Our founding fathers certainly thought differently about Christianity, religion, and morality than current presidential candidates: “The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity… I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God...[July 4th] ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.”–John Adams in a letter written to Abigail on the day the Declaration was approved by Congress "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." --John Adams October 11, 1798
“God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this. I also believe that, without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel” –Ben Franklin 1787 Constitutional Convention
“It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.” [Patrick Henry May 1765 Speech to the House of Burgesses] “Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus.” Thomas Jefferson “It is apprehended that Jews, Mahometans (Muslims), pagans, etc., may be elected to high offices under the government of the United States. Those who are Mahometans, or any others who are not professors of the Christian religion, can never be elected to the office of President or other high office, [unless] first the people of America lay aside the Christian religion altogether, it may happen. Should this unfortunately take place, the people will choose such men as think as they do themselves. [Elliot’s Debates, Vol. IV, pp 198-199, Governor Samuel Johnston, July 30, 1788 at the North Carolina Ratifying Convention] At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, James Madison proposed the plan to divide the central government into three branches. He discovered this model of government from the Perfect Governor, as he read Isaiah 33:22: “For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us.”
“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible.” George Washington “What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.” Speech to the Delaware Indian Chiefs May 12, 1779 George Washington What would our founding fathers think of this? Read the excerpt from http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/p_hollrah/2008/print/05272008.htm : “Records of the Illinois State Senate tell us that, in his six year career in that institution he voted “present” no les than 130 times. In many instances, as in the case of a 1999 bill that would have allowed some juvenile offenders to be tried as adults, his “present” vote was a purely political vote. A “yea” vote would not have been popular within the Chicago black community and a “nay” vote would have been used against him by law-and-order proponents for the rest of his career. However, in 2001 and 2002, Obama worked up the courage to vote “nay” on two identical bills that would have required a physician performing an abortion to have a second physician in attendance, if he/she suspected that the abortion procedure might result in the birth of a live infant. The role of the second physician would be to evaluate the viability of the newborn child. Obama’s “nay” votes were certainly not acts of political courage. For any Democrat with ambitions for higher office, the last people he would want to offend would be the pro-abortion forces of the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) and Planned Parenthood. The pro-life forces? To stick a thumb in their eye would only help to build his liberal credentials. Later in the 2002 session, the Illinois Senate voted on a bill called the Induced Birth Liability Act. The purpose of the act was to force healthcare providers to give proper medical attention to a child born alive as the result of an induced labor abortion. Under provisions of the act, a parent or a public guardian of a child born as a result of an induced labor abortion would have a cause of action against any hospital, health care facility, or health care provider that failed to provide medical care for the child after birth. Obama voted ‘present.’” Dr. Dobson Discusses Obama Radio Ad: http://www.citizenlink.org/content/A000007770.cfm “In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed...No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.” [Source: 1828, Noah Webster’s preface to his American Dictionary of the English Language] “All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.” [Noah Webster. History. p. 339] “Education is useless without the Bible” [Noah Webster. Our Christian Heritage p.5] | 
