Dear Mr. Obama

Our president is going about the world making sure everyone knows that the United States is NOT a Christian nation.

And while that may be true today, in terms of our history it is a serious misstatement.

Those who discovered this continent and each group that emigrated to "The New World" came with a religious zeal. They came with the words of Jesus ringing in their ears, to evangelize the world. Others came from religious persecution or under Charters by kings and queens who also saw their Christian responsibility in propagating The Gospel.

From the Mayflower Compact to the early documents of these new civil societies, along with the personal writings of those who fashioned our government, the message is clear: These people saw themselves fulfilling God's purpose in establishing these colonies and this nation.

Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence and at least 21 signers were either committed Christians or Deists: men who believed in a Sovereign God Who ruled over the affairs of men. It was their faith in God and their understanding of His purposes that drove them.

Numerous others, who decorate our historical landscape, were men who believed in and relied upon The Christian's God. Men like Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, George Washington, John Jay (1st Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court), Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, James Monroe and many others.

Alphonse deLamartine, 19th century French literary figure and poet, bemoaning the French condition, wrote:

"Open the history of America, the history of England, and the history of France; read the great lives, the great deaths, the great martyrdoms, the great words at the hour when the ruling thought of life reveals itself in the last words of the dying; and compare.

“Washington and Franklin fought, spoke, suffered, always in the name of God, for whom they acted; and the Liberator of America died, confiding to God the liberty of the people and his own soul."

While great French figures speak only of glory and selfish accomplishments.

“The republic of these men without a God has quickly been stranded. The liberty won by so much heroism and so much genius has not found in France a conscience to shelter it, a God to avenge it, a people to defend it against that atheism which has been called glory. All ended in a soldier and some apostate republicans travestied into courtiers.

An atheistic republicanism cannot be heroic. When you terrify it, it bends; when you would buy it, it sells itself. It would be very foolish to immolate itself. Who would take any heed? The people ungrateful, and God non-existent! Away with atheistic revolutions!”

So, Mr. President, think about the history of this great country you represent to the world and try to forget your own bias. Just tell the truth as it is, not as you want it to be.

And take a lesson from history: The search for glory without God will end in despair and the destruction of liberty.