There is a link to references and source documents at the end of this narration.
In the last few years I have come to reexamine all the things I have been taught and believed to be true. Was everything I was taught was a lie? What were the lies of commission, what were the lies omission? As I started to look into American History I began to read older history books, especially if they referenced the original source documents. One of the things that stuck with me from high school was that our founding fathers were all either atheists or deists, not to mention the AntiWhite slur “racists” But what about the religious heritage of the pilgrims, the puritans, the Mayflower compact, was all that left behind by our founding fathers? Evidently the thinking of our founders had evolved. The founders were men of the enlightenment, reason, and logic, not a bunch of Bible thumpers. But what is Deism anyway? A quick lookup revealed:
Deism or “the religion of nature” was a form of rational theology that emerged among “freethinking” Europeans in the 17th and 18th centuries. In general, Deism refers to what can be called natural religion, the acceptance of a certain body of religious knowledge that is inborn in every person, or that can be acquired by the use of reason. It is the rejection of religious knowledge when it is acquired through either Biblical revelation or the teaching of any church. Certainly there is no personal God, there is no Jesus Christ, There is no God that concerns himself with the affairs of men. Instead our founding fathers relied on the classical philosophers of Greece and Rome along with the ideas of the enlightenment philosophers, men like Montesgquieu and John Locke.
Deists denied that the Bible was anything special, maybe just a set of interesting tall tales. I talked with some guys that went through high school in the 1970s and they were pretty much all taught the same, our Founding fathers were all pretty much Deists, not Bible believers.
I picked up a book written in 1848 on the lives of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Where would this book lead me?
Independence Hall, Philadelphia, July 2, 1776 the founding fathers of the United States of America just voted to approve a complete separation from Great Britain. On July 4th they approved the declaration of Independence. Four days later on July 8th they carried the Declaration outside and read it to the assembled crowd. And then a bell was rung, rung to declare liberty, The bell would from that point on be known as the liberty bell. In high school I had been taught that after they rang the bell it became known as the liberty bell as its ringing ushered in liberty. I think most people probably assume the bell got it’s name that way. But as it turns out the bell got its name from the Biblical inscription on it …wait a minute, what! A Bible verse on the Liberty Bell? Yes, there is a Biblical inscription on the bell, an excerpt from the book of Leviticus, chapter 25, verse 10: Proclaim liberty throughout the land, and to all the inhabitants thereof.
According to the US National Park Service:
The Liberty Bell's inscription is from the Bible (King James version): "Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land Unto All the Inhabitants thereof." Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly Isaac Norris chose this inscription for the State House bell in 1751, possibly to commemorate the 50th anniversary of William Penn's 1701 Charter of Privileges.
Hmm, interesting, I never knew that, they certainly didn’t tell me about that in high school. I don’t recall anybody even asking the question. Ok, that is interesting but that by itself doesn't prove anything.
Next door to Independence Hall is Carpenter’s Hall, the building in which the first Continental Congress met. In 1774, as tensions between the colonists and crown were heating up around 40 of what today we would call America’s leading patriots met in Carpenter’s Hall. As a point of reference the Boston massacre occurred 4 years earlier in 1770, The Boston tea party in 1773, and a series of what the Colonists called, “the intolerable acts” in 1774 which included a blockade of Boston Harbour. So, in September of 1774 when the delegates met in Carpenter’s Hall they had a lot to discuss and to discern. What course of action should they take? But before deliberations were began the delegates opened with prayer. It was The reverend Jacob Duche who would open the first American Congress with prayer. But it was no ordinary prayer, John Adams in his letters described it thus: The reverend Duche unexpectedly to everybody, struck out into an extraordinary prayer which filled the bosom of every man. I must confess, I never heard a better prayer, with such fervor and ardor, such earnestness, and pathos, so elegant and sublime.
Silas Deane, another member of the Congress declared that it was a prayer worth riding 100 miles to hear. In 1776 that would take 3 days. In addition to the prayer 4 Bible chapters were read, Pslam 35, Pslam 36, Amos 9, and Matthew 8. That’s more bible than you get in a typical church service today. Evidently seeking the guidance of God, in prayer, and through the reading of the Bible was an essential pre-requisite given the gravity of the task at hand.
Ok, well I never learned that in history class either.
