“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” (2Corinthians 3:17)
Depending who you listen to, the American Experiment was either the greatest triumph of human government or a manifestation of an evil empire that brought slavery and repression and oppression and the degradation of the human spirit – perhaps beyond any that has come before. Yet millions of people risk lives and fortunes to come here – both legally and illegally. America then, is somewhat of an enigma. And the polls reflect it.
Gallup and others having been taking the temperature of the American zeitgeist. Pride in America is way down among certain groups. Still however, about 53% of Americans are extremely or very proud of their country. That number is down from 87% in 2001. But when we look at the parties, the numbers show extreme cleavage. Only 14% of democrats say they are extremely proud.[i] It’s an interesting dichotomy. Those who reject or seek to reinterpret our Constitution and our history are most likely to be ashamed of our nation.
We have in recent decades been in a war for our culture. Objective morality as biblically defined has been slipping. The sins of homosexuality and pride have been enshrined as moral virtues. Abortion has been installed as a holy ritual – a sacrament to Satan. Former satanists have admitted as much. Zachary King, a former Satanic High Wizard, said this. “Blood is the binding agent in a Satanic anything. Ultimately, you’re wanting the blood of the baby because that is the Satanic sacrifice.”[ii] And so there is a great divide. But it is not the first time in American history that this is so. Now, I’m going to say something controversial. But is was once not controversial at all. It was widely accepted and known to be true. America was founded on a Christian foundation. Various Supreme Court decisions may have dragged us away from our roots. But this was not always so. We once were a nation dedicated to God.
It began in 1606 when King James of England granted a charter for the foundation of the Jamestown colony whose first purpose was the furtherance of the spread of the Gospel in the New World. The next year, the Jamestown settlers ratified that sentiment as they founded that first settlement in Virginia, in what would later become the United States.[iii] A cross was planted at the landing of the Virginia Company in 1607. In the dedication the colonists declared, “…by the providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the glory of His Divine Majesty, in propagating of the Christian religion to such people as yet live in darkness and miserable ignorance of the true knowledge and worship of God.”[iv] This was the declaration of a people who were declaring their purpose and that purpose was directly in line with the charge of Scripture to “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations.” (Matthew 28:19) America was so dedicated again in the Mayflower Compact of 1620. What we colloquially call the Pilgrims, were called Separatists or Puritans. They had left England, separating themselves from the Church of England. They sought to worship God according to what they saw as the purer principles of their faith. So sitting in the waters off of Plymouth, before they landed, they established a document that would serve as the basis for the government of the new colony. Here’s how they began. “In the name of God, Amen. ….Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic.” They were establishing a Government based on God & the Advancement of Christianity. Puritans left England seeking the opportunity to worship according to the dictates of their consciences. That is our heritage! Our Founding Fathers, whether believers or not – accepted the Judeo / Christian Tradition as the foundation upon which the new nation should and would be built. That tradition continued through the British colonial period up to and including the Revolutionary years. Many of our earliest statesmen affirmed this connection between Biblical principle and practical government. John Adams wrote: “The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity.”[v] And Patrick Henry explained it plainly. “Righteousness alone can exalt America as a nation.”[vi]
America was the only nation besides God’s chosen nation, Israel, that was dedicated to Jehovah God at its founding. Israel’s dedication was administered at the hands of King Solomon at the dedication of the First Temple as recorded in 2Chronicles 7. The United States saw its official dedication occur at the behest of President George Washington on the occasion of his first inaugural, April 30, 1789. The site was St Paul’s Chapel right next to what would later become Ground Zero for the 9/11 attack. It was there that Washington, VP John Adams and members of the House of Representatives and the Senate knelt in prayer as they sought God’s protection and favor for the new nation. And here’s the important thing: By publicly dedicating the United States to the God of the Bible, they were both expressly and implicitly accepting the standards set forth by God Himself. They were accepting His Word as the POINT of AUTHORITY that would set the standard for the governance of the country. But over the years have snubbed their noses at the Laws of God set forth in Scripture and established a law put forth by man alone. They rejected that POINT of AUTHORITY. America has determined to live apart from the Laws of God. Against the laws logic, we’ve tacitly taught that every path to God is equally valid. This is not the tolerance that allows the marketplace of ideas to sort out TRUTH. Instead, it is the intellectually lazy and morally bankrupt embrace of an anti-rational ethic that says that contradictory truth claims can all be ‘true’ at the same time. This has contributed to the rejection of our heritage. We no longer look to the past of our settling, when so many were driven by the love of God and the purposes of His service. We no longer look to the founding of this country when principles of governance and freedom were enshrined upon the foundations of our national temple; engraved in the ethic of our founding documents. We no longer seek freedom for men to pursue their own destiny – but rather a squishy ‘social justice’ that does not allow us to defend those principles upon which we were founded. And thus we wander into a wilderness of hyper-tolerance and flee from those laws of logic and truth.
[i] American Pride Falls to 25-Year Record Low, Gallup, June 29, 2026
[ii] The New Old Ritual of Child Sacrifice Is Finding a New Home in “Christian” America, Salvo Magazine, November 25, 2019
[iii] Ray Gano, Israel – America – Isaiah & God’s Judgment – A Nation Dedicated To God, Prophezine, Viewed July 15, 2015
[iv] Craig von Buseck, Faith of Our Fathers, CBN, viewed December 9, 2009
[v] The Adams quote found in: Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Washington D. C.:
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1904), Vol. XIII, p. 292-294. In a letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson dated:
June 28, 1813.
[vi] Patrick Henry, Patrick Henry: Life, Correspondence and Speeches, William Wirt Henry, editor (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons,
1891, Vol. II, p. 592, to Archibald Blair on January 8, 1799
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