GOD IN AMERICA
By Ray BarmoreThe early Years Continued (Article 4)
The Declaration of Independence says: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
Inscribed on the Liberty Bell is Leviticus 25:10 – “Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.”
In his farewell address, George Washington declared: Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Benjamin Franklin believed good teachers were a gift from God. He wrote: I think, moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for the use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from Heaven.
At the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, Samuel Adams, who is sometimes called the “father of the revolution” wrote to Richard Henry Lee: I thank God that I have lived to see my country independent and free.
John Adams said: Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.
Further, he said: The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy the gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people, then we can both deserve it and enjoy it. (Editors Note: Many people that were involved with the birth of the Constitution of The United States regarded it as being inspired by God.)
In the 1787, the very year the constitution was written and approved by congress, that same Congress passed the famous Northwest Ordinance. In it they emphasized the essential need to teach religion and morality in the schools.
Article 3: Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.
Here is Benjamin Franklin’s Creed: I believe in one God, the creator of the universe. That he governs it by his providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to him is in doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental points in all religions.
Samual Adams said that this group of basic beliefs which constitute “the religion of America is the religion of all mankind.”
Thomas Jefferson called these basic beliefs the principles “in which God has united us all.”
(The above was taken from a book entitled The 5000 Year Leap, A Miracle That Changed the World by W. Cleon Skousen)
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