The Black Robe Regiment
1776: Let Slip The Dogs of War
Imagine yourself sitting in the pew at church. Your pastor is giving an impassioned sermon from Ecclesiastes chapter 3. "To everything there is a season..." The sun streams in stained-glass windows. "... a time for every purpose under heaven... " Restless, you move your leg to keep blood circulating. "... a time to be born, and a time to die... " A cough comes from somewhere behind you. "... a time to plant..." There is a pause in the sermon. He stands before you with steel in his eyes. His gaze galvanizing the next words that fall from his lips. "... and a time to pluck what is planted... "
Silence. Draped in his black robes, his resolve becoming more evident with every word that falls from his lips. His iron gaze demanding as they pierce the faces of his congregation. A mountain of a man. A man of God. Beloved. Respected.
"In the language of the holy writ, there was a time for all things!" The declaration echoes through the room. "A time to preach and a time to pray." Commanding tones of a man determined, his voice unwavering. "But those times have passed away." A hint of sorrow taints the air. Memories of pain not quite faded.
Feet shuffle. There is a noticeable shift in the room. A spark felt in the hearts of men. This is no normal Sunday sermon. Your pastor is no ordinary man. He is a man transformed. "There is a time to fight, and that time is now coming!"
As the last words drift into silence, he proceeds to remove his black parson robes only to reveal himself wearing a military uniform.
That pastor was Reverend Peter Muhlenberg. And on that day in 1776, 300 brave men, unafraid and with resolute purpose, stood up and formed the 8th Virginia Brigade. They left that church to go fight in the Revolutionary War.
The speech and the man were indeed real. These events are historically accurate. Reverend Peter Muhlenberg formed a regiment from the men of his congregation one Sunday morning and served as a Brigadier General after receiving a personal letter from George Washington. This is one story of many, erased from our history books and never to be whispered of again in the halls of education.
The attack on Christianity in those days was the fuel to what became the founding of a great nation. The preachers, ministers, and pastors fanned those flames in the hearts of Colonial America. These men stood together not in one faith but in many faiths under God in order to overcome tyrannical rule from an elite class of people hell bent on controlling the world. The war against God is a war that has been waged for millennia and has continued, sometimes subtly, sometimes overtly, throughout the ages.
The pastors of that day, and their congregations, were living out of what had come over 100 years prior...where religion and politics were woven into the same fabric. There was no separation between the two spheres. This Revolution against Britain would culminate in a totally different awareness and way of life than had ever been lived on this planet; and may never be seen again in the present state of things. What remained was a hope and a promise....a Republic. And this Republic was created out of the awareness that the people who then inhabited this country were a moral and upright people...
Mighty Men of God
Three centuries ago, the pulpit was the most effective way to reach the people. “In every quiet little valley and sequestered nook in New England, the pastor had taught the doctrines of freedom, and preached the duty of resistance to oppression.”
The public square for debate, philosophy, and personal ideology rested in the taverns and churches of Colonial America. No topic was prohibited. No subject taboo. Everything from natural rights to civil rights to election sermons (sermons given in favor of one political party or candidate over another) were all on the table. The most popular of these often found themselves printed into leaflets to be distributed to the Colonists.
These hallowed halls, both tavern and church alike, became the centers for theological and political ideas. The two were nearly inseparable. To speak on one was to invite the discussion of the other. And it was here that the ideas of independence and freedom were born and cemented into the hearts and minds of a nation yet born.
The years 1740 to 1790 marked an age of “mighty men of God!”—an era of remarkable patriot-preachers who, by their faithful preaching and their righteous lifestyle, laid the foundation for the American Revolution and the founding of the new Republic. “To the Puritan pulpit we owe the force that won our independence.” England’s King George III referred to the Revolution as the “Parson’s Rebellion.”
