AMERICA HAS LOST ITS MORAL FOOTING over the past 5 decades and is becoming increasingly hostile to our country’s Christian heritage.
It is unthinkable that today:
• The Alabama Supreme Court cannot display the Ten Commandments which are the basis of our laws.
• Valedictorians cannot publicly thank Jesus for helping them achieve success.
• Our nation’s president can no longer call our country to a day of prayer.
• Our courts are redefining marriage to include a deviant union of same sex partners
• Judges have repeatedly tried to ban military and police chaplains from saying the name of Jesus in public prayers.
THE LIST OF ANTI-CHRISTIAN COURT RULINGS CONTINUE and it is tearing the soul out of our country. More and more Americans now believe:
• Our country was founded purely as a business enterprise.
• Most of our founders were not Christian.
• The U.S. Constitution forbids any personal expression of faith in public schools and government buildings.
For the first time in our nation’s history, our president has not affirmed us as a Christian nation. In June 2006 he said, ”Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation – at least, not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.”
In March 2008 he said, “We are no longer a Christian nation,” and repeated this statement again in April and May 2009, The following month he told a French TV audience that America was one of the largest Muslim nations in the world.
In August 2010 our president said, “We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world, including in my own country.” He went on to say Muslims played a vital role in America from the beginning.
Misinformation like this affirms the urgent need to educate our nation.
CHRISTIANS ARE ALMOST AS IGNORANT as nonbelievers about our very special history. I have encountered opposition from believers who embrace the secular position that most of our founders were Deists and that Christians should stay out of politics, or if in office refrain from voting their Christian values.
Too many people know not the fact that 29 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence held seminary or Bible school degrees. Patriot preachers led the charge for independence from their pulpits and some were officers in the Continental Army. Today’s preachers are citizens too and the laws created by Congress affect them as citizens and as promoters of the Gospel.
Today some people believe Conservative Christian Right political views are radical and offensive. They don’t know that people with these same political viewpoints lead the revolt for our freedom and wrote our founding documents. Today our founders would be vilified as extreme right wingers.
THEY DON'T KNOW THAT:
• The battle cry of the Revolutionary War was, “No King but Jesus.”
• The Constitutional Congress authorized the first printing of The Bible in America.
• The Bible was used as a primary textbook in our public schools.
• The first act of Congress was a call for a national day of fasting and prayer.
• Many court decisions have been made “because” America is a Christian nation.
• The Great Awakening revival that swept through the 13 colonies was the unifying force that prepared our ancestors to become The United States.
AMERICA IS A CHRISTIAN NATION BECAUSE of the missionary intent of our settlers, the laws they wrote based on the Bible and the exceptional culture these intentions and laws produced.
Many great books and videos have been produced to document our country’s Christian heritage. Now it’s time to add to these efforts a national monument to which our country can look and say, “This is why we are a Christian nation.”
I asked Congressman Randy Forbes if I was wasting my time trying to build this museum. He said, “Absolutely not. We must never tire of telling our children who we are and reminding our leaders of the foundation we’re built upon. The American Christian History Museum will be doing just that—every day.”
As the children of Israel marched through the Jordan River into the promised land, Joshua instructed its leaders to pick up a stone from the middle of the river with which to make a monument to remind future generations of their miraculous beginning. The American Christian History Museum will be such a monument for our country.
AMERICA IS GREATLY DIVIDED over political and social ideologies and daily we sink deeper into moral decay. As a nation we need to return to our Christian faith that once united us and gave us a clear moral standard to which to aspire.
Daniel Webster, the great Christian statesman of the Nineteenth Century, gave us this warning: “If we and our posterity shall be true to the Christian religion, if we and they shall live always in the fear of God and shall respect His Commandments, … we may have the highest hopes of the future fortunes of our country; … But if we and our posterity neglect religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.”
UNITE WITH US IN PRAYER AND SUPPORT to build The American Christian History Museum.
Your servant,
Michael D. Moore, director
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