“I deem the present occasion sufficiently important and solemn to justify me in expressing to my fellow-citizens a profound reverence for the Christian religion and a thorough conviction that sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness; and to that good Being who has blessed us by the gifts of civil and religious freedom, who watched over and prospered the labors of our fathers and has hitherto preserved to us institutions far exceeding in excellence those of any other people, let us unite in fervently commending every interest of our beloved country in all future time.”
W. H. Harrison
I am now on my soap box. Please be patient.
Some people say that the Separation of Church and State exists tacitly in our Constitution. The fact is, it does not. Similar to these statements below, Thomas Jefferson used the term in a personal writing to a Baptist Minister in response to a question from the church. The detractors of today have taken it out of context for their personal agenda. The statements below reflect the deepest thoughts of our Founding Fathers. From these, you can see just how far we traveled from the Founders intent. It saddens me that our children will not see the America I grew up with. Patriotic, Compassionate, and Free. God bestowed us with a great nation and those who detest God are trying to bring it down. Unfortunately, their inroads are far too great today and we must, at some point begin to push back for the sake of our future generations. We are celebrating the Birth of Christ next week and had this miracle of miracles not happened we would not be as were are today, truly blessed. We have been given the blessings of God to make our world a better place. It is our mandate, and we should never let those who want to remove the word of God from our society succeed.
I am now off my soap box.