Darrow Miller and Friends: The American Revolution Was Fueled by Preaching
Parallels could be made that this was the Colonial version of our mass media and modern news with the pastors being war time correspondents. For this was indeed a time of war and persecution. Many of whom didn't just preach the gospel and God's good word but marched with troops into battle, led them, and ultimately sacrificed right alongside them. Among their ranks, we see names like:
James Francis Armstrong, Maryland's 2nd Brigade
James Caldwell (aka The Soldier Parson or The Fighting Parson)
Mannasseh Cutler, Massachusetts' 11th Regiment and later General Jonathan Titcomb’s brigade
Timothy Dwight IV, Connecticut Continental Brigade
William Emerson, Sr., Massachusetts' Continental Army
John Larkin, Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
Joseph Montgomery, Maryland's 1st Regiment
Peter Muhlenburg, Virginia's 8th Regiment
John Rosbrugh (also spelled Rosborough or Rosburg), Northampton County, Pennsylvania's 3rd militia
John Witherspoon, Articles of Confederation and Committee On Secret Correspondence
Their commonalities? All of these men were ministers, preachers, and reverends. They sacrificed, bled, were persecuted for, and sometimes laid down their lives for their ideals and Christian principles. Their words weren't empty promises. Nor were they half-hearted slogans. They all fought in the Revolutionary War, co-authored state constitutions, assisted in military operations in support of the war effort, led men into battle as their commanders, defended their towns against the British, preached rebellion from the pulpit against a tyrannical government, and bled and died for the dream of a new nation — the gift they left to us.
Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. — John 15:13 (NKJV)
And this is just a small sampling of such men.
These chaplains became pastors of Protestant churches, preaching fervently to their congregations “the divine right of Resistance” as opposed to “the divine right of Kings.”
In short, the American Revolution was fueled by men of God. These weren't weak sheep-like Christians living passive, meek lives. These were the ones who fanned the flames and later helped shape a nation.
These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to tax) but “to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER” and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.
— Thomas Paine, The Crisis, 1776
These were the men who made up the Black Robe Regiment. These men were the reason King George called the American Revolution the Parson's Rebellion. These were God-fearing men. Dangerous men of faith and might. Men of God...
And one thing that history has taught us is that dangerous men who rebuke authority must be put down and stopped by any means necessary.
During the American Revolution, the British derisively referred to clergymen as the “Black Robed Regiment” because of the Redcoats’ well-reasoned belief that the obstinance of the colonists was instigated and perpetuated from the pulpit.
These humble pastors produced the minute-men, who went forth boldly from their congregations armed with exhortation from the Pulpit, as well as muskets and rifles in hand, resisting oppression. This was the first army of the American Revolution, against which the British Empire strived in vain at Bunker Hill. From the man of God’s preaching in the villages, towns and valleys, proceeded thousands of minute-men who resisted the British at the Battle of Bunker Hill. When Lexington and Concord sounded the battle-cry, these minute-men took up the their arms. The prayers and blessing of their pastor accompanying them, they went forth with patriotism and fervor to defend the lives and freedoms of their fellow citizens.
The War On Christianity
A Christian life for any denomination outside the government mandated Anglican Church, the Church of England, was a hard life. To be a Christian, one had to be actively defending their life, their homes, and their communities in Christ. Religion wasn't a passive occupation but one fraught with the perils of living under tyranny. And tyranny did indeed come knocking on their doors.
Toward the end of 1775, Muhlenberg was authorized to raise and command as its colonel the 8th Virginia Regiment of the Continental Army. After George Washington personally asked him to accept this task, he agreed. However, his brother Fredrick Augustus Muhlenberg, who was also a minister, did not approve of him going into the army until the British burned down his own church in front of him. Then he joined the military himself.
Through crown authority and by British law, Colonial churches were burned. That law was the Toleration Act of 1688. British subjects who dissented from the religion of the Church of England may do so as long as they swore certain allegiances. These allegiances were considered immoral and at odds with Puritan beliefs. Churches were to be registered. Taxes for not preaching the prescribed religion were to be paid. Preachers had to be licensed. No religious meeting outside of those sanctioned could take place. Those who did not conform were met with severe persecution.
