It is the purpose of this website to alert the general public of the threats toward our freedoms, both civil and religious, which have existed since the inception of this nation, but are now more capable than ever of undermining the greatest safeguard to liberty of conscience: the iconic but little understood concept known as the separation of church and state.
While this is far from a novel attack, our unawareness of history as a people professing to love liberty has left us defenseless and unprepared for the impending storm.
A wise man, only surpassed by one other, wrote the following words: "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."
This storm will not dissipate. It is not merely a perceived or exaggerated threat. It will come, and in a way that appears to be the very means of saving our country from yet another storm. It will be said that liberty of conscience needs to be sacrificed for the order and well-being of the nation, but this will destroy the order we have. As the moral principles that underpin our society are lost, so too will be that which binds us as a people.
Many can feel that there is something terribly wrong, but we aren’t able to clearly identify the cause of the degeneration of decency, kindness, and respect. Censorship, cancel culture, dishonesty, and deception are no longer tactics confined to corrupt governments in foreign lands. They are actively being promulgated upon us right now. Interests in government, media, corporations, and even the churches are converging.
Without morality, this constitutional republic cannot stand. To quote John Adams, president of the United States from 1797-1801:
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
While the above sentiments are true, the problem lies in the enforcement of morality by the state. In the United States movements are afoot through Christian churches to inform the federal government as to morality and impose it upon the citizens of this country through the force of law. While we agree that the moral fabric of society is unraveling, the movements by the churches to make Christianity the official religion of the state will be the greatest of evils. The government is to reign in the civil realm, not the religious - and the distinction between the two needs to be clear in our minds like it was clear in the minds of the Founding Fathers.
The text of the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution says the following:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
To remove this wall of separation will be to loose the restraints preventing the violation of the conscience, and unbridled tyranny will result.
So how are we to respond? We must become educated to the threats to liberty of conscience in its broadest sense and come to understand the only true solution. We must defend liberty for all men, but do so without condemnation and without violence. That is true love. The wisest and most moral man to have ever walked the face of the earth said the following:
“If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.” John 12:47
“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.” Mat 5:38,39
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. John 8:36
We leave you with a quote from a true patriot, a man almost unknown by today’s generation. If it wasn’t for his clarity of conviction and eloquence of expression in arguing for the principles of liberty of conscience, the republic would have been all but lost. It is in his honor and out of gratefulness to God that we take up the banner again.
“THERE is a phase of human rights which, with the mighty men who made this nation, took precedence even of the governmental principles of equality of civil right and government only by the consent of the governed. That is Religious Right. It has been this phase of human right that, more than the other, has made this nation what it has been in true greatness, and the light of the world.”
“With those noble men, those men of Providence, religious right was rightly set up first of all and above all. The right of a man to perform his duty to the Creator according to the dictates of his own conscience, absolutely untrammeled and unmolested—this was singled out, and discussed, and settled, first of all. The founders of our nation said that that must be settled first; for without religious liberty there could be no true civil liberty.”
- Alonzo Trevor Jones, “Human Rights”, American Sentinel, March 9, 1899.