rations. When they ran out of sea rations they killed dogs to have something to eat. Today he suffers from PTSD and Agent Orange. Do you think our American Government gives a DAMN that our soldiers as my own brother have risked their lives to protect us from COMMUNISM in America. But today the MODERN DAY COMMUNISM is through ISLAM IDEOLOGY and ACLU is protecting ISLAM but not protecting what our founding Fathers of America set our American Principles on with GOD and GOD's WORD...
My Uncle, Koren War Veteran. He then got his career at the Department of Interior as a Manager/Director in Washington DC.
My Father, WW II Veteran. Spent over 5 years in the middle of this war. He was in charge of his own troop whom built the Burma China Bridge so our American troops could get over to the war. He even was a chaporone driver for the General of the United States Army at that time. He earned two purple hearts and a bronze star and many other badges of honor.
Do you truly think our AMERICAN GOVERNMENT TODAY - truly gives a DAMN about our American war heros - as the only reason they show respect is that they want the votes.... Our own Commander in Chief of our entire military, President Obama, has never fought for any of our freedoms in America...
Do you truly believe his lies that he gives a DAMN about our military and our soldiers whom fight our enemies?
My Grandfather - WW I Veteran.
My Great Grandfather (Childs) Civil War Veteran - and after the war he became a US Marshall. He also homestead land in America in Nebraska and gave a portion of his land for a Methodist Church to be built in the area. He was 'saved' in that very church and he came to know FREEDOM in Jesus...
My 5th Great Uncle President James Monroe - 7th United States President of America. My 3rd great grandmother's maiden name was Monroe and she was the niece of President Monroe. This is where I got my scotch and irish blood.
On my grandmother's side - my blood reaches to Rabbi Eli Fischer. He immigrated out of Germany to American the early 1900's. It was even anti-jewish even then in Germany. So to cross him over the Germany lines - his friends covered him up with manure (which was dangerous as he could have suffocated or died from the toxin fumes) and in a wagon they crossed over the Germany lines to get him out. He immigrated to America and homesteaded land in Nebraska on a farm.
My elderly cousin, whom I greatly love, Marian, still lives on this exact farm land.... He is buried in our family cemetary in the country about 1 mile from this homestead.
I am NOT ASHAMED that JEWISH true blood runs through my veins as this is an honor.
I am a born-again, Torah believing, Bible believing radical CHRISTIAN ZIONIST. I believe the ONLY TRUTH, WAY, and LIFE is only through YESHUA's blood. YESHUA/JESUS was the chosen lamb of God, slain before the foundations of this world. His blood is what needs to go on the DOOR POSTS of our HEARTS and MINDS.... for there is coming a TERRIBLE DAY - when the DEATH ANGEL will pass through again... only this time if you do not have the BLOOD OF YESHUA/JESUS upon the doorposts of your heart and mind - you will be SIFTED and thrown into an eternity of DEATH, HELL, and unquenchable FIRE that will torment you day and night as you will never be able to sleep or have peace again....
The BLOOD OF JESUSAccept YESHUA/JESUS TODAY - before it is too late....
The Way, the TRUTH and the LIFE - watch video.
http://youtu.be/25DcLoGG74A
I AM NOT ASHAMED OF WHOM GOD CALLED ME TO BE... and I will STAND TO THE END even if our American Government in time will place a gold star upon me and separate me from those whom follow the GOVERNMENT and the ONE WORLD GLOBAL GOVERNMENT - I will STAND... until the day that I leave this earth.
I STAND TALL with YESHUA/JESUS AS MY LORD until death do I part from this world and then I go into HIS HANDS.... I AM NOT ASHAMED that this STAND will cost me everything...
Come on... I am READY!!!
The separation of the true WHEAT from the TARES is beginning.... let me be SIFTED and I will STAND until that gold star is placed upon me and I face the NEW HOLOCAUST of this world for Christian Believer to face...
I WILL NEVER DENY JESUS AS MY LORD....
What are you willing to sacrifice?
