[Fellow Think-Alikes: I invite you to publish this
article----some of the "electioneering" I'm doing before the Presidential
Election. May the Lord control your voting arm! One of the Elect,
Dave]
DANGEROUS
RADICALS OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT !
by Dave MacPherson
[quotes
are from Vital Quotations by Emerson West]
ROBERT E. LEE: "In all my
perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light
and strength." (p. 21)
DANIEL WEBSTER: "If we abide by
the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and
to prosper." (p. 21)
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS: "I have made it
a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of
every year." (p. 22)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: "I believe the
Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the
Saviour of the world is communicated to us through this book." (p.
22)
GEORGE WASHINGTON: "It is
impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." (p.
22)
HORACE GREELEY: "It is impossible
to mentally or socially enslave a Bible-reading people." (p. 23)
THOMAS JEFFERSON: "I hold the
precepts of Jesus as delivered by himself to be the most pure, benevolent,
and sublime which have ever been preached to man. I adhere to the
principles of the first age; and consider all subsequent innovations as
corruptions of this religion, having no foundation in what came from him."
(p. 45)
THOMAS JEFFERSON: "Had the
doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his
lips, the whole civilized world would by now have become Christian." (p.
47)
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: "As to Jesus of
Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system
of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, is the best the world
ever saw, or is likely to see." (p.49)
WOODROW WILSON: "The sum of the
whole matter is this----that our civilization cannot survive materially
unless it be redeemed spiritually. It can only be saved by becoming
permeated with the spirit of Christ and being made free and happy by
practices which spring out of that spirit." (p. 143)
PATRICK HENRY: "There is a just
God who presides over the destiny of nations." (p. 145)
THOMAS JEFFERSON: "Material
abundance without character is the surest way to destruction." (p.
225)
THOMAS JEFFERSON: "Of all the
systems of morality, ancient or modern, which have come under my
observation, none appear to me so pure as that of Jesus." (p. 237)
GEORGE WASHINGTON: "The foolish
and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and
low, that every person of sense and character detests and despises it."
(p. 283)
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: "Here is my
creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the universe. That he governs
it by his Providence. That he ought to be worshiped." (p. 301)
CALVIN COOLIDGE: "The strength of
a country is the strength of its religious convictions." (p. 305)
GEORGE WASHINGTON: "The perpetuity
of this nation depends upon the religious education of the young." (p.
306)
Prior to our increasingly "Hell-Bound and Happy" era,
America's greatest leaders were part of the (gulp) Religious Right! Today
we have forgotten God's threat (to abort America) in Psa. 50:22----"Now
consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be
none to deliver."