The Toleration Act didn't just hold sway in England. Tyranny had found its way into many of the colonial charters by way of royal appointed British lords and magisters. Appointed governors overseeing the colonies took the Tolerance Act even further than originally intended. The establishment of any church, except for the Church of England, was strictly prohibited.
“There are at this [time] . . . not less than 5 or 6 well meaning men in [jail] for publishing their religious sentiments. . . . Pray for liberty of conscience to revive among us.”
— James Madison, 1774
This practice of persecution the Christian faithful preceded the Toleration Act. One such example happened in 1651 to a man named Obadiah Holmes.
William Witter, elderly and frail, opened his door and welcomed John Clarke, John Crandall, and Obadiah Holmes. On Holy mission, these three men had come to William's home to minister to the elder man and preach the word of God. While the small group assembled, the door burst open. Massachusetts constables broke in and arrested the three men.
Their crime? Preaching while Baptist — an activity that saw them in prison the next day in Boston.
Forasmuch as you Obadiah Holmes, being come into this Jurisdiction about the 21 of the 5th M. did meet at one William Witter's house at Lin, and did hear privately (and at other times being Excommunicate person did take upon you to Preach and to Baptize) upon the Lord's day, or other dayes, and being taken then by the Constable...
The American Family of Rev. Obadiah Holmes by James Taylor Holmes
What was the true crime that they were guilty of?
That principle was religious freedom, the right of every man, woman and child to worship God according to the dictates of his or her own conscience.
The American Family of Rev. Obadiah Holmes by James Taylor Holmes
During the trial, guilt was pre-established. No defense during the trial was allowed.
The trial or hearing was what would be called in the phrase and figure of these days "a howling farce." It was the assumption by the Governor — Endicott — and his assistants of the guilt of the accused and the practical stifling of the defense when Clarke and Holmes sought to speak in their own vindication. The members of the court shot questions at them, or made statements to them, which showed their guild prejudged.
The violence of some of the bystanders, in the presence of the court, and without its rebuke, went so far that Holmes was assaulted, struck, and cursed by a spectator, a minister of the Gospel of peace, Rev. John Wilson, who said with the blow, "The curse of God or Jesus go with thee," while in the custody of an officer, in the presence of the court, and within the protection of the law.
The American Family of Rev. Obadiah Holmes by James Taylor Holmes
All three men were ultimately found guilty. The judgment?
The judgment of the highest tribunal of the Colony — the General Court — was in substance:
That Obadiah Holmes pay a fine of £30 or be well whipped;
That John Clarke pay a fine of £32 or be well whipped;
That John Crandall pay a fine of £5 or be well whipped.The American Family of Rev. Obadiah Holmes by James Taylor Holmes
John Clarke, John Crandall, and Obadiah Holmes weren't without friends. Money was quickly raised to pay the fines. When the fines of John Clarke and John Crandall were paid, they were speedily released. Obadiah Holmes fine was larger and took more time to acquire the funds. When Obadiah found out about the plan, he forbade them from paying it. This affair became a matter of conscience. Obadiah was guilty of nothing more than having a personal relationship with God and ministering to the infirm. He would suffer under the whip... and suffer he did.
Obadiah Holmes denied the right of the civil power to thrust its hand of its mace between man and his Maker. He stood loyally and faithfully by the divine, the higher, law and was governed by and responsible to it alone in its relations to the Creator and Governor of the Universe.
It is remembered that the primary definition of a martyr is one who yields his life for the cause, but there is a secondary and broader definition: "One who suffers death or grievous loss in defense or on behalf of any belief or cause, or in consequence of supporting it."
Unavailing efforts were made to induce him to recant, at least, so far that the alternative of corporal punishment might be avoided. The 5th day of September, 1651, came and he was taken from the jail, where he had been confined from the date of arrest, stripped naked down to the waist — he refused to aid by touching even a button on his clothing — tied to the post and publicly whipped.
