What Makes America Great

What makes America a Great Nation is Jesus Christ. Pure and simple. Christianity is what sets our nation apart from all others. When Chinese Academy of Social Science conducted a study to discover what was dominate factor that made Western Civilization more successful than other civilizations, this is what the study revealed, "We were asked to look for the..preeminence all over the world.. we studied everything we could from the historical, political, economic, and cultural perspective. At first, we thought it was because you had the more powerful guns than we had. Then we thought it was because you had the best political system. Next we  focused on your economic system. But in the past twenty years, we have realized the heart of your culture is your religion Christianity. This is why West has been so powerful. The Christian moral foundation of social and cultural life was what made possible the emergence of capitalism and then the successful transition democratic politics. The Societal benefits of Christianity may seem obvious to some of us now. We have no doubt about this." "But it took centuries before ideas that had their origin in the gospel would become permeantely knit into the cultural fabric." (Tried by Fire: The Story of Christianity's First Thousand Years, William J. Bennett, The Appeal of Christianity to the Classical World). What made Western Civilization and the United States in particular exceptional was Christian Religion, not economics and democratic politics, those were offshoots of a large fabric. If you remove God, then all capitalism, democracy, and rights fall apart, because that are all indelibly given to us by our Creator.

The systematic break down of America is something to cause Americans today to mourn. For the soul and anchor of this country is "In God we Trust," which is Jesus Christ. For on April 26th, 1607 a cross was erected at Virginia Beach and the Land of Free was dedicated to Christ. Fast forward centuries and we see each major element of America's success has been censored, eroded, and even torn down. The Bible, Christian prayer, and teaching Biblical beliefs that made America the nation it is where taken out of all Academia from Kindergarten to College, in fact all colleges from Harvard to Oxforod in England were Seminaries when they were founded, places of Theology and Christian religion, now visit those same campuses and you will find antichrist. The major change happened 1963, when Christian prayer was taken out of all schools, causing a whole generation to be raised without Christian values, and result was change from worst offense of chewing gum to rape and gangs. After removing God from academia, the Freedom From Religion acolytes assaulted everything from Nativities in front of government buildings that had been part of tradition for hundreds of years, and forcing people to fear bringing up Jesus at any public institution. After this, Patriotism was assaulted. The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag was removed from being read in schools, "I pledge allegeiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to Republic for which is stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with Justice, and Liberty for All." 49rs quarterback Colin Kappernick and other celebs have made of spectacle of rejecting the Pledge of Allegiance, and slowly it has eroded all patriotism, with even American flags being burned at radical marches and protests.

After eroding the Faith, and Patriotism, these Neo Communists decided to assault the Second Amendment Rights, which is Right to Bear Arms (own, use, and defend yourself with firearms from any oppressor and assailant). It was this right that made the United States, the Revolution was forged in flint and locked rifles, powder, and ball. Now invidious men and women want people to believe the Bill of Rights and Constitution is changeable, when it is not, it is like Bible unchangeable and set in stone to be as it has always been. By attacking 2nd Amendment, and also 1st Amendment which allows freedom of speech and freedom of religion, we see the beginning of this assault on God by Neo Communists is an attack on the other parts of American Freedoms which is the right to bear arms and Constitution itself, and the Flag for which it stands. There is an all out war on the U.S.A., its very essence and entire purpose and existence by the Leftists who were raised Socialist and Communist which leads to failures seen across Europe in 1940's, which lead to Third Reich of Hitler, and Stalin's murders by millions in Soviet Union. The heart and soul of America is Christian Religion, is Jesus Christ. The attack on God, is the attack on Freedom Speech, the Constitution, and the rest of America.

What made America special is that Christianity was allowed in all its forms (denominations) to flourish. Unlike Russia with Eastern Orthodoxy, Britain with the Church of England (Anglicanism), and Italy with Roman Catholicism as State Churches, the U.S.A. did not choose a state church, but allowed Freedom of Religion (Christianity, Religion in America was word that only denoted Judeo-Christianity). This meant the Government could not impose a specific denomination's politics on the whole nation, like say Catholicism point of view on Eucharist across the States. Unlike Byzantium which had Emperor ruling Church and State, American form of Government allowed the Church to develop in its many Protestant, Catholic, and other forms without being censored. This meant any Christian wither they held fundamentalist or liberal views, couldn't be persecuted or politically censored. This then allowed True Christendom to rise, for people to develop the Church as it is suppose to be without the hindrance of State Church like The Church of England stopping it. Tent revivals, house churches, and beyond were allowed in America; you were free to practice your faith without fear of reprisals or threats from a State Run Church like you see in China today. This freedom allowed the Church to develop in a way that no other country allowed, and Return of Holy Spirit in sanctuary and the Gifts of Spirit is in part owed to that such a phenomenon is not apprehended and stopped by a Political Church of State that would monopolize and control the whole country as in case of other countries.

