Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 offering land grants for public schools, saying "Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary for good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means for education shall ever be encouraged."
It's almost like Religion is important to our founding or something.
It definitely is. :D Our Founding Fathers were familiar with what was in the Bible, and understood the connection between God's commandments and "being blessed"... Having a free and prosperous society.
God's first commandment, the part about having no strange gods before him, was an acknowledgement that there were idols/gods that had different rules... That if we were to remain free, we will do what God wants us to do at the expense of what one or a combination of these idols/gods would have us do.
God's commandments are basically our "instruction manual" on how we could remain free and prosperous (blessed).
One connecting statement between the Bible, and the Constitution, is a statement made in the Declaration of Independence... About life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness being rights given to us by God. These three could be traced to verses in the Bible.
Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 offering land grants for public schools, saying "Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary for good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means for education shall ever be encouraged."
It's almost like Religion is important to our founding or something.
It definitely is. :D Our Founding Fathers were familiar with what was in the Bible, and understood the connection between God's commandments and "being blessed"... Having a free and prosperous society.
God's first commandment, the part about having no strange gods before him, was an acknowledgement that there were idols/gods that had different rules... That if we were to remain free, we will do what God wants us to do at the expense of what one or a combination of these idols/gods would have us do.
God's commandments are basically our "instruction manual" on how we could remain free and prosperous (blessed).
One connecting statement between the Bible, and the Constitution, is a statement made in the Declaration of Independence... About life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness being rights given to us by God. These three could be traced to verses in the Bible.