April 24, 2025
America is Great Because America is Christian
Timothy Birdnow
Is the U.S. a Christiann nation? Many on the Left argue it is not - the Supreme Court has repeatedly raffirmed that it is.
From an article in End of the American Dream:
This couples with the endless appeals to God and "Nature's God" by the Founding Fathers, all of whom clearly believed Christianity was the cornerstone of the country they were building. Many of the Founders stated publicly that without Christ their experiment would fail.
What they were not was sectarian. They believed in freedom of religions so Christ could be worshipped as conscience dictated, or even not worshipped. But at the heart of the American experiment was always the Cross.
This idea that we have freedom from religion as a core principle is pure revisionism. You had the right to not worship at all, or to worship Brahma or Allah if you chose, or worship no one at all, but you did so in the context of a Christian society built on Christian ethics and Christian moral codes. It was the lowest common denominator of Christianity - not based on Catholic or Anglican or Lutheran or Calvinist DOCTRINE but on what all cHRISTIANS could agree on.
It has been attributed to Alexis De Toqueville "America is great because America is good. If she stops being good she will stop being great". There is a dispute over whether he actually said that, but whoever did they hit the nail on the head. Our success as a nation stemmed from our embracing Godly first principles. America has stumbled when she turned away from those.
God created America. The Revolution had a likelihood of success well below 10% and yet we won, defeating the greatest power on Earth. Miracled happened, many of them - strange fogs rolled in to save the Continental Army, or big winds, or other acts of God. Washington avoided death or capture multiple times due to "dumb luck". When his top man turned traitor and sold Washington out at West Point the courrier who was delivering the message to the British for Gen. Arnold got robbed by highwaymen who delivered the message to Washington himself without reading it! (Washington exclaimed "my God...Arnold's turned traitor!" and vowed to hang him from the nearest tree. Arnold ran for it and got away but left his wife, who had turned him in the first place. Washington treated her with courtesy as a non-combatant despite his rage against his former friend and subordinate.) This was Washington's luck; he had several horses shot out from under him and once had a British officer with him in his gunsights - and easy kill -but the man believed in the rules of war and you didn't kill a general via sniper's bullet back then so he let Washington go.
Washington made multiple mistakes and always lived to fight another day. Shoot; he didn't realize he'd won the war at Yorktown until the French told him so. He planned on slipping away and attacking New York when the French commander said "Mr. Washington, you have won the war". Cornwallis has laid a trap for Washington. He had landed his forces at Yorktown, on a narrow, open peninusla between the James and Susquehanna rivers. The plan was for the British navy to sail up those rivers, get behind Washington, then destroy his army. But the commander of the fleet coming from Nova Scotia came down with dystentery, and his replacement took three days to move. By then the French fleet - in one of the few actions they had take in the war - sailed up those rivers and blockaded the entry. Cornwallis was caught in his own trap and forced to surrender.
At any rate the Revolution was won, and so was the War of 1812. In a previous post I mentioned how the British retreated from Washington D.C. in utter defeat despite not one shot fired at them by the Americans. God Himself was our defender.
American history is a series of royal flushes and four of a kinds. We were lucky in the extreme, at least as long as we clung to the Cross of Jesus. We saw that all the time during the Second World War, where good fortune blessed our military efforts.
America is great because America is good, and America is good because America is a Christian nation, consecrated to the Lord from the very beginning. Read the Mayflower Compact.
We are seeing a major religious revival among the young in America these days. Oddly enough Donald J. Trump was elected against all odds and is busy restoring the country to her former self. Coincidence?
Yes, Trump is a flawed human being. But so too were many of the heroes of the Bible. David couldn't keep it in his pants, for instance. Moses was a wrathful man who murdered an Egyptian. Judah was a whoremonger. Jacob was a sneaky weasel who stole his birthright from his brother and who was always scheming. And these were the best of them! Trump may be a carnal man, a venial man, a wrathful man, but he's doing the Lord's work even so. I would add he shares an Israeli coin with Cyrus the Great, both of whom aided Israel despite being non-Jews. (Yes, the israelis put Trump on one side and Cyrus on the other of this particular coin.)
You can judge a thing by the fruit it bears. Under Trump we are seeing a religious revival, and with that the restoration of our country. You are free to dislike Trump, but you cannot deny the results. I, as do many others (including Mr. Trump himself after surviving the assassination attempt) think Trump is the man God has chosen. Even if Trump is doing all this for his own purposes he's still acting under the direction of God Himself. It wouldn't be the first time.
At any rate America is a Christian nation. Always has been, always will be. If it stops being Christian it will no longer be America; Christianity is inseparable to this nation. A Christianectomy would kill the patient, like the removal of the heart.
