The great John Quincy Adams once reflected that America combined civil government with Christian principles. This is true, and it also provides a warning to us because America without Judaism and Christianity is doomed to failure — our political liberty cannot survive without the virtues and principles enshrined in the Bible.
Abortion, homosexual “marriage,” promiscuity, sexual grooming of children, contraception, transgenderism, secularism: How many are the anti-biblical and evil practices ubiquitous in America today! If we wonder why it is that so many of our rights and liberties are being undermined, we must look no further than the fact that we are no longer a Christian nation.
Adams, a congressman and president of great integrity and reverence for our founding principles (unlike his corrupt and anti-constitutional Democrat opponent, Andrew Jackson), was born on July 11, 1767. He grew up amid the Revolution, as his father worked to declare independence. But by the time Adams was a statesman, the union that his father, John Adams, worked so hard to form was in danger of tearing apart, and the main source of division was slavery.
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Adams was a passionate abolitionist (another difference between him and abusive slave owner Jackson), and he understood what many Americans wanted to deny; namely, either slavery would end, or America would. But whether debating slavery or any other topic, Adams kept before him always the founding principles of liberty, equality, and Judeo-Christian justice.
Hence, he reflected in a letter, “The highest, the transcendent glory of the American Revolution was this–it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the precepts of Christianity.”
America presented the first example in all of history when a nation applied the religious teaching enshrined by Christ Himself in the parable of the talents (see Matthew 25) to the political sphere. Jesus was, of course, most distinctly not a political leader, but He did impress upon us the universal truth, which God established, that every man possesses certain talents which he is required to use in order to merit eternal life.
However, almost every political system in history has restricted men from using their talents, forcing them to have certain positions and jobs based on accidents outside of their control, such as their parentage and their social station. Not so in America. This country was founded on the idea that every man could and should use his talents as God intended, without class structures or parentage holding him back artificially.
Now, of course, in practice, that has not always been the case, because men are weak and often fall from their own ideals. The worst example of America contradicting its own ideals was through slavery. The Declaration of Independence argued that all men are created equal and endowed by God with unalienable rights. However, countless individuals living in America at the time were considered not to have any rights simply because of their skin color. This contradiction had to be resolved. America was founded as a Judeo-Christian nation, and it had to choose to live up to its virtuous ideals, or it would fail altogether.
We ultimately made that choice in the Civil War, with the Republicans and Unionists triumphing over the Democrats and ending slavery. But the Democrats did not give up there. They have been corrupting and manipulating our institutions ever since to try and destroy America from within. And one of the primary ways they have done that in our era is by attacking Judaism and Christianity, by trying to lead America ever further away from the Bible and the teachings of God Himself, which so inspired the Founders.
“That the fall of slavery is predetermined in the counsels of omnipotence I cannot doubt; it is a part of the great moral improvement in the condition of man,” said Adams. He faced the great moral dilemma of his day to save the nation his father had helped create. Now it is our turn to address the moral dilemmas of our time and save this nation. What will our choice be? Will we return to the principles that the Bible set forth, or will we let the great American experiment fail?
