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Over the past few years there has been an ongoing debate over the doctrine of the separation of church and state. The ungodly of this country contend that any mention of religion (read Christianity) in the public sector, schools, government programs, etc. is a violation of church and state. Most of them have ridiculed the idea that the framers of our constitution and the founding fathers of our country desired that God be the foundation of this great country. Their point of view is typical of the biased, one-sided view of history that has been presented to our students since God has been kicked out of our government and its schools. They have contended that it is unconstitutional for God to be mentioned in any of our schools or government organizations. They are wrong. It is not unconstitutional. Renegade Supreme Courts that have ignored over 150 years of constitutional precedence has ruled it unconstitutional. Since those fateful days in 1962/63 when, for the first time in the history of America, the United States Supreme Court made a decision to totally ignore precedence and embark upon a different and unconstitutional path, America has paid the price. The myth of the so-called "separation of church and state" has been perpetrated so long and so often that multiplied millions of Americans believe the falsehood. Separation of church and state is not a constitutional doctrine.
The history of America and the rulings by dozens of Supreme Courts prior to 1962 all bear witness to the fact that the writers of our Constitution never intended for God and Christianity to be eliminated from our government and educational system. Thousands of quotations are available, hundreds of court decisions, and thousands of school textbooks are available for the honest seeker of truth that confirm that our founding fathers and our early leaders never intended for God to be eliminated from our educational system.
Patrick Henry said: "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."
Woodrow Wilson said: "America was born a Christian nation for the purpose of exemplifying to the nation of the world the principles of righteousness found in the revelation of God (the Bible)."
John Adams said: "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion....Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
James Madison said: "We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon 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."
George Washington said: "It is impossible to rightly govern without God or the Bible."
Benjamin Franklin spoke to the Constitutional Convention on June 28, 1787. He made reference to the fact that during the Revolutionary War, they prayed daily for God's protection and He heard and answered their petitions. He went on to say: "I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?......I therefore beg leave to move - that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service."
In our faulty and failing government we have eliminated God and His word. That is why our country is in the mess that it is in today.
Fisher Ames, one of our wise Founding Fathers, said that the Bible was the only source of morality and good behavior in America and it must never be separated from our classrooms.
Noah Webster, said in his textbook entitled, "History of the United States", "This brief exposition of the constitution of the United States, will unfold to young persons the principles of republican government; and it is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should understand early that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the Bible, particularly the New Testament of the Christian religion."
President Thomas Jefferson, the originator of the doctrine of separation according to modern, misinformed, revisionist historians, was made president of the school board for Washington D.C. He demanded that the Bible and Watt's Hymnal be the primary reading texts in those schools. Obviously Jefferson never wanted a separation of church and state. He just wanted the Federal Government to stay out of the affairs of the individual states.
How has all of the ignorance about our nation's history come to be? We are no longer teaching the great civic lessons about America in our schools. The revisionists have managed to expunge any reference to God and His word from all curriculums. We may be the most historically illiterate of all generations to this point in our history. As a result, courts and their willing confederates in our society have been given free reign to write laws and regulations that curtail our freedoms more and more.
But, an even greater ill than the degeneration of our schools is the apostasy of our churches. God's word has been revised and edited to the point where we no longer know what God has said to us. We no longer preach and teach the word of God and our people in America are the most Biblically ignorant in most people's recollection. God speaks of this kind of people in, Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
I know that this Scripture is primarily speaking of the nation of Israel, but surely you must be able to see the parallels between Gods' people in the Old Testament and God's people today. Didn't God tell us to learn from their experiences?
1 Corinthians 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
America was founded by men who were grounded in the principles of the word of God. I know that some of them weren't Christians, but they understood the Biblical teaching that all wisdom comes from God and His word. They also understood that without guidance from God in the affairs of men, this nation would not survive.
2 Samuel 23:3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
May I conclude with this statement from the great American statesman James Russell Lowell. Mr. Lowell was asked this question by Francios Guioz, a French historian. "Mr. Lowell, how long will the American Republic endure?" Mr. Lowell replied. "As long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue to be dominant." Well, Mr. Lowell, the socialistic revisionist's of our day has discarded those ideas. Mr. Lowell was correct, and we are seeing the terrible signs of moral decay of America.
Bibles and Christianity were intended to be in America's government and schools. The wording of our great Constitution never intended to remove God and His word from American society.
"If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? - Psalm 11:3
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord..." Psalm 33:12a
"Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14This tract may be downloaded in PDF format Myth-Separation of Church and State.pdf