Conservative activist and founder of Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk brilliantly rebutted the idea that America was not founded as a Christian nation during a recent speaking engagement with Christian apologists Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle.
Kirk first pointed out that every single colony before America’s formal founding required a declaration of faith from its leaders. “Every single one of the original state constitutions, Pennsylvania included, they had “I profess Lord in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior in the original state constitutions,”” Kirk said.
Discussing the faith makeup of America’s founding fathers, Kirk added, “Secondly, 55 out of 56 of the original signers of the Declaration were Bible-believing, church-attending Christians.” Discussing common law, he added, “You ask about common law. So common law is inherited from Blackstone, who was Christian, and common law is an outgrowth of the scriptures.”
Kirk went on, “So let’s go to three principles of common law, presumption of innocence, due process and jury of your peers. All three are biblical principles, so and all wrapped into the ultimate biblical principle that you shall not favor justice if you are richer or poor, which is Leviticus 19, right before most famous part of Leviticus 19, which is that you should love your neighbor as yourself. But before that is that in the administration of justice, you shall not favor the rich or the poor, which is the idea of blind justice we get that in the West, which is incorporated also in the New Testament, ideal, neither slave nor Greek nor Jew, you’re all one in Jesus Christ, as you read, the idea of human equality.”
The conservative commentator disputed the idea that the values America was founded on were “enlightenment” principles, maintaining that they were derived from the Bible. Kirk further pointed out that the final paragraph of the Declaration of Independence reads as a prayer.
“These are all biblical. Ideas. They’re not Enlightenment ideas. But more importantly than that, they say that God was only mentioned four times in the Declaration of Independence. Well, that’s a big deal, okay, laws of nature and nature’s God. The last paragraph the declaration reads as a prayer. It says, We appeal to the Supreme Judge of the universe. Who’s the judge of the universe, Jesus Christ. It says in Revelation that Jesus will judge the earth on his throne. So in the declaration, they were praying to Christ, our Lord, as a prayer very specifically,” Charlie said.
Kirk ultimately concluded that the United States was founded with the intention that its citizens would be God-fearing, Bible-believing Christians. “But finally, and most importantly, let’s look at actually what the founders said. John Adams famously said the Constitution was only written for a moral, religious people. It was wholly inadequate for the people of any other the body politic of America was so Christian, it was so Protestant, that our form and structure of government was built for the people that believed in Christ, our Lord. One of the reasons we’re living through a constitutional crisis is that we no longer have a Christian nation, but we have a Christian form of government, and they’re incompatible, so you cannot have liberty if you do not have a Christian population,” he said.
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