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We were talking about the nation "never" being a Christian nation. That's how this started. Much of your info about America's founders is distorted. That is the result of Marxists / "progressives" attempting to get us to doubt our founding principles and become discontent with our society. I believed some of that nonsense as well. I remember in college it being 'common knowledge' that the founders were not Christians, but deists. While you can argue that a small percentage of them were, even deism back then had a different definition than it has today.
Of course they weren't perfect Christian men. Paul was not a perfect Christian man. But, we regard him as possibly the greatest Christian we know of. America's founders were largely Christians, not at all deists in any sense -- truly historical revisionism. Ben Franklin, not seemingly the most spiritual among them, led the nation to seek God's wisdom when they were arriving at an impasse in developing our constitution. Events following would seem to indicate that his prayers were answered.
We've allowed the progressives to distort our history, and too many Christians have bitten into that lying fruit. They want socialism to be the religion that supplants Christianity. Obviously they targeted Christianity because it was the main influencer of our society 100+ years ago.
The speeches these men made, the letters they wrote, never seem to indicate any occultism or deism -- at least the stuff I've read. What they do promote is an adherence to "religion", which in 18th century-speak was Christianity (hence the distorted interpretations of our first amendment today).
We might be witnessing the end of America, or another great chapter in our history that will see a great revival, on all levels. We cannot know, so prayers on our parts are in order. Thus, I am seeking God for a restoration of America, possibly led by another great awakening within the Church. In my prayers, I am asking for things to go so far as to allow the Bible to be taught in public schools again. I believe in parts of Texas this has been re-admitted. It's a bold prayer, but it only takes a few calories and minutes to utter it.
Of course they weren't perfect Christian men. Paul was not a perfect Christian man. But, we regard him as possibly the greatest Christian we know of. America's founders were largely Christians, not at all deists in any sense -- truly historical revisionism. Ben Franklin, not seemingly the most spiritual among them, led the nation to seek God's wisdom when they were arriving at an impasse in developing our constitution. Events following would seem to indicate that his prayers were answered.
We've allowed the progressives to distort our history, and too many Christians have bitten into that lying fruit. They want socialism to be the religion that supplants Christianity. Obviously they targeted Christianity because it was the main influencer of our society 100+ years ago.
The speeches these men made, the letters they wrote, never seem to indicate any occultism or deism -- at least the stuff I've read. What they do promote is an adherence to "religion", which in 18th century-speak was Christianity (hence the distorted interpretations of our first amendment today).
We might be witnessing the end of America, or another great chapter in our history that will see a great revival, on all levels. We cannot know, so prayers on our parts are in order. Thus, I am seeking God for a restoration of America, possibly led by another great awakening within the Church. In my prayers, I am asking for things to go so far as to allow the Bible to be taught in public schools again. I believe in parts of Texas this has been re-admitted. It's a bold prayer, but it only takes a few calories and minutes to utter it.
Those over us..