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 Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 1:57 pm Post subject: Poll: Most Americans See God's Blessing on USA |
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RIGHT WING PROPAGANDA ALERT
Poll: Most Americans See God's Blessing on USA
http://www.redcounty.com/national/2008/10/poll-most-americans-see-gods-b/
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Poll: Most Americans See God's Blessing on USA
Posted by: Bob Ellis | 10/23/2008 11:36 AM
As surprising as it may seem, a poll conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner
Research Inc. for the PBS news program Religion & Ethics Newsweekly and the
United Nations Foundation found that 61% percent agree that America is a
nation specially blessed by God, and 59% believe the United States should
be a model Christian nation to the world.
The Christian Post is reporting on these findings today.
These findings may be startling to some, given the decades-long propaganda
campaign waged by the Left to erase America's Christian heritage and to
convince Americans that there is some sort of imaginary "separation of
church and state" which is intended to sanitize all Christian influence
from government or public policy.
Though there is no doubt that the campaign of deceit has worked to a great
degree, this poll would seem to indicate that it still has a long way to go
before a majority of Americans buy into the secularist agenda.
While the United States government was set up to not have an official state
church or religion, the recognition of the role of God in America and
America's government has been evident since the earliest days of our
republic.
After all, our founding document, the Declaration of Independence,
acknowledged certain "self-evident" truths, among them:
That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable rights
The Declaration also appeals "to the Supreme Judge of the world" and
declares "a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence."
Even Benjamin Franklin, one of the least religious of the founders,
recognized how important this "reliance on the protection of Divine
Providence" was to the successful birth of the new nation:
In the beginning of the contest with Great Britain, when we were
sensible to danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine
protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard and they were graciously
answered...
In fact, almost all of the founders recognized God's role in the
establishment of this nation, and the importance that the people rely on
God to maintain the health, stability and justice of the nation.
President George Washington said in his inaugural address:
...it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act
my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the
universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential
aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to
the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government
instituted by themselves for these essential purposes...No people can be
bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the
affairs of men more than those of the United States...the propitious smiles
of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal
rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, appointed to the court by President
James Madison, addressed the fallacious "separation of church and state"
propaganda that has become common today:
We are not to attribute this [First Amendment] prohibition of a
national religious establishment to an indifference to religion in general,
and especially to Christianity (which none could hold in more reverence,
than the framers of the Constitution)
Judge Story further clarified the intent of the First Amendment prohibition
of a national religion when he said
"The real object of the [First A]mendment was not to countenance, much
less to advance, Mahometanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating
Christianity; but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects."
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