12/14/1799---america loses her father
December 14, 1799---George Washington died at his Mount Vernon estate in Virginia. He was 67 years old.
Washington, of course, was the first President of the United States, but he was much more than that. He was appointed Commander In Chief of the colonial army during the American Revolution by the Second Continental Congress. He provided over the Constitutional Convention as they drafted and ratified the U.S. Constitution. After becoming President, Washington established precedents for running the country and carrying out the duties of the presidency that have lasted for over 200 years. George Washington was the Father of our Country, and was one of the greatest and wisest leaders the world has ever known.
I would like to post an excerpt here from Washington's Farewell Address. This particular address has become a textbook, of sorts, teaching how a constitutional republic best functions. Read what Pres. Washington says about religion and morality. Pay special attention to what Washington says about the role of public education in the teaching of religion and morality. After reading that, go to the link at the bottom, which will take you to a Library of Congress online exhibition called "Religion and the Founding of the American Republic." If you read all of this with a mind unimpaired from the debilitating effects of cancerous liberalism, you will see the truth about the role religion is supposed to play in America.
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who that is a sincere friend to it can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric?
Promote then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/
Washington, of course, was the first President of the United States, but he was much more than that. He was appointed Commander In Chief of the colonial army during the American Revolution by the Second Continental Congress. He provided over the Constitutional Convention as they drafted and ratified the U.S. Constitution. After becoming President, Washington established precedents for running the country and carrying out the duties of the presidency that have lasted for over 200 years. George Washington was the Father of our Country, and was one of the greatest and wisest leaders the world has ever known.
I would like to post an excerpt here from Washington's Farewell Address. This particular address has become a textbook, of sorts, teaching how a constitutional republic best functions. Read what Pres. Washington says about religion and morality. Pay special attention to what Washington says about the role of public education in the teaching of religion and morality. After reading that, go to the link at the bottom, which will take you to a Library of Congress online exhibition called "Religion and the Founding of the American Republic." If you read all of this with a mind unimpaired from the debilitating effects of cancerous liberalism, you will see the truth about the role religion is supposed to play in America.
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who that is a sincere friend to it can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric?
Promote then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/
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