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Rather than ACLU coming against our God centered principles of America – why does ACLU do some good for a change and help people whom suffer in nations as IRAN and CHINA and nations as this.
If ACLU had their way – they would take GOD out of everything within America…. This nation of America has only been blessed as it has because of God but there will come a day soon when God will simply walk away from America as a nation and our eagles wings will be ripped so we no longer can fly above. ACLU will destroy the wings of the eagles for freedom and instead of a prosperous nation under God we will become the nation with torn eagle wings that no longer can fly.
If you go to the ACLU site (listed below) – you will find how ACLU is wanting to protect the MUSLIM freedom of religion and their ‘right’ for Islam mosques and Islamic Shari’a Laws to be established in areas of America.
ACLU protects the RELIGIOUS FREEDOMS AND RIGHTS of an enemy of the western world through ISLAM IDEOLOGY rather than protecting us as a nation built on the FOUNDATIONS AND PRINCIPLES OF GOD AND GOD’S WORD.
ACLU is constantly ripping apart the Christian and Jewish freedoms…. ACLU is ripping off the our nations Eagle Wings so the American Freedoms that we know we be no longer for we will not be able to fly in FREEDOM as an Eagle....
This is why my interpretation of ACLU is American Communist (or Anti Christ) Liberties Union….
For ACLU is following and represents the Anti-Christ spirit that wants to become the one WORLD GLOBAL GOVERNMENT AND RELIGION.
In IRAN today, where this nation’s government follows ISLAM and ISLAMIC SHARI'A LAWS – the people of this nation have NO FREEDOMS, NO RIGHTS, and they are KILLED. If a person is found to be CHRISTIAN – they are told by this ISLAM SHARI’A LAW to deny Christ and embrace ISLAM or be killed. This is FREEDOM of religion for them.
I can give you story after story of what happens in IRAN today currently under ISLAM IDEOLOGIES and ISLAM SHARI’A LAW of this same kind of story.
Look around, and really look… Look at the nations whom embrace ISLAM IDEOLOGY and ISLAM SHARI’A LAWS and tell me ‘WHERE IS THE PEACE WITHIN THESE NATIONS?’
Look at the nation of IRAN, or EGYPT, or PAKISTAN, or SAUDI ARABIA, or SOMALIA and many other nations whom have embraced the ISLAM IDEOLOGY and ISLAM SHARI’A LAWS and tell me “WHERE IS THE PEACE?”
This is what ACLU in America is doing to us in America as they allow ISLAM IDEOLOGY to have more FREEDOMS and RIGHTS than our CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES OF GOD and GOD’S WORD….
ACLU is following the ANTI-CHRIST SPIRIT (Satan, the Prince of the Air, Darkness) to bring NOT FREEDOM TO AMERICA, but BONDAGE AND DEATH TO AMERICA….
WAKE UP AMERICA – we in America have become like it was in the beginnings of the Jewish Holocaust in Germany long before the war. We closed our eyes and buried our heads in the sand and said ‘go away, I do not want to see it’… and we in America did not become involved until after over 6 million people were slaughtered…. Then we became involved.
Currently in IRAN today – this is their story from the people: (This is only one small story of thousands).
Iranian Pastor Faces Brutal Choice by Islamic regime in IRAN: Reject Christian Faith or Die
A U.S. State Department official expressed outrage and pressed Iran to reverse a court decision that gives an Iranian pastor an outrageous and suicidal...al, choice:
Reject his Christian faith, or die.
The 32-year-old pastor, Yosef Nadarkhani, was arrested in October 2009 for apostasy because he objected to the teaching of Islam to Christian children at Iranian schools. He was sentenced to death by hanging late last year, a verdict that he appealed to Iran’s Supreme Court.
Late last month, the appeal appeared to have been granted, as his lawyer indicated to a news agency on July 3. But an Iranian human rights agency now says the ruling actually imposes the recant-or-die choice, according to CNSNews.com.
A U.S. State Department official issued a statement Wednesday expressing dismay at the prospect.
