God In America

8. In 1779 after the First Amendment (The Establishment clause)was written, the Supreme Court stated the following:

 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

 By our form the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed on the same equal footing.

II. GOD IN OUR GOVERNMENT

1. Does God have a place in our government? If you listen to people today they will tell you no. Let’s briefly look at a couple of statements from our founders pertaining to God in Government. I could spend all day quoting to you, so if you want more, let me know.

2. In a 10 year study the Political Science Professors at the University of Houston researched over 15,000 writing of the founders, they isolated 3154 direct quotes in these writings, of these direct quotes, 34% of these come directly from the Bible, another 60% were quotes from people like John Locke and Sir William Blackstone, who directly quoted the Bible. Over 94% of the quotes found in the writings of the founders came from the Bible.

3. James Madison, the “Chief Architect of the Constitution” said this in reference to the 10 commandments:

 We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves.. according to the Ten Commandments of God..”

4. John Adams stated the following:

 We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is whollly inadequate to the government of any other.

5. John Quincy Adams said:

 The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code... laws essential to the existence of men in society and most of which have been enacted by every nation which ever professed any code of laws."

6. Notice this ruling by the U. S. Supreme Court in 1892:

 "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. In this sense and to this extent, our civilizations and our institutions are emphatically Christian." 26

6. In 1811 The Supreme Court stated:

 Whatever strikes at the root of Christianity tends manifestly to the dissolution of civil government

7. The founding fathers based our system of government in the Bible.

 For example, the concept for three branches of government can be found in Isaiah 33:22; the logic for the separation of powers was based on Jeremiah 17:9;* the basis of tax exemptions for churches was found in Ezra 7:24; and there are many other examples.

III. GOD IN OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

1. Does God belong in the school? It does not seem so today.

2. Let us look at the New England Primer that was the standard textbook in schools for over 200 years beginning in Boston in 1690.