Presentation 3
Destruction of Faith
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1 Tim 2:1-4
1 First, I tell you to pray for
all people, asking God for
what they need and being
thankful to him. 2 Pray for
rulers and for all who have
authority so that we can
have quiet and peaceful
lives full of worship and
respect for God.
3 This is good, and it
pleases God our Savior,
4 who wants all people to
be saved and to know the
truth.
Do
you
pray
America?
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How To Destroy
America
• Destroy Her Faith in
God (Christianity).
• Destroy Biblical
marriage/divorce.
• Destroy the Biblical
role of gov’t.
• Christians remain
silent/retreat
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Now more than ever the
people are responsible
for the character of their
Congress. If that body be
ignorant, reckless, and
corrupt, it is because the
people tolerate ignorance,
recklessness, and
James A. Garfield
corruption. If it be intelligent,
20th Pres. of US
brave, and pure, it is because 3/4/1881 – 9/19/1881
the people demand these high qualities to
represent them in the national legislature. . . .
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He was a member of
the church and served
as an elder. When
Garfield relinquished
his role as elder, it is
said that he stated,
“I resign the highest
office in the land to
become president of
the United States.”
James A. Garfield
20th Pres. of US
3/4/1881 – 9/19/1881
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Hiram, Feb. 16th 1858
Dear Bro. Wallace,
We have just closed our meeting with happy results. There
were 34 addition[s]. 31 by immersion. I was sorry I could not
be in Newburgh last Sunday, but it seemed to be my duty to
stay here. Bro Dave Shu[?] tells me that the Brethren want me
to hold a meeting in vacation. I have spoken 19 discourses in
our meeting here - and this with all our work in the school has
worn me down very much. I would not think of holding a
meeting alone. And don't know as I ought to help hold one. I
James A. Garfield
will be in your place sometime next week and thtalk with you in
20 Pres. of US
reference to the matter of your letter. Which would have been
3/4/1881 – 9/19/1881
answered sooner but for the meeting. I shall hope to visit
Bedford also. Love to your family & believe me your brother,
J. A. Garfield
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[I]f the next centennial
does not find us a great
nation . . . it will be
because those who
represent the enterprise,
the culture, and the
morality of the nation do
not aid in controlling the
political forces.
[James A. Garfield, The Works of James Abram
Garfield, Burke Hinsdale, editor (Boston: James
R. Osgood and Company, 1883), Vol. II, pp.
486, 489, “A Century of Congress,―July,
1877.]
James A. Garfield
20th Pres. of US
3/4/1881 – 9/19/1881
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“Christian voting”
A. There are three types of Christian
voters in polling
1. Christian voters – largest group; this is
the group that simply self-identifies as
(i.e., calls themselves) Christians.
2. Born-again voters – a Christian voter
who says he has had a life-changing
experience with Jesus Christ; a
smaller group than that of Christian
voters.
3. Evangelical voters – a born-again
voter who also believes the Bible is
important and who attends church,
prays, and reads the Bible at least
once a week. This group of Christians
take their faith most seriously.
Prov. 29:2
“When the
righteous
increase,
the people
rejoice,
but when
the wicked
man rules,
people
groan.”
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B. Recent Christian voting
patterns
1. 1992-1996: a 17% decrease in
Christians who voted
2. 1996-2000: an additional 27%
decrease in Christians who voted
3. 1992-2000: a 40% decrease in
Christians who voted
a. There are 60 million
evangelicals in America.
b. Only 15 million evangelicals
voted in 2000.
c. Some 24 million (40%)
evangelicals not even
registered to vote.
Prov. 29:2
“When the
righteous
increase,
the people
rejoice,
but when
the wicked
man rules,
people
groan.”
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2002 Voter
Registration Push
Of the 54 Freshmen
elected to the U. S. House,
36 were pro-life – a 67%
pro-life class (anything over
50.1% is moving forward)
Of 10 Freshmen elected to
the U. S. Senate, 8 were
pro-life
Prov. 29:2
“When the
righteous
increase,
the people
rejoice,
but when
the wicked
man rules,
people
groan.”
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2004 Voter
Registration Push
Of 40 Freshmen elected
to the U. S. House, 25
were pro-life (a 63%
pro-life class)
Of 9 Freshmen elected
to the U. S. Senate, 7
were pro-life (a 77%
pro-life class)
Prov. 29:2
“When the
righteous
increase,
the people
rejoice,
but when
the wicked
man rules,
people
groan.”
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How To Destroy
America
• Destroy Her Faith in
God (Christianity).
Start with the
schools
Revise American
history
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How To Destroy
“The
America
philosophy of
• Destroy Her Faith in
God (Christianity).
Start with the
schools
Revise American
history
the schoolroom
in one
generation will
be the
philosophy of
government in
the next.”
Abraham Lincoln
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How To Destroy
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America
philosophy of
• Destroy
Her
Faith
in
the schoolroom
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(Christianity).
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eyes of the Lord and served the Baals.
Abraham Lincoln
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Thomas Paine on "The Study of God"
Delivered in Paris on January 16, 1797, in a
Discourse to the Society of Theophilanthropists
It has been the error of the schools to
teach astronomy, and all the other
sciences and subjects of natural
philosophy, as accomplishments only;
whereas they should be taught
theologically, or with reference to the
Being who is the author of them: for all
the principles of science are of Divine
origin. Man cannot make, or invent, or
contrive principles. He can only discover
them; and he ought to look through the
discovery to the Author.
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When we examine an extraordinary piece of
machinery, an astonishing pile of architecture, a well
executed statue or a highly finished painting where
life and action are imitated, and habit only prevents
our mistaking a surface of light and shade for cubical
solidity, our ideas are naturally led to think of the
extensive genius and talents of the artist. When we
study the elements of geometry, we think of Euclid.
