Nation's Christian Heritage: Lies & Deceit
Bonnie Alba
May 01, 2007
There is an irony occurring in our society. As prayer meals are attended by millions across the nation to signify America’s devotion as a praying people, our nation is being systematically stripped of her national Christian identity and historical heritage.
The strong influence of Christianity on our early beginnings is being censured from the halls of learning and from recorded history. Our children are growing up without true knowledge of America’s history, particularly religious heritage.
Hope. As World Net Daily reported, one history buff, Pastor Todd Dubord, senior pastor of Lake Almanor Community Church in California, has gone beyond the silence that hangs over our land. He, wife Tracy, and others took a Christian Legacy tour last year visiting many historical sites of importance in and around our nation’s Capitol.
What he heard from tour guides and learned from information packets set off alarms in his head and heart. This led him down the path of months of research and correspondence to three specific organizations asking them to correct the information they give out to visitors.
All of his research is available online at the church site (www.lacconline.org). Here I give you some of what set the bells ringing in his head:
U.S. Supreme Court. Tour guides described the marble frieze directly above the justices’ bench as “the first ten amendments of the Bill of Rights.” The same was said of the depictions of Moses and the Ten Commandments etched or carved throughout the Supreme Court building even to the massive doors leading into inner chambers with carved tablets containing roman numerals I through X as the “Ten Amendments.”
Jamestown, first English Settlement. The tour guides repeatedly insisted that the first settlers primary objective in coming to America was “to make money.” Pastor Dubord: “While this is partially true, it was not only totally overstated by its emphasis and repetition, but there was absolutely no hint of the religious purpose given and stated under the Virginia Charter of 1606, which called for the ‘propagating of Christian religion to such people as yet live in darkness and miserable ignorance of the true knowledge and worship of God.’”
There was absolutely no mention of the fact that the colonists’ first act, after landing at Cape Henry on April 27, 1607, “was to erect a large wooden cross and hold a prayer meeting, conducted by their minister, Reverend Robert Hunt.”
Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home. Pastor Dubord: “While our guide was cordial and informative about many matters, when asked about the religious faith of Thomas Jefferson, he abruptly and actually quite arrogantly said, ‘We all know Jefferson was a strict deist (a person who believes in a Creator who does not involve Himself in the daily affairs of men), who ardently fought for the separation of Church and State.’”
Dubord wrote, “The guide’s added comments left all the visitors believing Jefferson was essentially (what might be called today) ‘a liberal democrat,’ and especially one who would have never allowed any mixture of religion in government.”
Some good news: Pastor Dubord has been told via telephone from Joseph A. Gutierrez, Jr., senior director of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, that plans are in the works to restore some of the religious history, “better stress” the 1606 Charter notation on the Christian propagation of the Gospel to both site guides and the public.
Also Doug Phillips, president of Vision Forum Ministries, has announced the “Jamestown Quadricentennial: A Celebration of America’s Providential History for June 11-16.” Included will be the settlers’ Christian heritage, because he said the war over the accuracy of the historical presentations “is one of the most significant battles of our day. It is the battle for our history.”
Thomas Jefferson’s words of warning: “The God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever.”
On this National Prayer Day, we should lift our prayers to God, not just for our perilous, present times, but also pray that God will preserve our memory of His Providence and His Hand on this nation from the beginning. For if we forget our history and deny God’s involvement in our past, then what vision is our future for the soul of our nation?
2007 Bonnie Alba
Comments: tttalba@hotmail.com
The strong influence of Christianity on our early beginnings is being censured from the halls of learning and from recorded history. Our children are growing up without true knowledge of America’s history, particularly religious heritage.
Hope. As World Net Daily reported, one history buff, Pastor Todd Dubord, senior pastor of Lake Almanor Community Church in California, has gone beyond the silence that hangs over our land. He, wife Tracy, and others took a Christian Legacy tour last year visiting many historical sites of importance in and around our nation’s Capitol.
What he heard from tour guides and learned from information packets set off alarms in his head and heart. This led him down the path of months of research and correspondence to three specific organizations asking them to correct the information they give out to visitors.
All of his research is available online at the church site (www.lacconline.org). Here I give you some of what set the bells ringing in his head:
U.S. Supreme Court. Tour guides described the marble frieze directly above the justices’ bench as “the first ten amendments of the Bill of Rights.” The same was said of the depictions of Moses and the Ten Commandments etched or carved throughout the Supreme Court building even to the massive doors leading into inner chambers with carved tablets containing roman numerals I through X as the “Ten Amendments.”
Jamestown, first English Settlement. The tour guides repeatedly insisted that the first settlers primary objective in coming to America was “to make money.” Pastor Dubord: “While this is partially true, it was not only totally overstated by its emphasis and repetition, but there was absolutely no hint of the religious purpose given and stated under the Virginia Charter of 1606, which called for the ‘propagating of Christian religion to such people as yet live in darkness and miserable ignorance of the true knowledge and worship of God.’”
There was absolutely no mention of the fact that the colonists’ first act, after landing at Cape Henry on April 27, 1607, “was to erect a large wooden cross and hold a prayer meeting, conducted by their minister, Reverend Robert Hunt.”
Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home. Pastor Dubord: “While our guide was cordial and informative about many matters, when asked about the religious faith of Thomas Jefferson, he abruptly and actually quite arrogantly said, ‘We all know Jefferson was a strict deist (a person who believes in a Creator who does not involve Himself in the daily affairs of men), who ardently fought for the separation of Church and State.’”
Dubord wrote, “The guide’s added comments left all the visitors believing Jefferson was essentially (what might be called today) ‘a liberal democrat,’ and especially one who would have never allowed any mixture of religion in government.”
Some good news: Pastor Dubord has been told via telephone from Joseph A. Gutierrez, Jr., senior director of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, that plans are in the works to restore some of the religious history, “better stress” the 1606 Charter notation on the Christian propagation of the Gospel to both site guides and the public.
Also Doug Phillips, president of Vision Forum Ministries, has announced the “Jamestown Quadricentennial: A Celebration of America’s Providential History for June 11-16.” Included will be the settlers’ Christian heritage, because he said the war over the accuracy of the historical presentations “is one of the most significant battles of our day. It is the battle for our history.”
Thomas Jefferson’s words of warning: “The God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever.”
On this National Prayer Day, we should lift our prayers to God, not just for our perilous, present times, but also pray that God will preserve our memory of His Providence and His Hand on this nation from the beginning. For if we forget our history and deny God’s involvement in our past, then what vision is our future for the soul of our nation?
2007 Bonnie Alba
Comments: tttalba@hotmail.com