THE
REAL AMERICAN HISTORY
Immediately after creating the Declaration of Independence, the
Continental Congress voted
to purchase and import 20,000 copies of Scripture for the people of
this
nation.
Patrick Henry, who is called the
firebrand of the American
Revolution, is still remembered for his words, "Give me
liberty or
give me death"; but
in current textbooks,
the context of
these words is omitted.
Here
is what
he actually said: “An appeal
to arms and the God
of
hosts is all that is left us. But we shall not fight our
battle alone. There
is a just God that presides over the destinies of nations.
The battle, sir,
is not to the strong alone. Is life so dear or peace so
sweet as to be
purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it
Almighty God. I
know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty,
or give
me death."
These sentences have
been erased from our textbooks. Was Patrick Henry a Christian? The
following year, 1776, he wrote this:
“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. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have
been afforded
freedom of worship here."
Consider these words that Thomas Jefferson wrote in the
front of his well-worn Bible: “I am a real Christian, that
is to say, a disciple of the
doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole
country will soon be
rallied to the unity of our creator."
He was also the
chairman of the American Bible Society, which he considered his highest
and
most important role. On July 4, 1821, President Adams said, “The
highest glory
of the American Revolution was this: "It connected in one indissoluble
bond the principles of civil government with the principles of
Christianity."
Calvin Coolidge, our 30th
President of the United States reaffirmed this
truth when he wrote, “The foundations of our
society and
our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would
be
difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be
practically universal in our country."
In 1782,
the United States
Congress voted this resolution: “The
Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible
for use in all schools."
William Holmes McGuffey
is the author of the McGuffey Reader, which was used for over 100 years
in our
public schools, with over 125 million copies sold, until it was stopped
in
1963.
President Lincoln called
him the "Schoolmaster of the Nation. "Listen
to these words of Mr. McGuffey: "The Christian religion is the
religion of our country. From it are derived our nation, on
the character of
God, on the great moral Governor of the universe. On its
doctrines are
founded the peculiarities of our free Institutions. From no
source has the
author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures.
For all
these extracts from the Bible, I make no apology"
Of the first 108 universities
founded in America,
106 were distinctly Christian, including the first, Harvard University,
chartered in 1636. In the original Harvard Student
Handbook, rule number 1
was that students seeking entrance must know Latin and Greek so that
they could
study the Scriptures: “Let every student be
plainly
instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his
life and
studies, is, to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life, John
17:3;
and therefore to lay Jesus Christ as the only foundation for our
children to
follow the moral principles of the Ten Commandments."
James Madison, the primary
author
of the Constitution of the United States,
said this: “We have staked the whole
future of all our political
constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern
ourselves
according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments."
Most
of what you have read here has been erased from our textbooks.
Revisionists
have and are rewriting history to remove the truth about our country's
Christian roots. You are encouraged to share this with others, so
that the
truth of our nation's history will be told.