Before the whipping began, they waited a while, expecting "Gouvernour Indicott's" presence, "be he came not," and, at last a Mr. Flint in presence of Mr. Encrease Nowell, one of the Judges, an elder in the Church, "saith to the Executioner, 'Feollow, doe thine Office, for this fellow would be make a long speech to delude the people.'"
Take that lashing to the understanding, just as it occurred. There were thirty strokes, with a three-cord whip — ninety strokes in all, in a sense — held by the robust executioner, not in one hand, but in both hands. The strokes did not follow each other quickly, or lightly, to the end of the number. The testimony comes down to us from that day, uncontradicted, unqualified. The blows were laid on slowly and with all the strength of the officer wielding the instrument of torture. There was a pause after each as if to give the officer time to recover the strength, which its delivery had exhausted. The punishment proceeded with great deliberation. The executioner was giving the bystanders an exhibition of his skill on the body of an adjudicated malefactor. Each blow must be within the ancient definition and injunction — "well laid on;" the criminal must not only be punished as his crime deserved, but he must be made to show his suffering under the punishment. Slowly the white stripes grow red and blue and black welts as the beating proceeds. Presently, the blood begins to ooze from spots of the broken flesh; then more, and more, and more, broken spots add their contributions and the life current begins to trickle in little streams down to the waist to soak into the clothing. On, and on, and on, go the fearful cuttings of the lash which, itself, is growing red, but no sound or evidence of pain or suffering has escaped the bleeding victim. The executioner throws into the blows the last atom of strength. Not to elicit a moan will be to suffer disgrace, himself, into the eyes of the onlookers. He spits on his hands, at intervals, three times, at least, during the scourging, to gain time, to increase and protract, the suffering of the offender and to give himself a surer, firmer hold of the whip stock. Still slowly the count proceeds, every fifteen to twenty seconds, or longer; "twenty-five" — "twenty-six" — "twenty-seven" — "twenty-eight" — "twenty-nine" — — "thirty;" and the brutality ended; it was atrocious.
The blood is running into the Martyr's shows past all the soaking of the clothes. The thongs or wristlets, which bound him to the post are loosened; the law has taken full satisfaction out of his flesh and blood — but it has not touched the heroic spirit. The first sound from his lips were the words to the magistrates, who stood about as witnesses, "You have struck me as with roses;" and to his dying day, more than thirty-one years later, he testified that he did not suffer pain while the punishment was being inflicted, though there were many days afterward, running into weeks, during which his only rest and sleep were obtained by a sort of lying or resting on his knees and elbows.
The American Family of Rev. Obadiah Holmes by James Taylor Holmes
And what happened to those in the crowd who supported Obadiah Holmes?
Several of his friends, who expressed sympathy with him when he was released, were arrested, imprisoned, fined for so doing, among them John Hazel, a man said to have been between sixty and eighty years of age, rather infirm, who had traveled more than fifty miles, from Rehoboth, to be with his friend Holmes in his troubles. So broken was Mr. Hazel by his arrest, imprisonment, fine and ill treatment, for his devotion to the sufferer, that he died within ten days, and before reaching his home.
The American Family of Rev. Obadiah Holmes by James Taylor Holmes
The persecution didn't end there.
The cruelest purpose in all the unholy business, however, was in the issue of a new warrant, in an effort to re-arrest Obadiah Holmes, try and sentence him again and whip that sore back before he could leave Boston. The purpose was crueler than death — it is a species of libel on death to make such a comparison. His friends defeated the purpose, however, by spiriting him away.
The American Family of Rev. Obadiah Holmes by James Taylor Holmes
Obadiah Holmes is just one story of many abuses.
