Teens for Liberty

On November 3rd I wrote a post discussing a treaty that was to be signed in Copenhagen. It turns out that we were told that the treaty was dropped and was not going to be signed. But the press release missed just a minor piece of information. It was not to be signed in COPENHAGEN. On Tuesday November 10th at 4:25 pm, the treaty arrived at the United States Capitol. Check out http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/10/AR2009111015034.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 for the full story.

After almost one year of Obama as our Commander in Chief there is beginning to be a lot of accusations about Obama that honestly have no facts to back them up. Some of the things that I have heard consist of: “Obama wasn’t even born in the US” and,” Obama is the Antichrist.” But the truth is, those aren’t true! But how about this one ,” Obama is a socialist.” Some may say that this comment falls right in line with the ones above and that is false. Some may say that it a ridiculous comment. Some may say it is just another way to smear Obama. The rest of this article is going to be only the facts and Obama’s words. I am going to try to keep any biased opinions out of this post.

During the heat of the 2008 Presidential Campaign Obama was asked about his stance on a issue. Instead of giving a direct answer he said, “ Judge me by the people I surround myself with.” Okay Mr. President we will do just that! The first person that we are going to look at is former Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones. During a speech to college students Van Jones said this, “ our Native American brothers and sisters who were shoved into all the land that we didn’t want, Guess what? Give them the wealth! Give them then wealth! No justice on stolen land … we owe them a debt” OK so there is one person that Obama surrounds himself with, and he ended up being a supporter of socialism. But we have to be fair here. Lets look at some other people Obama “surrounds” himself with.

Lets take a look at Anita Dunn. Anita is the Former White House Communication’s Director. During a speech to high school students Anita said ,”the two people I admire most is Mother Teresa and Chairman Mao” IN order to fully comprehend what this quote means, we need to understand who Chairman Mao was. Mao took office in 1943. He killed a total of 70 million people while he was in office. That is more than Hitler,Stalin,and Hussein had killed…COMBINED! Now not only did he commit mass genocide, he only had one way of thinking when it came to Economics. Socialism.

Okay so now that we have seen some of the people that Obama surrounds himself with and what they support, lets look at Obama’s words. During Obama’s campaign he made a stop in a small town in Ohio. While he was there, a man by the name of Joe Wurzelbacher was in his lawn playing football with his son, and he noticed Obama taking questions. He explained that by working hard (10-12 hours a day) he was in a position to buy a business. If he bought a truck and expanded the business, he wondered if his success would be greeted by a penalty in the form of higher taxes.

Obama answered,” It’s not that I want to punish your success, I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success too. My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody … I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”Spread the wealth around. That means take from the evil bad guys with all the money, and taking the money of those who worked their whole life to earn, and give it to the guys on the couch with a six pack of beer and a half empty bag of potato chips!

On July 4^th, 1776 a group of 56 men got together and wrote a document that would change the world. A document that was based on God, honesty, justice, liberty and most of all hard work. Our country was founded with men in a suit and tie. People in our country worked to get what they had. They got their hands dirty, worked all day and night, and worked their way to success. When our country was founded there wasn’t talk of socialism or capitalism! They knew that in order to reap a harvest they had to be out there tilling the ground, planting seeds, and watering the ground so that when harvest comes they will have a full crop.

When our country was founded there was no such thing as Socialism. In fact there was no such thing as capitalism! The only thing they knew is what every human being knows: What one earns is what one keeps. For two hundred years our country has worked and thrived under this system, why in the world would we try to change the system now?

Based on who Obama surrounds himself with and based on what he has said, I think it is safe to say that yes, Obama is a socialist. And yes Obama wants to Steal from the rich and give to the lazy..oops, I mean poor. Obama has made history in many ways by becoming president, but if he accomplishes everything on his hidden agenda of socialism, history will not only be made, it will be changed. We wont be the strongest nation anymore that our history books paint a picture of. We will be the country that doesn’t have any motivation to work hard, because the government will give us everything we need. We wont be who our founding fathers meant for us to be.

In the Twenty-first century, the Christian principles that our nation was founded upon are all but forgotten by the majority of humanity. We live in a day and age where the Ten Commandments cannot be displayed in public, where the first amendment has been misinterpreted by the Supreme Court to mean a “wall of separation” between church and state, and public prayers in schools are not allowed. Intellectual leaders in academia and the political realm deny that our country has any Christian heritage whatsoever. Today I want to provide you with substantial evidence with which to thwart the outrageous claims made by those who doubt our country’s Godly heritage. America was indeed founded on Christian principles, and today will show you several quotes from men who played significant roles in the early stages of America’s development that make it hard to believe otherwise.

