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It's true it's Public Law 97-280 Oct 4 1982 proclaiming 1983 as the " Year Of The Bible " resolved by the Senate and House Of Representives in the United States Of America in Congress Assembled. Of the contribution the Bible had on our Founding Fathers and the Founding Of This Country & the Freedoms we have in our nation was inspired by this teaching. It's Authenticated U.S. Government Information GPO you can read it here. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-96/pdf/STATUTE-96-Pg1211.pdfThere use to be more agreement, consensus in our Government then and now in getting more away from that our Government our Nation is more divided then ever because we have lost our foundation we have lost our History we have lost our roots and we have lost our way and we are no longer grounded of what is the truth of who we are. Just look how far our nation has fallen since then look at our deficits and debts. We are looking more like a Malachi 3:9 & a Deuteronomy 28:16 plus nation every day. As the Bible says:If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? Psalm 11:3 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge Hosea 4:6 This is the root of our freedom of the freedoms we have endowed not by governments but by our Creator our rights our liberties we have is based on this concept. Here it is... May God Save America Video.. God Save America Again documentary (Full) Crusade to Save our http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdyaIyxDVuw&list=PLRNbzK2W6kSvhDg6ZGbSOPfh3gvQUmTDm
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Democrats and Republicans at one time joined together to pass Resolution 847 acknowledging the supporting role that Christians and Christianity had in founding this country and what is wrong with that if it is true? If that is our history that is our history. Also they are recognizing the Importance of Christmas in our country as it is a Federal Holiday. Here is the vote here is the text and even with it being so we have always had non-christians in this country but does that mean we still can't have our history or our Holiday? Here is the text here is the vote listed all on this site. http://www.jewsonfirst.org/07c/xmas_war_congress.htmlAnd as Ben Stein said...
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Christmas wasn’t declared a federal holiday until June 26, 1870 but that was still a long time ago and the history in our country. What about Thanksgiving that's our history too. And Ben Stein said..
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Many folks think Ben Stein is just a quirky actor/comedian who talks in a monotone. He's also a very intelligent attorney who knows how to put ideas and words together in such a way as to sway juries and make people think clearly. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on
CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.
Here with a few confessions from my beating heart: I have no freaking clue who Nick and Jessica are. I see them on the cover of People and Us constantly when I am buying my dog biscuits and kitty litter. I often ask the checkers at the grocery stores. They never know who Nick and Jessica are either. Who are they? Will it change my life if I know who they are and why they have broken up? Why are they so important?
I don't know who Lindsay Lohan is either, and I do not care at all about Tom Cruise's wife. Am I going to be called before a Senate committee and asked if I am a subversive? Maybe, but I just have no clue who Nick and Jessica are. If this is what it means to be no longer young. It's not so bad.
Next confession: I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejewelled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees.
It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, "Merry Christmas" to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu.
If people want a crèche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the constitution, and I don't like it being shoved down my throat. Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him?
I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew went to. In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her "How could God let something like this Happen?" (regarding Katrina) Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, "I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?"
In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school . The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbour as yourself. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK.
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves. Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW."
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says.
Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
Are you laughing?
Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.
Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.
Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.
My Best Regards . honestly and respectfully,
Ben Stein
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You cannot have a society thats free without the freedom of speech & the freedom of the press, you just cannot. When you take the expression of speech wether written or spoken the ability for someone to articulate their point of view away then you are stealing the basic foundational freedoms of a nation away. The freedoms we have enjoyed in this country that some other countries do not have is based on the freedom to speak up and out. Without that right the oppression of the people will surely follow. The Founding Fathers got that right called "The Bill of Rights." For a free society thats a must to teach in our schools. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances... Amendment I
The Founding Fathers are not outdated or old fashion as you cannot have a society thats free without the freedom of speech & the freedom of the press, you just cannot. The freedoms we have enjoyed in this country that some other countries do not have is based on the freedom to speak up and out. Without that right the oppression of the people will surely follow. The Founding Fathers got that right called "The Bill of Rights." What our Founding Fathers did for the people of this nation is not old-fashioned or outdated. They knew tyranny they fought it they were well educated in it foresaw it and we should Thank them for their foresight. Many of the freedoms we have enjoyed in this nation is based on that principle.
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Many of the freedoms we have enjoyed in this nation is based on that principle. But even though being based on that principle has it always been followed justly, NO! Depending on the people in office the Government of that time and the people of that time not everyone has enjoyed all the justices endowed by it. "We the People" is just that "We The People" and covers just that, "We The People." Some people want to read "We The People" as pertaining to only certain people because women and others where excluded in many ways in the past. But that was not the fault of what was written it was the fault of how it was implemented at that time as the Document is Beautifully Written. This Document belongs to the people and can be read here. http://constitutionus.com/ We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
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The Founding Fathers knew how important a "free press" is to a "free society". We need to be able to get the truth of what is going on from the people by the people from the press. The FCC monitering newrooms is akin to governmental interference & intimidation and is clearly against the First Amendment. There should be a public outcry from U.S citizens in general as it's not up to them to assess the coverage of a free press wether in politics or public health issues government should not have the control of that over the publics right to know. It's a slippery slope and next it will be the internet freedom of information by it's citizens right to know. It is a slippery slope. http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...8-9a71-11e3-80ac-63a8ba7f7942_story.html
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Our liberty Depends On The Freedom Of The Press Thomas Jefferson Americans say No to the monitering of free speech. So they have backed off for now. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/21/sekulow-a-tone-deaf-fcc-hears-a-retort-loud-and-cl/The Critical Information Needs of the American public is a free press to hear both sides of the issue freely. Thats our critical information needs it's the need to know and the freedom of the American public to find out for ourselves what we deem to be true & what we need to know. We are not cookie cutter people and we do not need a cookie cutter press we shall decide what is the critical needs to know issues of the day. Thats how a free press needs to be the freedom to report. A free society needs to moniter their government and not through rose colored glasses but to be involved in issues of the day. For now they are changing direction and people need to continue to moniter and be involved on what that means and what that is? And may God still have mercy on America.
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Life, Liberty, The Pursuit Of Happiness Principles Of A Free Society... Different World views in the debate so what kind of a society will we be? Muslim & Christian views on Life & Liberty : Ravi Zacharias answering http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y97m4V414s
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What Kind Of A Society Will We Be? If the foundation of a society is broken does normalcy bias set in? Did normalcy bias overcome Ancient Israel when it's foundation became broken and God let Judgement befall them. How far has America fallen & are we living in a state of denial right now. Normalcy Bias http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hdf675sUAc
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And The Clock Keeps Ticking Away.. And there is one thing for sure since we have lost our foundation of who we are as a people. Things have gotten much worse for us as a people & as a nation. As these charts show things have not got better at all. Will God save America if we take God out of America? It's time to pray. What Taking Prayer Out Of School Has Done http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvmmlDKfIoU
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And the clock keeps ticking away.... What's the matter with America it seems to be a matter of the heart. We have changed so much and it's not all for the better. We were once a much stronger nation a more together nation and our debt in the 1980's was small compared to what it is today. How high could the debt ceiling go before no one will lend to us anymore? How could we go from 1 trillion to almost 18 trillion in borrowing debt in such a short length of time on the chart it seems. Because it seems like America has developed a stony heart. May God save us from ourselves as we have drifted as a nation so far away from being the people we use to be. We need a new heart for God as it seems to be a matter of the heart. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. Ezekiel 36:26
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