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I contend America's greatness was subsequent to her faith in God through Jesus Christ. I further contend that our founding fathers, collectively intended this.

In 1851, Daniel Webster observed this same phenomenon. "Let the religious element in man's nature be neglected, let him be influenced by no higher motives than low self-interest and subjected to no stronger restraint that the limits of civil authority; and he becomes the creature of selfish passion or blind fanaticism."

Webster continued: "On the other hand, the cultivation of the religious sentiment represses licentiousness...inspires respect for law and order, and gives strength to the whole social fabric, at the same time that it conducts the human soul upward to the Author of its being."

In 1892, the United States Supreme Court reaffirmed this.
"Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilizations and our institutions are emphatically Christian...This is a religious people. This is historically true. From the discovery of this continent to the present hour, there is a single voice making this affirmation.....we find everywhere a clear recognition of the same truth....These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation.
(U.S. Supreme Court, 1892, Church of the Holy Trinity vs. United States)

Again, Charles Malik, Ambassador to the United Nations:
"The good (in the United States) would never have come into being without the blessing and the power of Jesus Christ...I know how embarrassing this matter is to politicians, bureaucrats, businessmen and cynics: but, whatever these honored men think, the irrefutable truth is that the soul of America is at its best and highest, Christian."

Notice, America reached greatness, not because she protected liberty and freedom. Liberty and freedom are not what made America great. Liberty and freedom without moral governance through the Holy Bible results in pandemonium.
See my earlier post. The French Revolutionaries worshipped liberty as their god, and they almost destroyed themselves. They were compelled to go back to God and the Bible while there was time.

In a single decade, here's what divesting our schools, culture and community of Jesus Christ have benefited: One million teen-aged girls get pregnant out of wedlock every
year (hey, rocket scientists: who do you think pays for this?). 23% of 9th grade boys drink regularly. 1.1 mil. teenagers have a serious drinking problem. Suicide has tripled in less than 20 yr. 2 of 3 deaths in 5 to 18 age is due to violence. One million children run away every year. Arrests for teen prostituition are up 285%.
Arrests for narcotics are up 4600%. Arrests for murder, assault, rape, robbery, are up 200%.

And don't be so foolish as to suggest the above stats are simply because of increased population. Even with the increase in population, the above stats far outstrip any statistical norm.

I contend the chaos that typifies America is because the left-wing liberals (and, their close cousins: humanistic and secular Republicans) who are, in fact, the children of Satan, perverted our laws and principles to remove Godliness in order to pursue their personal nefarious agenda.

These spawn of the devil have justified this by parroting the phrase, "separation of church and state" as if it were in the constitution. It is not. And, Americans, whose primary source of information is a two hour movie-of-the-week believe it to be true.

On January 1, 1802, Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association assuring them the government was not going to establish a state religion. He assured them that Americans would always have freedom of religion in every arena in life: church, school, government, community, et al. He never said what Satan's children contend, viz., freedom from religion.

The liberals, Satan's children, have perverted this by suggesting "separation of church and state" is constitutional. That is a lie.

The first amendment says that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..

Notice: govt. is not to prohibit the free exercise. Yet that is exactly what the godless, secularist, humanistic, atheistic politicians have been doing for the past 50 years.
And our current collapse is the fruit.

We will not recover America by simply being law abiding citizens. There is no ethic that powerful.

The only way to recover America (or the schools, or your home, etc.) is to restore Jesus Christ to his rightful throne, politically. Anything less is doomed to fail.

You will not recover your children, you will not recover your marriages, you will not recover your communities, with becoming Christian.