NOTES taken from the Video
AMERICA'S GODLY HERITAGE by DAVID BARTON
Except for specific quotes, the comments may be paraphrased
from David Barton, or in some cases, an interpretation
or additional comment by Dale Costner.

This video is meant to inform you about the truth of the principles that America was founded on, but are intentionally not being taught in public schools.

    As a point of clarification, throughout the writings of the 
Founders of the Constitution, they sometimes refer to Christianity, 
sometimes religion, sometimes Godly principles, etc. Also "Providence" 
was a term used commonly to refer to God. The religion they are 
referring to is always Christianity and the God is the God of the 
Bible. It was so well known at the time and referred to in so many 
writings, that it was assumed in other writings that everyone knew the 
religion they were talking about. 

             GEORGE WASHINGTON - 1755 FRENCH & INDIAN WAR
    In the French & Indian war in 1755, George Washington commanded 
1300 troops against the Indians in a woodland battle. Washington's 
officers (on horseback) and most of his troops were cut down. At the 
end of the battle Washington was the only officer that remained & 
still on horseback. Afterwards he found 4 bullet holes in his jacket & 
wrote to his wife that God had protected him. 
    Fifteen years later, the Indian chief that fought against 
Washington traveled a good distance to meet him when he heard that he 
was in the area of the battleground. This chief stated that he had 
commanded his braves to concentrate on killing Washington and had 
personally shot at him 17 times. He wanted to meet the man that "God 
wouldn't let die". 
    This exciting story and Washington's letter, used to be in the 
American history books. In an effort to degrade American heroes that 
depended on God, American history books are being revised and this 
story & letter have been removed in this century. 

                  PATRICK HENRY - AN AMERICAN PATRIOT
He is known for his saying "Give me liberty or give me death." He also 
said "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often, that this 
great nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians, not 
on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ." 

     AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY - AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY (and others)

    It is interesting that the Founders of the Constitution of the 
U.S. were the same people that were among the Founders of the early 
religious evangelical societies that are still in existence today. In 
1813 the American Tract Society bound together their tracts from many 
years past into a book and the names of many of the Founders are 
included. 

                     THE NEW ENGLAND PRIMER - 1795
    The New England Primer was a reader used in what would be our 1st 
grade. It was first introduced in 1690 and taught for 200 years in 
America, until 1900. The Alphabet was taught with Bible verses that 
begin with each letter of the alphabet. Also lessons had questions 
about the Bible and the Ten Commandments. 

                           JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
    With the education that had a Godly influence, John Quincy Adams 
received an appointment to Ambassador to Russia at 14 years of age. He 
later wrote "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: 
that it tied together in one indissoluble bond, the principles of 
civil government with the principles of Christianity." 

                               JOHN JAY
    Jay was the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and one of 
the three men most responsible for the writing of the Constitution of 
the U.S. He said "Providence has given to our people the choice of 
their Rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and 
interest of our Christian nation, to select & prefer Christians for 
their Rulers." How long has it been since the Supreme Court said to 
make sure you elect Christians for your leaders? We have lost this 
guidance which made our country great. 

           GEORGE WASHINGTON - PRESIDENTIAL FAREWELL SPEECH
    Washington was a public servant for 45 years. He was President of 
the convention that gave us the Constitution. He called for the 1st 
Amendment Bill of Rights. After 2 terms as President, he gave a 
farewell speech which was heralded as the most significant political 
speech ever given to the nation. It has since been removed from 
American history books and it would be rare to find it in any for at 
least the last 30 years. Why? - In it he said "Of all the habits and 
dispositions which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality 
are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute 
of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars." 
Apparently the people writing our history books want to change what 
our children are taught about the connection between political 
prosperity and religion and morality. 

                          FORMS OF GOVERNMENT
    The form of government established by the Founders of the U.S. has 
lasted over 200 years. Some other countries have undergone many 
different forms during this same period; such as France, 7 forms & 
Italy 40 forms. 

