Updated: October 11, 2010

Have you ever considered writing a book? Imagine that you write one, and it becomes very influential in the society, having impact on public policy, educational priorities, economic progress, and the prosperity of the nation. You have studied scores of previous writings, considered the impact of earlier publications, and carefully gave the world your best effort – having a very positive effect on the culture around you!

Then you see that other people are beginning to write books, articles, and web sites about your book. They are telling everyone that your book doesn’t really mean what it says. Instead, it means whatever they say. If can’t be taken literally. Interpretation of your carefully researched and written volume must be flexible so that it will please all cultures, religions, and viewpoints – except yours!

You would cry out, "Hey! You guys are not representing my book correctly! You are twisting my words! You are leaving out major points, and putting your own connotation on the remainder of my work!"

You would probably contact a lawyer and see if there was some way you could force these impostors to cease destroying the impact of your book.

This is exactly what has happened to the founding documents of the United States of America. In the span of my life, I have seen the school system swing totally away from what they taught us during the 1950s and 60s.

There is really no reason to change your lesson plans if they were built on TRUTH in the first place.

I have a small book published by the Weekly Reader Foundation entitled "The Story of the Declaration of Independence." To tell this story, they jump back to the Pilgrims and the Plymouth Colony of 1620. Then the writer moves forward through the events which supposedly lead to the Colonies declaring their Independence from Great Britain in 1776.

What bothers me about this story is the fact that through this history of over 150 years the book never mentions God nor Religious Freedom. So did they really tell the story of the Declaration of Independence?

Could you honestly recount the story of the Pilgrims without hinting at the issues which were most important to the Pilgrims themselves?

Could you really tell the story of the Declaration of Independence without mentioning the concepts of Liberty, human rights, and purpose of government, and reasons for the separation which the writers stated so clearly? I am not saying that a children’s book has to enlarge on every aspect of the Declaration word for word, but do you suppose there is a conspiracy to leave out the Theistic concepts of government which our Founding Fathers believed?

Shouldn’t the truth of our founding document be welcome in every classroom "from sea to shining sea?"

One could argue that the references to God, the Creator, the Supreme Judge of the World, and others were just figures of speech which are not relevant to our concepts of freedom and government. Would it be honest to make such a claim? We are talking about Truth in Education.

Did the words reflect the true beliefs of the Founding Fathers, or were they just the "politically correct" terminology of the day?

Consider for a minute that they were dealing the oldest and most powerful monarchy in the world. They were declaring to the king that these Colonies are "Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown…." If you were attempting such a outlandish political move, would you choose you words carefully?

If you were signing the dotted line committing your life, all you possessions, and reputation to a new and unproved idea, would you want to be sure you had the right concepts behind your actions?

Would it be safe to suppose that these men carefully chose their concepts, terminology, and the steps they were taking? I believe they chose their words with extreme care.

We could jump back to the Pilgrims in the Plymouth Colony, and reflect on their choice of words also, but that will be another lesson in American history.

For now, let’s give careful honest consideration to the Declaration of Independence. Don’t forget these men were declaring the Independence from the oldest and most powerful monarchy in the World. This was at a time when monarchs had almost unquestioned absolute authority to take any course of action or reaction they chose.

The Founding Fathers of these United States made reference to Nature’s God in their introductory paragraph. Click here to see the whole paragraph.

Next they stated several TRUTHS which they considered to be "Self-evident." Can you imagine writing a letter to the king, declaring your independence based on your own "self-evident" presuppositions – which in all probability would be the exact opposite of the presuppositions the king embraces? Kings for centuries had believed in the "divine right of kings" and usually interpreted that to mean that whatever they chose to do was approved of God.

What truths did the Writers of the Declaration consider to be "self-evident?" Should our students today be protected from hearing what these men pledged their lives for?

1. Their first self-evident truth: "all men are created equal,…" Of course this was before the evolution movement of the 1800s. It’s still OK to say that all men are created equal, just as long as you don’t continue to the next phrase and actually imply that we had a Creator.

2. They [all men] are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,…

These guys actually believed in a personal Creator, and that our rights came from our Creator – not from the king or government.

In developing your concept of government, do you think it is important to believe that God granted us certain rights, or is it safe to believe that rights merely come from the government, and can vary from place to place? Does a government have the authority to repeal, change, or alter your rights? Does government have the right to do whatever it chooses? Where does government get its authority?

