Was this not a Christian Nation?
Apr 28th, 2009 by Randy Toman
“The Christian Life and Character” of the civil institutions of the United States: Benjamin F. Morris published in 1863. Reprinted by American Vision, Powder Springs, GA. (May 2007)
I quote from pages 42-43.
“Religion is a Roman word, signifying obligation to the government. A Roman citizen could no more be disloyal to his country than to the gods. This conviction gave to the government a religious character, and made it invincible in war and strong in governmental authority and influence. Cicero, in one of his addresses, refers to the religious element of the Roman Empire in these words—‘However much we may be disposed to exalt our advantages, it is, nevertheless, certain that we have been surpassed in population by the Spaniards, in physical force by the Gaul’s, in shrewdness and cunning by Carthage, in fine arts by Greece, and in mere native talents by some of our Italian fellow-countrymen; but in the single point of attention to religion we have excelled all other nations, and it is to the favorable influence of this circumstance upon the character of the people that I account for our success in acquiring the political and military ascendancy we now enjoy throughout the world.’
This pervading religious element produced, also, the loftiest martial enthusiasm in the Roman citizen. ‘The attachment of the Roman soldier,’ says Gibbon, ‘was inspired by the united influence of religion and honor.’ In union with these civil and martial virtues in Roman citizens, the symbol of their government resulted in producing and blending some of the milder virtues of social and domestic life. Female character was formed on the most finished models of Pagan excellence; chastity was a golden virtue; and to educate sons for statesmen or soldiers was the highest ambition of the most illustrious ladies of Rome.”
Western Civilization and America are synonymous with Christian religion. The founding of this country from 1620-1776 can only be viewed through the lenses of Christianity and Biblical roots. To say anything different would be to completely distort history as we find it. Those roots have in the last 100 years been destroyed and we are now witnessing the finial conversion of a Christian nation into one that is completely pagan and even without their gods unless you wish to say “Power and Money” be their gods.
This phenomenon of the Tea Parties is nothing more then an attempt to reach back at some vague emotion and some glue that held us together. The Romans had their gods and state, America had God along with Jesus Christ, today President Obama and troop have nothing but state with some nothingness of “Change” not for good but power and money. It is a sad state of emotionalism as we see power being substituted for the truth of freedom and liberty through Jesus Christ.
We Shall See—and shortly what is to become of us. May God have mercy on us? Should we not be viewing the Tea Parties and Taxation through the lenses of the Bible and seeing what God has to say about the subject of TAXATION? I’m afraid they would say, “Not so my friend”.
And finally what can fill the soul and prosper a country not selfishness, ambition and violence at home or abroad, but harmony, virtue, wisdom, duties at home, of usefulness and love to all the nations and people of the earth. This we find in our Bibles and truly is our glue through Jesus Christ, may God grant that we have that once again here in the USA.