          MEN MOST QUOTED BY THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF THE U.S.
    Political Science professors at the University of Houston wondered 
if there was something unique about the government of the U.S. They 
gathered 15,000 quotes from the Founders and located where all of them 
came from. They then boiled that down to 3,154 quotes that had 
significant impact on the founding of America. It took them 10 years 
to finish the project, but they found that the three men most quoted 
by the Founding fathers were Blackstone, Montesquieu, and John Locke. 
They also found that the Bible was quoted:   4 times more often than 
Montesquieu, 
          12 times more often than Blackstone, and
          16 times more often than Locke.
    Additionally, 34% of all quotes were from the Bible, and another 
60% of the quotes were from men who were using the Bible to arrive at 
their conclusions. Added together, 94% of all the quotes of the 
Founders had their origin in the Bible, which shows the importance of 
God's word in their lives and of this Nation's founding. 

               BLACKSTONE'S COMMENTARY & CHARLES FINNEY
    Blackstone's Commentary on the Law, introduced in 1758, became the 
law textbook for lawyers for 160 years, and the Supreme Court quoted 
from it to settle cases. It gave Bible verse references to the law. 
For instance the three branches of government are based on Isaiah 
33:22, the separation of powers is based on Jeremiah 17, and the tax 
exemption for Churches on Ezra 7:24. Countries even next to the U.S., 
such as Canada and Mexico, don't have tax exemption for churches. 
    While Finney was studying to become a lawyer, he became a 
Christian and then a well known Evangelist in the 1800's, primarily 
because he saw the truth of the Bible verse references in Blackstone's 
Commentary. 

                SUPREME COURT - 1844 - VIDAL VS GIRARD
    A Philadelphia school wanted to teach morals without using the 
Bible. The Court said "Why may not the Bible, and especially the New 
Testament, be read and taught as a divine revelation in the schools? 
Where can the purest principals of morality be learned so clearly or 
perfectly as from the N.T." 
    Any book teaching good morality would certainly be teaching what 
the N.T. teaches, so why not use the original source which doesn't 
change. 

       SUPREME COURT - 1892 - CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY VS U.S.
    In another challenge the court ruled "Our laws and our 
institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings 
of the Redeemer of mankind, and it's impossible that it should be 
otherwise: and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and 
our institutions are emphatically Christian." The court also quoted 87 
different historical precedents to back up its decision, from the 
Founding Fathers, Acts of the Founding Fathers, Acts of Congress, etc, 
etc. 

               SUPREME COURT - 1811 - PEOPLE VS RUGGLES
    There was a man who made attacks on Jesus in such a blasphemous 
way that it made it to the Supreme Court and the court ruled: 
"Whatever strikes at the root of Christianity tends manifestly to the 
dissolution of civil government." They reasoned that if you attack 
Jesus, you have attacked Christianity, & if you have attacked 
Christianity, you have attacked the foundation of the U.S., therefore 
an attack on Jesus or Christianity was equivalent to an attack on the 
foundation of the U.S. 

  "SEPARATION", "CHURCH", & "STATE" do NOT appear in the CONSTITUTION
    Many people think it is part of the 1st Amendment, but it is not. 
The 1st Amendment reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an 
establishing of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." 
    What the Founders DID NOT want was any ONE DENOMINATION of the 
Christian religion to run the nation. They wanted to stay away from 
what they had left in England, where the King was the head of the 
Church. However the Founding Fathers and the Supreme Court were quite 
clear that Christianity was the established religion, and WAS to be 
involved in the government. This is evident in the Supreme Court 
decision of 1796, Thomas Jefferson's letter of 1802, and many other 
writings. 

              SUPREME COURT - 1796 - RUNKEL VS WINEMILLER
    "By our form of government the Christian religion is the 
established religion, and all sects and denominations of Christians 
are placed on the same equal footing." 

