GOD'S REPUBLIC OF AMERICA

PART 1
By Pastor Roger Anghis
April 12, 2015
NewsWithViews.com
Some have said that America is just another nation with laws and civil government just like
any other nation. I do not believe that to be the truth.
Our government is like no other government that has ever ruled on this earth. It has lasted
longer than any other type of government ever established. Some would say that the Roman
Empire lasted longer, but it did not have the same style government throughout its history as
the United States has. No other government has afforded its citizens the freedoms and
prosperity that we have enjoyed for 239 years, 395 if you count from Jamestown.
We hear almost daily anymore that this is not a Christian nation. Our present president has
even made that statement on several occasions even though ALL evidence contradicts that
statement. Can you imagine that someone who actually sits in the office of the presidency of
the United States is so ignorant of the history of this nation that he would make a statement
like that.
In previous columns we learned about why the majority of the people that came to this
country in the 1600 and early 1700s was to escape religious persecution and have the ability
to worship God the way they felt they should instead of how the government told them to. The
Mayflower Compact, the first legal document drawn up for political reasons in America, is a
document that calls for the spreading of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the inhabitants of the
land.
Two hundred and thirty-nine years ago this July 4th, a committee of five patriots, headed by a
young farmer from Virginia, presented the final draft of the Declaration of Independence to 55
of his colleagues in the Second Continental Congress. After making relatively few changes to
Thomas Jeffersons work and then, pledging to each other our lives, our fortunes and our
sacred honor, all 56 members signed their names to this Declaration of Independence. In so
doing, they created something that was then unique on the planet earth: a country based on
the concepts of individual liberty, religious freedom, private property and democratic
government. Since then, the people of this nation have taken great risks to offer others the
hope of that same freedom.
An article in the L.A. Times a few years back stated that all of the Founding Fathers were
either deists or atheists and that religion played no role in the founding of this great nation.
That is nothing more than a lie! 52 of the 56 signers of America's Declaration of Independence
were orthodox, deeply committed Christians. The other four all believed in the Bible as the

divine truth, they all believed in the God of Scripture, and in His personal intervention in the
affairs of man.
One of the most vocal members of the Founding Fathers was Patrick Henry. Most school
books have eliminated his Give me liberty of give me death speech because it may cause a
student to be patriotic and patriotism isnt good for the humanistic/one world government
agenda that our public schools now teach, but that wasnt all he said. He stated his
Christianity in many of the things that he said, as did virtually all of the Founding Fathers. His
full Give me liberty of give me death speak proves this: "An appeal to arms and the God of
hosts is all that is left us. But we shall not fight our battle alone. There is a just God that
presides over the destinies of nations.

The battle sir, is not to the strong alone. Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at
the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it almighty God. I know not what course others may
take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death." It has been said that he was the author
of the following statement but it has yet to be verified. I include it as it truly expresses the
sentiment of not just Patrick Henry but virtually all of the Founders: "It cannot be emphasized
too strongly or too often that this great Nation was founded not by religionists, but by
Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of
other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here." James Madison agreed with this
when he stated: "We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the
power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions
upon the capacity of mankind for Self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to
govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to The Ten
Commandments of God."
These are NOT a statements that atheists would make or even deists. Those are the words of a
born again Christians.
God had a plan for this nation in its founding and it was to be the source for spreading the
gospel throughout the world. We, as a nation, have drifted far from our roots and many have
declared that God will judge America. A prophet from India was in deep prayer when Jesus
came to him. He asked when he was going to judge America.
Jesus answered Im not. I have a covenant with them that was made on the Mayflower, and I
remember that covenant. Part of that covenant reads: Having undertaken for the Glory of
God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a
voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia; do by these presents,
solemnly and mutually in the Presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine
ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and

Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid; That covenant was established to further the kingdom of
God and that covenant has saved this nation many times and it will continue to preserve this
nation until the church is taken out.
This July we will celebrate the 239th birthday of the United States. Celebrate means to
perform (a sacrament or solemn ceremony) publicly and with appropriate rites. It also means
to honor (as a holiday) especially by solemn ceremonies or by refraining from ordinary
business b : to mark (as an anniversary) by festivities or other deviation from routine.

For most of us we will take a day or two off of work and have a barbeque with family and
friends and watch a few fireworks displays. This is all good, but we must also take the time to
remember the reasons for which this nation was founded. If we do not take the time to
remember, our children will not know the importance of the faith of our Fathers and how
their faith established the greatest nation this world has ever or will ever see.

The religious persecution in Europe had reached a point where people could no longer endure
it. There was the promise of a new country where a person could worship God in the manner
described in the Bible so the people gave up everything to come here.. The results of their
efforts was the founding of a nation where God was in the forefront of every part of their lives,
public, private and even the basis of the civil and federal government. We do not have the time
in one or even 10 Sundays to examine all of the details that culminated in the Nation of
America, but at the same time it would be a tragic injustice to not affirm and admit that our
Founding Fathers were under a special and constant guidance of an overruling Providence.
The Bible, as the divine charter of their political rights, as well as their hopes of immortality,
they reverently studied it, and on it laid the cornerstone of all their compacts and institutions.
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Pastor Roger Anghis is the Founder of RestoreFreeSpeech.org, an organization designed to

draw attention to the need of returning free speech rights to churches that was restricted in
1954.
President of BuildingtheTruth, BuildingtheTruth.org, which has a stated purpose of teaching
people the need of the churches involvement in the political arena and to teach the historical
role of Christianity in the politics of the United States. Married-42 years, 3 children, three
grandchildren.
Web site: BuildingTheTruth.org
E-Mail: roger@buildingthetruth.org