Was the USA founded on Christianity?

Hey all you creed people out there

This is my first post. I just became a member today. My name is Wadrick (pronouinced with a long "a" (kind of a weird name but my boss gave it to me.)

He sent this story to me. tell me what you think about it. It is kind of long...bear with me.



Subject: Fw: Our Roots in God

But in current textbooks the context of these words is deleted. Here
is what he actually said: "An appeal to arms and the God of hosts is
all that is left us. But we shall not fight our battle alone. There is
a just God that presides over the destinies of nations. The battle, Sir,
is not to the strong alone. Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be
purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it almighty God.
I know not what course others may take, but as for me,give me liberty,
or give me death." These sentences have been erased from our textbooks.
WHY? Under who's authority? Was Patrick Henry a Christian? You be the
judge. The following year, 1776, he wrote this: "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. For that reason alone, people of
other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here."
Consider these words Thomas Jefferson wrote on the front of his
well-worn Bible: "I am a real, Christian, that is to say, a disciple of
the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole country will
soon be rallied to the unity of our Creator."
He was also the chairman of the American Bible Society, which he
considered his highest and most important role.
On July 4, 1821, President Adams said, "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."
Calvin Coolidge, our 30th President of the United States, reaffirmed
this truth when he wrote, "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."
In 1782, the United States Congress voted this resolution: "The Congress
of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in
all schools."
William Holmes McGuffey is the author of the McGuffey Reader, which was
used for over 100 yrs. in our public schools with over 125 million
copies sold until it was stopped in 1963. President Lincoln called him
the "Schoolmaster of the nation." Listen to these words of Mr.
McGuffey: "The Christian religion is the religion of our country. >From
it are derived our notions on the character of God, on the great moral
Governor of the universe. On its doctrines are founded the
peculiarities of our free institutions. From no source has the author
drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. For all
these extracts from the Bible I make no apology."
Of the first 108 universities founded in America, 106 were distinctly
Christian, including the first, Harvard University, chartered in 1636.In
the original Harvard Student Handbook, rule number 1 was that students
seeking entrance must know Latin and Greek so that they could study the
scriptures: "Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly
pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and studies is, to
know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life, John 17:3; and
therefore to lay Jesus Christ as the only foundation for our children to
follow the moral principles of the Ten Commandments."
James Madison, the primary author of the Constitution of the United
States, said this: "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."
So much for the so-called "separation of church and state."
Today, we are asking God to bless America. But, how can He bless a
nation that has departed so
far from Him? Prior to September 11, He was not welcome in America and
is still unwelcome in all
of our public schools. Most of what you read in this article has been
erased from our textbooks. Revisionists have rewritten history to remove
the truth about our country's Christian roots. "I tremble
for my country when I recall that God is just, and that His justice will
not sleep forever."
-- Thomas Jefferson

[JulieCitySlicker]

Welcome Wadrick!
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[Lechium]

Where's an option "no heaven for me, please"?

[Bridge of Clay]

don´t start it, Leech!

[JulieCitySlicker]

Ya really Go ta hell if ya want to then It your life man...if you want to waste it all away then thats on you Lech

[Lechium]

I never said that I wanted to go to hell. Just not to heaven. I am sure that afterlife is a huge world, which has much more to it than just heaven and hell. I'd like to explore it, rather than getting stuck in small corner of it called heaven.

dude, i respect you ideas about life and it is for the most part up to you weater you want to go to heaven or hell, but maybe u should realize that the afterlife is big and wonderul,but only half of it is good. that good part id heaven. the bad part is hell. that is all there is to it. no holding place, no in - between...kust heaven and hell.

i don't mean to sound sarcastic, but you can go to hell if you want to. i only hope that u change your mind

wadrick

[SCOTTSMYMAN]

Where ever I go as long as I'm with the ones I love is good enough for me!!

[JulieCitySlicker]

Quote:

Originally posted by Lechium
I never said that I wanted to go to hell. Just not to heaven. I am sure that afterlife is a huge world, which has much more to it than just heaven and hell. I'd like to explore it, rather than getting stuck in small corner of it called heaven.

Small corner huh We'll see about that

[Lechium]

Saying thatt there's only heaven and hell is like saying that in this physical world there's only Solar system. Just because all you've heard about is heaven and hell doesnt mean that that's all there is. I mean Cathoics created 3dr place (Purgatory), so why there cant be 10 billion more places, not mentioned in Bible?

[JulieCitySlicker]

Quote:

Originally posted by Lechium
Saying thatt there's only heaven and hell is like saying that in this physical world there's only Solar system. Just because all you've heard about is heaven and hell doesnt mean that that's all there is. I mean Cathoics created 3dr place (Purgatory), so why there cant be 10 billion more places, not mentioned in Bible?

OMG

[Lechium]

step back for a second, and forget all you have lerned in church, and try to look sober at issue afterlife, not though the Christian perspective.

[jango]

Quote:

Originally posted by Lechium
step back for a second, and forget all you have lerned in church, and try to look sober at issue afterlife, not though the Christian perspective.

This goes both ways...

[Lechium]

I tried to be Christain for longest time. Never workout. So I've tried both, really.

[Bridge of Clay]

and you´re saying it based on what???

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I am sure that afterlife is a huge world,

btw, there´s no such thing like Hell in the Bible. Not even afterlife. The Bible says death is just like sleeping, but without being aware of it.

When Christ comes back, then he´ll ressurect the deads and take them to Heaven, along with those who won´t taste death.