Americas Heritage
America’s Christian Heritage in the U.S. Capitol
I came across this video recently and found it very informative and insightful about America’s Christian heritage–a heritage that secularists would desperately love to hide.
Thanks to Senator John Thune’s (R-SD) office, I received a tour of the U.S. Capitol building about a year ago. While the young man who showed me around was very knowledgeable, he hasn’t spent the years David Barton has in learning and researching the Christian roots of America.
Barton was in Rapid City last year, speaking at a South Dakota Family Policy Council event, and I was blessed to be able to interview him about the Christian heritage of our nation. Secularists don’t have to love the rich and long Christian heritage of our nation, but they don’t get to legitimately erase it or pretend it never happened. Now if I can only get one of these tours of the U.S. Capitol with Barton.
In the “Watchmen on the Wall” video below (a conference in Washington D.C. put together annually for pastors by the Family Research Council), we see that the first Bible printed in English in the United States was one commissioned by congress for use by the people of America.
We also see four of the huge paintings in the rotunda of the Capitol. The first is Christopher Columbus landing in the New World in 1492, having a prayer upon landing, and naming the land “San Salvador” Meaning “Holy Savior.” Then there is the baptism of Pocahontas in 1613 in Jamestown. Then there is a scene of the Pilgrims on the Mayflower gathered around a Bible having a religious meeting.
Funny that our government, if we were really created to be a secularist nation, would put such huge paintings of scenes from America’s Christian heritage in the center of the U.S. Capitol building, isn’t it?
In the old House chamber was for many years the largest church in the United States.
Thomas Jefferson, who is often misappropriated by secularists as their patron saint, attended church services in the Capitol building and approved of such services.
He attended these services around the same time he wrote the often distorted letter to the Danbury Baptists assuring them that their religious freedom would be honored by the new government (a letter often distorted by secularists and God haters to quash religious liberty today). Jefferson even sent the Marine Corps band to play music for these church services.
One of the statues in the Capitol, is of President James Garfield. He was a preacher during the Second Great Awakening and baptized several people himself. How dare a preacher get involved in politics, eh?
Barton also talks about the treaty President Thomas Jefferson signed with the Kaskaskia Native American tribe and how he sent missionaries at government expense to the tribe, and commissioned a church for the converted Native Americans.
Twenty nine of the fifty-six men over half who signed the Declaration of Independence had seminary or Bible school degrees.
My fellow Americans, don’t allow these revisionists to rob you of the Christian heritage of our nation. Dig through history and you will find a nation that is not perfect and never has been, but you will find a nation that was founded by Christians on Christian principles, and has historically looked to God–from the very beginning–to bless our land.
America’s Christian Heritage in the U.S. Capitol
They knew they were pilgrims, and looked not much on those things, but lifted up their eyes to the heavens, their dearest country." William Bradford.”
The Pilgrim saga began with a group of religious dissidents who believed it was necessary to separate from the Church of England. Persecuted in England, these "Separatists" moved to Holland in 1607/1608.
The group, joined by other colonists recruited by the venture's financial backers, began the move to America in 1620.
Americas Heritage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1-vpAqFjww&feature=related
America’s Christian Heritage in the U.S. Capitol
I came across this video recently and found it very informative and insightful about America’s Christian heritage–a heritage that secularists would desperately love to hide.
Thanks to Senator John Thune’s (R-SD) office, I received a tour of the U.S. Capitol building about a year ago. While the young man who showed me around was very knowledgeable, he hasn’t spent the years David Barton has in learning and researching the Christian roots of America.
Barton was in Rapid City last year, speaking at a South Dakota Family Policy Council event, and I was blessed to be able to interview him about the Christian heritage of our nation. Secularists don’t have to love the rich and long Christian heritage of our nation, but they don’t get to legitimately erase it or pretend it never happened. Now if I can only get one of these tours of the U.S. Capitol with Barton.
In the “Watchmen on the Wall” video below (a conference in Washington D.C. put together annually for pastors by the Family Research Council), we see that the first Bible printed in English in the United States was one commissioned by congress for use by the people of America.
We also see four of the huge paintings in the rotunda of the Capitol. The first is Christopher Columbus landing in the New World in 1492, having a prayer upon landing, and naming the land “San Salvador” Meaning “Holy Savior.” Then there is the baptism of Pocahontas in 1613 in Jamestown. Then there is a scene of the Pilgrims on the Mayflower gathered around a Bible having a religious meeting.
Funny that our government, if we were really created to be a secularist nation, would put such huge paintings of scenes from America’s Christian heritage in the center of the U.S. Capitol building, isn’t it?
In the old House chamber was for many years the largest church in the United States.
Thomas Jefferson, who is often misappropriated by secularists as their patron saint, attended church services in the Capitol building and approved of such services.
He attended these services around the same time he wrote the often distorted letter to the Danbury Baptists assuring them that their religious freedom would be honored by the new government (a letter often distorted by secularists and God haters to quash religious liberty today). Jefferson even sent the Marine Corps band to play music for these church services.
One of the statues in the Capitol, is of President James Garfield. He was a preacher during the Second Great Awakening and baptized several people himself. How dare a preacher get involved in politics, eh?
Barton also talks about the treaty President Thomas Jefferson signed with the Kaskaskia Native American tribe and how he sent missionaries at government expense to the tribe, and commissioned a church for the converted Native Americans.
Twenty nine of the fifty-six men over half who signed the Declaration of Independence had seminary or Bible school degrees.
My fellow Americans, don’t allow these revisionists to rob you of the Christian heritage of our nation. Dig through history and you will find a nation that is not perfect and never has been, but you will find a nation that was founded by Christians on Christian principles, and has historically looked to God–from the very beginning–to bless our land.
America’s Christian Heritage in the U.S. Capitol
They knew they were pilgrims, and looked not much on those things, but lifted up their eyes to the heavens, their dearest country." William Bradford.”
The Pilgrim saga began with a group of religious dissidents who believed it was necessary to separate from the Church of England. Persecuted in England, these "Separatists" moved to Holland in 1607/1608.
The group, joined by other colonists recruited by the venture's financial backers, began the move to America in 1620.
Americas Heritage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1-vpAqFjww&feature=related