OPINION:
Rededicate 250: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving on the National Mall on Sunday received an outpouring of support from everyday Americans — and opposition from whiny elitists.
Tens of thousands turned out to pray, listen to music and hear an array of popular speakers. Local events were even more popular.
However, Americans United for Separation of Church and State called the D.C. rally “Christian nationalism.” An article in USA Today attacked it as an attempt to push a MAGA version of evangelical Protestantism.
That is interesting, given that speakers included prominent Catholics, such as Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, rabbi of the oldest synagogue in the United States.
As celebrations of the 250th anniversary of our independence continue, so too will revisionist history. Yet the revisions do not hold up under scrutiny.
The earliest Colonists were Christians, including the Pilgrims and Puritans in Massachusetts, the Quakers in Pennsylvania and Catholics in Maryland. The Declaration of Independence contains multiple references to God. The Constitution is dated “in the year of our Lord 1787,” which refers to Jesus.
The expression “wall of separation between church and state” is nowhere to be found in the Constitution, but was lifted from Thomas Jefferson’s private correspondence and then misinterpreted.
The First Amendment was never meant to prevent government involvement with religion. If the Founding Fathers wanted to keep the federal government secular, then why do sessions of Congress open with a prayer, starting with the first Congress in 1789? Why does the president take his oath of office on a Bible? Why did a number of 19th-century congresses appropriate money to convert American Indians to Christianity?
The secularist jihad is part of our culture wars. Americans United is suing Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on behalf of the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the religious content of her Easter message this year.
This is a war for the soul of America. President Eisenhower said, “Our form of government makes no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith.” President Reagan declared: “If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”
The left is anti-God because it wants us to worship its gods, including transgenderism, sexuality education, abortion on demand and income leveling.
The faith of our fathers and the creed of progressives are mutually exclusive. If the latter prevails, then God help us.
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