        January 1, 1802 LETTER from PRESIDENT THOMAS JEFFERSON
                To the DANBARY BAPTIST, of CONNECTICUT
    In 1801 the Danbary Baptist Church heard a rumor that the 
Congregationalist Denomination was going to be made the National 
Denomination. This disturbed them as it well should. Jefferson 
answered in his letter: "The 1st Amendment has erected a wall of 
separation between church and state, but that wall is a one 
directional wall, it keeps the government from running the church, but 
it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in 
government." 
    Please read that very carefully, it is supposed to protect the 
church from the government, not the government from the church. And it 
is supposed to guarantee that Christian principles will always stay in 
government. This is where the "wall of separation" originated, but it 
was another 146 years before a non-Christian, liberal, Supreme Court 
distorted and reversed what the Founders meant the Constitution to do. 
    The Congress went through twelve different iterations before 
determining the final wording. It is evident from the other wordings 
that what they wanted was to always have God's principles in 
government, but not to have one denomination running the nation, or 
any interference from the government into religion. The 1st Amendment 
reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishing of 
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." 


               RESPONSE FROM THE HOUSE AND SENATE - 1853
    Minority groups from time to time did keep trying to change things 
to their way of thinking and in 1853 there was a group that petitioned 
Congress for the separation of Christian principles from government. 
The House and Senate had a one year investigation of the matter. 
    The House Judiciary Committee on March 27, 1854 reported: "Had the 
people during the revolution, had any suspicion of any attempt to war 
against Christianity, that revolution would have been strangled in its 
cradle." The Senate also made a similar statement. 
    The report continued: "At the time of the adoption of the 
Constitution and the Amendments, the universal sentiment was that 
Christianity should be encouraged, but not any one sect. In this age 
there can be no substitute for Christianity . That was the religion of 
the Founders of the Republic and they expected it remain the religion 
of their descendants." 
    "The great, vital and conservative element in our system is the 
belief of our people in the pure doctrines and the divine truth of the 
gospel of Jesus Christ." 

                SUPREME COURT - 1878 - REYNOLDS VS U.S.
    After 1853 for the next 50 years or so there were some other cases 
that worked their way through the courts and challenged Christian 
principles in government. Each time precedents were cited such as 
Jefferson's letter and they were defeated. One of the cases was in 
1878. Thomas Jefferson's letter was referred to in its entirety. It 
was repeated that the 1st Amendment is to protect the Church from the 
government, and Christian principles are never to be separated from 
the government. 

         SUPREME COURT - 1947 - EVERSON VS BOARD OF EDUCATION
    For the very first time in Court history, only eight words were 
used from Jefferson's letter. They were taken out of context and a 
brand new meaning applied, which reversed their original intent. The 
Court stated: "The 1st Amendment erected a wall between Church and 
State. That wall must be kept high and impregnable." It didn't 
recognize that the wall was intended to be a one way wall to keep 
government out of religion. 

            DR. WILLIAM JAMES - FATHER OF MODERN PSYCHOLOGY
    In the 1940's the Supreme Court and many other courts were being 
influenced by the philosophy of James who was a strong opponent of 
religion in government. He had said: "There is nothing so absurd that 
if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it." 
    The phrase "Separation of Church & State" began being repeated 
over and over and this is born out in a court case in Bear vs 
Colmorgan(sp?) in 1958. The Judge said: "If this court doesn't stop 
talking about the Separation of Church and State, everyone's going to 
think that's what the Constitution says." 

            SUPREME COURT - JUNE 25,1962 - ENGLE VS VITALE
    This is the landmark case that removed prayer from the public 
schools. It was even noted in the 1963 World Book Encyclopedia that 
this was the first time that we had separation of religious principles 
from public education. 
    The amazing thing is that it was done without citing any precedent 
from other cases as is the normal procedure. Instead it was an 
entirely new statement not based on any historical or legal base. 
There were no quotes from previous legal cases! Instead, it was a 
brand new doctrine which according to all the previous legal decisions 
WAS IN VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION! Nevertheless it took precedent 
over all the previous interpretations of the Constitution which had 
cited many precedents that disagreed with this new ruling. 

