In the last century, there have been several scholarly works written presenting evidence that the Founding Fathers of the United States of America led via a Biblical world view. Some of these are: Frank Lambert, The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America (2003); Mark Beliles and Douglas Anderson, Contending for the Constitution, (Providence Foundation eds., 2005); John Eidsmoe, Christianity and the Constitution: The Faith of Our Founding Fathers (1987). The leaders had the courage of their convictions, without which the developing country would have been doomed. The hard fought for freedoms would have been for naught. Thankfully, the founders and colonialists recognized and did not reject the divine intervention that led to a united commitment to do something stupendous. Beliles and Anderson, supra, at 55 – 56. For years, this nation continued to live by a moral code which brought respect and admiration by the many people around the world. At the same time, some leaders hated United States for those beliefs. Without reservation, America has pushed back and defeated evil, protecting its allies as well as itself. As time has gone by, distanced now by well over two hundred years from the work of our forefathers, citizens have become complacent. “In God We Trust” is said in a robotic way, with no meaning behind it. Basic human rights include the right to kill an unborn child, Christianity is mocked and not to be proclaimed publicly. Douglas Phillips, Esq., Do Laws and Standards Evolve? Acts and Facts (1998) available at http://www.icr.org/article/do-laws-standards-evolve/ . History is in the process of being re-written; some go so far as denying the Holocaust ever happened. David Williams, Rewriting History: Holocaust revisionism today, (2012) available at http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/shop/rewriting-history.pdf The government has become bloated, slowing turning this from a country of self-determination, to one of entitlements, to a “welfare state” looking to it for salvation instead of from the sovereign God. “Once abolish the God and the government becomes the God. . . . Wherever the people do not believe in something beyond the world, they will worship the world.” G.K. Chesterton, Christendom in Dublin: Personal Impressions of the 31st Eucharistic Congress (Peter Costello, 3rd ed. 2012).
A conviction held by the peoples of the first colonies was that three elements were needed to succeed: Religion, Morality and knowledge. These words were frequently interchanged with piety, virtue and learning. Religion/piety meant Christianity; morality/virtue meant Christian character; knowledge meant Biblical world view. Beliles and Anderson, supra, at 60. Besides being considered a Founder Father of the United States of America and main author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson's resume of roles included, in no particular order: Governor of Virginia; Vice President for President John Adams; Third President of the United States for two terms; statesman responsible for the Louisiana Purchase; United States Minister to Paris; first United States Secretary of State; organizer of the Democratic-Republican Party; founder of the University of Virginia; and main author of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, and of the Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom. Henry Childs Merwin, Thomas Jefferson 36 - 164 (Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1901).
Thomas Jefferson was - and still is - regarded as one of the most intelligent intellects ever known to man. Former President John F. Kennedy stated this best when he addressed Nobel Prize Winners at a dinner in 1962:
John F. Kennedy, Remarks at a Dinner Honoring Nobel Prize Winners of the Western Hemisphere, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=8623 (Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, last accessed Sept. 5, 2014) |
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