"Ah, sinful nation, a people loaded with guilt, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the LORD; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him." (Isaiah 1:4 NIV).
These words of warning were given by Isaiah before the fall Judah of and the destruction of Israel. Even today, some 3,000 centuries later Israel still suffers because Israel has "spurned the Holy One . . . and turned their backs on him." (3,000 rounded from when Isaiah wrote those words.)
Eugene Peterson in The Message: The Old Testament Prophets renders the second half of this verse, "My people have walked out on me, their God, turned their backs on the Holy of Israel, walked off and never looked back."
Today’s thought is a little different. In the mid-40's America began a process of walking off on God. In the early to mid-60's that walk turned into a run from God. Freedom of religion was reinterpreted by a liberal court to mean freedom from religion. Yesterday, a federal appellate court in San Francisco took us a step closer to the brink of destruction as a nation when they declared the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional.
No amount of revisionist history can change the fact that this country was founded solidly upon Christian principles. Patrick Henry, politician and statesman said, "It cannot be emphasized too often or too strongly that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians . . . not on religion but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ." And John Quincy Adams said, "The highest glory of the American Revolution was that it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil Government with the principles of Christianity."
In 1811, in the case "The People verses Ruggels" the Supreme Court decided, "Whatever strikes at the root of Christianity tends to destroy civil Government." This ruling went on to state that any attack on Christ was tantamount to an attack on the Government of the United States. And George Washington, the Father of our Country stated in his farewell address, "Do not let anyone claim to be a true American if they ever attempt to remove religion from politics."
Where did this nation begin to walk out on the God who has so richly blessed it? I believe the desertion began when the ACLU formed with the express purpose of "undermining democracy through the judicial process." That goal has certainly been accomplished. This myth began in 1947 when the Supreme Court, following the philosophy of Dr. William James, a psychologist in opposition to the Church and all it stood for, erected the wall of Separation that has been the bane of the American Public ever since.
There are some interesting things to note about this particular decision. The decision came in Everson verses the Board of Education. The decision was based upon the philosophy, "There is nothing so absurd, but that if you repeat it enough and often enough, people will believe it."
Here are the unique things about the 1947 Supreme Court's decision:
First of all, it is totally unconstitutional! The First Amendment reads, "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion . . . ." In other words, there was to be no official state religion.
In 1801, the Danbury Baptist Association grew alarmed over the rumor that the Congress was about to make the Congregationalist Denomination the official denomination of the United States. Concerned, they wrote to President Jefferson asking for a clarification on the "establishment of religion clause." Jefferson, in response wrote on January 1, 1802, "The first amendment had erected a wall of separation, but that wall is a one directional wall; it makes sure that the government will not run the church but it also makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government." My, how things have changed!
The Supreme Court of 1947, chose to ignore the context of Jefferson's letter, and extracted only one phrase from it that it has used over and over again to dupe the American public every time it makes another unconstitutional decision based upon their misapplication of the establishment of religion clause.
If that is not enough, lets go on: "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. . . . " every time the Court tells me where I can pray and where I can't pray, they have prohibited my free exercise of religion and have broken the Constitution of the United States which they are sworn to uphold! Separation of Church and State, as it is practiced today is simply unconstitutional!
Not only was the 1947 decision unconstitutional, but it was the first time in the court's history that they made a decision that was not based on precedence! In effect, they did not make a legal decision, they made a biased declaration!
If the court had looked at the facts, if they had followed precedence, they would have realized that the intent of our founding fathers was never to take the influence of the church out of government. Indeed, it is written in history books used in our schools until the 1960's that the basis for our form of Government was and is found in Scripture. A study was done of the speeches of our Founding Fathers. Ninety-Four percent of the quotes they used were based on the Bible. Think about it. Why can we not have prayers in our Schools today? Because on June 25, 1962, in "Engle verses Vital" the Court, using no precedence, framed a new doctrine of separation of religious principles from public education. That doctrine gave preference to a minority voice over the out-cry of the majority, and one person's views were given preferential treatment and another person's views had to be suppressed.
Today, you and I do not live in a democracy we live in an oligarchy run by the judicial branch of the government. The judges sitting on benches today do not care what the majority of people in this nation want, they are crafting a new society based upon the religion of humanism. They have overstepped their bounds. They are making laws, a task that is suppose to happen on the legislative level. But no matter what the Congress does, the justices undermine it and using the power of the bench have formed for all intents and purposes a County that is not run by three branches, a plan of checks and balances as our forefather’s desired, but the Courts have usurped the authority of both the legislative and executive branches of this fine Government. It is time that we, as the American people put a stop to this insane process. We need to stand up and be counted! We need to vote out of office those justices who thumb their noses at the Founding Documents. We need to vote out of office those Congressmen and Senators who block the way of justices whose record shows a support of the Constitution and who promote those who are bent on crafting their living Constitution view all the while undermining the very document they are sworn to uphold.
George Washington warned: "And of fatal tendency . . .to put in the place of the delegated will of the Nation, the will of a party; – often a small but artful and enterprising minority . . .they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People and to usurp for themselves the reigns of Government; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust domination . . . ."
Thomas Jefferson expressed his concern of this "fatal flaw" in our system of Government when he wrote, "The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in . . .the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body . . .working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States." He wrote, "The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they twist and shape into any form they please." And to William Jarvis in a letter dated September 28, 1820 Jefferson wrote, "You seem . . .to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so . . .and their power is more dangerous, as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective functionaries are, to the elective control."
The church was silent when Madeline Murray O’Hare managed to remove prayers from schools. We dare not remain silent in this day when crooked and perverse men try to force upon us the mistaken notion that what is legal is moral. We must stand in opposition to the unjust decisions of justices who ignore the expressed views of the people, reversing duly processed legislation by their judicial edicts (ala California).
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