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- From: "Michael A. Kline" <MKLINE@VDH.BITNET>
- Subject: Christian Nation 2-3
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- Our Founding Fathers:
- Did they intend America to be a Christian Nation?
- John Ankerberg Show.
-
- Part 2-03 ---------------------------------------------------------->
-
- John: Now think of the politicians that over the years you've heard
- say, "Well people can be moral without being religious." Even our Supreme
- Court has said that we must outlaw Christian morality and all religion
- from the public schools and from government. They believe that religion
- should be completely separated from the state. But George Washington
- thought that such thinking was dead wrong.
-
- David: Now in another warning, he specifically took aim at the French
- Revolution. For the French Revolution was conducted under the French
- Enlightenment philosophy that said "You can be perfectly moral without
- religion. You don't need religion to be moral." And yet, under the French
- Enlightenment definition of morality they had one of the biggest blood
- baths that's ever occurred in the history of the world.
-
- He looked at the revolution, so completely different from the
- American Revolution, and all the innocent life that was lost, and all the
- blood that was shed, and he said "Don't ever let that view of morality
- come to America." He said "Don't ever think that we can be moral apart
- from religious principle." He warned, he said "Let us with caution
- indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without
- religion." He said "What ever may be conceded to the influence of refined
- educational minds. What ever you think schools can do, what ever you
- think they can teach, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that
- national morality can prevail an exclusion of religious principle."
-
- Washington very clearly says, "You cannot be moral without religious
- principle." But somehow we've rejected his view, the father of our
- country, and in 1962 the Supreme Court said, "No, we don't need religion
- in school, we'll be much better off without it." so out goes prayer.
- 1963, out goes the Bible. 1980, even the 10 commandments go out, because
- the courts said "That is religious principle. We shouldn't have that in
- school."
-
- And yet, what has it done to morality? Well since 1962, since we've
- stopped teaching morality based on religious principles, TEENAGE
- PREGNANCIES HAVE INCREASED 553% for girls 10 through 14 years old. The
- United States IS NOW NUMBER 1 in the entire Western World in teenage
- pregnancy. PREMARITAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY for 15 year old girls HAS GONE UP
- 1000% in the last 3 decades.
-
- Washington was right. Reason and experience, both forbid us to expect
- that we can have national morality in exclusion of religious principle.
- We have proved what he said right, and isn't it ironic that today,
- Washington's view is really an unconstitutional view, that the court will
- not even embrace the view that the Father of our Country gave us of
- religious principles and public affairs.
-
- John: Well next you say, "Well, maybe George Washington and Benjamin
- Franklin were super spiritual and they were the only ones who wanted to
- make God and Christian principles a part of the government. But there
- can't be too many other Founding Fathers who believed like them..."
-
- MAKS> Good point to break this. Though this is shorter, it has a lot
- to say in such a few lines.
-
- Maks.
-