Is the U.S. a Christiann nation? Many on the Left argue it is not - the Supreme Court has repeatedly raffirmed that it is.
From an article in End of the American Dream:
But in our system of government matters of law are not settled by what intellectuals on the left think. Rather, in our system of government matters of law are settled by the U.S. Supreme Court, and the U.S. Supreme Court has spoken very clearly on this matter.
In Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court emphatically stated in 1892 that "this is a Christian nation”…
If we pass beyond these matters to a view of American life, as expressed by its laws, its business, its customs, and its society, we find every where a clear recognition of the same truth. Among other matters, note the following: the form of oath universally prevailing, concluding with an appeal to the Almighty; the custom of opening sessions of all deliberative bodies and most conventions with prayer; the prefatory words of all wills, "In the name of God, amen;” the laws respecting the observance of the Sabbath, with the general cessation of all secular business, and the closing of courts, legislatures, and other similar public assemblies on that day; the churches and church organizations which abound in every city, town, and hamlet; the multitude of charitable organizations existing every where under Christian auspices; the gigantic missionary associations, with general support, and aiming to establish Christian missions in every quarter of the globe. 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.
Subsequently, in Zorach v. Clauson the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1952 that we "are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being”…
We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. We guarantee the freedom to worship as one chooses. We make room for as wide a variety of beliefs and creeds as the spiritual needs of man deem necessary. We sponsor an attitude on the part of government that shows no partiality to any one group and that lets each flourish according to the zeal of its adherents and the appeal of its dogma.
That same opinion contains a stinging rebuke for those that would seek to remove all traces of Christianity from public life…
The First Amendment, however, does not say that, in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State. Rather, it studiously defines the manner, the specific ways, in which there shall be no concert or union or dependency one on the other. That is the common sense of the matter. Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other — hostile, suspicious, and even unfriendly. Churches could not be required to pay even property taxes. Municipalities would not be permitted to render police or fire protection to religious groups. Policemen who helped parishioners into their places of worship would violate the Constitution. Prayers in our legislative halls; the appeals to the Almighty in the messages of the Chief Executive; the proclamations making Thanksgiving Day a holiday; "so help me God” in our courtroom oaths — these and all other references to the Almighty that run through our laws, our public rituals, our ceremonies would be flouting the First Amendment. A fastidious atheist or agnostic could even object to the supplication with which the Court opens each session: "God save the United States and this Honorable Court.
If we pass beyond these matters to a view of American life, as expressed by its laws, its business, its customs, and its society, we find every where a clear recognition of the same truth. Among other matters, note the following: the form of oath universally prevailing, concluding with an appeal to the Almighty; the custom of opening sessions of all deliberative bodies and most conventions with prayer; the prefatory words of all wills, "In the name of God, amen;” the laws respecting the observance of the Sabbath, with the general cessation of all secular business, and the closing of courts, legislatures, and other similar public assemblies on that day; the churches and church organizations which abound in every city, town, and hamlet; the multitude of charitable organizations existing every where under Christian auspices; the gigantic missionary associations, with general support, and aiming to establish Christian missions in every quarter of the globe. 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.
Subsequently, in Zorach v. Clauson the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1952 that we "are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being”…
We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. We guarantee the freedom to worship as one chooses. We make room for as wide a variety of beliefs and creeds as the spiritual needs of man deem necessary. We sponsor an attitude on the part of government that shows no partiality to any one group and that lets each flourish according to the zeal of its adherents and the appeal of its dogma.
That same opinion contains a stinging rebuke for those that would seek to remove all traces of Christianity from public life…
The First Amendment, however, does not say that, in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State. Rather, it studiously defines the manner, the specific ways, in which there shall be no concert or union or dependency one on the other. That is the common sense of the matter. Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other — hostile, suspicious, and even unfriendly. Churches could not be required to pay even property taxes. Municipalities would not be permitted to render police or fire protection to religious groups. Policemen who helped parishioners into their places of worship would violate the Constitution. Prayers in our legislative halls; the appeals to the Almighty in the messages of the Chief Executive; the proclamations making Thanksgiving Day a holiday; "so help me God” in our courtroom oaths — these and all other references to the Almighty that run through our laws, our public rituals, our ceremonies would be flouting the First Amendment. A fastidious atheist or agnostic could even object to the supplication with which the Court opens each session: "God save the United States and this Honorable Court.
This couples with the endless appeals to God and "Nature's God" by the Founding Fathers, all of whom clearly believed Christianity was the cornerstone of the country they were building. Many of the Founders stated publicly that without Christ their experiment would fail.
What they were not was sectarian. They believed in freedom of religions so Christ could be worshipped as conscience dictated, or even not worshipped. But at the heart of the American experiment was always the Cross.
