Our Country: Founded By Men of Faith

An Excerpt from “In God We Betrayed,” by Peter Grasso

Contrary to popular belief, our Country was not founded by Deist, Atheist, NOR Agnostics – but by God Fearing Men and Women that set the standards for which we would govern our society. There are many within this country that would like for you to believe that there has always been this separation of church and state, which is contrary to the truth. This secular humanistic doctrine is widely accepted by ultra-left politicians, the news media, major organizations such as the ACLU, and others alike. The Supreme Court ruling on the Separation of Church and State was established in 1947 without ANY Precedent. Furthermore, if you look at the historical writings from our founding fathers, you would come to the following conclusion…

The Majority of Our Founding Fathers were Christians!

The phrase "Founding Fathers" is a proper noun. It refers to a very specific group of people, the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention. Yes, there were other important players, like Jefferson, whose thinking deeply influenced the shape of our nation and who were not in attendance, but the 55 Fathers make up the core[i].

The denominational affiliation of these men is a matter of public record. Among the delegates were 28 Episcopalians, 8 Presbyterians, 7 Congregationalists, 2 Lutherans, 2 Dutch Reformed, 2 Methodists, 2 Roman Catholics, 1 unknown and only 3 deists--Williamson, Wilson and Franklin, this at a time when church membership entailed a sworn public confession of biblical faith.

This is a very revealing tally. It means that the members of the Constitutional Convention, the most influential group of men shaping the political foundations of our nation, were almost all Christians, 51 of 55--a full 93%. Indeed, nearly 20% were Calvinists (the Presbyterians and the Dutch Reformed), considered by some to be the most extreme and dogmatic form of Christianity.[ii]

Secondly, our Founding Fathers were Driven to Protect and Embrace Christianity in Governance and in the Public Welfare of our Country

George Washington, the father of our country could not have stated better from within his memoirs that,

As the contempt of the religion of a country by ridiculing any of its ceremonies, OR affronting its ministers OR votaries, has ever been deeply resented, you are to be particularly careful to restrain every officer and soldier from such imprudence and folly, and to punish every instance of it. On the other hand, as far as lies in your power; you are to protect and support the free exercise of the religion of this country, and the undisturbed enjoyment of the rights of conscience in religious matters, with your utmost influence and authority.

Every man conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience. . . If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention, where I had the honor to preside, might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical Society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to it…[iii]

However, isn’t that exactly what this nation did in 1947 when the Supreme Court ruled when it stated that the “Walls for Separation between Church and State needs to be High and Impregnable”? The father of our country would not have signed the Constitution if he thought it would “endanger the religious rights” of our citizens. Yet, each day, those of faith within our country are being stripped from the very fundamental rights of religious expression. The “Separation of Church and State” ruling has set the precedent by which the radical left has leveraged to suppress the church of believers to the point that if disagreement to governmental opinion is expressed within the church, they risk loosing their not-for-profit status. Therefore, the church is faced with taking a position of political correctness vs. biblical truths within their teachings. What is noticeably absent within the church is any teaching regarding a heated position that is biblically accurate but may be contrary to a candidate or political position of authority. This is a direction violation of our freedom of expression and speech, of which the Constitution of the United States clearly defends.