“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other”
From John Adams to Massachusetts Militia, 11 October 1798

It’s possible that a large percentage of Americans currently residing across the fruited plain may

not agree with me, but I truly do love my country. I’ve had the good fortune to have visited other countries around the globe, and I have to be honest with you — I’ve never seen even one that comes close to enjoying the kind of liberty, generosity, and affluence that the

United States of America does.

When I was a younger man, in the early days of my faith, I often pondered why that was so. What sets us apart? Why does it appear that we are far more blessed than almost any other nation that ever existed in the history of mankind? So I set out

to check it out — to find out why we are so different.

In my humble opinion, I think the answer can be found in the words of our Founding Fathers. There are many valuable writings, but the above quote from John Adams does a good job of providing a window of insight into the

minds of these great men.

And the answer to the question of what is so unique about the American experience is this — those who laid the foundations for our republic were, for the most part, men of faith. They believed that there was a transcendent God who literally spoke the

universe into being and who created mankind in his image. And because they believed that man was created in the image of God, they believed that every person possessed inherent value that could not be negated by other men.

Unfortunately, there have been those who have sought to

rewrite the history of our Founders' faith. This attack has been made on two fronts. One, they point out the moral failures of some of our Founders, as if to say that these men could not have been all that serious about their faith in the Creator because they fell so short of

moral perfection.

They miss the point of the faith of the gospel. Trust me when I tell you that if only perfect men and women could be ambassadors for Christ in this world, then we are all in deep trouble — no one can live up to that standard. None of us is perfect, and neither

were our Founders.

But I suspect that something else is in play here, and that is this: If there are people who want to reshape America into a new society (and there are), there’s one person that has to be eliminated before that can happen — God Almighty!

So the second prong

of the attack on the faith of our Fathers is that the majority of them didn’t even profess to be Christians to begin with. The idea that the majority of them were professing Christians is a lie.

My argument is simple. It was faithful and godly men and women who used the words

that came from our Founding Fathers (which they gleaned from scripture) to protect the rights of Native Americans, to eliminate slavery, to defeat Nazi aggression and Japanese expansion, and to demolish Jim Crow laws that kept African Americans from enjoying the American Dream.

And now it is followers of Christ who are calling for the rights of the unborn to be honored by abolishing the evil practice of abortion.

Yes, our Founders faltered (morally). They were imperfect. But guess what — so are we and so do we. We are imperfect and we have our moral

failings — every last one of us — even the moral watchdogs on the left.

But in the end, let’s say we destroy the foundation of faith left to us by the likes of John Adams. Then what? I would argue that we would then be a large ship without any rudder at all. We would be on our

own, and I can’t think of a horror greater than that one.

Phil Robertson