All our foundations in life must be built on Christ, or they will always fall to the enemy (Matthew 8:24-27; Luke 7:46-49; 1 Corinthians 3:1-23). There are no exceptions. That goes for the foundation you build yourself on, your marriage, your parenting, your family, friendships, business, government, country, education, church, science (Scientific study consistently falls short when God is taken out of it.), and every other matter you can think of. And our foundation must further be grounded in a biblical worldview, what lens we look at everything through. Let’s look at a couple of these in further detail.
False Churches
Notice above, I included church (the building, not the body of Holy Spirt filled believers throughout the world which is the most essential meaning of the Church). You may question: Wouldn’t it be a given that a church is built on a foundation of Christ? The answer is no.
Unfortunately, there are a growing number of churches that are not preaching or teaching God’s truths, biblical truths, or a biblical worldview; they are instead teaching secular views, deterministic views, socialistic/communist views, and on and on we could go with all the foundations and worldviews that are not grounded on biblical truths and God’s truths.
There is a such thing as objective truth, and the foundation of objective truth comes from proper biblical interpretation and God’s foundational truths. I know many will argue that this is subjective truth, but there is plenty of evidence to fully debunk that argument (another blog, for this matter possibly in the future).
Nonetheless, please, be careful and use discernment when attending church, Bible studies, or speaking to church leaders, and other professing Christians. I have left many churches that were teaching very concerning things from the pulpit and beyond. Do not assume that just because a pastor, priest, minister, or any other church leader is teaching sound doctrine just because they have gone to seminary, college, or the like. Many of those educational centers are also teaching very unsound biblical doctrine and/or ungodly worldviews and perspectives.
You must test and check everything through the lens of Scriptures, the Holy Spirit’s discernment, and a biblical worldview, otherwise you will be easily misled.
A Christian Nation
Concerning the United States of America, yes, we need to rebuild the foundations the Founding Fathers worked so hard to set in place by building a constitutional republic on a biblical foundation. Oh, I know, I just ruffled a bunch of people’s feathers with that one. Keep in mind, those of you that believe otherwise have been schooled by an educational system that was slowly and patiently taken over by socialists and communists starting way back in the early 1800s; read Alex Newman’s Indoctrinating our Children to Death (2024) to learn extensive details and well cited history and sources on this.
Nevertheless, our Founders did build our country grounded in biblical principles throughout every facet of life; and because of this, the country continued to fix its’ flaws and kept becoming better, because we were doing things God’s way, which He will always bless (Psalm 33:1-22; Proverbs 14:34; 2 Chronicles 7;14; Isaiah 60:12).
Just as God peels back the layers in an individual who is established in Him, the same went for our country. God does not fix everything at once. When we allow Him to, He fixes our sins (or a country’s sins) piece by piece, layer by layer, when we turn control over to Him.
Keep in mind, with a country, you have many viewpoints that hinder other viewpoints, so it can take longer and more strategy to fix sins of a nation. For example, Jefferson’s first draft of the Declaration of Independence passionately denounced slavery but was taken out because Georgia and South Carolina would not vote it through with the slavery clause. Jefferson’s denouncement of slavery and plea to end slavery was over half a page long, the longest part written in the Declaration of Independence, which also included how they had been trying to fight slavery for a while but failing due to the King and Barbary Pirates. Nonetheless, they needed all 13 colonies’ votes to pass the Declaration of Independence. Eleven wanted slavery abolished immediately, two wanted to keep it, so they had to take it out (Beck, 2025, September 25; Beck, 2025, October 15). It was a necessary strategy the majority (who wanted slavery eradicated) had to take to lay the foundation for a system in which they could eventually deal with the sins of slavery, since the Declaration of Independence had to pass to lay the foundation to make that happen.
The country was not instantly perfect, but it was the best built system to continue improving conditions, including getting rid of slavery, which I know is most naysayers go to argument for this; another blog will be needed to cover the full true history of this false and out-of-context argument. And before anyone gets their feathers ruffled again, I am not denouncing the ugly parts of our history with slavery. I know there were very bad things done concerning slavery in this country, but it is not what the naysayers, the 1619 Project, and all your indoctrinated history teaches you; again, a future blog on the truth concerning slavery. Because I agree, if we do not learn from the sins of our past we will most definitely repeat them.
But we need to know the truthful sins, not ideologically formed false narratives that push agendas while distracting citizens to in-fight while the evil and powerful who fed you those lies rise to unchecked power. That brings a whole new understanding of the truth will set you free and lies will imprison you.
And, no, your separation of church and state argument does not hold up either, because when you read true first source founding documents, not your indoctrinated history books, you will find that none of the founding or United States governing documents have the term separation of church and state in them at all. Please read all the founding documents in full, including the first drafts, the original state constitutions, the Founder’s writings, the first court rulings, the historical Congressional Records, and so forth. First source documents are generally the best to discover the truth. Nevertheless, the full history of the misuse of separation of church and state will require an entire other blog.