“While Iran’s leaders hypocritically claim to promote tolerance, they continue to detain, imprison, harass, and abuse those who simply wish to worship the faith of their choosing,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.
“We join the international community in continuing to call on the Iranian government to respect the fundamental rights of all its citizens and uphold its international commitments to protect them.”
The indictment against Nadarkhani, a father and evangelical pastor who became a Christian at age 19, accused him of organizing evangelistic meetings, sharing his faith, inviting others to convert, running a house church, and “denying Islamic values,” CNSNews reports.
After his death sentence, his appeal appeared to win a reversal of the fate of hanging.
But the victory was not as clear-cut as it seemed, and Nadarkhani now has been told that he may face new charges or the case could be returned to the original sentencing court in northern Iran’s Gilan province, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency, an association that Iranian human rights advocates established in 2009.
Now, it appears that the Gilan court will “question the defendant again in order to determine whether he believes in Islam or not. If he is a Muslim, YosefNadarkhani must be released. If it is determined that he is a Christian, he may repent from his faith. Otherwise, if he insists on his beliefs, the death penalty must be carried out,” CNSNews quotes the agency as saying.
And the advocacy group Christian Solidarity Worldwide said, that, despite reports that the death sentence had been reversed, “in reality the Supreme Court appears to have added a precondition requiring him to renounce his faith, or face execution.”
Although Nadarkhani didn’t practice any faith before he became a Christian at 19, he was born to Muslim parents and Islamic law dictates that a child of Muslim parents is considered to be a Muslim.
Although apostasy is not an offense in the Iranian penal code, CNSNews reports that Iran’s constitution includes a clause demanding that, if a basis for a judicial ruling does not exist in the law, judges must turn to “reliable Islamic sources or a valid fatwa.”
The most recent execution of a Christian in Iran for his faith took place 21 years ago, when Assemblies of God Pastor Hussein Sodmand was hanged after refusing to recant, according to CNSNews.
Source: http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Iran-pastor-Christian-hanging/2011/07/07/id/402786
The video below is ‘what’ the IRAN PEOPLE FROM IRAN are sending me personally:
Please watch video at this link. (Jane comment to ACLU: HEY ACLU - America Civil Liberties Union of America - instead of tearing down Christian crosses and Christian things and Jewish things and our Christian/Jewish Rights in America - why not go over to IRAN and actually do some good for people whom need FREEDOMS and RIGHTS....) LIVE FREE OR DIE - آزاد زندگی میکنم یا در راه آزادی میمیرم
- Iran will have to fight for their freedom, because the USA Coward leader doesnot stand for freedom.
Where is ACLU for people in IRAN – how are they truly helping for the FREEDOMS of people?
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This is what is happening TODAY CURRENTLY in the nation of Australia:
Muslim leaders call for traditional Islamic laws to be fully adopted in Australia.
youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfdZDJhjEaE
WAKE UP AMERICA - We will be next. Did you know that Dearborn Michigan in USA was going to try to install Shari’a Islamic Law in place for this Muslim Community City - but Jay Seklulow (ACLJ-American Center of Law and Justice) has been fighting this....? WHERE IS ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) when these things happen? Rather than being concerned in taking rown a cross or destroying a statute of the 10 Commandments in a government public place - why not against this...
Today in Dearborn, Michigan USA – which has become mostly MUSLIMS in this area – Dearborn Michigan has wanted to establish ISLAM SHARI’A LAW in this city. Jay Sakulow of ACLJ (American Center of Law and Justice) has been fighting cases in this area to ban Shari’a Law – but ACLU is fighting that the Muslims of this area of their FREEDOMS AND RIGHTS to have Shari’a Law.
This is happening TODAY in Dearborn Michigan USA – Where is ACLU to protect the Christians of their FREEDOM OF SPEECH?