                           THE "UNCONSTITUTIONAL" PRAYER  The case was 
over a 22 word prayer which the Court said later was a "to whom it may 
concern prayer", a very bland prayer that mentioned God only once, and 
Jesus not at all. It read: "We acknowledge our dependence on thee, and 
we beg thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers, and our 
country." 
    The Declaration of Independence was written & approved by the same 
people as the Constitution and it refers to God four times. Yet it has 
never been declared unconstitutional. 
    The prayer deals with four areas however which have been dealt 
with prior to 1963 in a way which was in agreement with the Biblical 
principles. After 1963 the courts have reversed their position in 
these areas, which are: 
          us --- (students)       parents --- (families)
    teachers --- (schools)        country --- (nation)

           SUPREME COURT - JUNE 17,1963 - MURRAY VS CURLETT
    This was the Madeline Murray O'Hare case against school prayer.

          SUPREME COURT - JUNE 17,1963 - ABINGTON VS SCHEMPP
    Previous Courts had said that you couldn't have a school that 
didn't teach Christian principles based on the Bible. Early textbooks 
quoted the Bible and used it for teaching the alphabet. This case 
reversed previous decisions and made a brand new statement! It removed 
Bible reading and instruction from public schools and stated: "If 
portions of the N.T. were read without explanation, they could be, and 
had been, psychologically harmful to the child." How could such a 
statement be made by anyone who knows that the Founders of this 
successful government of America was due to their belief in the N.T. 
as essential to the well being of the nation and its' people? 
    At the time of the 1963 Court cases, they took a survey to 
determine how many people believed in God or religion. They found that 
only 3% didn't believe in God or religion. Although the prayer was 
consistent with 97% of the people, the Court ruled with the 3%. This 
is the first time that 3% became a majority under which the 97% now 
had to live by. 
    What happened in 1962-63 in a 12 month period was a RADICAL 
REVERSAL of everything that had happened up to that point. Removal of 
prayer, Bible reading and religious classes in instruction was totally 
against the Constitution, but these NEW RULINGS were simply ANNOUNCED 
by the Supreme Court as if a dictator had taken over. 

              BIBLE STUDY COURSE FOR DALLAS HIGH SCHOOLS
    As late as 1946 there was a Bible Study Course that was a 
requirement for graduation. After 1963, what had been standard for so 
many years, was not even an option to be taught anymore. The freedom 
of speech and religion had been censored in the public schools! 

       FURTHER CENSORSHIP & LOSS OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH & RELIGION
                    GUARANTEED BY THE CONSTITUTION
    1965  The Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional for a student 
          to pray aloud.
    1967  The Supreme Court declared a four line Nursery rhyme used by 
          a K-5 Kindergarten class was unconstitutional, even though 
          it didn't contain the word "God." The Court said: "If 
          someone heard it, it might cause someone to think of God." 
          (Now we have censorship of our thoughts we might think!)

    These kinds of court cases continued and in 1980 there was one 
concerning what is called a "Passive Display." 
                SUPREME COURT - 1980 - STONE VS GRAHAM
    A "passive display" would be like something hanging on a wall like 
a picture, which doesn't require that you pay any attention to it 
unless you want to. There was a passive display of the Ten 
Commandments hanging in a school hallway with no requirement to read 
it. 
    The Court ruled it was unconstitutional to display it in a school. 
They said: "If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments are to have 
any affect at all, it will be to induce the school children to read, 
meditate upon, perhaps.. to venerate and obey the commandments; this 
is not a permissible objective." Just think, if it caused children to 
respect their parents or to decide not to steal or kill... that would 
be unconstitutional! 
    What kind of mind-set is this, that is in charge of preserving our 
freedom? If the Ten Commandments had come from some philosopher 
instead of the Bible, would not they still be allowed in schools and 
held in high regard? When the Court says it's unconstitutional, aren't 
they saying that it's not what the writers of the Constitution had in 
mind when they wrote it? Look at what James Madison wrote. 