A 1645 Massachusetts law had specifically banned Baptists from the colony, calling them “the incendiaries of commonwealths” and “the troublers of churches in all places.” Quakers sometimes endured even rougher treatment than that faced by Baptists. Massachusetts expelled several Quaker missionaries in the late 1650s, warning them not to come back. Three did return, and Massachusetts executed them by hanging.
Another such story would come to that same street corner over a hundred years later on March 5, 1770. Across the street from the post where Obadiah Holmes was atrociously whipped, British soldiers would shoot into the crowd instantly killing three people and wounding eight others (two of whom later died of their wounds). The event that claimed the lives of five people would later become known and publicized as the Boston Massacre.
In an age of tyranny, preaching the word of God became rebellion.
“I am now come to be baptized in afflictions by your hands, that so I may have further fellowship with my Lord, and am not ashamed of his sufferings, for by his stripes am I healed.” — Obadiah Holmes
A Nation of Conscience
The pulpit of the Revolution is the voice of the Founding Fathers of the Republic, enforced by their example. They invoked God in their civil assemblies, called upon their chosen teachers of religion for counsel from the Bible, and recognized its precepts as the law of public conduct.
— J.W. Thornton, The Pulpit of the American Revolution, 1860
Few have heard of the man who would become known as the Father of the American Revolution. Fewer still know that the Bill of Rights weren't written in 1776. They were preached from behind the pulpit by Reverend John Wise 70 years before the American Revolution. This is where myth and legend, stories passed down through the ages, co-mingle.
Wise was also tall, muscular and a formidable wrestler. The story is told that later in life he was challenged to a wrestling match by Andover’s champion wrestler, Capt. John Chandler. Wise tried to beg off, pleading that he was too old and infirm, but he was finally goaded into it for sport. So in the makeshift ring, Captain Chandler grappled with the elderly Wise. The preacher promptly threw the reigning wrestling champion completely over his front wall. Chandler got up, shook himself off and announced he would be on his way as soon as the preacher threw his horse over after him.
Baptist Press: John Wise: The Man Who Inspired The Declaration of Independence
By all accounts, Reverend John Wise was a formidable man. That tenacity found its way to the forefront against the governmental overreach of his own government — the British crown.
It was in 1689 that the Massachusetts Bay Colony Charter was revoked by British Crown rule. Sir Edmond Andros was appointed governor. Upon his appointment, Andros imposed a Province Tax to be collected in each town in Massachusetts. When tyranny becomes the rule of law, resistance is the only course of action. And resist they did.
When they little imagined that there should ever be such a Revolution in England as that which by means of His Present Majesty this Nation is Blest with, they feared not to declare their Sentiments to the inexpressible exasperation of the people whom they were then domineering over. — William Henry Whitmore, The Andros Tracts
Atlas Rose Author: American History: Influential Ministers — Reverend John Wise
Initiated by Reverend John Wise and Samuel Appleton, the townsmen of Ipswich, Massachusetts resolved not to appoint a tax collector. Under an act of non-compliance, they rebelled as the new Province Tax violated the revoked Massachusetts Bay Colony charter. It was simple. As Englishmen, the Massachusetts Bay Colony should not be taxed without representation. Taxation without representation was tyranny.
“All our Watchmen were not asleep, nor the camp of Christ surprised and taken, before they had Warning.”
Baptist Press: John Wise: The Man Who Inspired The Declaration of Independence
For his troubles Reverend John Wise, Samuel Appleton, and other leaders were arrested. Of those arrested, Reverend John Wise and Samuel Appleton were the only two not to concede to the demands made.
“In response, Andros arrested Wise, removed him from his pastorate, imprisoned him, and imposed a hefty fine on him. Judge Joseph Dudley, an ally of Andros, then held Wise in prison, refusing Wise’s lawful right of habeas corpus.” — David and Tim Barton, The American Story
Atlas Rose Author: American History: Influential Ministers — Reverend John Wise
The fine that was levied against Reverend John Wise was £50. The people of Ipswich paid the fine. The response against Sir Edmond Andros was swift. For when the people of Boston, Massachusetts heard the story of Reverend John Wise, they became greatly enraged. Further encouragement came with news of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the overthrow of King James II in England. The Boston colonists rose up in resistance and arrested Andros.
