“The time hs come that Christians must vote for honest men and take consistent ground in politics, or the Lord will curse them…God cannot sustain this free and blessed country, which we love and pray for, unless the Church will take right ground. Politics are a part of religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to the country as a part of their duty to God.”
- Wrote Charles Finney, a great evangelist about 1850.
In 1892 the US Supreme Court made an exhaustive study of the connection between Christianity and the government. After researching hundreds of volumes of historical documents, the USSC asserted:
“these references add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a religious people…a Christian nation.”
In 1931, USSC Justice George Sutherland reiterated that Americans are “a Christian people”.
In 1952, USSC Justice William O. Douglas affirmed “we are a religious people and our institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.”