Many of the truths we were taught about the Constitution, the government, our Founding Fathers, and other things from history are complete and utter lies.
We've already had heated debate about the separation of church and state lie. I wonder how much controversy would be generated by the revelation that the Founding Fathers were mostly Christians and a great number were abolitionists , including Thomas Jefferson . The first blacks in congress were Republicans elected within five years of the end of the Civil War . Or how about the Constitution itself is a religious document. Or that religion was meant to be a part of government and public education. Blacks contributed much to the Founding of our nation, but as free men. The USA is a democracy.
I recently saw a news clip about some ‘expert’ on MSNBC trying to tell the world that the USA is not a nation founded on Christian principles. She must have missed that statement about ‘the unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America’, and the one that mentions ‘Nature’s God’.
Christian nationalists is what she called those who believed in a Christian founding of our nation. Well I am a Christian nationalist, but then I can prove my point while she didn’t (and can’t).
The United States is indeed founded on Christian principles, beginning with the idea that we are all endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights. Whether you, as an individual, believe in God is irrelevant; the nation of the United States believes this and that is a fundamental principle that runs through all of our founding documents , our government and our public education system. And, surprise surprise, many of our founding fathers were Christians. Even Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin believed in God.
First evidence is a book by a political scientist detailing what sources were used in the founding documents, including the Constitution. “Origins of American Constitutionalism” by Donald Lutz, a University of Houston professor, shows that the Bible was referenced by the founders 34% of the time, the other major contributors were Baron Montesquieu at 8.3%, English lawyer Blackstone at 7.9% and theologian John Locke at 2.9%
The second evidence are actual clauses from the Constitution and where they come from.
In Article 1 we get uniform immigration from Leviticus 19:34. In Article 2 we get the natural born president from Deuteronomy 17:15. In Article 3 we get the Witness from Deuteronomy 17:6. The three branches of government comes from Isaiah 33:22.
Then there’s the oath clauses and the use of some logic.
Notice how there’s no punishment for violating an oath, that’s because the oath is meant to be tween the oath taker and his God. God can see what is done behind closed doors whereas humans don’t see that 99% of what happens.
And finally, the manner in which they signed the Constitution, using ‘In the year of our Lord’; strange for a secular document.
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