Protected by his noble title, the colonists couldn't put Sir Edward Andros on trial and punish him. Instead, Andros was shipped back to England 10 months later to stand trial in England. Despite this, Sir Edmund Andros would never see trial for the many abuses against the colonists. British agents refused to sign off on the charges against him. He was soon sent back to the Americas to become Governor of Virginia a few years later in 1692.
The Birth of the Bill of Rights
"The first human subject and original of civil power is the people. For as they have a power, every man over himself in a natural state, so upon a combination they can and do bequeath this power unto others, …and when they are free, they may set up what species of government they please…The end of all good government is to cultivate humanity and promote the happiness of all, and the good of every man in all his rights, his life, liberty, estate, honor, etc., without injury or abuse done to any."
— Reverend John Wise
Reverend John Wise's ideals were simple. Based on Biblical principle, they were this:
God created all men equal and every man must be acknowledged by the state as equal to every man.
The end of all good government is to promote the happiness of all and the good of every man in all his rights: his life, liberty, estate, honor, etc.
The consent of the governed is the only legitimate basis for government.
Taxation without representation is tyranny.
Independence was boldly preached from Scripture throughout the 13 original States during the American Revolution. Why then should not these sermons, addresses, prayers and exhortations have as significant a place in American history as local petitions, resolutions, remonstrances and town committees of safety, which historians deem essential to understanding the Revolution?
Wise's ideas and the sermons surrounding them were printed in leaflets and distributed to the colonists. These leaflets would plant the seeds of liberty that would spark a revolution. That spark would take over 50 years to take root in the American heart and soul. Reverend John wise, the Father of the American Revolution, having died in 1725, was long gone before the fire of the American revolution was set fully ablaze.
A Declaration Against Abuse!
Our danger is not visionary, but real. Our contention is not about trifles, but about liberty and property. And not ours only, but those of posterity to the latest generations. And every lover of mankind will allow that these are important objects, too inestimably precious and valuable enjoyments to be treated with neglect and tamely surrendered. — Reverend Gad Hitchcock, Election Sermon given in Boston, Massachusetts in 1774
The Bill of Rights weren't chosen arbitrarily because they sounded good. The abuses listed in the Declaration of Independence weren't haphazardly chosen. There was a story behind each one of them — a person persecuted, lives lost, liberties infringed, and a long list of personal abuses. The Bill of Rights were preached in church halls before rebellion and the Revolutionary War was ever plotted. Non-compliance was shouted in temple halls. And the men who proclaimed these liberties? Some were dead long before the first beat could be heard from the drums of war. We hold these truths to be self evident...
If laws, when made, exist only on paper and ink, what benefit can a people derive from them? The divine law is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two–edged sword; and surely his ministers ought to make the laws, which they execute, bear some resemblance to his.
— Rev. Moses Mather, Election Sermon 1781
Imprisonment without trial.
At the beginning of 1779, he was installed as the pastor of the Congregational Church in Greenwich, Connecticut, and while thus employed, having been prominent in his advocacy of the American cause, he was captured, on the early morning of June 18, 1779, and taken to the Sugar House Prison in New York City, where he was detained for about fourteen months, during which time his family took refuge in Pound Ridge, New York. The British press referred to Blackleach Burritt as that “most pestiferous rebel priest and preacher of sedition”.
Trial by jury.
In 1779, Rev. Naphtali Dagget took up arms to repel the British as they marched onto New Haven, Connecticut. He was taken prisoner and later bayoneted by his captors. He died in 1780. (Rev War Talk: Naphtali Dagget)
Freedom of religion.
