As with all of the documents that articulate
the idea's of those who came to North America from Europe one thing is
clear; they believed themselves to be Christians. What they wrote and
what they founded, they believed was the will of God as far as they
understood the scriptures and the influence of heaven. So great was this
inspiration that even those among them who were not believers accepted
the principles found in the Word of God as the standard for human
behavior, relationships and government. How utterly contrary this
charter that remained the constitution of Rhode Island until 1843 is to
what todays state run schools systems teach concerning the founding of
the United States. In fact a criminal act being perpetrated on
generations of young people and the American tax payer. Just as these
young people come out of these schools systems funded by trillions of
tax payer dollars uneducated or mis educated in basic math, reading and
science. They come out of these schools and later on the universities
believing the ideals this nation were founded on were humanistic,
atheistic and socialist in nature. The only time Christianity is
mentioned is in connection to slavery and other great evils that had
always existed and were just then having the seed planted (by
Christians) that would eventually do away with them. According to the
official documents and writings of this nations founders the
only ideals, the
only religion and the
only beliefs that founded this nation
were Christian and Biblical in nature. Just think what it would mean for
the larger part of the population of the world to realize that the
freedom, morality, justice, equity that does exist in today's world has
as its basis the Word of God and those who were influenced by it?
Further that nothing like what so many enjoy today ever existed in the
ancient world because they did not have that Word of God and those who
were swayed by it? Do you think the western world would be electing the
immoral power hungry socialists to offices of trust if they understood
their freedoms came from the people of the Word? That spells out why
today it is part of socialist political strategy to obscure just where
the freedom and justice that does exist in the world today came from.
Rhode Island Royal Charter of 1663
.....and the rest of the purchasers and free
inhabitants of our island, called Rhode Island, and the rest of the
colony of Providence Plantations, in the Narragansett Bay, in New
England, in America, that they, pursuing, with peaceable and loyal
minds, their sober, serious, and religious intentions, of godly edifying
themselves, and one another, in the holy Christian faith and worship, as
they were persuaded; together with the gaining over and conversion of
the poor ignorant Indian natives, in those parts of America, to the
sincere profession and obedience of the same faith and worship......,
.......And whereas, in their humble address,
they have freely declared, that it is much on their hearts (if they may
be permitted) to hold forth a lively experiment, that a most flourishing
civil state may stand and best be maintained, and that among our English
subjects, with a full liberty in religious concernments and that true
piety rightly grounded upon gospel principles, will give the best and
greatest security to sovereignty, and will lay in the hearts of men the
strongest obligations to true loyalty. Now, know ye, that we, being
willing to encourage the hopeful undertaking of our said loyal and
loving subjects, and to secure them in the free exercise and enjoyment
of all their civil and religious rights, appertaining to them, as our
loving subjects and to preserve unto them that liberty, in the true
Christian faith and worship of God, which they have sought with so much
travail, and with peaceable minds, and loyal subjection to our royal
progenitors and ourselves, to enjoy; and because some of the people and
inhabitants of the same colony cannot, in their private opinions,
conform to the public exercise of religion, according to the liturgy,
forms and ceremonies of the Church of England, or take or subscribe the
oaths and articles made and established in that behalf; and for that the
same, by reason of the remote distances of those places, will (as we
hope) be no breach of the unity and uniformity established in this
nation: Have therefore thought fit, and do hereby publish, grant, ordain
and declare, that our royal will and pleasure is, that no person within
the said colony, at any time hereafter shall be any wise molested,
punished, disquieted, or called in question, for any differences in
opinion in matters of religion, and do not actually disturb the civil
peace of our said colony; but that all and every person and persons may,
from time to time, and at all times hereafter, freely and fully have and
enjoy his and their own judgments and consciences, in matters of
religious concernments, throughout the tract of land hereafter
mentioned, they behaving themselves peaceably and quietly, and not using
this liberty to licentiousness and profaneness, nor to the civil injury
or outward disturbance of others, any law, statute, or clause therein
contained, or to be contained, usage or custom of this realm, to the
contrary hereof, in any wise notwithstanding......
.....And that they may be in the better
capacity to defend themselves, in their just rights and liberties,
against all the enemies of the Christian faith, and others, in all
respects, we have further thought fit, and at the humble petition of the
persons aforesaid are graciously pleased to declare, That they shall
have and enjoy the benefit of our late act of indemnity and free pardon,
as the rest of our subjects in other our dominions and territories have;
and to create and make them a body politic or corporate, with the powers
and privileges hereinafter mentioned......
.....and particularly that which relates
to the making of purchases of the native Indians, as to them shall seem
meet; whereby our said people and inhabitants in the said Plantations,
may be so religiously, peaceably and civilly governed, as that by their
good life and orderly conversation, they may win and invite the native
Indians of the country to the knowledge and obedience of the only true
God and Savior of mankind.......
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