America's Christian Heritage

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Membership In America Percentage of population that belongs to a church: 1776 17% 1850 34% 1860 37% 1870 35% 1890 45% 1906 51% 1916 53% 1926 56% 1952 59% 1980 62% 1995 65% * *Estimated. Source: "The Churching of America: 1776-1990" by Roger Finke and Rodney Stark and Gallup Organization data“ •••• nfbw 201130 Vftald00135

And now

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/30/982671783/fewer-than-half-of-u-s-adults-belong-to-a-religious-congregation-new-poll-shows

 

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Example #5 of America's Christian Heritage

Before going ashore, the Mayflower Compact was drafted and signed by the 41 adult males on the ship and read in part as follows, “In the name of God, Amen . . . . having undertaken for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith, and Honour of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the First Colony in the Northern Parts of Virginia; do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one another, Covenant and Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic . . . .”

Gary DeMar in America’s Christian Heritage, (Broadman & Holman Publishers, Nashville, TN), page 18

 

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B. F. Morris

The Christian Life and Character - The American Vision It is time for Christians to grasp the vision of civil government under God which motivated the great majority of our early American citizens and statesmen. ‘christian-life’

References to God on record of written history Saint Ding have nothing to do with thr Cross of Christ having any meaningful influence on motivations to go war against the King’s military in 1776 for 80 percent of the men who fought it.

You are seduced by white Christian nationalists propaganda when you crest a great majority of our early American citizens bring Christian when the only available studies and research our the share of the Christian population in 1776 at 17%

 

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Example #6 of America's Christian Heritage

“On the 22nd of December, 1620, the Puritans, 101 in number, landed from the Mayflower, and planted their feet on the Rock of Plymouth, and began a new era in the history of the world. . . . The 1st act of the Puritans, after landing, was to kneel down and offer their thanksgiving to God, and by a solemn act of prayer, and in the name and for the sake of Christ, to take possession of the continent. They thus repeated the Christian consecration which Columbus, more than a century before, had given to the New World, and so twice in the most formal and solemn manner was it devoted to Christ and Christian civilization.”

B.F. Morris, The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States(Philadelphia, PA: George W. Chlids, 1864) page 66

 

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Example #7 of America's Christian Heritage

William Bradford who became the governor of Plymouth in 1621wrote in his eyewitness account of the colony, Of Plymouth Plantation, that the colonists “cherished a great hope and inward zeal of laying good foundations, or at least of making some way towards it, for the propagation and advance of the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in the remote parts of the world”

William Bradford, Bradford’s History of the Plymouth Settlement, 1608-1650

 

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the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith, and Honour of our King and Country,

Under the Catholic God’s plan was it to have the Protestant God’s Chosen people invade and settle the promised new land, drive the original inhabitants away from the coast, gain a foothold to make it safe for the Catholic God’s chosen people to arrive following behind the Protestant chosen people westward, driving the natives west, killing those who resisted the Cross of Christ’s advance. Was it both God’s who wanted their chosen white people
to force the natives onto reservations to suffer poverty disease and starvation so the Christians could build las Vegas. Was it all part of God’s plan?

 

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Gary DeMar in America’s Christian Heritage, (Broadman & Holman Publishers, Nashville, TN), page 18

who is gary demarT he Southern Poverty Law Center describes DeMar as "an outspoken anti-gay activist who regularly hosts and speaks at Christian-right events," and American Vision as an extremist group and an organization advocating "a complete theocracy governed by Old Testament law

Gary DeMar

Gary DeMar is president of the Christian Reconstructionist think tank American Vision.

www.splcenter.org

DeMar’s American Vision is one of the strongholds of Christian Reconstructionist thought. Its tenets hold that the United States was founded as a “Christian nation” and that democracy needs to be replaced with a theocratic government based on Old Testament law. American Vision holds that it is “restor[ing] America’s Biblical foundation” by advocating practices as draconian as the death penalty for those who engage in LGBT sex.