When we speak of gravitation, we think of Newton.
How then is it, that when we study the works of God
in the creation, we stop short, and do not think of
God? It is from the error of the schools in having
taught those subjects as accomplishments only, and
thereby separated the study of them form the Being
who is the author of them. . . .
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The evil that has resulted from the
error of the schools in teaching natural
philosophy as an accomplishment
only has been that of generating in the
pupils a species of atheism. Instead of
looking through the works of the
creation to the Creator himself, they
stop short, and employ the knowledge
they acquire to create doubts of His
existence. They labor with studied
ingenuity to ascribe everything they
behold to innate properties of matter;
and jump over all the rest, by saying
that matter is eternal.
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The Beginning of the End
1947
Everson vs Board of Education
“The First Amendment
has erected a wall
between church and
state. That wall must
be kept high and
impregnable. We
could not approve the
slightest breach.”
[Majority opinion in Emerson v.
Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1
(1947), last words]
U.S. Supreme
Court
Justice
Hugo Black
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The Beginning of the End
1947
Everson vs Board of Education
“The First Amendment
has erected a wall
between church and
state. That wall must
be kept high and
impregnable. We
could not approve the
slightest breach.”
U.S. Supreme
Court
Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof; or abridging the
freedom of speech, or of the
press; or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble, and to
petition the Government for a
redress of grievances.
[Majority opinion in Emerson v.
Justice
Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1
Hugo Black
(1947), last words]
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The Beginning of the End
1947
Everson vs Board of Education
“wall of separation between church
and State”
Chain of Events:
U.S. Supreme
Court
1962: Engel v. Vitale school prayer outlawed
1963: Murray v. Curlett Bible-reading outlawed
1980: Stone v. Graham Ten commandments outlawed
1985: Wallace v. Jaffree unconstitutional for
kindergarten class to recite: “God is great. God is
good….etc.”
1990: Roberts v. Madigan Christian books in
classroom library & teacher w/Bible in hand outlawed
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Rules & Precepts of 1642
(Harvard)
“Let every Student be plainly instructed, and
earnestly pressed to consider well, the
Maine end of his life and studies is, to know
God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life,
John 17:3 and therefore to lay Christ in the
Bottome, as the only foundation of all sound
Knowledge and Learning. And seeing the
Lord only giveth wisedome, Let every one
Seriously ste himself by prayer in secret to
Seeke it of him Prov.2,3”
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“…the ’60s is when the attacks spilled out into America’s streets,
resulting in unprecedented cultural
chaos by decade’s end.
One of the first times I remember feeling
the foundations of America tremble was
in 1964 during my nineth-grade civics
class. A girl – I don’t remember her
name, but I think she was from TN
and she had a very thick southern accent – answered a question from the
teacher by mentioning something about
God.
‘How do you know there is a God?’
the teacher shot back.
It was an earth tremor – just a faint quiver really, a
precursor to the tidal waves to come a few years
later – a smiling, casual, off-handed swipe at the
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world as we knew it.
How did the little southern girl know
there was a God? Clearly taken aback,
she answered the teacher earnestly,
incredulously, her voice breaking:
“Because….there is!” She had, quiet
naturally, offered up the best answer
anyone could possibly give.
The teacher had questioned the unquestionable, injecting doubt into a
room of impressionable young boys
and girls. It was one of those moments
you remember forty years later because
it created a spark, a momentary
contact with another dimension – that
alien dimension of cynicism and disbelief.”
p. 87
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“We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among
these are Life, Liberty and the
Pursuit of Happiness….”
Thomas Jefferson
3rd pres. of US
Principle author of
Declaration of Independence
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“We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created
“…can the liberties of a
equal, that they are
endowed
by
nation
be thought
their Creator withsecure
certain
when we have
removed
their only firm
unalienable Rights,
that among
basis, a conviction in the
these are Life, Liberty
and
the
minds of the people that
Pursuit of Happiness….”
these liberties are the
Thomas Jefferson
3rd pres. of US
Principle author of
Declaration of Independence
gift of God.”
(“Notes on the State of
Virginia, 1782)
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“When in the course of human events it
becomes necessary for one people to
dissolve the political bands which have
connected them with another and to
assume among the powers of the earth, the
separate and equal station to which the
Laws of Nature and Nature’s God entitle
them, a decent respect to the opinions of
mankind requires that they should declare
the causes which impel them to the
separation.”
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Posted: November 23, 2004
11:38 p.m. Eastern
LAW OF THE LAND
Is Declaration of Independence unconstitutional?
School district sued for censoring founding documents, state constitutions
In a season typified by lawsuits against manger scenes,
crosses and even the words "Merry Christmas," a California
case is taking the "separation of church and state" one step
further – dealing with whether it's unconstitutional to read the
Declaration of Independence in public school.
Attorneys for the Alliance Defense Fund filed suit Monday
against the Cupertino Union School District for prohibiting a
teacher from providing supplemental handouts to students
about American history because the historical documents
contain some references to God and religion.
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How To Destroy
“The
America
philosophy of
• Destroy Her Faith in the schoolroom
God (Christianity). in one
generation will
Start with the
be the
schools
philosophy of
Revise American
government in
history
the next.”
Abraham Lincoln
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How To Destroy
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America
When the
• Destroy Her Faith in
foundations
God (Christianity).
are
being
• Destroy Biblical
destroyed,
marriage/divorce.
what
can
• Destroy the Biblical
the
role of gov’t.
righteous
• Christians remain
do ?"
silent/retreat
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