Did you know that 52 of the 55 signers of the Declaration of Independence were deeply committed Orthodox Christians? The other three believed in the Bible as divine truth, the God of the Scriptures, and his personal intervention.

It is the same congress that formed the American Bible Society. Immediately after creating the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress voted to purchase and import 20,000 copies of the Scriptures for the people of this nation.

Patrick Henry, who is called the brand 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 removed.

This is what he said: “A call to arms and to the God of hosts is all we have left. But we will not fight our battle alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations. The battle, sir, is not only of the strong. Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be bought at the price of chains and slavery? Almighty God forbid. I do not know what course others will take, but as for me, give me freedom, or give me death.”

These sentences have been deleted 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 religion, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For that alone reason, people of other religions have been granted freedom of worship here.”

Consider these words Thomas Jefferson wrote on the front of his well-worn Bible: “I am a Christian, that is, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have no doubt that our whole country will soon join in unity.” of our Creator and, I hope, also to the pure doctrine of Jesus”.

Consider these words from George Washington, the Father of our Nation, in his farewell address on September 19, 1796:

“It is impossible to rule the world without God and the Bible. Of all the dispositions and habits that lead to political prosperity, our religion and morality are the indispensable supports. Let us cautiously accept the assumption that morality can be maintained without religion. Both reason and experience forbid us to expect that our national morality can prevail to the exclusion of religious principle.”

Was George Washington a Christian? Consider these words from your personal prayer book: “O eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and deeds. Wash away my sins in the spotless blood of the lamb and cleanse my heart with the Holy Spirit. Daily frame me more and more in the likeness of your son, Jesus Christ, so that living in your fear, and dying in your favor, obtain at your appointed time the resurrection of the justified to eternal life.Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind. and may the world be filled with the knowledge of your son, Jesus Christ.”

Consider these words from John Adams, our second president, who also served as president of the American Bible Society.

In a speech to military leaders, he said: “We do not have a government armed with the power capable of dealing with human passions, unbridled by morality and true religion. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is totally inadequate for the government of any other”.

What about our first court judge, John Jay?

He said that when we select our national leaders, if we want to preserve our nation, we must select Christians. “Providence has given our people the choice of their rulers and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.”

John Quincy Adams, son of John Adams, was the sixth president of the United States.

He was also president of the American Bible Society, which he considered his highest and most important role. On July 4, 1821, President Adams said, “The greatest glory of the American Revolution was this: It connected in an 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 ceased to be practically universal in our country”.

In 1782, the United States Congress passed this resolution: “The United States Congress 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 “nation’s teacher.”

Listen to these words of Mr. McGuffey: “The Christian religion is the religion of our country. > From it are derived our notions about the character of God, about the great moral Governor of the universe. On its doctrines are based the peculiarities of our institutions free. From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the Holy Scriptures. From all these excerpts from the Bible I make no apologies.”

Of the first 108 universities founded in America, 106 were clearly Christian, including the first.

Harvard University, chartered in 1636. In the original Harvard Student Handbook, rule number 1 was that students seeking admission must know Latin and Greek in order to study the Scriptures:

“That every student be clearly instructed and diligently exhorted to consider well, the main purpose of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ, who is eternal life, John 17:3; and thus put Jesus Christ as the sole foundation of all science and sound science. And since the Lord only gives wisdom, let each one strive to pray in secret to seek it in him (Proverbs 2:3).

For over 100 years, more than 50% of all Harvard graduates were pastors!

It is clear from history that the Bible and the Christian faith were central to our educational and judicial systems. However, in 1947, there was a radical change of direction in the Supreme Court.

Here is the prayer that was banished:

“Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence on You. We beseech Your blessings upon us and our parents and our teachers and our country.

Amen.”

In 1963, the Supreme Court ruled that reading the Bible was prohibited as unconstitutional in the public school system. The court offered this justification: “If parts of the New Testament were read without explanation, they might have been psychologically harmful to children.”

Reading the Bible was now unconstitutional, even though the Bible was cited 94 percent of the time by those who wrote our constitution and shaped our nation and its system of education, justice, and government.

In 1965, the Courts denied as unconstitutional the rights of a student in a public school cafeteria to bow his head and pray aloud for his food. In 1980 Stone vs. Graham banned the Ten Commandments from our public schools.

The Supreme Court said this: “If published copies of the Ten Commandments had any effect, it would be to induce school children to read them. And if they read them, meditated on them, and perhaps revered and observed them, this is not a permissible goal.” “.

Isn’t it a permissible goal to allow our children to follow the moral principles of the Ten Commandments?

James Madison, the main author of the United States Constitution, had this to say: “We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not on the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions on the ability of each of us to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments”.

Today we are asking God to bless America. But how can He bless a Nation that has strayed so far from Him?

Most of what you read in this article has been erased from our textbooks. The revisionists have rewritten history to remove the truth about the Christian roots of our country. I encourage everyone who reads and agrees with the words contained herein to share them with others, so that the truth of our nation’s history may be told.