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Our Founder’s Thoughts on the Bible

Samuel Adams (1722 – 1803), a most important leader of the Revolutionary movement during the struggle for Independence in the Colonies and Signer of our Declaration of Independence, from Massachusetts, had this to say regarding the Bible: “The rights of the Colonists as Christians … may be best understood by reading and carefully studying … the New Testament.”

John Hart (1711 – 1779), New Jersey Signer of our Declaration of Independence offered this: “I believe the Holy Bible is the inspired Word of God. It contains the only reliable rules of Christian faith and Godly practices.

George Read (1733 – 1798), Signer of our Declaration of Independence from Delaware, declared: “I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.”

John Jay (1745 – 1829), appointed by President George Washington to be the first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court: “The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.”

John Adams (1735 – 1826), Signer of our Declaration of Independence from Massachusetts, said this: “I have examined all [religions] … and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world. It contains more of my philosophy that all the libraries I have seen.”

Benjamin Rush (1745 – 1813), Pennsylvania Signer of our Declaration of Independence: “The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life. … [It] should be read in our schools in preference to all other books …”

Roger Sherman (1721 – 1793), Signer of our Declaration of Independence from Connecticut, offered these succulent words regarding the Bible: “… the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are a revelation from God, and a complete rule to direct us as how we may glorify and enjoy him.”

Fisher Ames, author of the First Amendment to our Constitution, when it was presented to the House of Representatives: “[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the Sacred Book that is thus early impressed lasts long …”

Samuel Huntington (1732 – 1796), Signer of our Declaration of Independence from Connecticut, stated: “I accept the Bible as the infallible Word given to us by God.”

Noah Webster (1758 – 1843), best known as “The schoolmaster of the nation,” and author of Webster’s Dictionary: “The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men.”

Benjamin Rush (1745 – 1813), Pennsylvania Signer of our Declaration of Independence is once again quoted: “The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effectual means of extirpating [extinguishing] Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.”

The United States Supreme Court and the Bible

Ignoring the unmistakably clear words of Samuel Adams, John Hart, Roger Sherman and so many of the others who played such a important hand in the founding of America, the United States Supreme Court and its illustrious justices evidently pay no attention to the Christian heritage of America.

Their audacious 1963 ruling with Chief Justice of he United States, Earl Warren, presiding, banned Bible reading as unconstitutional in the public school system.

And what was the logic of our appointed-for-life justices? The ridiculous justification for their nonsensical ruling was thus: “If portions of the New Testament were read without explanation, they could and have been psychologically harmful to children.”

Yes, this sort of absurdity came about through the Godless machinations of our United States Supreme Court. It happened despite the fact that the Bible was quoted 94 percent of the time by the men who wrote our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. And as well by those many other early patriots who had the responsibility of shaping our future nation and its system of government and justice and education.

Our Founder’s Thoughts on the Ten Commandments

John Adams (1735–1826), Signer of our Declaration of Independence from Massachusetts, made this statement: “The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount contain my religion”

James Madison (1751-1836) from Virginia, the primary author of our Constitution and Signer of the grand document, said the following: “We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.”

Once again, despite all of the historical evidence to the contrary, and evidently rejecting, or at least ignoring the words of our illustrious Christian Founding Fathers, the Warren led Supreme Court of the United States, rendered their 1980 decision (Stone vs. Graham). With this judgment, these nine men sitting on the court summarily outlawed the posting of the Ten Commandments in our public schools. Here’s what they said:

“If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments were to have any effect at all, it would be to induce school children to read them. And if they read them, meditated upon them, and perhaps venerated and observed them, this is not a permissible objective.”

How is it even remotely possible that, according to the court, it is no longer a “permissible objective” to allow our children to learn about and then be taught to follow the moral principles of the Ten Commandments?