Letter: Founding Fathers wouldn’t be pleased

Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2005 | 9:14 a.m.

In a Nov. 23 letter, Nadia Romeo says that the "Founding Fathers mostly rejected the Christian faith." I respectfully disagree. The Mayflower Compact of 1620 begins, "In the name of God, Amen ... by the grace of God ... having undertaken for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith."

Nadia quotes John Adams, yet one sentence from the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli is not to surmount hundreds of other proofs that this nation began by acknowledging the God of the Bible and by having our laws founded upon His laws. John Adams also signed the treaty to end the war with Great Britain (1783), which included the statement, "In the name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity." The 1848 treaty of Mexico opens with, "In the name of Almighty God." The Constitution is signed "in the year of our Lord," while all 50 state constitutions praise and acknowledge God (feel free to look these up yourself).

Did you know that the words "Praise be to God" are engraved into the top of the Washington Monument? Did you know that Justice David Brewer declared in the Supreme Court of 1892 (the Church of the Holy Trinity vs. the United States) that "our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian ... this is a religious people ... from the discovery of this continent to the present hour ... this is a Christian nation"? To this day, the words heard during the opening of each Supreme Court session are, "God save the United States and the Honorable Court." If only the court were still honorable!

If the Founding Fathers (Thomas Paine excluded) saw evolution taught in our schools, abortion legalized and adorned, and traces of Christianity being extricated from every area of our political and educational arenas by tyrannical Supreme Court judges, they would certainly roll over in their graves.

Timothy Carroll

Las Vegas