Free Exercise of Religion

For almost two centuries after Founding Forefathers like Thomas Jefferson insisted that the Bill of Rights in the US Constitution include "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof", the "right" of Christian children in this Christian nation, founded by Christian Forefathers, and populated with 265 million Christians today, to say a simple spoken Christian prayer in their classrooms was unquestioned.  It should be no surprise to Christians that the hundreds of millions of American children who grew up in this moral Christian environment were able to create out of a wasteland the once highest standard of living the world had ever known.

The destruction of this Christian nation, the point in our history when every social and economic indicator took an immediate knee-jerk turn to the worst, began in earnest on the very day the US Supreme Court banned spoken Christian prayers in public schools, while giving the state even more power to dictate to Christians how to run their lives and to educate their children.  Nothing good has ever been gleaned out of this banning of school prayer, not even to the jews who demanded it.

Today, the Gallup Poll reports that 85-89% of Americans are members of Christian churches.  Including Christians who are not members of churches, 93% of 284 million Americans, or 264 million of them, are Christians.  74% of all Americans want public schools to display the Ten Commandments, 70% want spoken Christian prayers in classrooms, and 81% want creation to be taught, in public schools.

Our schools haven't become moral cesspools because Christians demanded it  They didn't descend to this state because most Americans wanted it.  It's not because of a breakdown of public morals--Christians today support exactly the same Christian principles and rights which our Christian Forefathers enjoyed themselves and envisioned for us.  It's not even because feminists took control of our institutions because they're too stupid, powerless, and discredited to have any impact on society at all.

It's because jews took control of the communications channels [read: Hollywood, the mainstream media, newspapers, and magazines] and used that bully pulpit to issue forth demeaning messages about Christianity, day in and day out.  They've been so effective that people today, even though they read in Thomas Jefferson's own hand "I am a real Christian", insist that he was not even a Christian.  When thisimmoral minority of non-Christians in this Christian nation stooped to such a level, of demeaning our very own Christian Founding Forefathers, particularly an honorable man with the stature of Thomas Jefferson, they have worn out their welcome and lost the right to be here.

"We are not to attribute this prohibition of a national religious establishment to an indifference to religion in general, and especially to Christianity (which none could hold in more reverence, than the framers of the Constitution) . . . Probably at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, and of the first amendment to it . . . . the general if not the universal sentiment in America was, that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from the state so far as was not incompatible with the private rights of conscience and the freedom of religious worship. An attempt to level all religions, and to make it a matter of state policy to hold all in utter indifference, would have created universal disapprobation, if not universal indignation . . . The real object of the amendment was not to countenance, much less to advance, Mahometanism, or Judaism, or infidelity [secularism], by prostrating Christianity; but exclude all rivalry among Christian sects, and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment which should give to a hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government." Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story on the First Amendment

1983 - Oct. 4, 1982, Joint Resolution of Congress: "Whereas the Bible, the Word of God, has made a unique contribution in shaping the United States as a distinctive and blessed nation of people. Whereas Biblical teachings inspired concepts of civil government that are contained in our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of The United States ... Whereas that renewing our knowledge of, and faith in God through Holy Scriptures can strengthen us as a nation and a people. Now therefore be it resolved ... that the President is authorized and requested to designate 1983 as a national "Year of the Bible" in recognition of both the formative influence the Bible has been for our nation, and our national need to study and apply the teachings of the Holy Scriptures."  February 3, 1983 - President Ronald Reagan issued the above requested proclamation. President George Bush declared 1990 to be the international year of Bible reading

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