Thoughts on Christianity

Bill Brinkworth

For over 200 years, the United States has boasted of its Christian roots. Certainly, not everyone was a Christian, but there was certain respect for those that touted their Christianity. Being a Christian stood for something. It represented honesty, integrity, faithfulness, and godliness. The character of an obedient Christian was much desired.

Here are some of the supporting opinions of Christianity of the past:

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."
"The Founders wanted to guarantee freedom of religion, not freedom from religion." ( Legislating Morality. Co-author Frank Turek, p. 80, 1998.)
Horace Greeley: "It is impossible to enslave mentally and socially a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom."
The Judiciary Committee: "The great, vital, and conservative element in our system (the thing that holds our system together) is the belief of our people in the pure doctrines and divine truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ." (The Judiciary Committee of the U.S. 1854.)
Benjamin Franklin: "If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it?" (Franklin confronting religious critic Thomas Paine.)

The favorable interest in Christianity is fading fast. Here are a few opinions and observations that illustrate the disastrous trend:

Adolph Hitler, (German dictator & Nazi fascist): "The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity." Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew."
Rush Limbaugh: "There is an all-out assault now on the Christian community in this country." (TV program. June 9, 1994.)
“Bill Clinton says the middle-class folks in Topeka who contribute to The 700 Club or Focus on the Family are radicals whose beliefs pose a mortal danger to this nation!" ( Who's Afraid of the Religious Right? p. 12. 1996.)
Senator Jesse Helms: "Within my own lifetime, I have seen the most ferocious assaults on Christian faith and morals; first on the part of the intellectual community, and then on the part of the government…the federal government has not even tried to conceal its hostility to religion." ( Who Will Rule the Future? by Paul McGuire.)
Tim LaHaye: "Liberal humanists now seem to dominate the fields of art, journalism, and communication, which are powerful and uniquely able to spread anti-Christian thought."
Tim LaHaye: "Most media leaders are liberal and much of their programming reflects anti-Christian sentiment."
Tim LaHaye: "Rock musicians are consistent in their disdain and irreverent treatment of Jesus Christ."
"The feminist movement in Western culture is engaged in the slow execution of Christ and Jahweh." (Naomi Goldenberg, Jewish feminist.)
Peter Jones: "Gary L. Bauer, 'In Front of the Children,' Family Research Council Washington Watch (May 1993), reports that at the April 23-25 Homosexual March on Washington, the marchers called for the persecution of Christians by chanting, 'Bring on the lions.'"
Rick Scarborough: "In one generation of silent neglect, we have allowed the revisionists of our history to rewrite our past and deny that we have a Christian heritage." ( Enough is Enough, p. 43.1996.)
Rick Scarborough: "Bashing the Religious Right has become an acceptable political sport." ( Enough is Enough, p. 55)
Rick Scarborough: "In America, about the only thing censored today is Christianity, the same Christianity that was the driving force behind the building of this great nation." ( Enough is Enough, p. 78.)
F. LaGard Smith: "The ACLU is not just religiously neutral, but staunchly anti-religious. Particularly, anti-Christian." ( ACLU: The Devil's Advocate, p. 150, 1996.)
F. LaGard Smith: "If there is anything that the ACLU hates more than censorship, it is any form of public religious expression." ( ACLU: The Devil's Advocate, p. 154)
Supreme Court: “If portions of the New Testament were read without explanation, they could be and…had been psychologically harmful to the child." (The Supreme Court. Abington v. Schempp. 374 U.S. 203, 1963.)
"Over-population is the cause of drive-by shootings' and other social ills, but the root of the problem is Christianity, which posits that people are more important than sea otters and elephants." (Ted Turner, TV mogul & activist. p. 26. National Review . June 8, 1992.)
Dan Quayle: "What the media wants and what the media demands of Christians is very simply this: your silence." (Former Vice President, U.S. Wall Street Journal.)

This article was featured in The Bible View #113.