     JAMES MADISON - THE MAN MOST RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONSTITUTION
    "We have staked the whole future of American civilization not on 
the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all 
of our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us 
to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." 
    Note that the Founders based everything, not on the Constitution, 
but on the Ten Commandments, which 200 years later an out of touch 
Court says should not even be displayed because it would not be 
permissible for it to be obeyed. 

          THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL OF NATIONAL MORALITY IN AMERICA
                  SINCE THE REJECTION OF GOD IN 1963
    GEORGE WASHINGTON gave a warning when he said: "Reason and 
experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail 
in exclusion of religious principle." In other words, you will lose 
national morality when you reject the religious principles found in 
the Bible. 

       CONSIDER THE FOUR AREAS THAT THE "UNCONSTITUTIONAL" PRAYER DEALT WITH
    AND HOW THE LOSS OF NATIONAL MORALITY HAS AFFECTED THOSE AREAS

A.  us - (the students)
    1.    Before 1963 pregnancies in girls ages 15 through 19 years 
          had been no more than 15 per thousand for 15 years. After 
          1963 pregnancies increased 187% in the next 15 years. 
    2.    For younger girls, ages 10 to 14 years, pregnancies since 
          1963 are up 553%. 
    3.    Before 1963 sexually transmitted diseases among students 
          were 400 per 100,000. Since 1963, they were up 226% in the 
          next 12 years. 

B.  parents - (families)
    1.    Before 1963 divorce had been declining for 15 years. After 
          1963 divorces increased 300% each year for the next 15 
          years. 
    2.    Since 1963 unmarried people living together is up 353%
    3.    Since 1963 single parent families are up 140%.
    4.    Since 1963 single parent families with children are up 160%. 

C.  teachers - (schools)
    1.    The educational standard of measure has been the SAT scores. 
          SAT scores had been going along rather steady for many years 
          before 1963. Since 1963 they took a rapid decline for 18 
          consecutive years, even though the same test has been used 
          since 1941. 
    2.    In 1974-75 the rate of decline of the SAT scores decreased, 
          even though they continued to decline. That was when there 
          was an explosion of private religious schools. There were 
          only 1000 Christian schools in 1965. Between 1974 to 1984 
          they increased to 32,000. 

                a.    That could have an impact if the private schools 
                      had higher SAT scores. In checking with the SAT 
                      Board it was found that indeed the SAT scores 
                      for private schools were nearly 100 points 
                      higher than public schools. 
                b.    In fact the scores were at the point where the 
                      public schools had been before their decline 
                      started in 1963 when prayer and Bible reading/ 
                      instruction was removed from the schools. 
                c.    The scores in the public schools were still 
                      declining. 

    3.    Of the nation's top academic scholars, three times as many 
          come from private religious schools, which operate on one-
          third the funds as do the public schools. 

D.  country - (nation)
    1.    Since 1963 violent crime has increased 544%.
    3.    Illegal drugs have become an enormous & uncontrollable 
          problem. 
    2.    The nation has been deprived of an estimated 30 million 
          citizens through legal abortions just since 1973. 

THOMAS JEFFERSON said: "The reason Christianity is the best friend of 
government is because Christianity is the only religion in the world 
that deals with the heart." 

Jesus says do not hate, don't lust in your heart (Mt.5:21). That takes 
care of adultery, stealing, killing, etc. 

    The Founders pointed out that Christianity was the only religion 
that could stop crime before it started because all crime came out of 
the heart. If you deal with the heart problem, you won't have to deal 
with crime. 

JOHN ADAMS said: "We have no government armed with power which is 
capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and 
religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious 
people, it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." 

    We have only to look at history to know that there is no 
government big enough to make you do what is right if you aren't 
guided by morality & religion. 

