- DANGEROUS RADICALS OF THE RELIGIOUS
RIGHT !
- by Dave MacPherson
[quotes are from Vital Quotations by Emerson West]
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- ROBERT E. LEE: "In all my perplexities and
distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength."
(p. 21)
DANIEL WEBSTER: "If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our
country will go on prospering and to prosper." (p. 21)
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS: "I have made it a practice for several years to read
the Bible through in the course of every year." (p. 22)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: "I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever
given to man. All the good from the Saviour of the world is communicated
to us through this book." (p. 22)
GEORGE WASHINGTON: "It is impossible to rightly govern the world without
God and the Bible." (p. 22)
HORACE GREELEY: "It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a
Bible-reading people." (p. 23)
THOMAS JEFFERSON: "I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by himself
to be the most pure, benevolent, and sublime which have ever been
preached to man. I adhere to the principles of the first age; and
consider all subsequent innovations as corruptions of this religion,
having no foundation in what came from him." (p. 45)
THOMAS JEFFERSON: "Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as
pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would by now
have become Christian." (p. 47)
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: "As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you
particularly desire, I think the system of morals and his religion, as
he left them to us, is the best the world ever saw, or is likely to
see." (p.49)
WOODROW WILSON: "The sum of the whole matter is this----that our
civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed
spiritually. It can only be saved by becoming permeated with the spirit
of Christ and being made free and happy by practices which spring out of
that spirit." (p. 143)
PATRICK HENRY: "There is a just God who presides over the destiny of
nations." (p. 145)
THOMAS JEFFERSON: "Material abundance without character is the surest
way to destruction." (p. 225)
THOMAS JEFFERSON: "Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern,
which have come under my observation, none appear to me so pure as that
of Jesus." (p. 237)
GEORGE WASHINGTON: "The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing
and swearing is a vice so mean and low, that every person of sense and
character detests and despises it." (p. 283)
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: "Here is my creed. I believe in one God, the Creator
of the universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to
be worshiped." (p. 301)
CALVIN COOLIDGE: "The strength of a country is the strength of its
religious convictions." (p. 305)
GEORGE WASHINGTON: "The perpetuity of this nation depends upon the
religious education of the young." (p. 306)
Prior to our increasingly "Hell-Bound and Happy" era, America's greatest
leaders were part of the (gulp) Religious Right! Today we have forgotten
God's threat (to abort America) in Psa. 50:22----"Now consider this, ye
that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to
deliver."
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