As the revolutionary war was ending General Washington circulated a letter to all the states. It read in part: The foundation of America was not laid in the gloomy age of ignorance and superstition, but in an epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than in any former period, the researches of the human mind, after social happiness, have been carried to a great extent, the treasures of knowledge, acquired by the labors of philosophers, sages and legislatures, through a long succession of years, are laid open for our use, and their collected wisdom may be happily applied in the establishment of our forms of government; the free cultivation of letters, the unbounded extension of Commerce, the progressive refinement of manners, the growing liberality of sentiment, and above all, the pure and benign light of the Revelation [of the Bible] , have had an ameliorating influence on mankind and increased the blessings of society. At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a nation, and if their citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own
Hmm, another thing I never learned about in history class. Yes, but this is all just a few anecdotal examples. That is what two political science professors thought also. The professors, Charles Hyneman and Donald Lutz assembled 15,000 representative writings of the founding era, from 1760-1805. They isolated 3,154 direct quotes from the writings. They found that the top 3 most often quoted persons were: Charles Montesquieu 8.3%, William Blackstone 7.9%, John Locke 2.9%. But the single most cited SOURCE was the Bible, with 34% of the quotes coming from the Bible. And Blackstone often used the Bible to support much of his reasoning making the Bible by far the most influential source of ideas during the founding era. Hyneman and Lutz published their results in 1983.
Never heard of it? Doesn’t really fit the narrative that the destroyers of Westernkind would want you to believe.
To close, let’s take a look into George Washington’s Farewell address. Washington’s farewell address was considered the most important communication ever made to a nation by one of its leaders. So much so, that for generations of school children, the Farewell Address was published as a text book, to be read, to be studied, compositions were to be written about it, and the contents to be test on. But today it has totally disappeared from our schools. Why is that? It doesn’t fit the AntiWhite, antichristian, antireligious narrative that the victimizers of Westernkind want you to believe. Let’s take a look at a few quotes.
Apparently too much religious content for today’s AntiWhite schools. Not a Christian? That is not the point. The point is our history, our cultural memory, is being systematically erased in the cause of AntiWhitism.
References:
Lives Of The Signers
by B.J. Lossing 1848
George F. Cooledge & Brother, Publishers and Booksellers
323 Pearl Street
The American Story, The Begginings, 2nd Addition, 2021
by David Barton
Aledo, Tx
Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
US Government Printing Office, 1904
Letters of John Adams To His Wife
Charles Francis Adams Editor
The Deane Papers: Collection of the New York Historical Society, 1887
In the last few years I have come to reexamine all the things I have been taught and believed to be true. Was everything I was taught was a lie? What were the lies of commission, what were the lies omission? As I started to look into American History I began to read older history books, especially if they referenced the original source documents. One of the things that stuck with me from high school was that our founding fathers were all either atheists or deists, not to mention the AntiWhite slur “racists” But what about the religious heritage of the pilgrims, the puritans, the Mayflower compact, was all that left behind by our founding fathers? Evidently the thinking of our founders had evolved. The founders were men of the enlightenment, reason, and logic, not a bunch of Bible thumpers. But what is Deism anyway? A quick lookup revealed:
Deism or “the religion of nature” was a form of rational theology that emerged among “freethinking” Europeans in the 17th and 18th centuries. In general, Deism refers to what can be called natural religion, the acceptance of a certain body of religious knowledge that is inborn in every person, or that can be acquired by the use of reason. It is the rejection of religious knowledge when it is acquired through either Biblical revelation or the teaching of any church. Certainly there is no personal God, there is no Jesus Christ, There is no God that concerns himself with the affairs of men. Instead our founding fathers relied on the classical philosophers of Greece and Rome along with the ideas of the enlightenment philosophers, men like Montesgquieu and John Locke.
Deists denied that the Bible was anything special, maybe just a set of interesting tall tales. I talked with some guys that went through high school in the 1970s and they were pretty much all taught the same, our Founding fathers were all pretty much Deists, not Bible believers.
I picked up a book written in 1848 on the lives of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Where would this book lead me?
Independence Hall, Philadelphia, July 2, 1776 the founding fathers of the United States of America just voted to approve a complete separation from Great Britain. On July 4th they approved the declaration of Independence. Four days later on July 8th they carried the Declaration outside and read it to the assembled crowd. And then a bell was rung, rung to declare liberty, The bell would from that point on be known as the liberty bell. In high school I had been taught that after they rang the bell it became known as the liberty bell as its ringing ushered in liberty. I think most people probably assume the bell got it’s name that way. But as it turns out the bell got its name from the Biblical inscription on it …wait a minute, what! A Bible verse on the Liberty Bell? Yes, there is a Biblical inscription on the bell, an excerpt from the book of Leviticus, chapter 25, verse 10: Proclaim liberty throughout the land, and to all the inhabitants thereof.
