Founding Fathers of America
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, Patrick Henry.... Those are the more famous names. Have you heard of the other hundreds who signed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States? They too are considered our founding fathers, but how well do you really know even the well known names such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson? Were they (as our texts books tell us) deists, atheists and agnostics? Or were they, as all older reports record, Christian?
Why is this important? Because the founding of our nation defines where we came from. It is also important in ascertaining the intentions of what our founding fathers meant in their writings.
The revisionism that has gone on to rewrite who the founding fathers were has had tremendous impact on our nation today. How so? Let me give you some small examples.
These are all real life verdicts come down from our court systems, not all from the supreme court, but all real verdicts and still a dangerous precedent:
- Prayer in school is unconstitutional (illegal) even if it is both voluntary and denominationally neutral. (Engel vs Vitale, Abington vs Schempp, Commissioner of Education vs School Committee of Leyden)
- Freedom of speech and press are guaranteed to students and teachers unless it is religious. (Stein vs. Oshinsky, Collins vs Chandler Unified School District, Bishop vs Aronov, Duran vs Nitsche)
- The Ten Commandments cannot be displayed at a public courthouse (despite it being engraved in stone at the US Supreme Courthouse). (Harvey vs Cobb County)
- A teacher may not be seen with a personal copy of the Bible at school nor can a classroom library contain Christian books. (Roberts vs Madigan)
- A legislative bill is unconstitutional if it was enacted with a religious activity in mind, even if the wording is not religious. (Wallace vs Jaffree)
- The Board of Education cannot use or refer to the word “God” in any of its official writings. (Ohio vs Whisner)
- It is unconstitutional for a kindergarten class to even ask whose birthday we celebrate on Christmas. (Florey vs Sioux Falls School District)
- A nativity scene cannot be displayed on Public Property unless it is surrounded by ‘sufficient’ secular displays to prevent it from appearing religious. (County of Allegheny vs ACLU)
These are just a few of the dangerous precedents we are facing today. Separation of Church and State, a “misleading metaphor” as Chief Justice Williams Rehnquist put it, has been taken completely out of it’s historic context and even it’s literary context, taken advantage of and has been shaped to fit the whims of the irreligious in our country today.
“There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the Framers intended to build the “wall of separation” that was constitutionalized in Everson... No amount of repetition of historical errors in judicial opinions can make the errors true. The “wall of separation between church and state” is a metaphor based on bad history...It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned...Our perception has been clouded not by the Constitution but by the mists of an unnecessary metaphor.” ~ Chief Justice Williams Rehnquist
“It would come as much of a shock to those who drafted the Bill of Rights, as it will to a large number of Americans today, to learn that the Constitution, as construed by the majority, prohibits the Alabama Legislature from “endorsing” prayer. George Washington himself, at the request of the very Congress which passed the Bill of Rights, proclaimed a day of “public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God.” History must judge whether it was the Father of his country in 1789, or a majority of the Court today, which has strayed from the meaning of the Establishment Clause.” ~Chief Justice Williams Rehnquist
This is a problem. We have been lied to about our Founding Fathers and who they were. We have been lied to about what the very first Bill of Rights means for you and me. It would be ironic, if it was not so sickening, that the very principle of “Separation between church and state” which has made prayer in schools unconstitutional is in itself unconstitutional. What is this quagmire and how can we tell who is telling us the truth? Who are the founding fathers? What were they really like? And why have we been lied to? When will enough be enough? Please join me, wake up, research it, find the truth of the matter, help correct this wrong.
To forget where we came from is to forget who we are.
Jared Williams
(Information for this article has come principally from David Barton's "Original Intent")
Why is this important? Because the founding of our nation defines where we came from. It is also important in ascertaining the intentions of what our founding fathers meant in their writings.
The revisionism that has gone on to rewrite who the founding fathers were has had tremendous impact on our nation today. How so? Let me give you some small examples.
These are all real life verdicts come down from our court systems, not all from the supreme court, but all real verdicts and still a dangerous precedent:
- Prayer in school is unconstitutional (illegal) even if it is both voluntary and denominationally neutral. (Engel vs Vitale, Abington vs Schempp, Commissioner of Education vs School Committee of Leyden)
- Freedom of speech and press are guaranteed to students and teachers unless it is religious. (Stein vs. Oshinsky, Collins vs Chandler Unified School District, Bishop vs Aronov, Duran vs Nitsche)
- The Ten Commandments cannot be displayed at a public courthouse (despite it being engraved in stone at the US Supreme Courthouse). (Harvey vs Cobb County)
- A teacher may not be seen with a personal copy of the Bible at school nor can a classroom library contain Christian books. (Roberts vs Madigan)
- A legislative bill is unconstitutional if it was enacted with a religious activity in mind, even if the wording is not religious. (Wallace vs Jaffree)
- The Board of Education cannot use or refer to the word “God” in any of its official writings. (Ohio vs Whisner)
- It is unconstitutional for a kindergarten class to even ask whose birthday we celebrate on Christmas. (Florey vs Sioux Falls School District)
- A nativity scene cannot be displayed on Public Property unless it is surrounded by ‘sufficient’ secular displays to prevent it from appearing religious. (County of Allegheny vs ACLU)
These are just a few of the dangerous precedents we are facing today. Separation of Church and State, a “misleading metaphor” as Chief Justice Williams Rehnquist put it, has been taken completely out of it’s historic context and even it’s literary context, taken advantage of and has been shaped to fit the whims of the irreligious in our country today.
“There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the Framers intended to build the “wall of separation” that was constitutionalized in Everson... No amount of repetition of historical errors in judicial opinions can make the errors true. The “wall of separation between church and state” is a metaphor based on bad history...It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned...Our perception has been clouded not by the Constitution but by the mists of an unnecessary metaphor.” ~ Chief Justice Williams Rehnquist
“It would come as much of a shock to those who drafted the Bill of Rights, as it will to a large number of Americans today, to learn that the Constitution, as construed by the majority, prohibits the Alabama Legislature from “endorsing” prayer. George Washington himself, at the request of the very Congress which passed the Bill of Rights, proclaimed a day of “public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God.” History must judge whether it was the Father of his country in 1789, or a majority of the Court today, which has strayed from the meaning of the Establishment Clause.” ~Chief Justice Williams Rehnquist
This is a problem. We have been lied to about our Founding Fathers and who they were. We have been lied to about what the very first Bill of Rights means for you and me. It would be ironic, if it was not so sickening, that the very principle of “Separation between church and state” which has made prayer in schools unconstitutional is in itself unconstitutional. What is this quagmire and how can we tell who is telling us the truth? Who are the founding fathers? What were they really like? And why have we been lied to? When will enough be enough? Please join me, wake up, research it, find the truth of the matter, help correct this wrong.
To forget where we came from is to forget who we are.
Jared Williams
(Information for this article has come principally from David Barton's "Original Intent")