Is Sharia Law Being Practiced in Dearborn Michigan
http://youtu.be/BUdYsvA3wg0
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This is the ACLU Site and what they represent in America:
http://www.aclu.org/
American Civil Liberties Union
Because freedom can't protect itself. (Jane comment: No, ACLU is allowing freedom for terrorists and religions as ISLAM to have FREEDOMS and FREEDOM OF SPEECH, but for the Christian and Jew - we are beginning to not have the same protection of FREEDOM)
Protecting the Religious Freedom of Muslims
Photo: Ramin Talaie/Corbis
Religious freedom is one of America's most fundamental liberties, and a central principle upon which our nation was founded.
Unfortunately, though, throughout America's history, almost every religious group has been the target of discrimination at one point or another. Tolerance and fairness have generally prevailed, but only after principled voices have transcended prejudice and hatred.
Most recently, Muslim communities in the U.S. have faced a disturbing wave of bigotry and outright hostility. From religiously motivated discrimination and attacks on existing and proposed Islamic centers to misguided congressional hearings, Muslims in America are being unfairly targeted simply for exercising their basic constitutional right to religious liberty.
We must always — especially in times of controversy — vigilantly uphold our core values. When we violate one group's freedom, everyone's liberty is at stake. And the ACLU will continue to defend the civil rights of everyone in our country.
ACLU would probably even protect the FREEDOMS AND RIGHTS of Hitler himself rather than seeing the enemy that Hitler was and the holocaust....
THESE ARE THE ISSUES THAT ACLU IS FOCUSING ON: (As ACLU wants the MUSLIMS to be protected in America)
BE HONEST WITH ME – HOW IS ACLU PROTECTING AMERICA AND OUR AMERICAN PEOPLE – WHEN THEY EMBRACE AN ENEMY OF AMERICA AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE?
Some of the issues we're specifically focusing on include:
- Bans on Sharia and International law )(
- Mosques and community centers )
- The Park51 Islamic Cultural Center in New York City )(
- Discrimination based on appearance
- Discrimination against Muslim women )(
- Infiltration and surveillance of Mosques and Muslim communities )(
- Congressional hearings on the so-called "radicalization" of the American Muslim community )(
- Unconstitutional administration of the “No Fly List” (lawsuit on behalf of 15 U.S. citizens and lawful residents, all of whom are Muslim) )(
- FBI mapping of local communities and businesses based on race and ethnicity )(
- Anti-terrorism financing laws )(
- Invasive questioning at U.S. borders )(
BANS ON SHARIA AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
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ACLU: Fight Hate Speech with More Speech
ACLU And CAIR Urge Court To Uphold Ruling Blocking Oklahoma Sharia And International Law Ban »
ACLU Submits Testimony For Rep. King’s “Radicalization” Hearing »
ACLU And Broad Coalition Tell Rep. King Of Concerns About Muslim “Radicalization” Hearing »
ACLU And Broad Coalition Tell Rep. King Of Concerns About Muslim “Radicalization” Hearing »
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Debunking the Mythical "Sharia Threat" to Our Judicial System »
Our War Is Not Against Islam » (Jane note: No ACLU is not in war against ISLAM but embracing ISLAM but their (ACLU) war is against CHRISTIANS AND JEWS and banning GOD out of America).
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ACLU and NYCLU Stand Up for Religious Freedom and Park51 »
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech...
- First Amendment, United States Constitution
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As a TRUE AMERICAN that believes in our FOUNDING ROOTS are you willing to STAND UP and not let ACLU prosper and come against our FOUNDING AMERICAN ROOTS as they (ACLU) protects the RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS of our enemies within ISLAM IDEOLOGIES and ISLAMSHARI’A LAWS (that is all about BONDAGE and non freedom of people). Or do you want to bury your head in the sand and say go away I don’twant to even think about it as our AMERICAN FREEDOMS are being stripped away by ACLU and ACLU is tearing the wings off our EAGLE in AMERICA for FREEDOM – so one day we as a nation of an eagle will only have ripped off wings so that we no longer can FLY IN FREEDOM….
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Our American Roots ~ Remember!