In 1778, Rev. Moses Allen was serving at the Midway Congregational Church in Savannah. When Savannah was overtaken by British commander General Augustine Prevost, Moses was taken prisoner and set to the prison ships. His crime was preaching outside of the British approved religion. Savannah's meeting house was burned to the ground. He died by drowning as he tried to escape. (Rev War Talk: Moses Allen)
Separation of church and state.
Considered a leading orator of the “pulpit of the American Revolution”, [Isaac] Backus published a sermon in 1773 that articulated his desire for religious liberty and a separation of church and state. Called An Appeal to the Public for Religious Liberty, Against the Oppressions of the Present Day, in it Backus stated: “Now who can hear Christ declare, that his kingdom is, not of this world, and yet believe that this blending of church and state together can be pleasing to him?”
And yet the idea of liberty sprang forth and was founded on the very ideas of Christianity.
The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of Liberty so intimately in their minds that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.
— Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835
Disintegration of Church and State
We are engaged in a most important contest; not for power but freedom. We mean not to change our masters, but to secure to ourselves, and to generations, yet unborn, the perpetual enjoyment of civil and religious liberty, in their fullest extent. — Reverend Samuel Stillman, Election Sermon given in Boston Massachusetts in 1779
If our Founding Fathers wanted the church removed from the public square, don't you think they would have done it? Instead, 200 years later, we see a twisted perversion of the Constitution being used as a justification for the removal of Christian crosses from public places; the elimination of prayers from school classrooms, workplaces, and government buildings; and the Ten Commandments being stripped from government buildings. Every manner of perversion is being legislated to legality under the ugly and hedonistic banner of secularism.
Under the pretext of the necessities of the moment, and without arousing of suspicions, we shall get rid once and for all, all the individuals having a "Judeo-Christian Consciousness".
One thing largely ignored by today's politicians is that before every government meeting our Forefathers held public prayer for all the government officials gathered. Every signer of the Declaration of Independence came from some denomination of Christianity. Regardless of denomination, they prayed to one God — each and every day.
Whether you believe in the New World Order or the Illuminati really doesn't matter. Your personal belief in these things are not required. What is known and cannot be disputed is that numerous texts have existed for years which spell out the steps necessary to bring about progressive change within a country and empowers a ruling class. So, no. Your personal faith in these things really don't matter as long as you see recognize that these writings do exist and we are witnessing their execution every day. You need only look to this week's headlines for an excessive number of examples.
One of the core principles which is common throughout is the destruction of Judeo-Christian principles.
By men of Science and the laboratories funded by our Lodges, we have managed to develop a chemical process that will revolutionize all the Western Societies, and relegate to oblivion forever, moral principles and religious Judeo-Christians. This process, in pill form, will open the way wide to the "Sexual Freedom" without consequences, and push the "Women" of the Nations to want to break with what will then be perceived as the yoke of the past (the slavery of women subjected to men and the traditional Judeo-Christian family).
Excerpts from 21 Goals of the Illuminati and the Committee of 300, written in 1993:
1. To establish a One World Government/New World Order with a unified church and monetary system under their direction. The One World Government began to set up its church in the 1920's and 30's, for they realized the need for a religious belief inherent in mankind must have an outlet and, therefore, set up a "church" body to channel that belief in the direction they desired.
3. To engineer and bring about the destruction of religion, and more especially, the Christian Religion, with the one exception, their own creation, as mentioned above.
This may be my favorite post you’ve ever done! I haven’t even finished it yet, but had to break away to express my thanks for writing this. I have so many people I will be sending this to. I’ve saved it as a pdf so I can print it out and/or save it for my grandkids. It was fascinating and inspiring and filled me with pride. God Bless you and God Bless Our Country!
I cant say enough praise for this. This needs to be read by every American Patriot. This is the stock we were formed by. God believers. The responsibility to precure this nation falls on the remnant of believers to see to it that future generations are secured. That life can go on based on the instruction book God gave us. Not by govt sanctioned laws and religion.