-Caveat Lector-
Bard
I do not know how to tell you this - BUT -
they did not envision a Christian Nation!
George Washington's letter to the Jewish Congregation at
Newport
http://www.tncrimlaw.com/civil_bible/hebrew_congregation.htm
And America did not get where it is because of Puritanism.
Doing away with the Lords and the history they represent - -
Ich well, you do like cutting off your nose to spite you face,
do you not!
piper
Bard wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> Brothers and Sisters,
> Pass these along to your Contacts for use as
> prefixes or suffices to messages.
>
> A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an
> honest Man without the fear of God.
> Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations binds, can have any real
> Good Will towards Men?
> Can he be a patriot who, by an openly vicious conduct, is undermining the
> very bonds of Society? ...
> The Scriptures tell us "righteousness exalteth a Nation."
> -- Abigail Adams
>
> Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and still man's obligations to
> God would be unchanged.
> He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be
> gone ....
> -- Henry Ward Beecher
>
> I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a
> Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and
> I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which
> was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to
> consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them.
> -- George Washington
>
> It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had
> drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and
> that He will look on me in love and compassion.
> -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
>
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> We have this day 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
>
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> They [the Founding Fathers] were intent upon establishing a Christian
> commonwealth in accordance with the principle of self-government.
> They were an inspired body of men.
> It has been said that God sifted the nations that He might send choice grain
> into the wilderness ....
> Who can fail to see in it the hand of destiny? Who can doubt that it has
> been guided by a Divine Providence.
> -- Calvin Coolidge
>
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> You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care.
> Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and
> has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit
> of the human race.
> May He who holds in His hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of
> the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you, with pure hearts and hands and
> sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great
> charge He has committed to your keeping.
> -- Andrew Jackson
>
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> The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.
> Where, say some, is the king of America?
> I'll tell you, friend, He reigns above.
> -- Thomas Paine
>
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> I am much afraid that schools will prove to be the great gates of hell
> unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving
> them in the hearts of youth.
> I advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not reign
> paramount.
> Every institution in which men are not increasingly occupied with the Word
> of God must become corrupt.
> -- Martin Luther
>
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> I do not believe human society, including not merely a few persons in any
> state, but whole masses of men, ever have attained, or ever can attain, a
> high state of intelligence, virtue, security, liberty, or happiness without
> the Holy Scriptures; even the whole hope of human progress is suspended on
> the ever-growing influence of the Bible.
> -- William Henry Seward
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> http://thenewamerican.com/departments/quotes/religion.htm
>
> Bard
>
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