Supreme Court 1892

The following is a declaration made by the U.S. Supreme Court in
1892. I wonder what they would say today on the same subject...

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"Our laws and our institutions must neccessarily be based upon the
teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it
should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent, our
civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian.
"No purpose of action against religion can be imputed to any
legislation, state or national, because this is a religious people.
This is historically true. From the discovery of this continent to
the present hour, there is a single voice making this affirmation.
There is no dissonance in these declarations. There is a universal
language pervading them all, having one meaning; they affirm and
reaffirm that this is a religious nation. These are not individual
sayings, declarations of private persons: they are organic
utterances; they speak the voice of the entire people.
"The happiness of a people and the good order and preservation of
civil government esentially depend upon piety, religion, and
morality. Religion, morality, and knowledge are necessary to good
government, the preservation of liberty, and the happiness of
mankind."