This is a Powerpoint presentation that takes on the “Separation of Church and State” advocates directly. The presentation showcases our distinct religious heritage from Columbus on down through the ratification of our Constitution using the actual writings of the Founders as the foundation of what they established for our liberty.
This resource is being made available from Restoring Our Heritage and is the perfect Home Schooling tool in educating our youth about our true history and heritage that is being forcefully removed from our society.
Our future depends on a correct understanding of our true history and the heritage our Founders established for us to follow if this republic was to endure. Sadly, most of this information is no longer taught in our schools and an entire generation is ignorant of the role God played in this nation’s establishment.
Clicking on this link will download the powerpoint presentation. The file is 33MB and 72 pages.
The following is a slideshow of the same presentation that you can watch online. All content ©2007 Restoring Our Heritage and Michael Deering
Thank You to them for this outstanding resource!
16 Comments
August 30, 2007 at 1:43 am
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November 18, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Invar, thank you so very much for your patriotism, your faith in God, and your courage and willingness to express it in these perilous times. May God bless you always.
Love your site.
January 2, 2008 at 11:56 am
By portraying either the George Washingtons or Patrick Henry’s, the thrust of our ministry is to educate Americans about the true Christian heritage of our nation, and to expose the lie of “separation of church and state.”
Dr. Lance Hurley
June 20, 2008 at 1:07 am
Benjamin Franklin-
“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason. Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.”
Thomas Jefferson-
“Religions are all alike, founded upon fables and mythologies.”
John Adams-
“This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it.”
James “Father of the Constitution” Madison-
“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble purpose.”
George Washington-
“There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”
Abraham Lincoln-
“The Bible is not my Book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.”
…tough to misinterpret that…
June 20, 2008 at 1:09 am
John Adams-
“The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. Although the detail of the formation of the American governments is at present little known or regarded either in Europe or in America, it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses. . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind.”
James Madison-
“And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion & Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.”
Benjamin Franklin-
“I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.”
June 20, 2008 at 1:10 am
Benjamin Franklin-
“I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies.”
June 20, 2008 at 1:10 am
Thomas Jefferson-
“You say you are a Calvinist. I am not. I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know.”
Thomas Paine-
“Of all the tyrannies that afflict mankind, tyranny of religion is the worst.”
June 20, 2008 at 1:13 am
John Adams-
“The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. Although the detail of the formation of the American governments is at present little known or regarded either in Europe or in America, it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses. . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind.”
June 20, 2008 at 9:59 am
I laugh at your feeble efforts to play bingo with quotes from the Founder’s outside of the context in which they were spoken in light of how they viewed Popery and the history of the church’s dominance over the governing affairs of men in Europe.
Given the quotes you cut and pasted, with that which this site is dedicated, either the Founder’s were contradictory and could not make up their minds about God and Religion, or as is usual – you have no understanding of why the quotes you provided were written.
The fruits of this country’s history are self-evident, and the greater the removal of religion and faith in society, the more vicious and criminal the culture becomes, and more despotic the government grows.
January 27, 2009 at 5:49 am
Slide 37: no, Franklin did not say it. Google the phrase – it comes from the novel “Thou Israel”, published in 1922.
June 24, 2009 at 12:26 am
Let’s make it easy OK?
God, YES.
Religion, NO.
Do you have the wit the understand the difference Invar?
JPS
June 24, 2009 at 8:33 am
Since religion and God are essentially inseparable – you are not going to have one without the other.
And – the Christian religion is foundational as far as this country and our liberties go.
Chuck or diminish Christianity – and our liberty becomes the province of men, and tyranny is the result.
Of course if you had any wisdom you could look around and see this fact for yourself.
August 8, 2009 at 7:11 pm
In all humility,
True Patriot… thank you for the quotes. I truly have a much greater appreciation of the gift of God in the liberty He gave American’s despite the incredulity of mere men.
God will receive His glory- even if it is at the demise of ‘western Christianity’.
Those who profess God and possess a fear of what man thinks of him and His God will always be the catalyst of this Nation’s demise.
Those who have soaked up the blessings of God without honoring and giving God the glory are why America is fast becoming a tree for every foul bird of the world.
How does a believer in God the Savior reconcile in his own heart the cowardly and yellow bellied timidity of others who claim to know GOD- who believe ‘religion is a private thing’?
Was it a private thing to Jesus? Paul? the millions of murdered saints over the years? We are asking our brave men and women of the military to defend our Country from without yet from within we are a nation filled with cowards who fail to mention why it is imperative to know Christ.
