Immediately after creating the Declaration of Independence,
the Continental Congress voted to purchase and import
20,000 copies of Scripture for the people of this nation.


Patrick Henry, who is called the firebrand of the American
Revolution, is still remembered for his words, "Give me
liberty or give me death"; but in current textbooks, the
context of these words is omitted. Here is what he actually
said:

"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 to 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 sentences have been erased from our textbooks. Was
Patrick Henry a Christian? The following year, 1776, he
wrote this: "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too
often that this great Nation was founded not by religionists,
but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel
of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other
faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here."

Consider these words that Thomas Jefferson wrote in the
front of his well-worn Bible: "I am a real 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." He was also the chairman
of the American Bible Society, which he considered his
highest and most important role. On July 4, 1821, President
Adams 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."

Calvin Coolidge, our 30th President of the United States
reaffirmed this truth when he wrote, "The foundations
of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings
of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them
if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically
universal in our country."

In 1782, the United States Congress voted this resolution:"The
Congress of the United States recommends and approves
the Holy Bible for use in all schools." William Holmes
McGuffey is the author of the McGuffey Reader, which was
used for over 100 years in our public schools, with over
125 million copies sold, until it was stopped in 1963.


President Lincoln called him the "Schoolmaster of the Nation."

Listen to these words of Mr. McGuffey: "The Christian
religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived
our nation, on the character of God, on the great moral
Governor of the universe. On its doctrines are founded
the peculiarities of our free Institutions. From no source
has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the
sacred Scriptures. For all these extracts from the Bible,
I make no apology."

Of the first 108 universities founded in America, 106
were distinctly Christian, including the first, Harvard
University, chartered in 1636.

In the original Harvard Student Handbook, rule number
1 was that students seeking entrance must know Latin and
Greek so that they could study the Scriptures: "Let every
student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to
consider well, the main end of his life and studies, is,
to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life, John
17:3; and therefore to lay Jesus Christ as the only foundation
for our children to follow the moral principles of the
Ten Commandments."

James Madison, the primary author of the Constitution
of the United States, said this: "We have staked the whole
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."

Most of what you read in this article has been erased
from our textbooks. Revisionists have rewritten history
to remove the truth about our country's Christian roots.
You are encouraged to share this with others, so that
the truth of our nation's history will be told.

This information shared is only a drop of cement to help
secure a foundation that is crumbling daily in a losing
war that most of the country doesn't even know is raging
on, in, and around them....