The Moral Decline of America Part One

“God’s laws are not watered down to suit anyone; if God did that He would cease to be God. The moral law never alters for the noblest or the weakest; it remains abidingly and eternally the same.” Oswald Chambers

First of all, to determine the moral decline in America we have to acknowledge that America was once indeed moral. Christianity. Is this what our country was based on? Is this the original intent of our forefathers? Where THEY Christians? Decide for yourself:

Patrick Henry, the "firebrand of the American Revolution" said this: "An appeal to arms and the God of hosts is all that is left us. But we shall not fight our battle alone. There is a just God that presides over the destinies of nations. The battle sir, is not of the strong alone. Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death."

These words are no longer in history textbooks.

Patrick Henry also said: "I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give to them, and that is the Christian religion. If they had that and I had not given them one cent, they would be rich. If they have not that, and I had given them the world, they would be poor."

Hmmm...sounds like it to me.

How about Thomas Jefferson? These words are written in his Bible: "I am a Christian, that is to say a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole country will soon be rallied to the unity of our Creator and, I hope, to the pure doctrine of Jesus also."

Did George Washington, the first President of the United States think God was important? Did he believe God to be necessary for a successful country? He said this at his farwell speech as President: "It is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible. Of all the dispositions and habits that lead to political prosperity, our religion and morality are the indispensable supporters. Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that our national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."

In his personal prayer book were written these words: "Daily, frame me more and more in the likeness of thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in thy fear, and dying in thy favor, I may in thy appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto eternal life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind and let the world be filled with the knowledge of thy son, Jesus Christ."

John Adams, the 2nd President of the United States, was also the chairman of the American Bible Society. He said this to military leaders: "We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and true religion. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

The first Court Justice, John Jay: "Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian Nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."

The sixth President of the United States, John Quincy Adams, on July 4, 1821, said, "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity." (He was also chariman of the American Bible Society)

Wow. Can you imagine President Obama saying ANY of those things? Can you imagine a U.S. President being the chairman of the American Bible Society?

James Madison, the primary author of the Constitution of the United States, said this: "We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments." (Forgotten Roots/Mary Jones)

And where are the Ten Commandments now? They have been shoved out of schools. It is very clear to me that our founding fathers started this country on the premise that God would always be the center of what they were doing. If they could only see us now.

So how did this happen? Who started it, and why? Check out tomorrow's post.