Posted: June 7, 2011 | Author: blogsensebybarb | Filed under: education, life, blogsense, America, Christianity, history,character training, citizenship | Tags: American, history, roots, Christianity, pilgrims, puritans, Jamestown, Plymouth Colony, Tyndale, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreete | 3 Comments »
I often hear in the media today that America has never been an truly Christian nation, and that those who presume so are deceived. You decide.
OUR AMERICAN ROOTS: Many have recently argued that our beginnings were not essentially Christian. I suppose that depends on your definition of Christian, but the central focus, and the source of strength, wisdom, and consolation in the early American settlements was the God of the Bible. Yes, there were different ‘denominations,’ different perspectives of how this God worked, and if he did or didn’t interfere in the everyday lives of individuals, but nevertheless, God was central to the early literature, the poetry, and architecture i.e. the location of the church was central even as God was central to their lives. “No group has played a more pivotal role in shaping American values than theNew England Puritans. The seventeenth-century Puritans contributed to our country’s sense of mission, its work ethic, and its moral sensibility.”
To understand the Puritans (of the Massachusetts Bay Colony) or the Pilgrims (of Plymouth), it is necessary to have a bit of an understanding of English history. In the 1450′s, the first printing press was built, the first published work from that press was the Gutenberg Bible Until this time, the only people who had access to the Holy Scriptures were the priests. With the invention of the printing press, it became conceivable that even the common man could obtain a copy of the Bible if translated into common English. William Tyndale saw to that and was beheaded for his efforts. As more and more individuals gained access to a Bible, these same individuals developed their own understanding of the words, the message contained therein.
The Puritans were people who walked through life with a very personal faith. Engendering this faith to their children was a very serious matter to them. Because of their Biblical Christianity they had suffered greatly. They and their Pilgrim friends had been grievously treated by the established Church and the English Crown the hiearchical dignitaries were beholden to. Matters of conscience were very important to them. Nevertheless the Puritans, for the most part, were a bright and cheerful company. They were a people who enjoyed life and took on its challenges with gusto. To the Puritans life was a grand adventure with the lives of a whole company of people at stake. If they were not diligent before God and before their fellow man then there would be dire consequences. It could be a case of “Paradise Lost”. The Puritan Milton was active in the English Civil War as was John Bunyan writer of the classic Biblical Christian allegory, “Pilgrim’s Progress”. Indeed “Paradise Lost” was the title of the Milton’s epic poem.
The history and literature of that period reflects the beliefs and daily lifestyle that centered on a relationship with our benevolent Almighty God. We don’t hear much about this today, even in historical or literary studies because it just isn’t politically correct – no room for secular humanism! But the truth is written in the lines of Anne Bradstreet (1612 – 1672), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882), Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888), Washington Irving (1783 – 1859), Nathanial Hawthorne (1804 – 1864), Emily Dickenson (1830 – 1886), James Fenimore Cooper (1789 – 1851), and so many more who captured the time, the life, the struggles, and the victories of these early Americans.
Aboard the Mayflower, the leaders drafted the Mayflower Compact
Governor William Bradford (1590 – 1621) Bradford was selected as Governor by the survivors of the Mayflower crossing, the first settlers to endure both the crossing and the settling of the New England coast of Plymouth. Some were Pilgrims (or Separatists) wanted to break away from the Chruch of England. The others were called Puritans because they wanted to establish a “pure church that would offer a model for the churches in England.” They both wanted to be FREE to worship as they saw fit. They wanted Freedom of religion!
William Bradford was one of the first Americans to be published in the New land. His Of Plymouth Plantation was an impressive journal he kept detailing the crossing itself and the initial workings of the new colony, the new village of Plymouth and the government they established. Here is a brief excerpt:
Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the fast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element. And no marvel if they were thus joyful, seeing wise Seneca was so affected with sailing a few miles on the coast of his own Italy, as he affirmed, that he had rather remain twenty years on his way by land than pass by sea to any place in a short time, so tedious and dreadful was the same unto him.The brave and devout Puritans of the Mayflower crossing drew up a compact that became the foreshadow of our unique government. “The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the colonists, later together known to history as the Pilgrims, who crossed the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower. Almost half of the colonists were part of a separatist groupseeking the freedom to practice Christianity according to their own determination and not the will of the English Church. It was signed on November 11, 1620 by 41 of the ship’s one hundred and two passengers, in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.