JEREMIAH 6:16 "Thus says the Lord, Stand in the ways, and see, And ask 
for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk in it: Then you 
will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in 
it.'" 
                Since saying NO to Biblical principles
                 AMERICA HAS BECOME A WORLD LEADER IN:
                                DIVORCE
                          TEENAGE PREGNANCIES
                          VOLUNTARY ABORTIONS
                             ILLEGAL DRUGS
                 ILLITERACY (in the Industrial World)

    What were the "old paths" which were good, that had been 
established by our Founders? Each state passed a State Constitution 
which had requirements they considered most important for those who 
would represent them. Generally they were along the line of the 
Delaware Constitution in 1776 which stated: 
    "Everyone appointed to public office must say: 'I do profess faith 
in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ his only son, and in 
the Holy Ghost, one God & blessed forevermore: and I do acknowledge 
the Holy Scriptures of the Old & New Testaments to be given by divine 
inspiration.'"     This was consistent with the constitution because 
it did not recognize one denomination over another or require you to 
belong to any particular denomination. But it did require that you 
understand God's principles and God as authority. They recognized that 
to be governed by someone without these principles would eventually 
undermine and destroy the very freedoms that they had fought so hard 
to gain. 
    A 3rd requirement in their Constitution was a requirement that 
every public official must acknowledge a belief in future rewards & 
punishments. This was the idea of accountability to God even after 
leaving office. 
    Ungodly people will not use Godly principles to run a Nation. 
That's why the Founders were so emphatic about keeping Christian men 
in office. If you look at it from the standpoint that God will only 
bless a Nation operating under Godly principles, you can see how 
important it is to have Christian people in office. 

                     DOES A NATION ANSWER TO GOD?
    This was a question the American Founders dealt with on the floor 
of the Constitutional Convention. They concluded that a nation doesn't 
have a spirit or a soul. Therefore when a nation dies, it is dead and 
won't be resurrected later to answer for it's failures, as a person 
will be who does have a spirit & soul. GEORGE MASON said: "As nations 
cannot be punished or rewarded in the next world, they must be in 
this. By an inevitable chain of causes & effects Providence punished 
National sins by National calamities." Providence was commonly used by 
the Founders to refer to God. 
    God's judgement on a Nation because of it's corrupt leaders is 
evidenced many places in the Bible. A couple of them are: 
1.  Because of the corruption of King Ahab and his wife Jezebel, the 
    nation went without rain for three years. The righteous had to 
    suffer too even though they had no part in it. 
2.  King David was normally good King, but because of his disobedience 
    to God when he numbered his army, a plague came upon the nation 
    and wiped out 70,000 people. The Nation suffered because of the 
    leader. 

                   BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - JUNE 17,1787
    "We need God as our friend not our enemy. We need him to be our 
ally not our adversary. We need to make sure that we keep God's 
concurring aid."   He called for regular daily prayer to be sure we 
kept God alongside what we were doing in the Nation. If this was 
needed by our leaders, why would it not be good for children to be 
able to pray in school and learn & prepare for this important facet of 
life? 
                       THOMAS JEFFERSON MEMORIAL
    Part of the inscription on Jefferson's Memorial: "Indeed, I 
tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His 
justice can't sleep forever." 

                            ABRAHAM LINCOLN
    When Lincoln was asked if God was on his side in the Civil War, he 
replied: "Sir, my concern is not whether God is on my side. My great 
concern is to be on God's side." 

              BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - AS AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE
"Whoever will introduce into public affairs the principles of 
Christianity will change the face of the world." 

            CHARLES FINNEY - The Billy Graham of the 1800's 
    "The Church must take right ground in regard to politics. Politics 
are a part of a religion in a country and Christians must do their 
duty to the country as part of their duty to God. He will bless or 
curse this nation according to the course Christians take in 
politics." 

