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...the Bible tells me so:
“Maybe They’re Right”
We scoffed at
the Islamic accusation that the
On Wednesday,
June 26, 2002, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, located in
Prayer and Bible reading are not welcome at our public schools, having been outlawed by the Supreme Court four decades ago, just ask many a student who wanted to write a school paper on a Bible topic or has bowed their heads in prayer in school. I know that prayers are permitted for now at “solemn” ceremonies such as graduations. However, the handwriting is on the wall.
The Ten Commandments must be removed from display in local courthouses but not from the U.S. Supreme Courthouse. The U.S. Congress and many state congresses have chaplains who begin legislative sessions and legislative days with prayer. Nevertheless, they are forbidden in our schools.
Our money proudly displays the words, “In God we trust.”
When will the civil libertarians be bold enough to overturn every criminal and civil law based on Judeo-Christian principles? The basic code of law of our nation and of all fifty states is based primarily on the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5).
Will our “Declaration of Independence” be declared unconstitutional, too? It opens with these words,
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,
It ends with: “And
for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine
Will anyone ever demand through the courts the removal of the “Declaration of Independence” from public display because it “promotes” God, the Divine and the Creator and because it recognizes that divine creation is basis of human equality and rights?
The so-called “separation of church and state” appeals to the first amendment to the Constitution, the first of “The Bill of Rights.” Where is “separation of church and state” found in these words:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for the redress of grievances”?
What the court
did not addressed is the fact that the first amendment was designed to forbid
the establishment of the Church of the
Many Europeans
fled to this land to escape the religious persecution occurring
Will we next
outlaw “
What do we have instead public acknowledgement of God? Violence, drugs, racism, and sexual promiscuity fill the moral vacuum formed by removing God from our public schools. Consequently, many citizens cannot properly distinguish between right and wrong. On our present course, our nation will not survive.
This crisis in
Ø “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He chose for His inheritance” (Psalm 33:12).
Ø “Blessed are the people of whom this is true; blessed are the people whose God is the Lord” (144:15).
Ø “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people” (Proverbs14:34 NIV).
Ø “Through the blessing of the upright a city is exalted, but by the mouth of the wicked it is destroyed” (11:11).
For those who want to live without God, please consider Paul’s warning:
“For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles” (Romans 1:21-23).
Denying God results in reprehensible behavior. Read the next words of Paul in verses 24-32.
The closing words of Red Skelton’s “Commentary on the Pledge of Allegiance” are haunting:
“Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country, and two words have been added to the Pledge of Allegiance: Under God. Wouldn’t it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer, and that would be eliminated from schools, too?”
Happy Fourth
of July, and God bless
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