Published: July 20, 2008 05:43 pm            

Letter to the editor - Monday, July 21, 2008

Founding fathers believed in Christian principles

We have in the United States today a group of people who are anti-Christian. Although they say they are not, they don’t want the name God or Jesus in any public place.

These secularists would have us believe that the United States was not formed by Christian people and the Christian philosophy and ideology did not frame our Constitution. True, not all of the Colonists were Christian, but they all believed in the Christian principles.

It was the people from one church congregation who had left England because of religious persecution that were sailing on the Mayflower who sewed Christian patriots who fought the king’s troops at Concord (who were trying to take away the guns of the Colonists). The same thing that the progressive liberals are trying to do today.

The founding Christian fathers of the United States of America placed the new ideology directly in God’s hands. In fact, John Adams stated that this day should be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotions to God and it was one of our early statesmen, Daniel Webster who stated, “the Founding Fathers of our country incorporated the principles of Christian faith onto the civil and political institutions of America.”

The first time many older Americans learned about God was in school. This is not true today. Why? Because God is not allowed to be mentioned in public schools in this day and age, why?

Liberal progressive Supreme Court justices appointed by the liberal progressive Democratic presidents and a liberal progressive controlled Congress was and is against it and our school boards, school unions and the ACLU have fallen in line behind them. They say God wants us to help the poor.

True. God wants the individual Christian to help the poor. Not the politician with the taxpayers’ money to bring glory to themselves and not to God. What is wrong with teaching in public schools today honor your father and mother, don’t steal, don’t murder or don’t lie, cheat or steal, and love and respect your neighbor? I was taught all of this by public school teachers.

We should all think very carefully before we vote this November as our children’s future and the future of our country depends on it.

William J. Kuntz

Kokomo

        

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