I want to conclude by sharing the quotes of founding fathers of America:

"You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are.
While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. to the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.
The blessing and protection of Heaven are at all times necessary but especially so in times of public distress and danger. The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier, defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.
I now make it my earnest prayer that God would… most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of the mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion." (George Washington)

"I . . . [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.
The name of the Lord (says the Scripture) is a strong tower; thither the righteous flee and are safe [Proverbs 18:10]. Let us secure His favor and He will lead us through the journey of this life and at length receive us to a better.
I conceive we cannot better express ourselves than by humbly supplicating the Supreme Ruler of the world . . . that the confusions that are and have been among the nations may be overruled by the promoting and speedily bringing in the holy and happy period when the kingdoms of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ may be everywhere established, and the people willingly bow to the scepter of Him who is the Prince of Peace" (Samuel Adams).

"The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.
Without religion, this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company: I mean hell.
The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.
Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. . . . What a Eutopia – what a Paradise would this region be!
I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world." (John Adams)

"My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ and I cannot cavil or quibble away [evade or object to]. . . . the whole tenor of His conduct by which He sometimes positively asserted and at others countenances [permits] His disciples in asserting that He was God.
The hope of a Christian is inseparable from his faith. Whoever believes in the Divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures must hope that the religion of Jesus shall prevail throughout the earth. Never since the foundation of the world have the prospects of mankind been more encouraging to that hope than they appear to be at the present time. And may the associated distribution of the Bible proceed and prosper till the Lord shall have made “bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God” [Isaiah 52:10]." (John Quincy Adams)

"The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend all to the happiness of man.
The practice of morality being necessary for the well being of society, He [God] has taken care to impress its precepts so indelibly on our hearts that they shall not be effaced by the subtleties of our brain. We all agree in the obligation of the moral principles of Jesus and nowhere will they be found delivered in greater purity than in His discourses.
I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.
I am a real Christian – that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus Christ." (Thomas Jefferson)

"The Gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation of life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations! . . . My only hope of salvation is in the infinite transcendent love of God manifested to the world by the death of His Son upon the Cross. Nothing but His blood will wash away my sins [Acts 22:16]. I rely exclusively upon it. Come, Lord Jesus! Come quickly! [Revelation 22:20]
I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament.
By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects… It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.
[T]he greatest discoveries in science have been made by Christian philosophers and . . . there is the most knowledge in those countries where there is the most Christianity.

[T]he only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.

The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.
[C]hristianity is the only true and perfect religion; and… in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.

The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life… [T]he Bible… should be read in our schools in preference to all other books because it contains the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public happiness." (Dr. Benjamin Rush)

"I believe that there is one only living and true God, existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, the same in substance, equal in power and glory. That the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are a revelation from God, and a complete rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy Him. . . . That He made man at first perfectly holy; that the first man sinned, and as he was the public head of his posterity, they all became sinners in consequence of his first transgression, are wholly indisposed to that which is good and inclined to evil, and on account of sin are liable to all the miseries of this life, to death, and to the pains of hell forever. I believe that God . . . did send His own Son to become man, die in the room and stead of sinners, and thus to lay a foundation for the offer of pardon and salvation to all mankind, so as all may be saved who are willing to accept the Gospel offer. . . . I believe a visible church to be a congregation of those who make a credible profession of their faith in Christ, and obedience to Him, joined by the bond of the covenant. . . . I believe that the sacraments of the New Testament are baptism and the Lord’s Supper. . . . I believe that the souls of believers are at their death made perfectly holy, and immediately taken to glory: that at the end of this world there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a final judgment of all mankind, when the righteous shall be publicly acquitted by Christ the Judge and admitted to everlasting life and glory, and the wicked be sentenced to everlasting punishment." (Roger Sherman)

"[A]s my children will have frequent occasion of perusing this instrument, and may probably be particularly impressed with the last words of their father, I think it proper here not only to subscribe to the entire belief of the great and leading doctrines of the Christian religion, such as the being of God; the universal defection and depravity of human nature; the Divinity of the person and the completeness of the redemption purchased by the blessed Savior; the necessity of the operations of the Divine Spirit; of Divine faith accompanied with an habitual virtuous life; and the universality of the Divine Providence: but also, in the bowels of a father’s affection, to exhort and charge [my children] that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, that the way of life held up in the Christian system is calculated for the most complete happiness that can be enjoyed in this mortal state, [and] that all occasions of vice and immorality is injurious either immediately or consequentially – even in this life." (Richard Stocktan)

"One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law. There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundations.
I verily believe that Christianity is necessary to support a civil society and shall ever attend to its institutions and acknowledge its precepts as the pure and natural sources of private and social happiness." (Joseph Story)

"[T]he religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His apostles… This is genuine Christianity and to this we owe our free constitutions of government.
The moral principles and precepts found in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.
All the… evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
[O]ur citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the Bible, particularly the New Testament, or the Christian religion.