This idea that we have freedom from religion as a core principle is pure revisionism. You had the right to not worship at all, or to worship Brahma or Allah if you chose, or worship no one at all, but you did so in the context of a Christian society built on Christian ethics and Christian moral codes. It was the lowest common denominator of Christianity - not based on Catholic or Anglican or Lutheran or Calvinist DOCTRINE but on what all cHRISTIANS could agree on.
It has been attributed to Alexis De Toqueville "America is great because America is good. If she stops being good she will stop being great". There is a dispute over whether he actually said that, but whoever did they hit the nail on the head. Our success as a nation stemmed from our embracing Godly first principles. America has stumbled when she turned away from those.
God created America. The Revolution had a likelihood of success well below 10% and yet we won, defeating the greatest power on Earth. Miracled happened, many of them - strange fogs rolled in to save the Continental Army, or big winds, or other acts of God. Washington avoided death or capture multiple times due to "dumb luck". When his top man turned traitor and sold Washington out at West Point the courrier who was delivering the message to the British for Gen. Arnold got robbed by highwaymen who delivered the message to Washington himself without reading it! (Washington exclaimed "my God...Arnold's turned traitor!" and vowed to hang him from the nearest tree. Arnold ran for it and got away but left his wife, who had turned him in the first place. Washington treated her with courtesy as a non-combatant despite his rage against his former friend and subordinate.) This was Washington's luck; he had several horses shot out from under him and once had a British officer with him in his gunsights - and easy kill -but the man believed in the rules of war and you didn't kill a general via sniper's bullet back then so he let Washington go.
Washington made multiple mistakes and always lived to fight another day. Shoot; he didn't realize he'd won the war at Yorktown until the French told him so. He planned on slipping away and attacking New York when the French commander said "Mr. Washington, you have won the war". Cornwallis has laid a trap for Washington. He had landed his forces at Yorktown, on a narrow, open peninusla between the James and Susquehanna rivers. The plan was for the British navy to sail up those rivers, get behind Washington, then destroy his army. But the commander of the fleet coming from Nova Scotia came down with dystentery, and his replacement took three days to move. By then the French fleet - in one of the few actions they had take in the war - sailed up those rivers and blockaded the entry. Cornwallis was caught in his own trap and forced to surrender.
At any rate the Revolution was won, and so was the War of 1812. In a previous post I mentioned how the British retreated from Washington D.C. in utter defeat despite not one shot fired at them by the Americans. God Himself was our defender.
American history is a series of royal flushes and four of a kinds. We were lucky in the extreme, at least as long as we clung to the Cross of Jesus. We saw that all the time during the Second World War, where good fortune blessed our military efforts.
America is great because America is good, and America is good because America is a Christian nation, consecrated to the Lord from the very beginning. Read the Mayflower Compact.
We are seeing a major religious revival among the young in America these days. Oddly enough Donald J. Trump was elected against all odds and is busy restoring the country to her former self. Coincidence?
Yes, Trump is a flawed human being. But so too were many of the heroes of the Bible. David couldn't keep it in his pants, for instance. Moses was a wrathful man who murdered an Egyptian. Judah was a whoremonger. Jacob was a sneaky weasel who stole his birthright from his brother and who was always scheming. And these were the best of them! Trump may be a carnal man, a venial man, a wrathful man, but he's doing the Lord's work even so. I would add he shares an Israeli coin with Cyrus the Great, both of whom aided Israel despite being non-Jews. (Yes, the israelis put Trump on one side and Cyrus on the other of this particular coin.)
You can judge a thing by the fruit it bears. Under Trump we are seeing a religious revival, and with that the restoration of our country. You are free to dislike Trump, but you cannot deny the results. I, as do many others (including Mr. Trump himself after surviving the assassination attempt) think Trump is the man God has chosen. Even if Trump is doing all this for his own purposes he's still acting under the direction of God Himself. It wouldn't be the first time.
At any rate America is a Christian nation. Always has been, always will be. If it stops being Christian it will no longer be America; Christianity is inseparable to this nation. A Christianectomy would kill the patient, like the removal of the heart.
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Amen, Tim. And a very important measure of America's greatness (we're failing here right now) is the way we treat our Jews. We started out very good in this respect -- Washington's letter to the Jewish community is a jewel -- but currently we are doing a lousy job. We should always remember that the Lord said "I will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel." And there are many idiots on college campuses who are either unaware of this or who don't give a damn.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 25, 2025 12:46 AM (pdDZ2)
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Agreed Dana. Sadly even many on ostensibly Christian college campuses on on board with the Hamas terror wagon.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 25, 2025 07:54 AM (nON5q)
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