John Jay

John Jay, the first Supreme Court Chief Justice of the United States, said that we, being a Christian nation would prefer Christian leaders. Jay's views are anathema today. Lawyers, judges and the guru's of American pop culture are doing all in their power to destroy what little memory still exists of our land's Christian foundations.

The Supreme Court knew of our Christian foundations long after John Jay had gone to be with the LORD. Here is an excerpt from the 1892 decision of the Church of the Holy Trinity verses the United States:

This is a religious people. This is historically true. From the discovery of this continent to the present hour, there is a single voice making this affirmation...We find everywhere a clear recognition of the same truth... These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declaration to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation. (Read the whole decision here: Holy Trinity Church vs. the United States )

I would encourage everyone who can read the complete decision to do so.

Justice David Brewer, who wrote the decision, gives a litany of historical facts of our Christian history. Part of the reason for our current moral decline is this -- at the turn of the century many mainline churches traded the Gospel of Christ for a social gospel, and left the historic faith. On the other side of the coin, most of those churches that remained faithful to the Gospel, became pietistic and retreated from culture. They reduced the Gospel to personal believe-ism. In doing this they gave the culture over to the enemies of the Gospel.

If Christians reduce their faith to personal salvation, and don't apply the Scriptures to all aspects of life, then the culture in which they live must cease to be Christian. America is a prime example of this.

If we return to the holistic and culture changing faith of our ancestors; we will see true revival and a re-Christianisation of the U.S.(by God's grace). It took several generations to sink this low. It may take several more to fix things. Let us labour and pray for reformation so our children and grandchildren might live in a Christian land!

Soli Deo Gloria,
Kenith