DeMar’s inflammatory statements do not stop with his anti-LGBT remarks. In April 2009, he stated that a “long-term goal” should be “the execution of abortionists and their parents.”

 

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Beuatiful art. Now days they have people in the endowment for the arts calling pornworks art claiming that they have a right to everyone's money to spread that nasty stuff around.

What a beautiful baby picture you have posted; just gorgeous.

 

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Example #8 of America's Christian Heritage

The Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 states the following qualifications for holding the office of governor, “no person shall be eligible for this office, unless . . . he shall declare himself to be of the Christian religion.” The following oath was also required, “I do declare, that I believe the Christian religion, and have firm persuasion of its truth.”

Francis Newton Thorpe, The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies, 7 vols. (Washington. D.C.: 1909)

 

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The mural, "Landing of Columbus," was placed in United States Capitol Rotunda in 1847 to serve as a "memorial stone."

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Vanderlyn, John. Landing of Columbus. Architect of the
Capitol. Commissioned 1836/1837, placed 1847 in United
States Capitol Rotunda

On October 12, 1492, after a two-month voyage, Christopher Columbus landed on an island in the Bahamas he called San Salvador—though the people of the island called it Guanahani.

So instead of any trace of the American mainland, Columbus "discovered" an island with "people" already living there. Then he "discovered" some more prepopulated islands.. Wowza. Foundering Christian heritage, baby!

This engraving depicts Columbus’s first landing in the New World, on the island he called San Salvador, on October 12, 1492. Columbus is surrounded by his men on the beach. Discussing the landing in his journal, Columbus wrote that he "leaped on shore, and . . . took, possession of the said island for the King and for the Queen."[1] In the engraving, he holds a sword in one hand and the royal banner of Aragon and Castile in the other, declaring the discovery for Spain. To the side, Native Americans watch the Europeans from behind a tree. In his journal, Columbus recorded that they "asked us if we had come from heaven" and called them "the best people in the world, and the gentlest."[2] He also, however, made note of his plan to "with force . . . subjugate the whole island."[3]

 

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Example #9 of America's Christian Heritage

New Haven’s original plantation covenant (1638). “After a day of fasting and prayer, they rested their first frame of Government on a simple plantation covenant, that ‘all of them would be ordered by the rules which the Scriptures held forth to them.”

Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, 1:403

 

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Example #10 of America's Christian Heritage

New Haven’s civil policy set forth more formally by the 7 person committee known as “the seven Pillars” that included the colony’s pastor Rev. John Davenport and governor Theophilus Eason “God’s word was ‘established as the only rule in public affairs. Thus New Haven made the Bible its statute-book . . .”

Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, 1:404

 

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Example #11 of America's Christian Heritage

The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (January 14, 1639) states “that one of the governing purposes of the document was ‘to maintain and preserve the liberty and purity of the gospel of our Lord Jesus which we now profess, as also the discipline of the churches, which according to the truth of the said Gospel is now practiced among us."

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut” (January 14, 1639), Documents, 23

 

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And you don't think that demonstrates your hatred?

No. Its just a matter of fact. You accusing me of hatred is extremely odoriferous especially when I am just shedding light on what you openly do. Your inability to admit that what you do at mass is idolatrous and what you profess to believe is a lie is evidence of you being abandoned by God.

The reality is you say things like that to make yourself feel better. It's comforting to you to say those things. That's why I feel sorry for you.

No, the reality is that I find it very strange to have to point out to an adult that God was not wearing diapers on Christmas. It doesn't make me feel good. It makes me want to point out to others how true scripture really is and how real divine condemnation is for defying Gods law.

Why do you avoid taking a stand on the truth that if scripture is true, your idolatrous worship of a lifeless matzo made by human hands is a violation of divine law under penalty of death, a curse that you so perfectly display? Why are you oblivious that you have died and descended into hell?

