Hope Comes With the Morning

I woke up this morning terribly depressed and disappointed.  Not surprised.  Just disappointed.  Disappointed in a lot of Conservatives who seem to be  more wrapped up in today’s Progressively driven culture of convenient morality and adjustable ethics, than the immovable Rock that this nation was founded upon. 

By now, some of you so-called Fiscal Conservatives and Liberals that have stumbled upon this site are probably giggling at my displeasure.  You may be saying , what do you mean this country was founded upon an immovable rock?  The people who founded this country left England for freedom from religion, didn’t they?

That’s what the Progressives taught you, kids.  Here’s how our Founding Fathers actually felt about their Creator and their Faith:

From David Barton’s wallbuilders.com:

Benjamin Franklin – Signer of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence

[O]nly a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

(Source: Benjamin Franklin, The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks, editor (Boston: Tappan, Whittemore and Mason, 1840), Vol. X, p. 297, April 17, 1787. )

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. 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, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that “except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it.” I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest.

I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service.

(Source: James Madison, The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, Max Farrand, editor (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911), Vol. I, pp. 450-452, June 28, 1787.)

Thomas Jefferson – Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Third President of the United States

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose that in any possible situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing, however slightly so it may appear to you. Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly. Encourage all your virtuous dispositions, and exercise them whenever an opportunity arises, being assured that they will gain strength by exercise, as a limb of the body does, and that exercise will make them habitual. From the practice of the purest virtue, you may be assured you will derive the most sublime comforts in every moment of life, and in the moment of death.

(Source: Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Albert Bergh, editor (Washington, DC: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Assoc., 1903), Vol. 5, pp. 82-83, in a letter to his nephew Peter Carr on August 19, 1785.)

The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend all to the happiness of mankind.

(Source: Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Albert Bergh, editor (Washington, D. C.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Assoc., 1904), Vol. XV, p. 383.)

I concur with the author in considering the moral precepts of Jesus as more pure, correct, and sublime than those of ancient philosophers.

(Source: Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Albert Bergh, editor (Washington, D. C.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Assoc., 1904), Vol. X, pp. 376-377. In a letter to Edward Dowse on April 19, 1803.)

I chose these two Founding Fathers because they are the subject of a lot of Progressive lies.  Lies that apparently a bunch of posters on Conservative websites have bought into.  Lies that the Progressives have planted in our country’s classrooms for years, designed to corrupt young impressionable minds.

These lies have led to a tyranny of the minority.  Average Americans’ lives are being affected, changed, and restricted by a minority in control of us who are making decisions based on a political/social/cutural ideology, embraced by a mere 18 % of America’s population, according to a gallup.com poll of likely voters released shortly before the transformative Midterm Elections.

The Midterms were indeed transformative.  This Congress will soon be assigned to the dustbin of history.  They’ve left behind a heritage of an arrogant tone-deafness which has produced nothing but unwanted legislation harmful to the future of America.

As disappointed as I was with the reactions of Conservative websites, their posters, and, even Fox News yesterday, I still have hope and strength, for I have staked my claim upon that same immovable Rock that America was founded upon.

On Christ The Solid Rock I stand.

All other ground is sinking sand.

All other ground is sinking sand.

4 thoughts on “Hope Comes With the Morning

  1. Thanks for this post, KJ. You may be interested in getting a copy of M. E. Bradford’s Original Intentions: On the Making and Ratification of the United States Constitution. I’ve quoted from it several times to verify the Christian heritage of our country. See here and here.

    I hope the second link isn’t too difficult to read.

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