America: Graduating from God? by Chuck Norris

**HK4U** · 06-23-2010, 01:14 AM

A few quotes for those that are ignorant of God's hand in forming our republic.

"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few his precepts!
O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments."
Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1757

"Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature."
Benjamin Franklin

"Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants."
Benjamin Franklin

"It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains."
Patrick Henry

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, 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

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever." Thomas Jefferson

"We have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us."
Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation

"Finally, let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light, and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate its principles with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political, or literary."
Daniel Webster

"If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, error will be; If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy, If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will; If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end."
Daniel Webster

"Education is useless without the Bible."
Noah Webster

"In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed....No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people."
Noah Webster

"The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His apostles, which enjoins humility, piety, and benevolence; which acknowledges in every person a brother, or a sister, and a citizen with equal rights. This is genuine Christianity, and to this we owe our free Constitutions of Government."
Noah Webster

**jibbster** · 06-23-2010, 01:37 AM

"It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains."
Patrick Henry

This one is my favorite

**Ringo** · 06-23-2010, 03:42 AM

My favorite by Patrick Henry.."as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"

**Wolfling68** · 06-23-2010, 07:17 PM

Originally Posted by ConditionOne

I've never understood how anyone can think this way about atheism. As someone on another forum said, "Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby." Atheism is, by definition, is a neutral position. It cannot be a religion, and it is not anti-religion. It's a lack of religion; nothing more, nothing less.

I disagree. Since atheism by definition cannot be a competing religion, nor is it anti-religion, nothing is being forced on you. No views are being rammed down your throat. You can't force nothing on someone.

Most atheists I've known do not harbor anti-religious sentiments, and most are not vocal. It doesn't matter to them what your personal beliefs are, so long as those beliefs aren't forced on them. They tend to be very live-and-let-live people, and most of them aren't very judgmental at all. They don't look down on the religious, they just don't share their beliefs.

I would encourage everyone to avoid lumping all atheists together, the same way I would encourage everyone not to lump all Christians in with the Westboro Baptist Church.

Actually, by definition, Atheism is the belief there is no God. Therefore, it is the religion of no God.
And, just like other religions, there are fanatics. It is these fanatics we fight against, just like we fight against Christian fanatics and Muslim fanatics.
Now, most atheists do not object to a prayer being said before a football game, most do not object to a nativity scene at a firestation. Most Christians do not require a cross in every room they enter either. But some do. It is these we have a problem with. It is these fanatics who are attempting to drive every expression of religion from public view we resist. And yes, we are harmed by the forced removal of our symbols, far more than an atheist is harmed by their presence. The Constitution does not guarantee an atheists right to a society free of religion, it does not give the guarantee the freedom from taking offence or being insulted. It does guarantee the free practice of religion.
The presence of religious symbols does not make an atheist belive in God. However, their removal does prevent religious people from practing their religion.

**Ringo** · 06-23-2010, 09:12 PM