One Nation Under God by Dr. David C. Gibbs

“Although traders, explorers and businessmen also had a hand in the founding of America, historical revisionists cannot erase the fact that the first people who founded colonies in this land were primarily religious nonconformists.”

The statement, “America is a Christian nation,” has become very controversial. One reason this is so is because I think people interpret what it means to be a Christian nation in different ways. I think most of us would agree that what we aren’t saying by that term is that we believe the majority of citizens are Christians. But another reason this statement is controversial is because secular historical revisionists have been on a mission for quite some time to suppress, distort, and completely erase, if possible, all evidence of the religious foundation of this country. In One Nation Under God, David Gibbs, President of the Christian Law Association, sets forth “Ten Things Every Christian Should Know about the Founding of America.” In his Forward to the book, Dr. D. James Kennedy asserts,

There is no doubt that this is a nation which was built upon the Christian faith — that the Lord, indeed, was the God of this nation, that it was founded upon the principles of God’s Word, upon the teachings of Christianity, and for the advancement of the Kingdom of Christ.

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