Consider these facts:

1. The pledge of allegiance was written in 1982 by a Baptist

minister from Boston, and in 1954 congress added the phrase

“Under God.”

2. In 1931 Congress adopted the Star Spangled Banner as our

national anthem. Frances Scott Key wrote it in 1814, and one

portion reads: Praise the POW’R that hath made

and preserved us a nation….And this be our motto,

In God is our Trust.

3. October 4th, 1982 congress declared 1983 to be

“The Year of the Bible.”

Public law 97-280.

4. January 5, 1988 congress passed public law 100-300

declaring the first Thursday of each May to be recognized as

a National Day of Prayer.

5. Virtually every one of the 55 writers and signers of the United States Constitution of 1787 were

members of Christian denominations:

29 were Anglicans16 to 18 were Calvinists

2 were Methodists 2 were Lutherans

2 were Roman Catholic1 Quaker; sometimes Anglican

1 open deist

6. Calvin Coolidge, our 30th president said this when

speaking about the motives of the Puritan forefathers: “They were intent upon establishing a

Christian Commonwealth in accordance with the principle of self-government. They were an

inspired body of men.”

7. Constitution of the state of Delaware, Article XXII

Every person who shall be chosen a member of either house, or appointed to the office or place of trust… shall… make and subscribe to the following declaration, to wit, “I ______,

do profess faith in God the father, and in Jesus Christ his only son, and in the Holy

ghost, one God, blessed forever more; and I do acknowledge the holy scriptures of the Old

and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.”

8. David Josiah Brewer, Justice of the U.S. Supreme court, gave this legal opinion in

1982:“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.”

9. In the famous case of Vidal vs. Girard’s Executors, the Supreme

Court observed: “It is also said, and truly, that the Christian religion is a part of the

common law…”

10. Congress of the United States, May 1854 passed a resolution in

the House which declared: “The great vital and conservative

element in our system is the belief of our people in the pure

doctrines and divine truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ.”

11. As the parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence was being

signed by the members of the Continental Congress, August 2, 1776,

Samuel Adams declared:“We have this day restored the

Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and

from the rising of the sun to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.”

12. The colony of Georgia, named after King George II, was a refuge for poor debtors and persecuted protestants

from Europe. As the settlers touched the shore, they kneeled and declared:

Our end in leaving our native country is not to gain riches and honor, but singly this: to live wholly to the glory of God.

13. Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States declared that religion is,

“Deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support.” Which religion was he talking about? His own words state this about his bible: “A

more beautiful or precious morsel of ethics I have never seen; it is a document

in proof that I am a Christian; that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus.”

14. James Madison, known as the “Chief Architect of the Constitution” was our 4th president, serving from

1809-1817. He was the original author and promoter of the Bill of Rights

and he authored 29 of the 85 Federalist Papers.

He stated, “Religion is the basis and foundation of government.”

15. Madison also said; “We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not on the power of government, far from it.

We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern

ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the

Ten Commandments of God.”

16. In 1864, the constitution of the state of Maryland required all state

officers to make:“A declaration of belief in the

Christian religion, or of the existence of God, and in a future

state of rewards and punishment.”

17. The constitution of the state of Mississippi 1817 stated:

“No person who denies the being

of God or a future state of rewards and punishments shall hold any

office in the civil department of the State.”

18. B. F Norris, 1864, a notable American historian wrote:

This is a Christian nation, first in name, and secondly because of the many and mighty elements of a pure Christianity which have

given it character and shaped its destiny from the beginning. It is preeminently the land of the

Bible, of the Christian church…. The chief security and glory of the United States

of America has been, is now, and will be forever, the prevalence and domination of the

Christian faith.

19. The Constitution of the state of New Hampshire, 1784

required senators and representatives to be of the:

Protestant religion.

(in force until 1877)

20. North American Review, 1867 reported:

The American government and the constitution is the most precious

possession which the world holds, or which the future can inherit. This is true – true because the

American system is the political expression of Christian ideas.

21. President Franklin D. Roosevelt described the United

States as:

The lasting concord between men and nations, founded of the

principles of Christianity.

22. President Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States wrote these words about America to Pope Pius XII in 1947:

“This is a Christian nation.”

23. Daniel Webster, former U. S. Congressman, U.S. Senator and Secretary of State having served 3 different presidents in

the early 1800’s stated:

“If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all

our glory in profound obscurity.”

24. Daniel Webster, Dec. 22, 1820:

“Let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the

Christian religion. They journeyed by its light, and labored in its hope. They sought

to incorporate its principles with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its

influence through all their institutions, civil, political or literary.”

25. In 1913, Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United

States said:“America was born a Christian nation. America was born to

exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations

of Holy Scripture.”

26. Henry Wilson, U.S. Senator and also vice president under Ulysses S. Grant,

declared:“Men who see not God in our history have surely lost sight of the fact that, from the landing of the Mayflower to this hour, the

great men whose names are associated with the colonization, rise, and progress of the Republic have borne testimony to the

vital truths of Christianity.”

27. President Gerald Ford, December 5, 1974: Without God there could be

no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition

of the Supreme Being is the first – the most basic – expression of

Americanism. Thus the founding fathers of America saw it, and thus

with God’s help, it will continue to be.

28. Charles G. Finney

“God will bless or curse this nation according to the course

Christians take in politics.”

29. Let us heed the words of Peter Marshall, Chaplain of the United States

Senate, spoken on January 13, 1947:

“The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise,

discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and

privileges as American citizens….

…. The time is come – it is now – when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our

citizenship.

America’s future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating

God’s government.”