Thomas Jefferson (Persuasion)

“Truth can stand by itself….Why subject [opinion] into coercion? To produce uniformity….Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites…. If there be one right [religion] and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth. But against such a majority we cannot effect this by force. Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged; and how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse it ourselves.”

Thomas Jefferson (Founding Father/Third President of the United States)

Supreme Court (1892)

“There is no dissonance in these declarations. There is a universal language pervading them all, having one meaning; they affirm and reaffirm that this is a religious nation… This is a Christian nation.”

Supreme Court (1854)

“Had the people, during the Revolution, had a suspicion of any attempt to war against Christianity, that Revolution would have been strangled in its cradle. At the time of the adoption of the Constitution and the amendments, the universal sentiment was that Christianity should be encouraged, but not any one [denomination]… In this age there can be no substitute for Christianity… That was the religion of the founders of the republic, and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants.”

John Adams (General Principles)

“The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were… the general principles of Christianity… Now I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”

Supreme Court (1811)

“Whatever strikes at the root of Christianity tends manifestly to the dissolution of civil government.”

This case that this is quoted about is a man who was blatantly attacking Christ and everything that He stood for including His Church, the people.

Vidal v. Girard (1844)

“Why may not the Bible, and especially the New Testament… be read and taught as a divine revelation in the [school] – its general precepts expounded… and its glorious principles of morality inculcated?… Where can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?”

This case had to do with a rich French immigrant  who wanted to make it illegal to have Bibles at his University. He wanted to teach morals without the Bible, such as they try to today and we see what happens. Society breaks down!!!

The Church of the Holy Trinity v. The United States (1892)

“No purpose of action against religion can be imputed to any legislation, state or national, because this is a religious people… This is a Christian nation.”

This Court document is only 16 pages long but there are 87 historical precedents that are cited stating that we are a Christian nation. The Court quoted our Founding Fathers, previous acts of Congress and many other sources.

First Meeting in Congress 1774

This is a letter from John Adams to his wife Abigail about that first meeting of Congress in 1774.

“I never saw a greater effect upon an audience. It seemed as if Heaven had ordained that Psalm to be read on the morning… I must beg you to read that Psalm… Read this letter and the 35th Psalm to [your friends]. Read it to your father.”

John Adams (Founding Father/Second President of the United States)