And do we think that Fannie and Freddie are to blame? Do we think that the bailouts are causing over-taxation and robbing our liberty? do we believe that Obama is destroying America?
Sorry Charlie. What is happening in this Country is God judging western Christianity and as a result the liberty and freedom He gave us is being stripped away from us because we FAILED to honor Him. We FAILED to glorify Him. We FAILED to defend the life of the unborn so now it will be federally funded in a health care plan by the cruel authority that God has handed us over to.
We FAILED to secure God’s place in science as the Creator so now we are fighting environmentalist wackos who believe that mankind is the answer to the world’s ills. Do you think ‘cash for clunkers’ is about passing the savings on to the consumer? It is about destroying any non-government ran automobile service industry so that our ‘free market economic system’ completely crumbles.
If America is a ‘Christian Nation’ why could we not even have one Presidential candidate who has the onions to talk about Christ?
True Patriot writes on this site because this site is a spiritually discerned website created by a man that loves and fears God. This is an honorable thing.
It is the self-professing Christian that is ’supposed’ to be learned in the Sword of the Spirit to defend truth and proclaim the gospel of Christ with no fear of what any man can do to him yet the likes of Joel Osteen are preparing millions of hearts for the delusion that God Himself sends to separate His own from those who are not known by Him.
True Patriot- thanks for pouring salt on the wounds of the coward who claims to know Christ as God His Savior -yet is afraid to truly see his reputation crucified for the one true God that bled, was beaten, nailed to a cross, and murdered, for his salvation.
Keep it up so the pretenders get off the fence and stop revealing a ‘Godless’ Jesus to co-workers, friends, and family members that has no power to give His members confidence to even talk about him at work!
Keep it up so cowards stop the character assault on the true power, glory, and majesty of the Great King of Kings who is none other than the full measure of God Almighty revealed in the person of Jesus Christ.
“Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD’s side? ” (Words from Exodus 32:26)
To others, if you are in fact a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ-put your seat belt on. Believer’s in America are in for rough ride in the near future because of the cowards that are filling the church pews who are so scared to share soul saving Gospel. God will judge His own first.
“For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?” (1 Peter 4:17).
Almighty God destroyed nation’s for the same reasons we stink of. God will deal with this Nation because His Word has been hidden from the Nation by those that claim to Know Him.
True Patriot just reminded us of what happens when we put too much faith in our leaders. He wrote what leaders said about God- now America has elected a leader that proposes to be the god of America.
Sadly, millions of American’s believe he is. But this is not even the scary part. God may have allowed it to be so. Put your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as we pray for this Country to recover from it’s descent into hell.
Wes Hazlett
Owner/Director
Bodyguard7 Christian Apologetics
Director of Defending the Unborn
October 16, 2009 at 4:51 pm
praying is great but the time is at hand to change this country,we need to take back the white house! now! we need to march and have a sitt in shut down washington dc and demand changes…the list of changes is so long to long………
October 16, 2009 at 5:06 pm
personal peaves.the prison system it doesnt work,,,,,,over 1% of americans are in there and tax dollars pay for them,,,we have to work to survive they should work(to many people go to jail for stuff they should be responsible for but not jail) drunk driving go to jail, lose everything u have cause u cannt pay on it when u come out u have to start over PLUS the person u hitt life is ruined or done,why not make the person take care of the mess they made instead of going to jail and screwing everyone up? homosexuals have the God given free will the rest of us do but marriage is between a man and a woman,if they wanna get married stop being gay! they wanna pass a bill on health care thats crazy read it, tax payer will be paying for stuff they shouldnt be paying for,abortion will be funded? we need to put real people back in the government, real americans not politicians…..corportate america and politicians are whats wrong with this country……small bussiness and honest men running the country is how we fix things…..only way i figure to do this is by marches,sitt in.. any one got a better idea? ever notice that america takes care of so many other countries,give them stuff send people over police there border for them, search for terrorists when they dont even want us there..(now were fighting everyone over there ha) why doesnt america take care of its people, but instead WE the people take care of everyone else…i think its great to help others dont get me wrong but u help family first then friends and neighbors ,community etc etc……the un gets america to do its dirty work for them,any one agree to that?we need to put God back in this nation,forget religion focus on the creator,,,,,,and to end with a joke why did the president cross the road to go accept his nobel peace prize!
October 16, 2009 at 9:04 pm
also the new health care bill requires every american to have health care coverage,,,where does the government get off telling me I HAVE TO HAVE health care??