You accusing me of hatred, subverting christianity or being a secular Jesus is really just pathetic.

You feel sorry for me? Thats a laugh. I certainly don't feel sorry for you. You have made evil a deliberate choice but only if your own Holy book is true, Jesus is the messiah, and God is God.

Thats not me condemning you, its your own words and deeds that condemn you. Your own shame and faithless denial of what anyone who peeks inside a church on Sunday can see believers do with their own eyes and hear with their own ears the priest say "This bread will become for 'us' the body of Christ" after which the entire congregations gets down on their knees in an orgy of sin, young and old, men with men, women with women, entire families flipping off God by defying his law and openly desecrating the teachings of Jesus by eating a freaking lifeless matzo made by human hands for spiritual life. You might as well eat the bible whole, with a little salt, in a ritual to learn about the words written to receive eternal life...Damn.

How stupid is that!

Seriously, WTF.

 

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America's Christian Heritage is indisputable.

What is indisputable is that for you and all befuddled Christians Sunday will never be the same....

You're welcome!

 

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Example #12 of America's Christian Heritage

From the Delaware constitution: “Every person who shall be chosen a member of either house, or appointed to any office or place of trust . . . shall . . . also make and subscribe the following declaration, to wit” ‘I do profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the holy scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.”

Francis Newton Thorpe, The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies, 7 vols. (Washington. D.C.: 1909)

 

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Example #12 of America's Christian Heritage

Give it up Ding. Even if that was true, and its not, that was then. This is now. Deal with it. I could point out numerous examples of Native American heritage influencing the same founding fathers

What then?

You 'believers' have absolutely no basis in either scripture or reality to support your false claim to moral authority to legislate laws and customs, dictate right and wrong, or how others should live.

This is irrefutable. The music is over and you have no place, no authority, no chair to sit on......

 

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Example #13 of America's Christian Heritage

In the “Fundamental Constitution for the Province of East New Jersey”, drafted in 1683, religious liberty was upheld, and every civil magistrate was required to affirm this by law and swear a binding to Jesus Christ. Following this requirement we read: ‘Nor by this article is it intended that any under the notion of liberty shall allow themselves to avow atheism, irreligiousness, or to practice cursing, swearing, drunkenness, profaneness, whoring, adultery, murdering, or any kind of violence."

“Fundamental Constitution for the Province of East New Jersey, 1683” in W. Keith Kavenaugh, ed., Foundations of Colonial America, 3 vols. (New York: Chelsea House, 1973), 2:1107-1108

 

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Example #14 of America's Christian Heritage

James Oglethorpe who was a member of the British Parliament and had a long history of benevolent works and Christian character obtained a charter from King George II to establish a colony in North America. He desired to see those who had been imprisoned for debt and thus suffering in jails and Protestant Christians who were persecuted throughout Europe placed in an independent condition, and projected a colony in America for that purpose. In addition he desired to see the gospel preached to the Indians so that they could be Christianized and converted. This endeavor was promoted by the “Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts” and supported by a contribution of 10,000 pounds from the British Parliament. In January 1732, Oglethorpe, with 120 emigrants, landed in America, and on the basis of the Christian religion laid the future commonwealth of Georgia.

Benjamin F Morris, The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States, (Powder Springs, Georgia, American Vision, 2007) pages 128-129

 

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Example #15 of America's Christian Heritage

Under the leadership of Oglethorpe Georgia had an anti-slavery policy. He said, “Slavery, the misfortune, if not the dishonor, of other plantations, is absolutely proscribed [outlawed, forbidden]. Let avarice defend it as it will . . .. The name of slavery is here unheard, and every inhabitant is free from unchosen masters and oppression . . . . Slavery is against the gospel . . . . We refused, as trustees, to make a law permitting such a horrid crime.”

Jessie T. Peck, The History of the Great Republic, Considered from a Christian Stand-Point (New York: Broughton and Wyman, 1868)