We ARE A Christian Nation!

 

Many these days argue that we are not a Christian nation.  In order to do this, they are either ignorant of, or completely ignore and turn a willful blind eye to our nation’s foundation.  I am going to show you a few cases that will PROVE that we are, without a doubt, a Christian nation.

 

To start off, the U.S. Supreme Court decision cites a number of examples that America was founded on Christian principles, and concludes: 

 

"There is a universal language pervading [these examples], having one meaning; they affirm and reaffirm that this is a religious nation. These are not individual sayings, declarations of private persons: they are organic utterances; they speak the voice of the entire people. . .  These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation."

- Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 143 U.S. 457, 9-10.

 

What Did the States Do Just After Declaring Independence?

 

Just after signing the Declaration the Independence, the individual states considered themselves brand new independent countries. Within a few months each colony created new constitutions describing the government upon which the new country/colony would govern itself.

 

Read what some of the new colonies’ constitutions said (all new colonies had very similar statements in their constitutions as well):

 

"Every person, who shall be chosen a member of either house, or appointed to any office or place of trust shall...make and subscribe the following declaration, to wit: 'I, _________, do profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the holy scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.'"

- Delaware, Article 22

 

"And each member [of the legislature] before he takes his seat, shall make and subscribe the following declaration, viz: 'I do believe in one God, the Creator and Governour of the universe, the rewarder of the good and the punisher of the wicked, and I do acknowldedge the scriptures of the Old and new Testament to be given by divine inspiration.'"

- Pennsylvania, Frame of Government, Section 10

 

"[All persons elected to State office or to the Legislature must] make and subscribe the following declaration, viz. 'I, __________, do declare, that I believe the Christian religion, and have firm persuasion of its truth.'"

- Massachusetts, Chapter VI, Article I

 

"No person, who shall deny the being of God, or the truth of the Protestant religion, or the divine authority either of the Old or New Testaments, or who shall hold religious principles incompatible with the freedom and safety of the state, shall be capable of holding any office, or place of trust or profit in the civil department, within this state."

- North Carolina, Article XXXII

 

"That no other test or qualification ought to be required...than such oath of support and fidelity to this state...and a declaration of a belief in the Christian religion."

- Maryland, Article XXXV:

 

And later, other colonies had the following statements in their constitutions:

 

"And each member [of the legislature], before he takes his seat, shall make and subscribe the following declaration, viz: 'I do believe in one God, the Creator and Governor of the universe, the rewarder of the good and punisher of the wicked. And I do acknowledge the scriptures of the old and new testament to be given by divine inspiration, and own and profess the [Christian] religion.' And no further or other religious test shall ever, hereafter, be required of any civil officer or magistrate in this State."

- Vermont (1786), Frame of Government, Section 9

 

"No person who denies the being of God, or a future state of rewards and punishments, shall hold any office in the civil department of this State."

- Tennesee (1796), Article VIII, Section II

 

Our Judicial System

 

"No free government now exists in the world unless where Christianity is acknowledged, and is the religion of the country...Its foundations are broad and strong, and deep...it is the purest system of morality, the firmest auxiliary, and only stable support of all human laws...Christianity is part of the common law." 

- Updegraph v. Commonwealth 826

 

In 1844 in Philadelphia, a school took an unprecedented position: it would teach its students morality, but not Christianity. The Court ruled it could not do so - the Bible and Christianity must be included: 

 

"Why may not the Bible, and especially the New Testament...be read and taught as divine revelation in the [schools] - 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?" 

- Vidal v Girards Executors, 1844

 

In 1892, the United States Supreme Court concluded that only an "absurd" application of the Constitution would allow a restriction on Christianity:

 

"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."

- Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892

 

On blasphemy the courts have ruled the following: 

 

“Abner Updegraph...on the 12th day of December [1821]...not having the fear of God before his eyes...contriving and intending to scandalize, and bring into disrepute, and vilify the Christian religion and the scriptures of truth, in the presence and hearing of several persons...did unlawfully, wickedly and premeditatively, despitefully, and blasphemously say...'That the Holy Scriptures were a mere fable: that they were a contradiction, and that although they contained a number of good things, yet they contained a great many lies.' To the great dishonor of Almighty God, to the great scandal of the profession of the Christian religion." 

- Updegraph v. The Commonwealth, 1824 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

 

"The defendant was indicted...in December, 1810, for that he did, on the 2nd day of September, 1810... wickedly, maliciously, and blashpemously, utter, and with a loud voice publish, in the presence and hearing of divers of good and Christian people, of and concerning the Christian religion, and of and concerning Jesus Christ, the false, scandalous, malicious, wicked and blasphemous words following: 'Jesus Christ was a bastard, and his mother must be a whore,' in contempt of the Christian religion...The defendant was tried and found guilty, and was sentenced by the court to be imprisoned for three months, and to pay a fine of $500." 

- The People v Ruggles, 1811, Supreme Court of New York

 

On the freedom of the press with regards to blasphemy was a legal indictment against Abner Kneeland for "willfully blaspheming the Holy name of God" and for a public disavowal of Christ. 

- Commonwealth v Abneer Kneeland, 1838, Supreme Court of Massachusetts.

 

Need I say more?