That's a lot of quotes to go over and I haven't looked at each of them.
The first few are long on conclusions but short on argument. An
forerunners of the pillars (*) of our laws and morality. But since I
will respond.
exercise of religion.
exercise. To the contrary, God was a jealous God who cast those who
worshiped idols into the hell pits of fire.
Post by El CastorSome reading material for you ...
"“Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for
their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by
the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in
conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice,
kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love, and
reverence toward Almighty God … What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would
this region be.”
—Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, Vol. III, p. 9"
"My first act as President is a prayer. I ask you to bow your heads.
Heavenly Father, we bow our heads and thank You for Your love. Accept
our thanks for the peace that yields this day and the shared faith
that makes its continuance likely. Make us strong to do Your work,
willing to heed and hear Your will, and write on our hearts these
words: “Use power to help people.” For we are given power not to
advance our own purposes, nor to make a great show in the world, nor a
name. There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.
Help us to remember it, Lord. The Lord our God be with us, as He was
with our fathers; may He not leave us or forsake us; so that He may
incline our hearts to Him, to walk in all His ways… that all peoples
of the earth may know that the Lord is God; there is no other."
... George Washington
"“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the
Bible.”
– George Washington"
“What students would learn in American schools above all is the
religion of Jesus Christ.”
– George Washington
“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the
Bible.”
– George Washington
“It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of
Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and
humbly to implore His protection and favor.”
– George Washington
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political
prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable.”
– George Washington We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other
transgressions…
– George Washington, Thanksgiving Proclamation 1789
“Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work.
Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb and purge my
heart by Thy Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me more and more in the
likeness of Thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in Thy fear, and dying
in Thy favor, I may in thy appointed time obtain the resurrection of
the justified unto eternal life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of
mankind and let the world be filled with the knowledge of Thee and Thy
son, Jesus Christ.”
– George Washington, Prayer
“True religion affords to government its surest support.”
– George Washington
Samuel Adams, Signer of the Declaration of Independence
“I … [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my
sins.” – Samuel Adams
“We have this day [Fourth of July] restored the Sovereign to whom all
men ought to be obedient. He reigns in Heaven, and from the rising to
the setting of the sun, let His Kingdom come.”
– Samuel Adams
“The name of the Lord (says the Scripture) is a strong tower; thither
the righteous flee and are safe (Proverbs 18:10). Let us secure His
favor and He will lead us through the journey of this life and at
length receive us to a better.”
– Samuel Adams
United States Congressional Endorsement of the Bible and God
“The United States in Congress assembled … recommend this edition of
the Bible to the inhabitants of the United States … a neat edition of
the Holy Scriptures for the use of schools.”
– United States Congress 1782
“Congress passed this resolution: “The Congress of the United States
recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.”
– United States Congress 1782
“By Law the United States Congress adds to US coinage:”
“In God We Trust”– United States Congress 1864
John Adams, President of the United States of America, First Vice
President, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Signer of the
Bill of Rights, and Signer of First Amendment
“We recognize no sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus.”
– John Adams and John Hancock
“The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human
government upon the first precepts of Christianity.” – John Adams
“The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence
were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then
believed, and now believe, that those general principles of
Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and
attributes of God.”
– John Adams
“The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected,
in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the
principles of Christianity.”
– John Adams
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It
is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
– John Adams
“I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is
the best book in the world.” – John Adams
“The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever
prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of
wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.”
– John Adams
“[The Fourth of July] ought to be commemorated as the day of
deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.” – John Adams
“As the safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially
depend on the protection and the blessing of Almighty God, and the
national acknowledgment of this truth is not only an indispensable
duty which the people owe to Him.” – John Adams
Abigail Adams, Wife of John Adams
“The Scriptures tell us righteousness exalteth a Nation.”
– Abigail Adams
Patrick Henry, Early America Leader
There is a book [the Bible] worth all the other books ever printed.–
Patrick Henry
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
John Jay, First Chief-Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it
is their duty – as well as privilege and interest – of our Christian
nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.
– John Jay
The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and
teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue
therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.
– John Jay
John Hancock, Signer of the Declaration of Independence
We recognize no sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus.
– John Adams and John Hancock
Benjamin Rush, Signer of the Declaration of Independence
“The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion.
Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be
no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican
governments.”
– Benjamin Rush
John Witherspoon, Continental Congress
“He is the best friend to American liberty, who is most sincere and
active in promoting true and undefiled religion, and who sets himself
with the greatest firmness to bear down on profanity and immorality of
every kind. Whoever is an avowed enemy of God, I scruple not to call
him an enemy to his country.”
– John Witherspoon
John Dickinson, Signer Constitution of the USA, Continental Congress
“The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher
source — from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.”
– John Dickinson
Benjamin Franklin
“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson, President
God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be
secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the
gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God
is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.
– Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson Memorial
The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given
to man
– Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson Memorial
Daniel Webster, Early American Politician
Education is useless without the Bible.
– Daniel Webster
Noah Webster, American Schoolmaster
Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America’s basic
text book in all fields. God’s Word, contained in the Bible, has
furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.
– Noah Webster
In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of
the first things in which all children, under a free government ought
to be instructed … No truth is more evident to my mind than that the
Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to
secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
– Noah Webster, Preface Noah Webster Dictionary, 1828
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story
“I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil
society. One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is
that Christianity is a part of the Common Law … There never has been a
period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying
its foundations.”
– Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, Harvard Speech, 1829
National Anthem of the United States of America, Francis Scott Key
“And this be our motto, ‘In God is our trust’” – USA National Anthem,
Third Verse
Andrew Jackson, President of the United States of America
“[The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests.”
– Andrew Jackson
Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America
“In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is
the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to
the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not
know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man’s welfare,
here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.” – Abraham Lincoln
“I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming
conviction that I had absolutely no other place to go.” – Abraham
Lincoln
“This nation under God”
– Abraham Lincoln, Gettysberg Address and inscribed on Lincoln
Memorial
“And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their
dependence upon the overruling power of God … and to recognize the
sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all
history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the
courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who
pervert the Constitution.”
– Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Memorial
“Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the
Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the
affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the
President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and
humiliation…”
– Abraham Lincoln
United States Supreme Court
“This is a Christian nation”
– United States Supreme Court Decision in Church of the Holy Trinity
v. United States, 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; and in this sense and to this extent our
civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian…This is a
Christian nation”
– United States Supreme Court Decision in Church of the Holy Trinity
v. United States, 1892
“We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power
of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our
political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to
govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten
Commandments.”
– James Madison
“Religion [is] the basis and foundation of Government”
– James Madison
“Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.”
– James Madison
“The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the
teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if
faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in
our country.”
– Calvin Coolidge
https://americasfoundingfathers.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/a-christian-nation/
