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 Mr.
Brian Catalucci
Our Founding Fathers: Were they Christian?
Date: August 10th, 7:00pm
On Friday, August 10th, Rocky Mountain Creation Fellowship is presenting
a talk from its President, Mr. Brian Catalucci. The title of Brian’s
talk will be Our Founding Fathers: Were they Christian?
In 1993 Brian graduated with a MS in Computer Science and Engineering
from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Brian is presently President
of Rocky Mountain Creation Fellowship (RMCF) in Denver, Colorado
and is a frequent speaker for RMCF on a variety of Creation Science
topics, including Biblical Creation and the inerrancy of Scripture.
He has appeared on both TV and radio shows on Creation Science topics.
Brian is presently an adjunct speaker for Answers in Genesis.
Some look at the state of our nation and say the United States
was never a Christian nation. Many claim that our founding fathers
who established this nation were Deists, at best. Today, few claim
that they were Christians at all. Brian states that not only did
Christians found this country, but that God established the United
States for very specific reasons. The answer to whether this nation
was founded by Christians, guided and assisted by God, is extremely
important. By knowing and understanding what kind of people wrote
our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution, we can much
easily interpret these documents and understand what they say and
mean.
The Declaration of Independence, signed by the delegates to the
Continental Congress, on July 4, 1776, stated that, "We
hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
- That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among
men...."
The Declaration of Independence acknowledges that mankind is created
and that the Creator God bestows these rights. That means, that
no man can take them away, and that government, instituted by God,
is to protect those rights. By implication, government cannot deprive
a person of those rights absent due process of law since they were
given by God. Thus, God gave mankind free will, and a function of
government is to protect the electorates exercise of free will.
This idea is a Christian concept and was not pulled out of the air
by atheistic founders.
As the concept is commonly understood today, the government has
never passed a law implementing the "separation of church and
state." The First Amendment simply states: "Congress shall
make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting
the free exercise thereof." Over the years, however, the Supreme
Court and lower federal courts have reinterpreted this amendment
in many ways. This reinterpretation of the Constitution has in effect
become the "law" supposedly dictating the "separation
of church and state." It has not always been this way.
For a long time after this country became a nation, the Supreme
Court believed that this nation was a “Christian” nation
and stated so it its decrees. Americans are taught that “taxation
without representation” was the reason America separated from
Great Britain; yet “taxation without representation”
was only reason number seventeen out of the twenty-seven reasons
given in the Declaration of Independence - it was not even in the
top half, yet it's all that most ever hear. Never mentioned today
are the numerous grievances condemning judicial activism - or those
addressing moral or religious issues.
In his talk, Brian will show what the Founding Fathers of this
country stated and believed. We don’t have to listen to what
others have to say. We can hear it from the Founders themselves.
There is no cost for this RMCF engagement and a DVD will be available
after the talk.
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