a kind of american history lesson
Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2003 5:38 pm
the United States of America was grounded on Bible-based principles by the signers of the Declaration of Independence, the writers of the COnsitution, and the Bill of Rights.
Christianity, not "any other religion", is the most obvious thing in America.
On the american currency, the words are printed/engraved, "In God We Trust."
The Ten Commandments hang over the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
In the House and Senate chambers appear the words, "In God we trust".
In the Rotunda is the figure of the crucified Chris.
On the walls of the Capitol dome, these words appear: "The New Testament according to the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ."
On the Great Seal of the United States is inscribed the phrase Annuit Coeptis, "God has smiled on our undertaking."
UNder the Seal is the phrase from Lincoln's Gettysburg address: "This nation under God."
President Eliot of Harvard chose Micah 6:8 for the wall of the nation's library: "He has showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth God require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God."
The lawmaker's library quotes the Psalmist's acknowledgement of the beauty and order of Creation: "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firnament showeth His handiwork" (Psalm 19:1)
Engraved on the metal cap on the top of the Washington Monument are the words: "Praise be to God."
Lining the walls of the stairwell are numerous Bible verses: "Search the Scriptures," "Holiness to the Lord," and "Train up a Child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it."
At the opposide end of the Lincoln memorial, words and phrases to Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address allude to "God" the "Bible," "providence," the "Almighty," and "divine attributes".
The plague in the Dirkson Office Building has the words "IN GOD WE TRUST" in bronze relief.
In the Capitol Building a room was set aside by the Eighty-third Congress to be used exclusively for the private prayer and meditation of Members of Congress.
IN this specially designated room there is a stained glass window showing George Washington kneeling in prayer.
Behind Washington a prayer it etched: "Preserve me, O God, for in Thee do I put my trust"
(Psalm 16:1. THe two lower corners of the window each show the Holy Scriptures and an open book and a candle, signifying the light from God's law: "Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path" (Psalm 119:105).
found this on the web and thought to share it.
Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:1337, old post ID:11690
Christianity, not "any other religion", is the most obvious thing in America.
On the american currency, the words are printed/engraved, "In God We Trust."
The Ten Commandments hang over the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
In the House and Senate chambers appear the words, "In God we trust".
In the Rotunda is the figure of the crucified Chris.
On the walls of the Capitol dome, these words appear: "The New Testament according to the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ."
On the Great Seal of the United States is inscribed the phrase Annuit Coeptis, "God has smiled on our undertaking."
UNder the Seal is the phrase from Lincoln's Gettysburg address: "This nation under God."
President Eliot of Harvard chose Micah 6:8 for the wall of the nation's library: "He has showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth God require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God."
The lawmaker's library quotes the Psalmist's acknowledgement of the beauty and order of Creation: "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firnament showeth His handiwork" (Psalm 19:1)
Engraved on the metal cap on the top of the Washington Monument are the words: "Praise be to God."
Lining the walls of the stairwell are numerous Bible verses: "Search the Scriptures," "Holiness to the Lord," and "Train up a Child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it."
At the opposide end of the Lincoln memorial, words and phrases to Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address allude to "God" the "Bible," "providence," the "Almighty," and "divine attributes".
The plague in the Dirkson Office Building has the words "IN GOD WE TRUST" in bronze relief.
In the Capitol Building a room was set aside by the Eighty-third Congress to be used exclusively for the private prayer and meditation of Members of Congress.
IN this specially designated room there is a stained glass window showing George Washington kneeling in prayer.
Behind Washington a prayer it etched: "Preserve me, O God, for in Thee do I put my trust"
(Psalm 16:1. THe two lower corners of the window each show the Holy Scriptures and an open book and a candle, signifying the light from God's law: "Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path" (Psalm 119:105).
found this on the web and thought to share it.
Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:1337, old post ID:11690