Culture war is escalating

After finishing William J. Bennett's two volumn America, the last best hope, one is reminded of the ongoing attack against people of faith by atheists and other left-wingers inside and outside the government. Mr. Bennett relates in Volume II, From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom, that the government bureaucrats in building the new World War II Memorial on the Washington Mall, left off Roosevelt's words "so help us God."

Franklin Roosevelt in his famous speech following the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor concluded his remarks before a joint session of Congress by saying: "With confidence in our armed forces -- with the unbounding determination of our people -- we will gain the inevitable triumph -- so help us God." Mr. Bennett said in a note below that quote: "These last four words of President Roosevelt's sentence were, inexplicably, dropped from the engraved quotation on the World War II Memorial.

So it was no surprise to hear last year that the government bureaucrats once again tried to bury the Judeo-Christian influence on our country in building the new U.S. Capitol Building Visitors Center. They virtually ignored the huge influence Christianity played in the founding of America and the Christian faith of most of the Founders.

The builders of the Visitors Center, under the supervision of the U.S. Capitol Architect, originally had as our nation's motto "E Pluribus Unum" and had to be pressured by Republican members of Congress to put "In God We Trust" in a historical display. However, In God We Trust was eventually put behind the wall with "E Pluribus Unum" on display. People of faith need to be viligant in ensuring that God is not completely stricken from the public square.