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Previously Recorded by Phyllis Schlafly
The ACLU and other atheist lawyers have been trying to get activist judges to rule that we must abolish all references to God from every public place, courtroom, and school. What they are trying to do is to change American history, expunge all reference to religion from the history books, and make us a completely secular nation. The trouble with that goal is that history proves that America was founded by religious men who believed that belief in a divine Creator was basic to our new government. This is proved by our founding document, the Declaration of Independence, which was written by Thomas Jefferson.
In the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson wrote the official and unequivocal recognition by the American people of their belief and faith in God. The Declaration affirms God's existence as a "self-evident" truth that requires no further discussion or debate. The nation created by the great Declaration is God's country. The rights it defines are God-given. The actions of its signers are God-inspired.
The Declaration of Independence contains five references to God – God as Creator of all men, God as the supreme Lawmaker, God as the Source of all rights, God as the world's supreme Judge, and God as our Patron and Protector. The Declaration of Independence declares that each of us is created. If we were created, we must have had a Creator.
The Declaration of Independence proclaims that life and liberty are the unalienable gifts of God – natural rights – which no person or government can rightfully take away. It affirms that the purpose of government is to secure our God-given unalienable individual rights, and that government derives its powers from the consent of the governed. Our Declaration reduced government from master to servant, for the first time in history. I urge you to celebrate this Fourth of July, by reading the Declaration of
Independence, America's founding document.
