Christian Nation

Recently I've heard the present White House incumbent announced to the world this is not a Christian nation, but the largest Muslim nation in the world. It is only hearsay to me. I can't really believe he said that because, of course, it isn't true --as almost any American can tell you -- although it might be wishful thinking on his part. After all, when he and his wife, Michelle, went to France, she returned to the States and he went to Saudi Arabia and Turkey alone. An email recently received tells the story of two male Arabs who when asked why she didn't make the trip, replied, "Obama is a Muslim and by Muslim law he would not be allowed to bring his wife into countries that accept Sharia Law." Further, they said, "that's the reason he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia. It was a signal to the Muslim world!" I understand a Fox news journalist, Shepherd Smith, speculated the reason for the trials of the 911 murdering Muslim terrorists in civilian court instead of the military tribunal, is that Obama's obligation as President would be to sign the death warrants if they were sentenced to death by the military, which as a Muslim, he could not do.

My library contains several histories of the founding of this nation, and all of them, writing of the New Englanders, demonstrate from the time of the Mayflower Compact this was a Christian nation. Probably it can't be said of the Spanish conquerors west and south but our government charters originated with the Englanders, not the Spanish, although they did bring priests who established missions up and down the west coast and in what is now Central and South America.

There is no denying they were carried away with their desires for gold, as opposed to the desire of the Pilgrims for freedom from the Anglican Church established under Henry VIII. That Old Boy was unable to get a divorce from the Pope, so he dethroned him and started his own church, but it, too, was just as dictatorial as the Catholic Church. Which is how the dissenters ended up leaving England and heading for new lands. Long story most older people know, but who knows what kids are hearing in schools these days, especially since the innovations of UNESCO which took over the schools in 1946, a fact still almost unknown to most Americans.

Anyway, a friend of mine wrote the Librarian of the Supreme Court in 1975, asking for decisions from that body about Christianity, and Edward Hudon, Librarian, wrote back citing cases of decisions by the Court: Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 143 U.S. 457 at 471 (1892); Zorach v. Clauson, 343 U.S. 307 at 313 (1952); McGowan v. Maryland, 366 U.S. 420 at 561(1961).

Of course, Justice Joseph Story, one of the first judges to write Commentaries on the Constitution, published in 1833, declared the object of the First Amendment was "not to countenance, much less advance, Mohammedanism or Judaism or Infidelity by prostituting Christianity, but to exclude all rivalry between Christian sects."

Story who was a Justice on the Supreme Court for 34 years, further said no one should consider it "unreasonable or unjust to foster and encourage the Christian religion generally as a matter of sound policy, as well as of revealed truth. In fact, every American colony, from its foundation down to the Revolution, with the exception of Rhode Island, if indeed that State be an exception, did openly by the whole course of its laws and institutions, support and sustain in some form the Christian religion....Indeed in a republic there would seem to be a peculiar propriety in viewing the Christian religion as the great basis on which it must rest for its support and permanence. If it be what it has been deemed by its truest friends to be, the religion of liberty.....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." (Note: That long ago the reference was to a republic, not a democracy. the previous president, Bush, used to infuriate me as he always talked about the democracy!)

The growing animosity to the expression of Christian fundamentals in American society today dates back to 1946 with the establishment of the U.N.'s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) done on Alger Hiss's watch in which Julian Huxley laid out the program for school children which did not include any expression of belief in a supernatural deity! He said so in writing out his "programme." He was, of course, grandson to Thomas Huxley, known in his day as Darwin's bulldog! (for more information, see my book, In the Presence of Our Enemies, beginning on page 192) Adrian Desmond, British history, in 1944 described Thomas "from Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest."

This philosophy was adopted by John Dewey who was the principal author of the "Humanist Manifesto" in 1933, and who fought for control of the system of education known as "progressive" which pretty much controls education today. You know, you have heard about it, children learn by doing, and let's face it, that's what is back of the sex education program in schools today -- children are given everything but the experience, and that they get for themselves! No wonder our society is falling apart!