In this time of national upheaval I again hearken back to the wisdom that God gave to our founders. This wisdom and understanding ever finds its source in a right apprehension of the supremacy of God and our place and responsibility as His creation, an understanding that has largely been lost.
John Jay
(PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS;DIPLOMAT;AUTHOR OF THE FEDERALIST PAPERS;ORIGINAL CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT;GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK)
"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation, to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."
Jedidiah Morse
(HISTORIAN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION;EDUCATOR;"FATHER OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY";APPOINTED BY BY SECRETARY OF STATE TO DOCUMENT CONDITION OF INDIAN AFFAIRS)
"To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys. All efforts made to destroy the foundations of our Holy Religion ultimately tend to the subversion also of our political freedom and happiness. In proportion as the genuine effects of Christianity are diminished in any nation...in the same proportion will the people of the nation recede from the blessings of genuine freedom...Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government - and and all the blessings which flow from them - must fall with them."
So, it is clear to see that our present societal troubles stem from our national rejection of God's paths. Our founders knew that the principles that undergirded this nation and gave it stability were the principles laid out for us in the scriptures and lived out in the Christian life.
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