              If God's people don't make it into office, 
              God's principles won't make it into office.
            WE MUST NOT BE ISOLATED, WE MUST GET INVOLVED!
PROVERBS 18:1 "A man who isolates himself seeks his own desires; he 
rages against all wise judgements." 
    Apparently there are people that do not want us to know what the 
Constitution and its' Founders really said, or that our freedom and 
liberty is based on God's principles put in place by Christians. 
Instead they use these freedoms to fight against Christians and God's 
principles, to take away freedoms the Founders sought to guarantee. 
    Christians used to be involved in politics, but they have been 
discouraged from doing so for the last 50 years or so. Even earlier 
there was a controversy among Christians about where they should be 
involved to do the most good. The emphasis was on being an Evangelist, 
Missionary, Doctor, or Teacher, but not a Politician. 
    When Christians started moving out and not running for government 
office, they turned it over to people who didn't believe in many of 
the Godly principles that had been so important in it's founding. 

            THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A RELIGION IN THE SCHOOLS
               BUT IT MAY BE HUMANISM OR ATHEISM or ???

1963 & 1986 SUPREME COURT rulings defined Secular Humanism as a 
    legitimate religion, lawfully equivalent to Christianity. The 
    religion of Secular Humanism rejects the supernatural in their 
    philosophy and places man as supreme, and able to control his own 
    destiny. 

1977 SUPREME COURT ruled that Atheism is a legitimate religion, 
    lawfully equivalent to Christianity. Atheism says there is no God 
    and therefor should be no practice of religion. 

    The Court said that whatever you believe with all your heart that 
affects the way you act, that's your religion. Satanic activity and 
Witchcraft are other religions that are recognized and receive tax-
exempt status as well. However the only time you hear the cry of 
"separation of Church and State" is to get Christian materials, etc. 
out of schools. If all form of religion needs to be removed from 
schools, why is not the cry used against representation of witches on 
Halloween? Or when there is no prayer and practice of believing in God 
going on in the school, why not cry out against the religion of 
Atheism or Humanism, which is the religion of exclusion of God. 
    Non-recognition of God is being practiced every day in schools and 
it is being forced on all, including those who desire to pray and read 
the Bible. Christians are attacked for believing in the religion upon 
which America was founded while other religions are being allowed with 
no comment. An American should be able to speak of his roots in 
Christianity proudly and it should be taught in the schools. 
    To refer to God's principles in the Bible is to stand for what 
made America a free country, with liberty for all. To reject the 
Scriptures is to reject our heritage and the foundation principles 
which men fought and died for to obtain. What is called right-wing 
extremism today by intolerant liberals is really a mis-label. It is 
really what this country was founded upon and was the normal middle of 
the road conservatism for a long time afterward. It is the extremists 
that have put the label on, to divert attention from their own far out 
position (with respect to the Founders) of Secular Humanism & Atheism. 
    Separation of Church & State is not a part of our history and not 
a part of our law until relatively recently. It is certainly not 
Biblical, and most people don't know that it was lifted from 
Jefferson's letter out of context to say the opposite of what the rest 
of his letter says. 
    The religion of Christianity and the Biblical principles were the 
very basis for the Constitution & held in the highest regard by the 
writers of the Constitution. They so wanted it to remain a part of the 
government and the schooling that it is outrageous that we are having 
censorship today of their writings which are in support of 
Christianity and the Bible. It is intolerable that the Supreme Court 
could get away with a decision that is in total disagreement with the 
Constitution. It can't be emphasized too much that the Constitution 
and the Founder's intentions were to protect the exercise of 
Christianity in the government. Any ruling otherwise is inconsistent 
with the Constitution, and is a deliberate distortion without any 
basis. 
    The 1963 decision that was based on no precedent and is now used 
as a precedent for everything since, needs to be shown for what it is. 
It was a total reversal from what was right, and another reversal is 
necessary to put it back right. We have a Godly heritage which has 
been robbed from us by the 3% who made a lot of noise about 
"separation of Church & State". The only way to reverse this trend is 
to get informed about the truth of our heritage and start fighting to 
gain it back.