What secularists fail to recognize is that Christianity in America has been the most gracious, tolerant religion when it comes to allowing other religions to coexist. America has been the champion of unprecedented tolerance toward other religions (or the lack thereof). The United States has allowed other religions to worship freely since the signing of the Constitution, while yet retaining our Christian culture, society, and laws. It is because we are Christian that we have grace toward others. It is because we are Christian that we have reasonable, protective laws. NO nation can be completely neutral on ANY issue (because personal beliefs will always come into play). So why not retain a benevolent moral scripture to be the basis for law and public policy …. just as our founding fathers did? Why are the political actions of our forefathers deemed brilliant, except in the case of their support for the Christian religion? Why do secularists feel the need to “fix” what wasn’t broken to begin with? The founding fathers’ formula for liberty, based upon Christianity, created the most free, prosperous, productive nation in history. With such unprecedented success, why on earth has this formula been abandoned?

What practicing Christians know to be true is that American Christianity and its proclamation is precisely WHY we have prospered for our first 185 years as a nation. God is very real, and very much in the business of corporately blessing those nations who honor Him. And once Christianity is completely taken out of our government creeds, currency, schools, laws and monuments ... religious tolerance will be gone with it, not to mention the removal of the hand and blessing of God this nation has enjoyed without precedent for over 200 years. The South Carolina Supreme Court agreed with this notion in the case of the City of Charleston v. Benjamin (1846). The court wrote:

What gave to us this noble safeguard of religious toleration ...? It was Christianity .... But this toleration, thus granted, is a religious toleration; it is the free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, with two provisos, one of which, that which guards against acts of licentiousness (immorality), testifies to the Christian construction...

What constitutes the standard of good morals? Is it not Christianity? There certainly is none other ... The day of moral virtue in which we live would, in an instant, if that standard were abolished, lapse into the dark and murky night of Pagan immorality...

In the Courts over which we preside, we daily acknowledge Christianity as the most solemn part of our administration. A Christian witness, having no religious scruples about placing his hand upon the book, is sworn upon the holy Evangelists – the books of the New Testament which testify of our Savior’s birth, life, death, and resurrection; this is so common a matter that it is little thought of as an evidence of the part which Christianity has in the common law …

I agree fully to what is beautifully and appropriately said in (the case) Updegraph v. The Commonwealth (1824) … ----Christianity, general Christianity, is, and always has been, a part of the common law: “not Christianity founded on any particular religious tenets; not Christianity with an established church … but Christianity with liberty of the conscience to all men.” #73

David Barton, in his book Original Intent states it this way:

“In the view of the Charleston court, Christian principles had produced America’s toleration for other religions; and while American did legislate according to Christian standards of conduct for social behavior, it did not tell other religions how, where, when, or even whether to worship. The only restraints placed on those religions were that their religious practices not be licentious or subversive of public morality or safety. Aside from those stipulations, America granted broad religious toleration to other religions NOT IN SPITE OF, but BECAUSE of its Christian beliefs.” #74

This distinctly American Christian identity, with a grace toward other religions, is what has set us apart from any other nation before us. We have proven that a Christian nation (with a holy, yet benevolent God) can govern and flourish without banishing those present who do not believe. The freedoms we have enjoyed can exist only amongst a moral people. These liberties will eventually dissipate without a moral compass, or a Moral God. Without the Absolutes of Christianity, all reason is cast aside. Right becomes wrong, and wrong becomes right ... and people become lost within their own philosophies.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light
and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. -Isaiah 5:20, NIV

If we do not work to turn back the deception that has slowly crept into our nation’s corporate mindset about the “neutrality” of secularism … we are doomed to lose this great nation that our forefathers so courageously and selflessly fought for. America became free because it was first Christian … not Christian because it was first free.

"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic." - Dresden James #75

“There is nothing so absurd but if you repeat it often enough people will believe it.” -Dr. William James, Father of Modern Psychology #76

“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.” –Adolf Hitler #77

“How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.” –Adolf Hitler #78

“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” –Edmund Burke #79