It was the evangelical Protestants' "world and life view" that were the core values of the founding of United States. Especially belief in the absolute soverignty of God; the absolute equality of clergy and laity and the absolute solidarity of mankind. Only the Protestant (Presbyterian at that) world view could produce America. Such a bold claim but please consider an estimated three million people lived in the colonies at the time of the Revolutionary War, "Of this number," says Egbert Watson Smith, "900,000 were of Scotch or Scotch-Irish origin, 600,000 were Puritan English, while over 400,000 were of Dutch, German Reformed (Protestant) and Huguenot descent
" That is to say," explains Dr. Smith, "two-thirds of our Revolutionary forefathers were trained in the school of John Calvin." George Bancroft writes "He who will not respect the memory of John Calvin knows nothing of American liberty...Calvinism was revolutionary; it taught as a divine revelation the natural equality of man." Alexis deTocqueville comparing the French Revolution to America's War of Independence, "In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions." Leopold von Ranke, a German historian gave the reason for this unique and happy marriage between religion and human freedom, "John Calvin," he declared, "was the virtual founder of America." The Anglicans were for the British Crown, The Church of Rome was always for Monarchy but the Protestant world view was for individual freedom best expressed in a Representative (Republican) democracy with Biblical core values. Free Enterprise economica; three branches of government for checks and balances' public education; the right of the individual to property-ownership were all part of this ethic. The very idea of a "covenantal" Constitution comes from Calvin who went to the Bible for everything. Whether the Supreme Court includes a protestant is not as critical as to whether those honorable justices adhere to the world and life (Judeo-Christian) principles which founded the nation. Separation of Church and state (a non-constitutional phrase) has become the twisted leverage by the religion of athiesm to rewrite America's history and adopt means and measures that reduce this great nation to moral, spiriutal and economic bankruptcy. One wonders today, "why are we in this handbasket? And why are we going so fast?" America needs her pulpits to declare the blessings of God-given rights and to warn against building on any system that denies those rights come from a sovereign God. Consider the plight of those whose governments outlawed the Biblical view and one sees only the last century as the bloodiest of all human history these were built on Darwinism's preposterous and absurd asumptions. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Chavaz were and are all products of the same philosophy advancing in the ACLU's quest to remove God from American life. In the Treaty of 1783 which ended the Revolutionary War, signed in France it begins, "In the Name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity." The USA was recognized as a Christian Nation - which afforded by those very values the freedom of everyone to believe or not believe. Alas, those who do not believe now want to deny the very core rights of those who acknowledged that very freedom. The Silent Majority must rise up and with vigor say, "No Way!"
The Supreme Court needs justices who share the basic core values of the founding fathers. One would prefer an evangelical-Roman Catholic any day over a liberal so-called protestant. Reformed- Protestantism guarantees freedom for all. History fairly read shows its the only one that does.
Dr. Joseph A. Warner
Presbyterian Minister
It was the evangelical Protestants' "world and life view" that were the core values of the founding of United States. Especially belief in the absolute soverignty of God; the absolute equality of clergy and laity and the absolute solidarity of mankind. Only the Protestant (Presbyterian at that) world view could produce America. Such a bold claim but please consider an estimated three million people lived in the colonies at the time of the Revolutionary War, "Of this number," says Egbert Watson Smith, "900,000 were of Scotch or Scotch-Irish origin, 600,000 were Puritan English, while over 400,000 were of Dutch, German Reformed (Protestant) and Huguenot descent
" That is to say," explains Dr. Smith, "two-thirds of our Revolutionary forefathers were trained in the school of John Calvin." George Bancroft writes "He who will not respect the memory of John Calvin knows nothing of American liberty...Calvinism was revolutionary; it taught as a divine revelation the natural equality of man." Alexis deTocqueville comparing the French Revolution to America's War of Independence, "In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions." Leopold von Ranke, a German historian gave the reason for this unique and happy marriage between religion and human freedom, "John Calvin," he declared, "was the virtual founder of America." The Anglicans were for the British Crown, The Church of Rome was always for Monarchy but the Protestant world view was for individual freedom best expressed in a Representative (Republican) democracy with Biblical core values. Free Enterprise economica; three branches of government for checks and balances' public education; the right of the individual to property-ownership were all part of this ethic. The very idea of a "covenantal" Constitution comes from Calvin who went to the Bible for everything. Whether the Supreme Court includes a protestant is not as critical as to whether those honorable justices adhere to the world and life (Judeo-Christian) principles which founded the nation. Separation of Church and state (a non-constitutional phrase) has become the twisted leverage by the religion of athiesm to rewrite America's history and adopt means and measures that reduce this great nation to moral, spiriutal and economic bankruptcy. One wonders today, "why are we in this handbasket? And why are we going so fast?" America needs her pulpits to declare the blessings of God-given rights and to warn against building on any system that denies those rights come from a sovereign God. Consider the plight of those whose governments outlawed the Biblical view and one sees only the last century as the bloodiest of all human history these were built on Darwinism's preposterous and absurd asumptions. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Chavaz were and are all products of the same philosophy advancing in the ACLU's quest to remove God from American life. In the Treaty of 1783 which ended the Revolutionary War, signed in France it begins, "In the Name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity." The USA was recognized as a Christian Nation - which afforded by those very values the freedom of everyone to believe or not believe. Alas, those who do not believe now want to deny the very core rights of those who acknowledged that very freedom. The Silent Majority must rise up and with vigor say, "No Way!"
The Supreme Court needs justices who share the basic core values of the founding fathers. One would prefer an evangelical-Roman Catholic any day over a liberal so-called protestant. Reformed- Protestantism guarantees freedom for all. History fairly read shows its the only one that does.
Dr. Joseph A. Warner
Presbyterian Minister