Archive for December 1st, 2013

President George Washington

Did George Washington Predict America’s Fall?

In 1788, eight years prior to his Farewell Address, George Washington wrote: “[T]he [federal] government … can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any other despotic or oppressive form so long as there shall remain any virtue in the body of the people.” We are in danger. As our national virtue melts away, it strains credulity to deny that we are entering, as Washington warned, a dark era of American despotism. Like water to the gulch, such despotism pervades in the absence of religion and morality.

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The Foundation on Which the Whole Structure Rests

The Foundation on Which the Whole Structure Rests

When I read “Congress Declares Christianity America’s Religion” at the Right Side, I knew I had read that before. Then I remembered. I read it a few years ago in The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States, written by Benjamin Franklin Morris in 1864. Rather than finding that government should be divorced from the Christian worldview, the congressional investigation found exactly the opposite: our government rests upon God’s truth.

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