Calvin Synod Herald, 1995 (95. évfolyam, 1-5. szám)

1995-09-01 / 5. szám

CALVIN SYNOD MERALD

AMERIKAI MAGYAR REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA

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tion should be "DIVINE" law, not just any kind of law. Because the original from Richard Hooker said: "Obedience to DIVINE law," etc. The adjective was left out by mistake, or may by deliberate action.

All dignitaries of State and County were greatly shocked!

When I was at Pitt. U. as a scholarship student, the Ten Commandments was placed in bronze on the main street wall of the Courthouse. Before I returned to Hungary under pressure it was removed. Then I was shocked as a visitor in the Nation.

But is not this exactly what Americans have been doing all along? From generation to generation, constantly erasing and eliminating what is "divine" and replacing the same with what may be called "human" , - horribile dictu - lately with what even "animal" or "bestial" N.B. - homosexuals, lesbians, flagburnings. Eliminating prayers from schools and public places, and all that on the pressure of a godless minority.

Article I. in the Constitution of the U.S.A. says: "Congress shall make no

law respecting the establishment of Religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

How misinterpreted, misused, twisted over and over again!? In the honest intention of the writers, it simply had in view: No State-Church like in England, but a Nation "under God" here!

And inspite of all historical facts and truths we keep going on continuously and completely ignoring our own History. Forgetting the fact that our Constitution was written by devout forefathers of our Calvinistic Faith.

George Bancroft: America's greatest historian, wrote: "The U.S. of America is the gift of John Calvin"

Our own John Calvin. How true it is! Copying Calvin's Geneva Constitution, which derived from his Church Constitution Theocracy and Not Democracy. Even in our church life! How we forget the fact that with Calvin's instructions our presbyters are elected not to represent the peoples' will, which is human and erroneous, but God's will, which is supreme & never failing!

The noble intention of our Calvinistic forefathers of this Nation centered in the fact that they established a Nation under God, not a church-state as it was overseas, but a state with the note of "DIVINE".

The time is here to return to the socalled old-fashioned principles of the Calvinistic Religion, which is reflected in our Nation's Constitution.

Daniel Berzsenyi, a Hungarian poet of the last century, wrote: "The foundation and cornerstone of any Nation is true religion and morality, when that disappears, ROME falls and sinks into slavery!?"

Until this day in world history, 24 world-ruling powers collapsed. The former 23 in the average of 200 years each. The last one, the COMMUNIST SOVIET EMPIRE had fallen in the view of our own seeing eyes. And that one in less time than the ones before, in 75 years!

The American Civilization is now 219 years old. How long yet? If it will not return to what is "divine" in its own very being, then only God knows "and a few angels above perhaps."