According to the US National Park Service:
The Liberty Bell's inscription is from the Bible (King James version): "Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land Unto All the Inhabitants thereof." Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly Isaac Norris chose this inscription for the State House bell in 1751, possibly to commemorate the 50th anniversary of William Penn's 1701 Charter of Privileges.
Hmm, interesting, I never knew that, they certainly didn’t tell me about that in high school. I don’t recall anybody even asking the question. Ok, that is interesting but that by itself doesn't prove anything.
Next door to Independence Hall is Carpenter’s Hall, the building in which the first Continental Congress met. In 1774, as tensions between the colonists and crown were heating up around 40 of what today we would call America’s leading patriots met in Carpenter’s Hall. As a point of reference the Boston massacre occurred 4 years earlier in 1770, The Boston tea party in 1773, and a series of what the Colonists called, “the intolerable acts” in 1774 which included a blockade of Boston Harbour. So, in September of 1774 when the delegates met in Carpenter’s Hall they had a lot to discuss and to discern. What course of action should they take? But before deliberations were began the delegates opened with prayer. It was The reverend Jacob Duche who would open the first American Congress with prayer. But it was no ordinary prayer, John Adams in his letters described it thus: The reverend Duche unexpectedly to everybody, struck out into an extraordinary prayer which filled the bosom of every man. I must confess, I never heard a better prayer, with such fervor and ardor, such earnestness, and pathos, so elegant and sublime.
Silas Deane, another member of the Congress declared that it was a prayer worth riding 100 miles to hear. In 1776 that would take 3 days. In addition to the prayer 4 Bible chapters were read, Pslam 35, Pslam 36, Amos 9, and Matthew 8. That’s more bible than you get in a typical church service today. Evidently seeking the guidance of God, in prayer, and through the reading of the Bible was an essential pre-requisite given the gravity of the task at hand.
Ok, well I never learned that in history class either.
As the revolutionary war was ending General Washington circulated a letter to all the states. It read in part: The foundation of America was not laid in the gloomy age of ignorance and superstition, but in an epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than in any former period, the researches of the human mind, after social happiness, have been carried to a great extent, the treasures of knowledge, acquired by the labors of philosophers, sages and legislatures, through a long succession of years, are laid open for our use, and their collected wisdom may be happily applied in the establishment of our forms of government; the free cultivation of letters, the unbounded extension of Commerce, the progressive refinement of manners, the growing liberality of sentiment, and above all, the pure and benign light of the Revelation [of the Bible] , have had an ameliorating influence on mankind and increased the blessings of society. At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a nation, and if their citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own
Hmm, another thing I never learned about in history class. Yes, but this is all just a few anecdotal examples. That is what two political science professors thought also. The professors, Charles Hyneman and Donald Lutz assembled 15,000 representative writings of the founding era, from 1760-1805. They isolated 3,154 direct quotes from the writings. They found that the top 3 most often quoted persons were: Charles Montesquieu 8.3%, William Blackstone 7.9%, John Locke 2.9%. But the single most cited SOURCE was the Bible, with 34% of the quotes coming from the Bible. And Blackstone often used the Bible to support much of his reasoning making the Bible by far the most influential source of ideas during the founding era. Hyneman and Lutz published their results in 1983.
Never heard of it? Doesn’t really fit the narrative that the destroyers of Westernkind would want you to believe.
To close, let’s take a look into George Washington’s Farewell address. Washington’s farewell address was considered the most important communication ever made to a nation by one of its leaders. So much so, that for generations of school children, the Farewell Address was published as a text book, to be read, to be studied, compositions were to be written about it, and the contents to be test on. But today it has totally disappeared from our schools. Why is that? It doesn’t fit the AntiWhite, antichristian, antireligious narrative that the victimizers of Westernkind want you to believe. Let’s take a look at a few quotes.
- Observe good faith & justice towards all Nations cultivate peace & harmony with all—Religion & morality make this conduct possible.
- Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and morality are indispensable
- let us not think that morality can be maintained without religion.
- experience shows us that National morality can not prevail when religious principles are excluded.
- The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign Nations is extending our commercial relations to them. And then to have as little political connection with them as possible.
Apparently too much religious content for today’s AntiWhite schools. Not a Christian? That is not the point. The point is our history, our cultural memory, is being systematically erased in the cause of AntiWhitism.
References:
Lives Of The Signers
by B.J. Lossing 1848
George F. Cooledge & Brother, Publishers and Booksellers
323 Pearl Street
The American Story, The Begginings, 2nd Addition, 2021
by David Barton
Aledo, Tx
Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
US Government Printing Office, 1904
Letters of John Adams To His Wife
Charles Francis Adams Editor
The Deane Papers: Collection of the New York Historical Society, 1887