Analyst's note:  Absolutely must read and carefully consider the message.  Our American history provides a necessary perspective to the events of today.  My friend and associate, William J. Dell, can be counted on to provide additional critical insight to that history and to the issues we now face as a nation.

"In America today there is a debate going on as to whether we are a Christian nation or not. During the period of 1774 through 1787, two groups of “wise men” came together and through the aid of the Divine Providence they built a government, a Republic, destined to be the hope of the world. A nation that became a beacon of freedom to all who desired to live free or die.

The First Continental Congress met in 1774 to address the Colonies’ grievances with the English Crown and Parliament. The Second Continental Congress met after the battles of Lexington and Concord and issued the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, ending all efforts of reconciliation with England. This document was signed by 56 “wise men.” Because of the ineffectualness of the Articles of Confederation, another convention was called in 1787 to revise the Articles. This convention, which began in May at Philadelphia, ended with the signing by 55 “wise men” of a proposed new Constitution on September 17, 1787. With New Hampshire’s affirmative vote for ratification June 21, 1788, the United States became a Constitutional Republic. The remaining four States ratified by May 29, 1790 with Rhode Island being the last. Our Bill of Rights, the first 10 Amendments, were ratified December 15, 1791.

When we speak of the core group of men known as the Founding Fathers, our “wise men,” we are usually referring to the fifty-five delegates to the Constitutional Convention. To this is often added the fifty-six who signed the Declaration of Independence. [Of these two groups, only six men signed both documents: Ben Franklin, Robert Morris, James Wilson, George Clymer, Roger Sherman and George Read.] With this is mind and in regards to the debate on this being a Christian nation or not, were the Founding Fathers, our 105 “wise men,” Christians?

Typically in Colonial America a man had to make a sworn profession of faith to be a member of a Christian congregation. So determining if the Founding Fathers were members of Christian congregations is easily done. Bear in mind I am not saying that the Founding Fathers were “evangelicals,” meaning they were “born again” believers. I am just stating that they had a Christian background and believed in God and the Bible.

The denominational affiliations of these “wise men,” the Founding Fathers, were a matter of public record. Among the signers of the Declaration of Independence were 30 Episcopalians (Anglicans), 11 Congregationalists, 9 Presbyterians, 2 Quakers, 1 Unitarian (Universalists), 1 Roman Catholic and 2 Deist – Jefferson and Franklin. Among the delegates to the Constitutional Convention were 28 Episcopalians (Anglicans), 8 Presbyterians, 7 Congregationalists, 2 Lutherans, 2 Dutch Reformed, 2 Methodists, 2 Roman Catholics, 1 unknown, and only 3 deists–Williamson, Wilson, and Franklin.

Therefore, historically, I believe, it can be established that we, as a nation, were founded on Judeo-Christian principles by professing Christians. I believe this because both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution written by our “wise men” quotes, refers and allures to Judeo-Christians principles. In addition to this evidence, much of the personal correspondence, biographies, and public statements of our 105 “wise men” is replete with quotations showing that they had political philosophies deeply influenced by Christianity.

For example, from Benjamin Franklin early on during the Constitutional Convention, “I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth that God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that ‘except the Lord build the House they labor in vain that build it.’ I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing Governments by Human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest.” And from John Adams, our Second President who stated, “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Just as the Founding Fathers had to rely on God for this nation to rise, we today must rely upon that same God if we are to restore our Constitutional Republic to its former glory and exceptionalism. For 125 years America’s exceptionalism shined because we, as a nation, remembered the Judeo-Christian principles that our “wise men,” our Founding Fathers, used to establish our Constitutional Republic. They proclaimed these Judeo-Christian principles not only from the pulpits of America’s churches, they taught these same principles in the schoolhouses and around the kitchen tables of America.

Early on in the twentieth century, Socialist and Progressives began a step-by-step assault on the Constitution and the Republic it established. Then beginning in the 1960’s, we, as a nation, began a policy of excluding God in the education of our children. Because of this, according to the Rev. Dr. D. James Kennedy, “Since 1963, our nation has seen a sharp increase of violent crime, drug abuse, unwed teen mothers, sexually transmitted diseases, divorce, suicide, single-parent homes, abortion, homosexual relationships, and pornography. This is not accidental, nor should it surprise us. The Founders clearly saw that when we remove the influence of religion from society, all society suffers.”

America was and it can be again the exceptional nation that God gave us through the Founding Fathers. A beacon of freedom and the hope of the world to all who would live free or die. All we, as a nation, need to do is to return to the Judeo-Christian principles contained in God’s Holy Word and that our Founding Fathers used to establish our Constitutional Republic. If we remember God, as a people and a nation, God will remember us and bless us accordingly.

You ask, “But how can we do this?” At this time of year perhaps we, as “wise men” and “wise women,” might consider what we as a nation might bring to the Christ Child as gifts like the Wise Men of old. Not gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, but gifts of restoration for our Constitutional Republic.

We as a nation need to bring to Him —

The gift of “pulpits” alive with the fire of righteousness and freedom.

The gift of each citizen’s “humble, prayerful heart” as they seek anew His face.

The gift of “turning from our wicked ways” as a nation that:

1. Murders the innocent through abortion,
2. Destroys the family by failing to recognize and protect the family as defined by God in Eden, as one man and one woman [Genesis 2:18-25],
3. Chooses political correctness over any tolerance or mention of the majority Christian view or the God who established us as a nation,
4. Dumbs-down the education of our children by politically correct curriculums that teach Atheism in stead of the Judeo-Christian principles which made us an exceptional nation,
5. Taxes the rich excessively, stealing the fruits of their labor, to redistribute wealth to non-producers rather than enabling non-produces to become self-reliant,
6. Perpetuates rhetoric and propaganda designed to create class and ethnic warfare to divide rather than civil discourse which would unite us as Americans,
7. Enslaves the downtrodden through social-justice programs creating an entitlement mentality which as Jefferson predicted, wastes “the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them,”
8. Attacks the individual freedoms of We the People, guaranteed by our Bill of Rights, to perpetuate and control the Socialist’s and Progressive’s efforts to move our nation toward the Welfare Socialist State, and most importantly,
9. Elects and re-elects self-serving, ego-centric, power driven Socialist and Progressive politicians bent on destroying our Divinely inspired Constitution and the Republic it established in favor of the Welfare Socialist State. This writer agrees with Disraeli who said it well, “The world [This writer] is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.”

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” [2 Chronicles 7:14]

May we all so do is my prayer in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Lastly, Merry Christmas, and

May God Bless and Save the United States of America !"