by Rayne Britt

Created on: June 03, 2008

To say that the Christian influence was not present in the founding of our nation is a statement of ignorance. Patrick Henry, the great statesman best known for his speech proclaiming "give me liberty or give me death" also stated, "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ."

The Mayflower Compact, one of America's first legal documents, states, "In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign lord King James, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, etc., having undertaken for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith, and the honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia;"

Until 1876, when many southern states were forced to rewrite their constitutions during the reconstruction period, North Carolina's State Constitution made it clear it was a Christian state with the following words: "That no person who shall deny the being of God, or the truth of the Protestant religion, or the divine authority 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." The constitutions of Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland and Massachusetts all had similar statements in their original drafts proclaiming a belief in God in general and the Christian religion specifically.

The members of the Supreme Court of 1892 are rolling in their graves right now. When they made their ruling in Church of the Holy Trinity vs. U.S., they sited 87 precedents and came to the following conclusion: "Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of Mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian." The 1962 members when ruling to outlaw prayer in school cited no precedents whatsoever. They made an illegal ruling based on their own opinions that should not have been given any merit.

Andrew Johnson said the following, "Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden times,

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