“You Must Read this Book”
Terry Dashner…………………Faith Fellowship Church in Broken Arrow, OK 74013
As you know I have the utmost respect for Dr. D. James Kennedy. I listen to what he says. His voice helps direct America back to her founding heritage—Jesus Christ. I like that.
The other day I sent $30 to help support his radio and TV ministry. What I received in return is beyond good. It is really good. In response to the small gift I gave, I was sent former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama Judge Roy Moore’s new book entitled, So Help Me God.
Wow! At a time in my life when I thought that all good books had already been written and read by me, a book like this falls into my hands. Talk about inspiring, this read is a must read for anyone who stands on principle. Whether or not one agrees with Moore’s politics, this man is a man of principle, and that is inspiring. I’d like to highlight some of his thoughts made public in this wonderful book.
The book is published by Broadman & Holman Publishers in Nashville, TN and it carries the subtitle, The Ten Commandments, Judicial Tyranny, and The Battle For Religious Freedom.
Listen to this: “The same year I was busy creating the carved plaque of the Ten Commandments, the United States Supreme Court was busy taking them of the wall of a Kentucky schoolhouse. The court in Stone v. Graham stated:
“‘The Ten Commandments are undeniably a sacred text in the Jewish and Christian faith, and no legislative recitation of a supposed secular purpose can blind us to that fact…If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments are to have any effect at all, it will be to induce the school children to read, meditate upon, perhaps to venerate and obey, the Commandments. However desirable this might be as a matter of private devotion, it is not a permissible state objective under the Establishment Clause.’
“How could the Supreme Court of the United States draw such a ridiculous conclusion? Surely judges and justices should regard laws against killing, adultery, stealing, lying, and disregard of parental authority as desirable rules. And certainly a callous disregard of God’s law today has fostered an atmosphere in which murder, rape, robbery, and all forms of disobedience of authority are more commonplace in public schools than they were in 1980.
“The Ten Commandments are not only a sacred text in the Jewish and Christian faiths, as the Supreme Court stated in Stone v. Graham. They are God’s revealed, divine law and the basis on which our morality depends…In the Farewell Address, George Washington, at the conclusion of his second tern as our nation’s first president, reminded the people that virtue or morality is important to the welfare of our nation, and that attempts to destroy or take lightly this foundation of popular government would be detrimental to the country. He stated, ‘Tis substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular 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.’
“President Washington implied that our institutions of learning (schools) should promote the teaching of virtue or morality. Where can that virtue be found? In God’s law, the Ten Commandments!...the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment [Article III of the Northwest Ordinance stated that]…Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.’”
The “wall of separation” of church and state for America has become, according to Mr. Moore, a separation between God and American government, and that is not good. It was not the intent of the founding fathers.
Then why do we scurry to remove the sibilance of God’s law from federal properties? It started years ago in our Nation’s highest court—the United States Supreme Court. A group of 9 have through the years ruled in opposition to our founding father’s original intent for this nation—one nation under the Supreme Law of the Universe, God’s law. And who has been the driving force since WWI to make sure that we “red state heathens” are in compliance? You guessed it. It is the ACLU.
One day soon, people of this nation that have remained silent in the face of secularism and the partisan agenda of the ACLU will arise from their sleep and begin to counter the juggernaut of the ACLU. When that happens, America will awaken to another historical “Great Awakening” where the knowledge of God will flow from every fabric of its sacred halls of justice and education like the waters of the mountain tops flow to the seas.
I would encourage you to read this wonderful book and throw your prayerful support behind this man of principle. As I read about his early years at West Point where he learned as an underclassman to endure intimidation, I was encouraged and inspired. He spoke eloquently about the ridicule, while tough at the time nevertheless, prepared him for Viet Nam and his life’s call that has become a lone stand of principle on God’s law in spite of the intimidation and ridicule of the high courts and the ACLU. Although Mr. Moore is a few years older than I, I too remember the twisted-moral indifference of our troops in Viet Nam. I, too, remember and experienced the fallout of a nation that had lost its moral compass through the 1960s and early 1970s. Those were difficult times, especially in the military. I pray that we never fall back to those days.
I pray that America will keep pressing the point and praying together for the good of this nation. America is great because she is good. If she ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great. I wish I had said those words. Someone much smarter than I who was not even an American citizen is credited with saying those words when America was young. I would add. America is only good when she honors God’s law above all things, even her Constitution law.
Keep the faith America. Stay the course, please. Jesus one day soon right all the wrongs.
Pastor T.
Faith Fellowship Church
PO Box 1586
Broken Arrow, OK 74013
918-451-0270
tdash0355@netzero.com (devotional list sign up)
About the Author
Pastor, retired police officer, veteran of the United States Navy and father of 3 grown children.