July 5, 2020: Our founding is founded on faith * Letter to the Editor * OPINION * Del Rio News-Herald
Letter to
the Editor,
Our founding is founded on faith
Our founding is founded on faith
In its beginning, our country started as long-suffering, struggling colonies.
It was the
height of foolishness and recklessness to take on the majestically mighty British
Empire.
How did these
colonies grow to become the greatest global super-power in world history?
It was
because of godly, Christian principles that America became a great nation and
our daring national experiment has succeeded spectacularly.
Our nation, under
God, has deep-seated Christian roots.
The First
Charter of Massachusetts in 1629 stated all would “be so religiously,
peaceably, and civilly governed, as their good life and orderly conversation
may win and incite the knowledge and obedience of the only true God and Savior
of mankind, and the Christian faith, which in our royal intention and profession,
is the principal end.”
The
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut in 1639 were adopted “to maintain and
preserve the liberty and purity of the gospel of our Lord Jesus which we now
profess.”
The Great
Law of Pennsylvania enacted in 1682 established “laws as shall best preserve
true Christian and civil liberty, in opposition to all unchristian, licentious,
and unjust practices, whereby God may have his due, Caesar his due, and the
people their due.”
Our first
president George Washington said in his Farewell Address, “Religion and
morality are the firmest duties of citizens and therefore are indispensable
supports of the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity.
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can
prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
In some
colonies, Sunday laws were enforced, church attendance was mandatory, and
biblical morality was essential.
The Bible
was first-and-foremost in American thinking; the nation identified as Christian
and was a God-fearing country.
It was our
biblically-based foundations that paved the way to greatness.
To the
extent that we have veered off this proven and powerful path, that we have lost
our faith, fallen away and gone astray; that our downfall is unfortunately
inevitable, unless and until there is a refreshing and revitalizing religious
renewal and revival.
Marian Casillas, Ed.D.Del Rio, Texas