Many of our most cherished rights are being challenged because this TRUTH has been eliminated from the classroom. Our Creator gave us certain rights which can not be taken from us. Even if a government does not recognize the authority of God, those rights still exist.

Can a government make up new rights which were not granted by the Creator? We can see that without the recognition of a supreme authority, everything degenerates into chaos. Established rights may be lost, while evil men may theoretically establish new rights that protect evil rather than righteousness. No wonder the Founding Fathers believed we had to recognize an absolute source of authority.

Would it be important for students to be taught this truth? What has been happening in our classroom since these truths have been neglected or outlawed?

3. Among these [rights] are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Our founding fathers were certainly pro-life, stating clearly that humans had a right to live, and that Liberty was a God-given right. Thus they renounced totalitarian and dictatorial forms of government. Many children are being taught today that our form of government is just one of many good kinds, and that we should all be tolerant and understanding of those who still seek to enslave people under communism, Islamic dictatorships, ancient tribal suppression, and many other socialistic dominions.

The "pursuit of Happiness" generally refers to the right to learn, earn, and profit from your labor as well as private property rights.

I have even heard preachers question the right to the "pursuit of happiness." However the Bible says, "Be glad" at least 37 times. Does "pursuit of happiness" mean that we can do anything we choose if we think it will make us happy?

Certainly the writers of the Declaration of Independence did not think so. The Declaration itself was written because they felt the king had overstepped his rights.

4.  To secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,…

What is the purpose of government? To secure our God-given rights. More and more we hear terminology indicating that we are fighting to preserve "our American way of life." Some things in our "American way of life" are not God-given rights, and therefore are not worth defending.

What about a "woman’s right to choose an abortion?" Why do we call that a right? Did the Creator give anyone the "right" to destroy the life of an unborn child?

What about "welfare rights" or the "same sex marriage rights." Since the society (or educational system) no longer recognizes any absolute source of authority, we have adopted the idea that government can issue any "right" we persuade them to sanction.

It is vital for us to know that true "rights" were granted by our Creator, and the purpose of government is to secure those God-given rights. This is clearly what the Declaration of Independence says. Why is it no longer required, or even legal, for school children to be taught the truth concerning what the document says.

Government should be thought of as a protector – not a provider.

5.      …deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

I suppose every government has the tendency to endow itself with more and more authority – regardless of what the people want. Once people accept the notion that government is supposed to be a provider, it is but a small step for the government to assume more and more authority as it expands to meet the needs and desires of the people. As we concede responsibility, we also lose the authority, and freedom that goes along with it.

6. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,…

Isn’t it amazing to think that one of the self-evident truths was the right of the people to alter (change) their government, or even abolish it, and institute new government? Making such a statement today might get you classified as a "radical revolutionary," but it is part of the American concept of government.

Fortunately, we can still "alter" our government through the election and legislative processes. Unfortunately, deceptive manipulators of the educational system have succeeded in rewriting the textbooks, infiltrating the teacher training institutions, and promoting the serious lie that the Constitution requires there to be a separation between the God of the Bible and the Government of the United States.

That’s one of the purposes of this web site. We believe the TRUTH of America’s founding documents, the writings of the Founding Fathers, and the foundations of our laws should be required in all of America’s classrooms.

Why are we so afraid of the TRUTH?

Next the Founding Fathers listed a long list of Grievances of which the king and his country were guilty. I am not including all of them here.

For your study and contemplation, I am including below the opening paragraphs we have discussed, as well as the last paragraph. Here they declared their TOTAL INDEPENDENCE from Great Britain, TOTAL DEPENDENCE on Divine Providence, and a TOTAL INTERDEPENDENCE on each other.

Why is this concept of government, Liberty, and responsibility not being taught in every American classroom? You can see here what this document says. There is no controversy about what it says. We believe that good educators teach the truth!

Our overall public view of government, its duties, and our duties as citizens are of great importance in the elective and legislative processes. Our Fathers stated many times the importance of our dependence on God, and how obedience to His Laws is essential to our security. If they were right, why are we not requiring this truth to be taught? Why do we protect young minds from being exposed to the truth concerning what our Founding Fathers said?

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

In Congress, July 4, 1776

The Unanimous Declaration Of The Thirteen United States Of America

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

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We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

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