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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 95
Constitutional Convention because the men who elected them as their representatives were
Christians. The debates surrounding the ratification of the Constitution clearly show that not only
the Founding Fathers but the citizens of the United States intended this country to be founded on
the principal of Christianity. All of America clearly understood that these Christian principles
come from God’s holy word, the Bible. Besides a record of the debates, we have many statement
from men who knew the intentions of the founders. One such man was our second President,
John Adams, he wrote:
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. (President John Adam's in a
letter to Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas
Jefferson, Washington, D.C., The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1904,
Vol. XIII, pp. 292.294.)
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Further, the overwhelming prevalence of Christianity in early America was recorded by
Benjamin Franklin who wrote that Atheism was unknown in America. Franklin himself was
probably not a Christian; he was a Freemason. Nevertheless, he wrote a pamphlet titled
Information to Those Who Would Remove to America. The pamphlet was written for Europeans
considering to either move to America themselves or those considering sending their youth to
seek their fortune in America. The pamphlet is revealing of the culture and beliefs in America at
the time. Franklin wrote:
Hence bad examples to youth are more rare in America, which must be
comfortable consideration to parents. To this may be truly added, that serious
religion, under its various denominations, is not only tolerated, but respected
and practiced. Atheism is unknown there; Infidelity rare and secret; so that
persons may live to a great age in that country without having their piety shocked
by meeting with either an Atheist or an Infidel (non-Christian). And the Divine
Being seems to have manifested his approbation of the mutual forbearance and
kindness with which the different sects (denominations) treat each other, by the
remarkable prosperity with which he (God) has been pleased to favor the whole
country. (emphasis added)
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Not only were the United States and the original colonies founded on Christian principals
found in the Holy Bible but Dr. D. James Kennedy states that the Constitutions of all 50 states
contain prayers to the God of Heaven. He states: “In reading over the Constitutions of all 50 of
our states, I discovered something which some of you may not know: there is in all fifty, without
exception, an appeal or a prayer to the Almighty God of this universe.”
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In The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the Unites States, B. F.
Morris reveals that a House Judiciary Committee officially declared that Christianity was the
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