We just celebrated our nations birthday on July 4. That this country was founded on Judeo-Christian values, there is no argument. I just read about our Senate being opened this morning by a prayer by a Hindu chaplain from Nevada. This is the first time for this and is very disturbing to me. Thanks to Sutton Kinter for this short history lesson:
The source for having prayer to open the business of both the House and Senate comes from the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The gridlock from opposing views as to how the country would be governed nearly scuttled the convention. The solution came from Benjamin Franklin, who declared that the Holy Scriptures [ meaning the Christian Bible ] stated that unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain. He pointedly reminded those assembled that they had prayed often during the Revolutionary War, beseeching Almighty God for aid against their common foe of Great Britain. He noted that the Lord repeatedly answered those prayers. Therefore, he proposed that they should open their sessions with prayers to their ‘Powerful Friend’, seeking His help to create the framework for their new government. Which is why they did so as of the next morning. 3 weeks later, the Great Compromise was reached which created the Congress as it now is. It is also interesting to note that the US Supreme Court, when approached by a lawsuit under the guise of ’separation of church and State’, ruled that they had no standing to rule on the practise of such prayer, since it was in place before the Constitution existed. That is why the public purse pays for the 2 chaplains to do their job. The Founding Fathers of this country never intended to pray to any God other than the God of Heaven as revealed in the Christian Scriptures.
I think today is a sad day in America. What do you think?
