Should Christians be involved in politics? Let's see what our founding fathers thought. Based on what you have heard in school and throughout the media you may be in for a shock!
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Most of the 50 founding fathers who worked on the constitution were members of orthodox Christian churches and many were evangelical Christians.
Today we are told that our founding fathers were atheists, agnostics, and deists; however, consider this statement by John Adams The general principals on which the fathers achieved independence were…the general principals of Christianity…I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principals of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.
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The 1st text book printed in America was introduced in Boston in 1690. It was called the Primer. The principals in this book were used in education for the next 200 years. Here’s and example:
A-A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
B-Better is a little with fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith.
C-Come unto Christ all ye that labor and heavy laden and He will give you rest.
D-Do not the abominable thing which I hate saith the Lord.
E-Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
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On July 4, 1783 John Quincy Adams stated the following: Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the World, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day. Adams went on to say Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity?
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John Jay, our 1st Supreme Court Chief Justice declared: 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 Christian’s for their rulers.
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In George Washington’s farewell address he stated: Of all dispensations and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars.
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Supreme Court Ruling in 1882: No purpose of action against religion can be imputed to any legislation, state or national, because this is a religious people…This is a Christian nation.
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In 1844 a school in Philadelphia stated that it would teach its students morality but not religion. The Supreme Court ruled as follows: Why not the Bible, and especially the New testament…be read and taught as divine revelation in the school-its general precepts expounded…and its glorious principals of morality inculcated?...Where can the purest principals of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament? The Supreme Court therefore ruled that schools would teach Christianity and the Bible as the source of morality.
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The 1st amendment states: Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Upon review of the congressional records from June 7 through September 25, 1789 it makes clear the founders intent of the first amendment. The Founders wanted Christian principals, God’s principals, but they did not want one denomination to run the nation. The 1st amendment prevented the Federal Establishment of a single denomination, not separation of church and state.
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House Judiciary Committee delivered the following report on March 27, 1854:
Had the people (founding fathers), during the Revolution, had a suspicion of any attempt to war against Christianity, that Revolution would have been strangled in its cradle. At the time of the adoption of the Constitution and the amendments, the universal sentiment was that Christianity should be encouraged, but not any one sect (denomination)…In this age, there is no substitute for Christianity…That was the religion of the founders of the republic, and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants. Two months later, the Judiciary Committee made this strong declaration: the great vital and conservative element in our system (the thing that holds our system together) is the belief of our people in the pure doctrines and divine truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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