Undoubtedly, the European Enlightenment thinkers also inspired the Founding Fathers, particularly John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Baron Charles de Montesquieu. Nonetheless, there is also an unmistakable Christian influence that infiltrated the lives and writings produced by these amazing men.
"It goes without saying, of course, that most of these men were steeped in the traditions and teachings of Christianity—almost half the signers of the Declaration of Independence had some form of seminary training or degree. John Adams … claimed that the Revolution “connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.” John’s cousin Sam sited passage of the Declaration as the day that the colonists “restored the Sovereign to Whom alone men ought to be obedient.” …Other well-known patriots such as John Hancock did not hesitate to echo the reliance on God. In short, a reading of the American Revolution from a purely secular viewpoint ignores a fundamentally Christian component of the Revolutionary ideology.” (Schweikart and Allen, A Patriot’s History of the United States, p. 71)
“Another phrase also stood there: "In God we trust." With
this there is no confusion of what they were talking about. They publicly recognized that law could be king because there was a Law Giver, a Person to give the inalienable rights." (Schaeffer, p. 32)You cannot tell me the founding fathers had no religious reasons for the founding of our country.
You cannot tell me that my country did not have any Christian heritage.
Perhaps the words of Karl Marx offer an explanation for why my classmates had no problem accepting what my professor claimed:
"Take away the heritage of a people and they are easily persuaded."
If people don’t know what is true in the first place, how are they expected to react then that truth is challenged?
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