[T]he Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children under a free government ought to be instructed. No truth is more evident than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society – the best book for regulating the temporal concerns of men.
[T]he Christian religion… is the basis, or rather the source, of all genuine freedom in government… I am persuaded that no civil government of a republican form can exist and be durable in which the principles of Christianity have not a controlling influence." (Noah Webster)

"[T]he Christian religion – its general principles – must ever be regarded among us as the foundation of civil society.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
[T]o the free and universal reading of the Bible… men [are] much indebted for right views of civil liberty.

The Bible is a book… which teaches man his own individual responsibility, his own dignity, and his equality with his fellow man." (Daniel Webster)

"[C]hrist Jesus – the promise of old made unto the fathers, the hope of Israel [Acts 28:20], the light of the world [John 8:12], and the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth [Romans 10:4] – is the only Savior of sinners, in opposition to all false religions and every uninstituted rite; as He Himself says (John 14:6): “I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by Me.”
[T]here is no salvation in any other than in Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
I shall now conclude my discourse by preaching this Savior to all who hear me, and entreating you in the most earnest manner to believe in Jesus Christ; for “there is no salvation in any other” [Acts 4:12].
It is very evident that both the prophets in the Old Testament and the apostles in the New are at great pains to give us a view of the glory and dignity of the person of Christ. With what magnificent titles is He adorned! What glorious attributes are ascribed to him!… All these conspire to teach us that He is truly and properly God – God over all, blessed forever!
[H]e is the best friend to American liberty who is the most sincere and active in promoting true and undefiled religion, and who sets himself with the greatest firmness to bear down profanity and immorality of every kind. Whoever is an avowed enemy of God, I scruple not to call him an enemy to his country." (John Witherspoon)

"Let us enter on this important business under the idea that we are Christians on whom the eyes of the world are now turned… [L]et us earnestly call and beseech Him, for Christ’s sake, to preside in our councils. . . . We can only depend on the all powerful influence of the Spirit of God, Whose Divine aid and assistance it becomes us as a Christian people most devoutly to implore. Therefore I move that some minister of the Gospel be requested to attend this Congress every morning . . . in order to open the meeting with prayer.
For nearly half a century have I anxiously and critically studied that invaluable treasure [the Bible]; and I still scarcely ever take it up that I do not find something new – that I do not receive some valuable addition to my stock of knowledge or perceive some instructive fact never observed before. In short, were you to ask me to recommend the most valuable book in the world, I should fix on the Bible as the most instructive both to the wise and ignorant. Were you to ask me for one affording the most rational and pleasing entertainment to the inquiring mind, I should repeat, it is the Bible; and should you renew the inquiry for the best philosophy or the most interesting history, I should still urge you to look into your Bible. I would make it, in short, the Alpha and Omega of knowledge." (Elias Boudinot)

"By conveying the Bible to people . . . we certainly do them a most interesting act of kindness. We thereby enable them to learn that man was originally created and placed in a state of happiness, but, becoming disobedient, was subjected to the degradation and evils which he and his posterity have since experienced. The Bible will also inform them that our gracious Creator has provided for us a Redeemer in whom all the nations of the earth should be blessed – that this Redeemer has made atonement “for the sins of the whole world,” and thereby reconciling the Divine justice with the Divine mercy, has opened a way for our redemption and salvation; and that these inestimable benefits are of the free gift and grace of God, not of our deserving, nor in our power to deserve. The Bible will also [encourage] them with many explicit and consoling assurances of the Divine mercy to our fallen race, and with repeated invitations to accept the offers of pardon and reconciliation. . . . They, therefore, who enlist in His service, have the highest encouragement to fulfill the duties assigned to their respective stations; for most certain it is, that those of His followers who [participate in] His conquests will also participate in the transcendent glories and blessings of His Triumph.
I recommend a general and public return of praise and thanksgiving to Him from whose goodness these blessings descend. The most effectual means of securing the continuance of our civil and religious liberties is always to remember with reverence and gratitude the source from which they flow.
The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.
[T]he evidence of the truth of Christianity requires only to be carefully examined to produce conviction in candid minds… they who undertake that task will derive advantages.

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 and prefer Christians for their rulers." (John Jay)

Most of these men were the First Presidents of the United States, Senators, Dipomats, Justices, and beyond. It is clear that Christianity, Christ Himself is the fabric that the entire Flag of America is formed from, our nation hinges on knowing Jesus Christ and His Bible. And this is why taking Bible and prayer out of schools has lead to new generation of cut throats, anrachists, and people who have no idea what freedom really is; for they have not experainced freedom from their sins in the Blessed Savior Jesus Christ, nor do they understand Christian values alone make a true civil society and civilization. Amen.