I just read a letter from an atheist stating that Christians are dishonest when we say that the United States is not a Christian nation. Sorry to disappoint, but I can cite several writings of our founding fathers, including Thomas Jefferson, who has been falsely attributed to have erected the “Wall of Separation of Church and State”, that state the contrary.
Granted, not all of the founding fathers were Christian, but this nation was indeed founded on Judeo-Christian principles of the Bible. The Declaration of Independence states: “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, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”
George Washington said, “It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.” When Thomas Jefferson wrote his letter, in which he stated that there should be a separation of church and state, he was concerned about the federal government establishing a state church like England had done. In many Islamic countries, like Iran and Saudi Arabia, Islam is the state religion. The so-called “Wall of Separation of Church and State” was actually erected by Hugo Black, a former United States Senator from Birmingham, Alabama, who was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937. Black was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, a Democrat, and regrettably, also a Southern Baptist.
Thomas Jefferson wrote, “My views are the result of a lifetime of inquiry and reflection, and very different from the anti-Christian system imputed to me by those who know nothing of my views. To the corruption of Christianity I am indeed opposed, but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus Himself. I am a Christian in the only sense that He wished anyone to be sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.”
The writer of the previous letter is entitled to belief as he wishes, but it is he that is being dishonest when he states that America is not a Christian nation, and it is people like him who are truly being discriminatory, and it is people like him who try and force their beliefs upon the rest of us.
Danny Armstrong
Dothan
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