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From Christopher Columbus to the Founding Fathers, from our currency to our monuments, Christianity is everywhere in America. But its importance is denied, denigrated, and is disappearing from our culture because atheists and secularists have mounted a relentless campaign to eliminate it by "historical deception." The separation of church and state is often the ostensible reason given for the elimination of the Bible, the Ten Commandments, and Christian holidays and symbols from society. One Nation Under God debunks the concept of separation of church and state. We misinterpret Thomas Jefferson to our detriment. Out of over 100,000 documents written by the Founding Fathers, Jefferson's reference to "wall of separation of church and state" (which in its context was meant as much to protect religion from government as government from religion) has been seized upon to remove Christianity from public discourse. Wampler quotes many other Founders, showing their devotion to God and Jesus. In fact, One Nation Under God is suitable as a textbook for understanding the beliefs of the Founders. Patrick Henry, for example, said that "America was not founded by religionists but by Christians. It was not founded upon religions but upon the gospel of Jesus Christ." Often portrayed as a non-believer, Benjamin Franklin declared as his creed: I believe in one God, the Creator of the universe. That he governs it by his providence. . . . That the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. The author clearly states the risks the nation faces by having moved away from Christian values and by disregarding Christian principles. He writes, "Isn't it a shame we've taken prayer out of our schools and then been forced to install metal detectors?" Wampler urges all citizens who are concerned about the nation's moral decline, and Christians in particular, to stand up to those who would destroy the nation by disregarding its roots. (Evergreen Press, 2008, 184 pp., $24.99) |
Wampler states, "Neither at the state nor federal level does Jefferson demonstrate any proclivity toward the obsessive secularization for which the courts have used him." Although he was more of a free thinker than a devout Christian, Jefferson founded the University of Virginia, where there was to be a professor of ethics to teach "the proofs of the being of a God, the creator, preserver, and supreme ruler of the universe, the author of all the relations of morality, and of the laws and obligations these infer . . ."
