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Did You Know of The Many Religious
Symbols in the U.S. Capitol? (rec’d from a reader)
As you walk
up the steps to the Capitol Building which houses the
Supreme
Court, you can see near the top of the building a row of the
world's law
givers and each one is facing one in the middle who is
facing
forward with a full frontal view - it is Moses and the Ten
Commandments!
As you enter
the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments
engraved on each lower portion of each door. As you sit inside the courtroom,
you can see the wall, right above where the Supreme Court judges sit, a display
of the Ten Commandments!
There are
Bible verses etched in stone all over the Federal Buildings
and Monuments
in Washington, D.C.
James
Madison, the fourth president, known as "The Father of Our
Constitution"
made the following statement: "We have staked the whole of all our political
institutions upon the capacity of mankind for
self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern
ourselves, to
control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the
Ten
Commandments of God."
Patrick
Henry, that patriot and Founding Father of our country said, "It cannot be
emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation
was founded
not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions but
on the Gospel
of Jesus Christ".
Every session
of Congress begins with a prayer by a paid preacher, whose salary has been paid
by the taxpayer since 1777.
Fifty-two of
the 55 founders of the Constitution were members of the
established
orthodox churches in the colonies.
Thomas
Jefferson worried that the Courts would overstep their authority and instead of
interpreting the law would begin making law....an oligarchy....the rule of few
over many.
How, then,
have we gotten to the point that everything we have done for
220 years in
this country is now suddenly wrong and unconstitutional?
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