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Remove not the Ancient Landmarks

 

Remove not the Ancient Landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Proverbs 22:28

 In the past I had the pleasure of standing on the steps of the court house in Montgomery, Alabama in support of the stand that Supreme Court Justice Thomas Moore took concerning the monument of the Ten Commandments. Many have branded him a fanatic.  Others have demanded that he step down as a justice. But are his statements concerning the origins of our law from the Bible true? 

Early in our nation's history when men studied to be lawyers like Abraham Lincoln and others, they were required to read Blackstone’s Commentary of the Law. Clearly, Blackstone saw that all law had a source and that source was the Holy Scriptures. Many today severely criticize his work, because the school of thought has changed from the faith of the Judeo-Christian ethics to the religion of Secular Humanism. What Justice Moore and others are proclaiming is a return to the faith and practices that once made this a great nation.

So why do supposedly "learned men" say that to have a monument which has the Ten Commandments or any other scripture, be a violation of the First Amendment? Why would they want to remove these landmarks?  Some have been around since our country's founding.

To properly answer this, let's go back to our founding fathers and find out what they actually said and see what landmarks they left for us to remember.

 

Benjamin Franklin

●        Only founding father to sign the Articles of Confederation, Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

●        Considered the least religious, but did the following:

1.     Declared as Governor of Pennsylvania that Christianity be taught and promoted in all schools

2.     Requested that chaplains open in prayer each day when congress was in session.

 

 

  

George Washington


      ●        President of the Constitutional Convention, General of the Army, first U.S. President, and considered the Father of our Country

   ●        Said in his farewell address after serving two terms, that to have a strong defense and have a respect for God's Law, he concluded,  "It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible".

   ●        As General of the Army, many times he called for a day of prayer and fasting to ask God for his protection and guidance. When one reads George Washington's famous farewell address in a public school textbook, parts are omitted or his speech is removed entirely. It was required reading in most public schools up until the last 40 years. 

 

Over 90% of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were committed Christians and as many as half were trained and even ordained ministers of the Gospel. For the first 100 years of our nations history, one had to proclaim a statement of belief in the Almighty and the Bible as the word of God to hold any public office.

 

Today, ministers are mostly not allowed to serve on juries because they believe that there is an absolute standard of right and wrong.        

If the majority of our founding fathers were Christians and it was promoted to have Christian principals in office, should not there be a wealth of evidence of monuments and important documents that declare it?

 

●        The Ten Commandments are posted at the U.S. Supreme Court

building. Could that be a reason they did not want to hear Judge Moore's case, because they have it as well?

●        The Mayflower Compact Declares a strong commitment to the Christian faith. Another document which is not allowed in public school books anymore.

●        The Declaration of Independence acknowledges the fact that there is a Creator and we have rights from Him that cannot be taken away.

●        The Constitution promotes a three branch Government which the

framers designed based on Isaiah 33:22.

●        The Supreme Court case of U.S. vs Holy Trinity Church in 1892,

proved using over 80 government documents that the United States is indeed a Christian Nation.

●        The Liberty Bell as well as other replicas which are found in other court houses in our country have Leviticus 25:10 which states, "Proclaim liberty to all the inhabitants throughout the land".

 

Many other monuments and documents that bear the marks of a Christian nation can be seen across this nation. It would take months of hard work to remove them all. Unfortunately, it only takes one generation not to teach school children their Godly heritage and as a result you will create an ungodly nation.

 

What about separation of Church & State?

 

In the area of Separation of Church & State, the phrase is not found in the Constitution. It was a remark in a letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Association. Jefferson actually quoted Roger Williams who was the founder of the Rhode Island Charter of 1683. He taught that government must not interfere with the church, but the church should influence the government.

Many people say that Jefferson taught that the government should not interfere with the church in the way of helping it. If that is true, why did Jefferson hire missionaries and pay them from the treasury to evangelize the Indians? Jefferson would have been strongly acting against his supposed saying, not to mention that no founding father ever took that position.   

The proper and consistent interpretation of this would be to keep a national denomination from controlling the nation, which the founding fathers and their descendants had wanted no part of.

 

America is great because America is good. When America ceases to be good, (forgets it Godly heritage), America will cease to be great.

 

 

 

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