The primary import of this document was the establishment of self-rule in the colony. In that way, the Mayflower Compact is a foreshadowing of what was to come, of the cry for individual freedom in the New Land – America. The subsequent documents of Independence and self-rule assumed the morality and spirituality of the people. While degrees of devotion differ, and methods of “worhip” differ, still they agreed in theinherent sovereignty of Almighty God. This is our history. These are our roots. They distinguished between Church rule and civil rule – not separating one FROM the other but distinguishing their separate roles in the lives of the people. This is America! A land, under God, sought and found for a unique and special purpose – where individuals could worship God as they saw fit. In today’s language, that means the elimination of Christianity while other religions are welcomed and extolled! Yet morality in the USA has never been at a lower standard. Five minutes of TV news will confirm that!
Modern version
In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the Faith, etc.
Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
The Bill of Rights ~ First 10 Amendments of the US Constitution
In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, 1620.
Can we re-discover our ROOTS???
William Tyndale – translator of the Bible to English so every believer could read the holy Word for himself!
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America's Godly Heritage
Active humanists and the liberal media have for years undertaken a concentrated effort to misinform the American public by attacking the "Religious Right" and rewriting America's Judeo-Christian history in a humanistic tone. The motto at the heart of the American experiment "in God we trust" has been exchanged for "in Man we trust."
Rewriting History
The last three generations of Americans simply have not been told the truth about American history as its Christian heritage has been disparaged.
For example, ask most Americans if the "separation of church and state" is in our Constitution, and they will answer yes. You can scour the Constitution of the United States, and you will NOT find the phrase, "separation of church and state" or anything close to it.
In the Constitution of the Soviet Union, however, the doctrine of the separation of Church and State is found: "In order to ensure to citizens freedom of conscience, the church in the U.S.S.R. is separated from the State, and the school from the church. Freedom of religious worship and freedom of antireligious propaganda is recognized for all citizens" (Article 124). Article Twelve of the 1918 Soviet Constitution decrees that no church or religious organization"shall enjoy the rights of judicial person." Instruction of children under age 18 in religious matters, whether in public or private, is against the law.
While the concept of separation of church and state might be implied by the First Amendment which states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof....", it says nothing about the "separation of church and state." And, even if you accept the principle of the separation of church and state being implied by the First Amendment, it's implication is not there to protect Americans from religion, it is there to protect religious Americans from the government.
In their desire to promote their secular humanist philosophy using the power of government, many liberals today want to alter America's Christian heritage and replace it with the 10 Planks of Communism. They want to remove religion from our history and replace it with the Soviet doctrine of the separation of Church and State. They don't want to safeguard denominational neutrality by the state as the Founders intended, rather they want to eradicate every vestige of religion from our public institutions.
The Educational Establishment
One reason we have lost so many of our religious freedoms is that the liberal educational establishment has worked hard to eliminate our knowledge of the Judeo-Christian heritage of America. The facts nonetheless reveal the true convictions of our founders. Without question, they believed that although no one Christian denomination should dominate the nation, the principles of the Bible and Christianity should underlie our government and American education as well.
"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 Henry
"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of a Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers." - U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, John Jay
"The liberties we talk about defending today were established by men who took their conceptions of man from the great central religious tradition of Western civilization [Christianity], and the liberties we inherit can almost certainly not survive the abandonment of that tradition. The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as someone more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey. This is the forgotten foundation of democracy." , April 2, 1969][James Reston, "Faith of Our Fathers, Living Still?"
Our children's history books are being rewritten so they no longer hear the truth about the tremendous influence of religious faith on America's founding fathers, on the great documents they drafted to establish a true republic based, on the critical tripod of liberty, life, and family. The revisionist history being taught now is devoid of any reference to the
Christian faith of our Founding Fathers as the old stories, the old way that American history was taught, was revised to reflect a more liberal, politically correct, homogenized and multicultural perspective.
