If after reading the works of Alexis De Tocqueville Mr. Obama refused to acknowledge the essential role that Judeo-Christian values and civilization played in the foundation and success of our great American Republic, I recommend that he read up on the founding fathers and the tremendous role that Christianity played in their vision:
The great American patriot and revolutionary Patrick Henry wrote: 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. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.
In 1772 Samuel Adams stated: The right to freedom being the gift of the Almighty...The rights of the colonists as Christians...may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institutions of The Great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament
James Madison wrote: Religion is the basis and foundation of government...We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.
In 1778 Benjamin Franklin wrote: A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district -- all studied and appreciated as they merit -- are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.
Benjamin Franklin explicitly tied America's prosperity to divine blessings in the following statement: And the Divine Being seems to have manifested his approbation of the mutual forbearance and kindness with which the different sects treat each other; by the remarkable prosperity with which he has been pleased to favor the whole country.
Alexander Hamilton wrote: I now offer you the outline of the plan they have suggested. Let an association be formed to be denominated 'The Christian Constitutional Society,' its object to be First: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.
Thomas Jefferson possessed strong reservations about organized religion, but professed a strong attraction to Christianity, as seen in the following statement: My views...are the result of a life of inquiry and reflection, and very different from the anti-Christian system imputed to me by those who know nothing of my opinions. To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines in preference to all others...
Later presidents such as Abraham Lincoln were strong proponents of Christianity's role in the American Republic, as seen from this excerpt from a speech delivered on March 30, 1863: Whereas, the Senate of the United States devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for national prayer and humiliation:
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