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We Are One Phil Brennan If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, error will be; If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy; If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will; If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end. – Daniel Webster* My oldest son, Phil III, a decorated (Medal of Valor) firefighter/paramedic (parental bragging rights asserted) got his Irish dander up when he read a letter to the editor of the Daytona Beach News Journal recently in which the writer railed against the idea of "little fascist puppets" being made to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and its hateful reference to – of all things – God! Such utterances, the writer revealed, were "inserted by politicians owned by greedy capitalists who were terrified that any amount of communism in the United States would make them share their immense wealth with the poor." That Marxist absurdity provoked Phil to write a letter to the newspaper reminding the gentleman that "Christianity was the religion of our founding fathers." He also recited the sad litany of some of the horrors that have resulted from our abandoning the faith of our fathers. "We have seen prayer in our public schools taken from us, with the very mention of God by our teachers grounds for dismissal. Now our children prey on each other and us," he wrote. "Millions of our precious children have been slaughtered in their mother's womb ... we look back on the institution of slavery whereby one man owned another as the abomination it was. Can you imagine how we will be judged when future generations look back on a practice so barbaric as a mother killing her own child?" The week after his letter appeared, the paper carried four responses to his letter, one praising him and three attacking him. Those three letters revealed an astounding – and shameful – ignorance of American history. The first letter made the amazing – and preposterous – claim that "If we were to be governed by faith in a supernatural being, the founding fathers could have said so." Sir, they did. Numerous times. For example, Patrick Henry,* who surely qualifies as a founding father, said, "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists [pluralism], but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!" Letter writer No. 2 shared the tragically common illusion that there is a "constitutional separation of Church and State" although that document makes not a single mention of any such separation but merely prohibits the federal government from setting up an established church. It also prohibits the government from doing anything that prevents the free exercise of religion, such as telling teachers they can't mention God in the classroom. The third letter tells us that "The writer [Phil] seems to ignore the fact that our founding fathers were not Christians, were not religious, and apparently were very careful to keep from making any mention of God in our Constitution. The closest any of them came to being religious was theism." Oh? "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." – John Quincy Adams* "To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest Glory to add the more distinguished Character of Christian." – George Washington* It should be clear that the founders saw the new nation they created as a Christian nation. By this they meant that it was founded on the principles laid down by Jesus Christ and set forth in Holy Scripture. They espoused no specific branch of Christianity, but made it clear that Christianity was the bedrock beneath the Constitution and the nation it governs. To them it was plain that while people of other religions were fully Americans and as such welcome and cherished, they would be expected to govern their lives by adherence to laws based upon and inspired by the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount and the Holy Bible because they are the sole voluntary restraints on human passions and frailties that allow members of a society to live in peace and tranquility with one another. John Adams* put it this way: "Statesmen, my dear sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is religion and morality alone, which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue." Wrote Thomas Jefferson:* "Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure, when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that they are a gift of God? Indeed, I tremble for my countrymen, when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever." What I'm getting at here is that even though America is a pluralistic society that enshrines religious tolerance, the fact is that the United States is a Christian nation and all Christians, regardless of denomination, are one in their Christianity. The majority of Christians abhor the killing of the innocent unborn, yet we have allowed the courts to put the stamp of approval on this barbaric practice. We have stood by and allowed the courts to ban all mentions of Christianity from the public square, to forbid the recitation by children in public schools of the Pledge of Allegiance. We have stood by and merely wrung our hands when state courts and state governments have attacked the very foundations of marriage by approving same-sex unions, ignoring the demonstrable fact that the traditional family is the core of society and that which weakens it weakens society. We'd better start acting as if we are one in our Christian faith, which is being trampled underfoot by the corrupt anti-creed of secular humanism that is slowly but steadily taking captive the organs of the state and the judiciary. We are engaged in a struggle between good and evil – God and Satan – and we must decline to adhere to the destructive norms laid down and enforced by secular liberalism through its ideological dominance of the bureaucracies, the courts, the universities and the media. We are long past the time when we should have reared up and shouted, like the characters in the movie "Network," that "We've had enough and we're not going to take it anymore." We have allowed the federal and local judiciaries to usurp legislative power, frequently issuing decrees that countermand the public will expressed in referenda or legislation. As mentioned above, the courts have deliberately misinterpreted the First Amendment, decreeing that the Constitution bans all forms of religious expression in the public square and by enforcing its dicta thereby violating the constitutional prohibition against interfering with the free exercise of religion. We have allowed ourselves to be cast free of the moorings of our Christian faith, without which we are defenseless against the barbarism of secular humanism. As John Adams said: "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." I get e-mail all the time asking what can be done to halt this relentless assault on our faith, our morals, our rights and our liberty. Millions of our fellow Christians are despairing over their feeling of helplessness in the face of what they see as a steady diminution of their most fundamental rights and the degradation of the nation's morals. Yet many of these same Christians continue to vote for the men and women who are in the forefront of the war against Christianity and Christian morals. In New York, for example, Christians cast their votes for the blatantly anti-Christian Sen. Charles Schumer, a dedicated supporter of the multibillion-dollar abortion industry who has fought bitterly against nominees to the federal bench on the grounds of their devotion to their Christian principles, which he sees as being bigoted and un-American. Pro-life Catholics continue to vote for other champions of the abortion industry, such as the alleged Catholics Ted Kennedy and Tom Daschle, and then complain when they do the bidding of the industry's titans. In his book on the war against Christianity, David Limbaugh, an experienced lawyer, explains that Congress can put limits on the federal judiciary and curb its usurpation of legislative power. But not this Congress. Christians disturbed over the fact that we are losing the moral war must understand that the best weapon they have is their vote for members of the House and Senate. That's where the power lies and where the war to restore Christian morality and America's allegiance to God must be fought and won. If we are sincere in our Christian beliefs, we will mount the barricades next November and get rid of the secular humanists and openly anti-Christian members of Congress such as Charles Schumer. Remember, any Christian who votes for the likes of this man automatically joins him in his war against Christians by keeping him where he can do the most damage. We are one. Let's start acting like it. Editor's Note: Get David Limbaugh's new book, "Persecution: How Liberals are Waging Political War Against Christianity," FREE – Click Here
*Major sources:
"The Myth of Separation," by David Barton
"The Light and the Glory," by Peter Marshall and David Manuel
Phil Brennan is a veteran journalist who writes for NewsMax.com. He is editor & publisher of Wednesday on the Web (http://www.pvbr.com) and was Washington columnist for National Review magazine in the 1960s. He also served as a staff aide for the House Republican Policy Committee and helped handle the Washington public relations operation for the Alaska Statehood Committee which won statehood for Alaska. He is also a trustee of the Lincoln Heritage Institute and a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. He can be reached at phil@newsmax.com
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