Celebrating 250 Years: ‘Blessed’ From the Beginning-5

 “Blessed* is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.”                                         -Psalms 33:12
 
  Psalms 33:12 makes it abundantly clear that from God’s perspective every nation has a god, but only those nations whose God is the Lord…are blessed!
  Is America a Christian Nation? Or, are those who invented the term “Christian Nationalism” right in boldly declaring America has no Christian roots? President Barack Obama declared, “Whatever we once were, we're no longer a Christian nation. At least not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, and a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers." Is he right?
  Here are the facts:
‘ALL’ 13 original Colonies were founded by “Christian” denominations:
In 1607, Virginia was founded by Anglicans;
In 1620, Massachusetts was founded by Pilgrim Separatists & Puritans;
In 1626, New York was founded by the Dutch Reformed;
In 1633, Maryland was founded by Catholics;
In 1636, Rhode Island was founded by Baptists;
In 1636, Connecticut was founded by Congregationalists;
In 1638, New Hampshire was founded by Congregationalists;
In 1638, Delaware was founded by Lutherans;
In 1653, North Carolina was founded by Anglicans;
In 1663, South Carolina was founded by Anglicans;
In 1664, New Jersey was founded by Lutherans;
In 1682, Pennsylvania was founded by Quakers;
In 1732, Georgia was founded by Protestants.
 
4 Presidents:
  Although every American president has claimed Christianity as their ‘religion”**, not all presidents were Christians. I submit quotes from just four:  
   Engraved on George Washington's tomb at Mount Vernon."I am the Resurrection and the Life; sayeth the Lord. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die."
“The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity” -President John Adams
“America was born in a Revival of Religion – and back of it were John Wesley and George Whitefield.”               – President Calvin Coolidge.
“When I left Springfield [to assume the Presidency], I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.”    -President Abraham Lincoln
   
Constitutional Convention
  Of the 55 delegates who helped create the U.S. Constitution belonged to the following denominations: 26 Episcopalian, 11 Presbyterian, 7 Congregationalist, 2 Lutheran, 2 Dutch Reformed, 2 Methodist, 2 Quaker, and 2 Roman Catholics. If you are not aware, all of these are Christian denominations!
 
State Constitutions.
 ‘Every’ state constitution--without exception---is similar to these:
--PENNSYLVANIA, the 2nd State to ratify the U.S. Constitution, stated in its 1776 State Constitution, signed by Benjamin Franklin: "Each member, before he takes his seat, shall...subscribe...'I do believe in one GOD, the Creator and Governor of the Universe, the Rewarder of the good and the Punisher of the wicked. And I do acknowledge the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration.'"
--NEW JERSEY, the 3rd State to ratify the U.S. Constitution, stated in its 1776 State Constitution: "All persons, professing a belief in the faith of any PROTESTANT sect, who shall demean themselves peaceably under the government...shall be capable of being elected."
--GEORGIA, the 4th State to ratify the U.S. Constitution, stated in its 1777 State Constitution: "Representatives shall be chosen out of the residents in each county...and they shall be of the PROTESTANT religion."
 
  University of Houston political science professors Donald Lutz and Charles Hyneman in 1985, published a monumental study that took them 10 years to bring together. They amassed over 15,000 items, including 2,200 books, newspaper articles, pamphlets, and monographs of political materials written between 1760 and 1805, and discovered that there were three writers and one book, the constitutional framers quoted from most often:
1) John Locke (1632-1704)- 3%
2) Barron Charles Montesquieu (1689-1755) -8%
3) William Blackstone (1723-80), and -8%
4) Bible- 34%
  All three of the previous men were strong Christians and used the Bible as the foundation for their government philosophy.
 
US Congress
In 1854, the U.S. Congress conducted an extensive 1-year investigation. Their final report concluded: “Had the people during the revolution ever had a suspicion of an attempt to wage war against Christianity, that revolution would have been strangled in its cradle. At the time of the adoption of the Constitution and the amendments, the universal sentiment was that Christianity should be encouraged, but not any one denomination. In this age, there can be no substitute for Christianity. It was the religion of the founders of the republic, and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants.”
 
US Supreme Court
In 1892, the US Supreme Court conducted a thorough study of American History, citing over 60 historical precedents, and the court concluded: “There is no dissidence in these declarations. There is a universal language pervading them all, having one meaning; they affirm and reaffirm that this is a religious nation. This is a Christian nation.”
 
*The Hebrew word for “blessed” is ʾesher, eh´-sher; from 833; happiness; only in masc. plur. constr. as interjec., how happy!:—blessed, happy. -Strong’s
**Although every American president claimed Christianity as their religion, not all were Christians. Some used Christianity as a means to get elected, because America still has Judaeo/Christian roots.
***I do not have confirmation on the 55th.
 
Quotebit
Before the House of Commons, June 18, 1940, Winston Churchill warned: "I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization...