This is an open letter to all you hardheads who don’t believe. The historical record is clear… America was built on Christian principles. That’s what made it great. Here’s what America’s Founding Fathers believed.

“Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon the teaching of the redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise, and is this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian.” (U.S. Supreme Court, 1892).

“It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of almighty God to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and to humbly implore his protection and favor.” (George Washington, Oct. 3, 1789).

“If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering. But if we and our posterity neglect its instruction and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.” (Daniel Webster, 1821).

“It is fit and becoming in all people, at all times to acknowledge and revere the supreme government of God, to bow in humble submission to His chastisement, to confess and deplore their sins and transgression in the full conviction that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and to pray with all fervency and contrition for the pardon of their past offenses and for a blessing upon their present and prospective action.” (Abraham Lincoln).

“God who gave us life gave us liberty, and 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 these liberties are a gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.” (Thomas Jefferson, 1781).

“We hold these truths to be self evidence, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” (Declaration of Independence, 1776).

There is much more.

Richard Fox

Baker City