Do You Know?
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.
The very first Supreme Court Justice, John
Jay, said, "Americans should select and prefer Christians as their
rulers."
