Top Highlights

• The Hoover Commission, a few years ago, stated that “the most fundamental change in the intellectual life of the United States is the apparent shift from biblical authority and religious sanctions to scientific and factual authority and sanctions.”
• The First Amendment simply bars Congress or the federal government from establishing any religion: it left the states free to continue their existing established churches and thereby gave its clear-cut sanction and protection to the establishment of Christianity and of Christian churches by the states and as a state right.
• The American colonies were all Christian republics. They were, first of all, free and independent states, self-governing republics. They were never a part of England, whatever the school textbooks may say.
• Every state, when the Constitution was adopted, was a Christian republic. Nine of the thirteen had one or more established churches. Christianity as a religion, rather than a particular church, was the established faith of the other states.
• In every state, there were religious requirements for holding office and for voting. As a rule, it was at least necessary to hold to Trinitarian Christianity and the inspired and infallible nature of the Bible. It was only in 1902 that New Hampshire dropped the suffrage requirement that one be a “Protestant” in its “Bill of Rights” and changed it t...