Thomas Jefferson, a very influential founder and our nation’s third President, was a staunch supporter of religious freedom. In a letter to the Dansbury Baptists, he calls the First Amendment: “A wall of separation between church and State”. Many allude to Thomas Jefferson’s misleading metaphor, using it to justify the removing of public displays of Christianity, and then they themselves incorrectly describe the First Amendment as such. In actuality, the first amendment was created in order to restrict the Federal government from favoring one sect of Christianity over another, as well as to allow citizens of any religion to display it in public.

The Declaration of Independence contains public expression of devotion to the Christian God when it uses phrases like these:

“Nature’s God” (i.e., an 18th century way to refer to the God Who created nature), “all men are created equal” and “endowed by their Creator,” “appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world,” and “with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence” (The Declaration…)

The Federal Constitution:

George Mason, the “Father of the Bill of Rights” proposed the following as the text for the first Amendment:

[A]ll men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others (Rowland, 1892, 1:244, emp. added).

America was considered a Christian nation for nearly two centuries. The above was suggested as text for the First Amendment because the founders wanted to ensure that no particular sect of Christianity was elevated above the others, as well as to make it certain that the Federal government did not adopt a State religion. Since the early 20th Century, radical socialistic organizations like the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) have been trying (and largely succeeding) to erase Christianity from the public arena. In 2003, at the same time that a  Federal Judge told the Chief Justice of the Alabama State Supreme Court that a public display of the Ten Commandments had to be taken down, California unveiled in Sacramento, at the California Veterans Memorial that reads: “In Honor of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Veterans Killed in Action” (Sanders, 2003)

This kind of thing exposes the true liberal agenda. The fact is that America was originally intended to be a Christian nation. The ACLU has been attacking the Christian faith for ninety years, wrongly asserting that the public display of  religion is what The First Amendment was made to repel. However, quite the opposite is true. The First Amendment was made in order to allow every citizen to practice his religion of choice freely in private or public without any opposition by the Federal government. One must look no further than the delegate discussions pertaining to the First amendment (Annals of Congress, 1789), to see that pluralization of America’s culture was not the objective.

As further proof that America was founded on Christian principles, the Federal constitution contains a direct reference to Jesus Christ! Read the following excerpt from Article 1 section 7 to see what I am referring to:
“If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it….”

Sunday is the day of the week when Christians traditionally meet together in congregations across the globe and worship God. If the founders wanted to show pluratism, they wouldn’t have picked Sunday. If they wanted to acknowledge Jewish custom, they would have picked Saturday. But they picked Sunday, yet another example of early Americans showing devotion towards their Creator in a public and political place.

Immediately after Article 7, the Constitution closes with these words:

Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth….

Christianity dates human history in terms of the birth of Christ. B.C stands for “Before Christ”, and A.D. is the abbreviation for the Latin words “anno Domini,” meaning “year of our Lord.”

There is no doubt that America was founded on Christianity. However, this does mean that citizens of other nations cannot live in America and enjoy the same freedom as the rest of us do.

On March 4, 1921, right after the close of World War I, Warren G. Harding delivered his inaugural speech:

One cannot stand in this presence and be unmindful of the tremendous responsibility. The world upheaval has added heavily to our tasks. But with the realization comes the surge of high resolve, and there is reassurance in belief in the God-given destiny of our Republic. If I felt that there is to be sole responsibility in the Executive for the America of tomorrow I should shrink from the burden. But here are a hundred millions, with common concern and shared responsibility, answerable to God and country. The Republic summons them to their duty, and I invite co-operation. I accept my part with single-mindedness of purpose and humility of spirit, and implore the favor and guidance of God in His Heaven. With these I am unafraid, and confidently face the future. I have taken the solemn oath of office on that passage of Holy Writ wherein it is asked: “What doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?” [Micah 6:8—DM]. This I plight to God and country (1921, emp. added)

Don’t let these liberals tell you that America is a religiously neutral country, and that you cannot exercise your freedom of religion in the public realm. America was set up so that everyone would have that freedom.

-Calvin

Occasionally it is good to step back and look at the bigger picture. For nearly six months now, I have been writing articles on this website describing the political troubles of our time and suggesting answers to them. Today I want to tell you about some changes that I am considering making on this site to help expansion and improve quality. For six months the subjects talked about on this website have mainly been political. I am thinking about expanding the range of topics covered to include apologetics. Apologetics, (derived  from the Greek word apologia,) is the defense of the Christian faith. This may include a change of name to better fit the contents of this website, but nothing is final yet. Thank you for reading and I hope that you will keep coming back for more, thank you.