Words like duty and honor and country have fallen out of vogue, and the stories of the Christian faith of men like George Washington and Patrick Henry and Noah Webster and so many others, Daniel Webster, Andy Jackson, Chief Justice John Marshall - magnificent Christians - these stories are simply left out.
While many may squabble over who among the founding fathers was a Christian, no knowledgeable historian of early American history can deny the fact that the concept of a Creator God who endowed His creation with "unalienable rights" was an essential underpinning of the American experiment. Indeed, the Declaration of
Independencestates, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." These rights were derived not from a government that was transitory, but from a Governor who was eternal. It was the role of government to defend these rights and not dilute or remove them.
The revisionists extend the influence of their world view outside the classroom as well into nearly every segment of American life. Descriptions and tours of the nation's capitol, for example, fail to point out that the Ten Commandments are inscribed in the marble of the United States Supreme Court, that there is a beautiful stained glass window in the U.S. Capitol depicting President George Washington kneeling in prayer, and that at the top of the Washington Monument - the highest point in the nation's capital is embedded a plaque which boldly proclaims in Latin, "Praise Be Unto God."
Arbitrary Law
In the 1892 Supreme Court ruling in Church of the Holy Trinity vs. U.S. (citing 87 precedents), "Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of Mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian."
Throughout history, the U.S. Supreme Court continually cited previous cases in order to maintain our Christian Constitution. However, in 1962, for the first time in American history, the court cited no previous cases and ruled in Engel vs. Vitale that; because of Separation of Church and State, the government needed to be separated from Christian principles. So, the simple school prayer, "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon thee and we beg thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers, and our country" became unconstitutional and the eradication of Christianity from public institutions began.
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. [Isaiah 5:20]
The Supreme Court, the President, or Congress do not shoulder the entire blame for these profound changes in the American cultural fabric. Far from it. Indeed, past generations of Christians and other religionists who were not involved in society or who sat silently by as the culture embraced the secular worldview are also greatly responsible.
Restoring America
The future of America will either be a national revival or it's total destruction. We're on the edge now of real national self-destruction. The past few generations of Americans have witnessed the collapse of moral and ethical values unlike any time in our history. We're looking at the very strong probability of economic collapse, unless there is a tremendous change. We're going to spend ourselves, tax ourselves into total oblivion.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. [2 Chronicles 7:14]
The essence of what God is requiring of the Christians in America is repentance. If we Christians think that simply by political involvement we're going to turn the country around, we're crazy. If we think that we can adopt an antagonistic triumphalism that says we're going to get organized and throw all the bad guys out and take over, we will be brought face to face with our own sinfulness.
We must recover the original American vision and we must put into practice 2 Chronicles 7:14. Our First Continental Congress understood this concept as is evident in the words of John Jay.
What we need is a Christian nation - compared to the pagan nation we're becoming. By "Christian nation," I don't mean that everyone is forced to be a Christian or forced to go to church or to believe in God. People are free to be Buddhists, atheists, or whatever. The job of government is not to convert or force conversion to any kind of faith. The job of the government is to do for the people what they can't do for themselves. And the job of bringing people to faith belongs to the private citizens, the churches, the synagogues and the religious leaders of our nation. That separation should always be kept. What I mean by a Christian nation is a nation whose laws are self-consciously built on the laws and principles of the Bible.
We have allowed organizations like the ACLU to strip away every vestige of our Christian heritage for long enough. We are tired of them destroying our country by declaring God unconstitutional. Our nation was founded on the principles laid out by the God of the Bible and we're saying ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Where there is no foundation, there are no laws and what results is anarchy brought forth by moral relativism. Their way has failed. The time has come for us to take back that which once was and let the healing begin.
"Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden times, and let us gather around it an inscribed for our motto: "Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever," and exclaim, Christ first, our country next!" -- Andrew Johnson
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