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As we approach the celebration of Christ’s birth, I am reminded of the words of John Quincy Adams. On July 4, 1837, he spoke these words:

“Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day? … Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the
Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the
foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth. That it laid the
cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity,
and gave to the world the first irrevocable pledge of the fulfillment of the prophecies announced directly from Heaven at the birth of the Savior and predicted by the greatest of the Hebrew prophets six hundred years before?”[An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport, at Their Request: On the Sixty-first Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1837″.

Adams was exactly right: America’s birth is directly linked to the birth of our Savior. In fact, the United States of America is the only nation established by Christian people, upon Biblical principles, and dedicated to the purpose of religious liberty. This truth is easily observed within America’s earliest history.

America’s forebears first established a written covenant with God as early as November 11, 1620, when they penned The Mayflower Compact. It states in part:

“In the name of God, Amen. … 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; And by Virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the General good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.”

The sentiments and statements of America’s founders make it clear that this nation has enjoyed a love and appreciation for the rights and freedoms recognized in Natural Law that is unique in the annals of human history. No other people have such a heritage.

One thing America’s founders could not envision was—after they had paid so terrible a price to purchase our liberties—that the time would come when their posterity would be denied the basic freedoms to publicly express their reverence for God. Never could they have imagined that the day would come when citizens of the sovereign states (each with a state constitution protecting religious liberty) would be denied their right to pray in school, or place Nativity scenes on public property, or hang copies of the Ten Commandments on courthouse walls.

I am also confident that America’s founders would be completely repulsed by the way the United States has jumped headlong into corporatism, socialism, and globalism. Democrats and Republicans alike have created a central government so large that it would be unrecognizable by any Founding Father. In addition, both Big Business and Big Religion have sold our great country down the proverbial river, as surely as there is a sun in the sky. Truly, our Founding Fathers must be rolling over in their graves.

Therefore, at this Christmas season, let us remember well the founding principles of these United States of America. Furthermore, let us renew with vigor the fight for freedom before our liberties and our heritage are gone altogether.

Merry Christmas!

Dr. Chuck Baldwin is the pastor of Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida. He hosts a weekly radio show. His website is here.

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These protesters who live in Coupeville are against the war in the Middle East and are exercising a right that is uniquely American and virtually unknown to the rest of the world. These activities would have drastic results in most countries especially in those dictatorships that masquerade as Democracies. Given that it is Christmas I thought that a review of the peace symbol "Lucifer’s Cross" might be appropriate
as it represents the dark side of Christmas.

In the current anti-war protest movement I always see the
“Peace Symbol”. It reminds me of how that symbol was
against the Vietnam War. I have always wondered where it came from.
Who made it up? When was it first used?

I was not too surprised by what I found. Like it or not we are engaged in a struggle for more than freedom. This is not a clash of “civilizations” but a clash for “civilization”. And if that is not enough for you we now stand on the battlefront between good and evil. Read on.

The peace symbol truly represents the secular left. It is held by the gay lobby, atheists, progressives and it is protected by the ACLU. The peace symbol is literally their religious cross. And this is so in exactly that sense. Evil will not show its true face otherwise people would flee from it. Just as the cross is the symbol of Christ’s suffering for us the peace symbol is the cross of Lucifer, the symbol of the death of man. It was how the Romans crucified the Apostle Peter by nailing his feet to the top of the cross thus you have a graphic visual image of the symbol of peace.

It was first introduced to the United States in the 1950’s likely designed by Gerald Holtom who was commissioned by communist sympathizer Bertrand Russell who wanted a symbol to unite leftist peace marchers in 1958. During WWII it appeared on all Nazi death warrants and adorned the gravestones of the SS. It currently leads every nut left movement from ecology activist to Marxists revolutionaries.

If you have a movement and you don’t want to be seen holding Lucifer’s hand in public this is a symbol you might want to rethink.

I am sure that if an Islamic terrorist ever had the opportunity to saw off the head of one of the Coupevillian protesters there would be a moment of regret at the loss of, as Lenin once put it, a useful idiot.

The enemy we now face is unlike any other. Their starting point of negotiations with us begins with our beheading. They worship death. They embrace death. You cannot reason with that. As I write this young Iraqi men of military age are emigrating from Iraq to the US receiving asylum under our lavish laws to all who flee oppression while our sons and daughters die in the dry dusty sands Iraq and Afghanistan on their behalf. They should be pressed into the Iraqi military but they are not.

Upon their arrival they receive housing, jobs, and many are sent to our colleges on scholarships. They are the vanguard of the beginnings of vast terrorist organization in our mists. They are protected by the ACLU under the civil rights acts and placed ahead of our children with affirmative action. And our government builds a police state to protect them from us. But this is a story for another time.

I agree with the protesters on this point, if we are not going to fight this war all out we should leave because all we are doing is kicking a hornet’s nest. But truly it is done, Islam now requires revenge you can rest assured that we will witness in our country in our life time homicide bombings, beheadings and the denotation of a nuclear device.

This can be avoided. We have simply to fight as we did in WWII. At the very least we should stop immigration from any country in the middle east but better still close down all immigration and militarize the southern border. Sadly this will not come about in Obama’s presidency. We will see 40 million immigration outlaws gain citizenship immigration under Obama who will make us guests in our own home and cowardly traitorous republicans will hold the hats of democrats as they enter the halls of power.