Posted: 01/04/06

SECULAR REASONS WHY AMERICA SHOULD BE UNDER GOD

By William J. Federer

PART II. EQUALITY

            "The principle of equality...follows inevitably from belief in the brotherhood of man through the fatherhood of God...

            "The right to equality has for its foundation reverence for God. If we could imagine that swept away our American government could not long survive."

            - President Calvin Coolidge, September 21, 1924, Address to the Holy Name Society, Washington, D.C.

Where does equality come from?

            The concept that all citizens are equal before the law, having an equal vote in elections, is based on equality before a Supreme Being.

            Harry S Truman stated in his Inaugural Address, 1949:

            "We believe that all men are created equal, because they are created in the image of God."

            President William Henry Harrison, in his Inaugural Address, March 4, 1841, stated:

            "Believing that so far as power is concerned the Beneficent Creator has made no distinction amongst men; that all are upon an equality."

            Daniel Webster, June 17, 1843, at the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument, Charleston, Massachusetts, stated:

            "The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of special revelation from God; but it is also a book which teaches man his own individual responsibility, his own dignity, and his equality with his fellow-man."

            President William Howard Taft stated at a missionary conference, 1908:

            "The spirit of Christianity is pure democracy. It is equality of man before God - the equality of man before the law, which is, as I understand it, the most God-like manifestation that man has been able to make."

            President Herbert Hoover stated in San Diego, California, September 17, 1935:

            "The American system of liberty...is based upon certain inalienable freedoms and protections which in no event the government may infringe...

            "It does not require a lawyer to interpret those provisions. They are as clear as the Ten Commandments...

            "Freedom of worship, freedom of speech and of the press, the right of peaceable assembly, equality before the law....

"In them lies a spiritual right of men. Behind them is the conception which is the highest development of the Christian faith - the conception of individual freedom with brotherhood."

            President Ronald Reagan, in "Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation," published in The Human Life Review, 1983, stated:

            "When Congressman John A. Bingham of Ohio drafted the Fourteenth Amendment to guarantee the rights of life, liberty, and property to all human beings, he explained that all are "entitled to the protection of American laws, because its divine spirit of equality declares that all men are created equal."

IF NO GOD?

            If there is no God - then men are not only not "created," they are not "equal," as Darwin espoused, some are more evolved than others.

            In his "Descent of Man," Darwin referred to Africans and Aboriginal Australians as "savages":

            "Civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world...

            "The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla."

            This concept influenced the Dred Scott Case, 1856, which stated:

            "Slaves had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order...so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect;

            "and that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit."

            This influenced Margaret Sanger, who founded Planned Parenthood and hired Nazi Party member Ernst Rudin as her advisor. In her book "Pivot of Civilization" (1922), she called for:

            "The elimination of 'human weeds'...overrunning the human garden;...for the cessation of 'charity' because it prolonged the lives of the unfit; for the segregation of 'morons, misfits, and the maladjusted'; and for the sterilization of genetically inferior races."

            Sanger influenced Hitler to consider the German, or "Aryan," race as "ubermensch," supermen, being more advanced in the supposed human evolution.

            This resulted in the perverted effort to rid the "human gene pool" of "untermensch," inferior mankind - races considered less evolved, through the gas chambers.

            Joseph Stalin followed by exterminating 25 million "inferior" Ukrainians.

            The consequences are frightful if a country departs from Truman's belief, "that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God."

CANNOT ENJOY RESULT IF NEGLECT CAUSE

            President Calvin Coolidge, celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, July 5, 1926, stated:

            "The principles...which went into the Declaration of Independence...are found in the texts, the sermons, and the writings of the early colonial clergy who were earnestly undertaking to instruct their congregations in the great mystery of how to live.

            "They preached equality because they believed in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man...

            "In those days such doctrines would scarcely have been permitted to flourish and spread in any other country....

            "In order that they might have freedom to express these thoughts and opportunity to put them into action, whole congregations with their pastors had migrated to the colonies....

            "The Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of spiritual conceptions.

            "Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man...have their source and their roots in the religious convictions...

            "Unless the faith of the American in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish.

            "We can not continue to enjoy the result if we neglect and abandon the cause."

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