It's Christmas for Pete's Sake...

I get sick and tired of people trying to remove religious symbols from everything in American society. Mostly I am tired of the wasted tax money in entertaining these thoughts and legal actions. Religious relics are items that the fathers of our country felt should be incorporated into their new country and government. The symbols and history do nothing to promote religion other than to show that the founding fathers of America believed in a higher power.

Our founding fathers believed in God. In the Declaration of Independence they state their belief in God. The framers of our nation used God as the power and foundation for the new government.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

The Charters of Freedom speaks of a higher power often. So if you don’t believe in God how can you use rights that “the Creator” has given in the foundation of our country to fight against religious symbolisms in the government?

The latest Holiday vs Christmas battles as well as a recent lawsuit in Utah have raised my ire. Removing Christmas from all December Holiday references is ridiculous. It is not a Holiday tree or Winter Festival tree, it’s a Christmas tree. I am sure the Jews will be stoked to call their Manora a Holiday Candle Holder just to appease you Atheists. Face it, if it weren’t for Christians you wouldn’t have had a two-week break in school or a holiday were gifts are given. I don’t see too many Atheist Holidays. Maybe it is due to the fact that Atheists don’t believe in a God and thus nothing is Holy to them and thus no Holidays. Holiday is a derivative of Holy Day. Religious symbols are everywhere. Removing “In God We Trust” isn’t going to make us Freer, Richer or more Safe.

Maybe the atheists and ACLU could chase the medical community for using religious symbols after all they use one. The medical symbol of a staff and two snakes is a reference to the Bible and Moses journey into the wilderness where the children of Israel were cursed with fiery serpents and the Lord commanded Moses to make a staff for the believers to look upon to prevent death by the fiery serpents. (Numbers 21) So how is this not religious?

To all you Atheists and ACLU supporters who constantly try to screw up American Holidays by misconstruing the Constitution here are some writings and speeches by the men who wrote the document. It seems they were religious

“I have lived a long time, sir, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this, that God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this. I also believe that, without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel.”--Benjamin Franklin addressing the Constitutional Congress April 1787

We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus! --John Adams April 18, 1775

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." –John Adams October 11, 1798

“The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.”--John Quincy Adams. Letters to his son. p. 61

"For my own part, I sincerely esteem it [the Constitution] a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests."--Alexander Hamilton

“It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.”—Patrick Henry May 1765 Speech to the House of Burgesses

“ The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.”--Thomas Jefferson
“Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus.”--Thomas Jefferson

"I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus." --Thomas Jefferson

“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever.” Thomas Jefferson (excerpts are inscribed on the walls of the Jefferson Memorial in the nations capital) [Source: Merrill . D. Peterson, ed., Jefferson Writings, (New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1984), Vol. IV, p. 289. From Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, 1781.]

“We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We’ve staked the future of all our political institutions upon our capacity…to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.”—James Madison 1778 to the General Assembly of the State of Virginia

Baron Charles Montesquieu, wrote in 1748; “Nor is there liberty if the power of judging is not separated from legislative power and from executive power. If it [the power of judging] were joined to legislative power, the power over life and liberty of the citizens would be arbitrary, for the judge would be the legislature if it were joined to the executive power, the judge could have the force of an oppressor. All would be lost if the same … body of principal men … exercised these three powers." Madison claimed Isaiah 33:22 as the source of division of power in government. Isaiah 33:22 “For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us.”

"To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys. . . . Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all blessings which flow from them, must fall with them."-- Jedediah Morse--Federalist

The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion" ...and later: "...reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle..." George Washington September 17, 1796 Farewell Address

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This should just about kill any ability for me to run for office later in Life.