But the short version, the taken out of context separation of church and state, and the actual meaning of the First Amendment, only means the government cannot choose which religious denomination you worship under, such as the religious conditions they were escaping from in England and coming to the Americas to seek freedom from. Further, the government cannot stop you from exercising your religion anywhere; yes, including in the schools, and beyond. For proof, read the Congressional Record between June 8 to September 25, 1789, which are the official discussions of the ninety Founders as they formed the First Amendment (Barton, 2024).
So, for instance, we are not a Catholic nation, we are not a Baptist nation, and so on. We are a Christian nation, and you are free to choose which religious denomination you worship under, not to be forced by the government to be under a certain denomination (The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment). However, the government can build on those principles and encourage them but not force them. The government also cannot force you to stop exercising them or prevent you from exercising them (The Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment) (Barton, 2024). The second clause has obviously been broken numerous times by a growing activist government and court system that has been systematically violating the Constitution for decades and running our country, our citizens’ mental health, and civil society into the ground as Christian principles are wiped away so sin, crime, and mental instabilities increasingly rise. When you take God out of things, instability will rise every single time, no exceptions.
Concerning the origins of the term separation of church and state. The only closely found terminology in the Founder’s writing is “wall of separation between Church and State” used in Thomas Jefferson’s 1802 responding letter to the Danbury Baptist Association who were afraid that the government would misunderstand the First Amendment and mistake that it had the right to grant or take away religious freedom and practices in the public square by misinterpreting that those rights were from the government instead of from God (Barton, 2007, p.12).
Thomas Jefferson sought to assure the association’s fears that the Founders had formed religious freedom in such a way that the “wall of separation between Church and State” would protect them from government taking away the freedom to exercise religion publicly and prevent them from establishing a denomination (Barton, 2007, 12). Religion and denomination were used interchangeably by the Founders to mean the same thing. (Barton, 2007). Jefferson furthered this assurance that the government would “not interfere with public religious expressions” multiple times beyond that letter (Barton, 2007, 12). Sadly, the Danbury Baptist Association’s fears concerning the Free Exercise Clause, in many regards, has come to pass because of activist courts.
Many years after the letter, the courts started going way beyond their Constitutional roles, becoming activist courts, and twisting Jefferson’s words completely out of context to destroy our country from the strong foundations it was built on.
The first gross violation of this was the 1947 decision in Everson v. Board of Education, grossly violating the Founder’s Constitutional protections and allowing the government to take control of religious expression in public, which was the complete opposite of all the Founder’s principles and our country’s legal governing documents. The activist courts continued out of control after that in other cases such as, but not limited to, Engel v. Vitale (1962), Abington v. Schempp (1963), Stone v. Graham (1980) all completely violating the second clause (The Free Exercise Clause) of the First Amendment (Barton, 2007; Barton, 2011).
We are supposed to be, and created to be, a Christian nation; and if we want to save our country, we must return to being a Christian nation. There is no other way. That does not mean others are not allowed to peacefully practice other religions; that actually means they are freer to, as God does not force us to choose Him, we have free will to do so or not (Deuteronomy 30:19-20; John 1:12-13; John 7:17; John 3:16; Galatians 5:16-17; Galatians 5:13; 2 Timothy 2:26; Revelation 3:20). But our laws, our founding documents, our education, our founding principles, our direction is all built on Christian foundations, a biblical worldview, and Christian principles as it was originally meant to be.
Furthermore, stop using the Diest argument in regard to the Founders. In his autobiography, Benjamin Franklin recalls a very short time in his young teenage years where he identified as a Diest, just to further write that when he heard counter arguments he quickly fled from that belief. Read the countless other quotes and writings of Benjamin Franklin and you will find them overflowing with Christian principles and dependence on God and Christian virtues. Furthermore, he was the only founder who identified himself as a Diest and it was, again, a ridiculously short time in his youth to use that argument against the true history of the Founders creating a Christian foundation for the United States of America (WallBuilders, 2025).
Furthermore, many Founders were believers, just of many different denominations, and the ones who were not, many of them still wrote or spoke of the importance of Christian principles and Providence as important to the foundation of our nation. Again, read the Founder’s first source writings for the truth, all of them, don’t cherry pick, like the cherry picked, out of context, lie spread about Benjamin Franklin, and the cherry picked, out of context, lies surrounding the falsely made phrase separation of church and state to grossly misrepresent the First Amendment and Jefferson’s meaning behind his letter.
The founding documents are overflowing with biblical and Christian terminology, prayer, and principles, as well as the corresponding Congressional Records, and writings of the Founders explaining why they put Christian principles in the founding documents and further applied them themselves within the government, and schools, and encouraged those principles throughout the citizenry. Read words by Fisher Ames, Dr. Benjamin Rush, Noah Webster, George Washington, and John Adams to name a few concerning a Christian foundation as necessary in public schools and curriculum (Barton, 2007).
Furthermore, Benjamin Franklin proposed starting each day of the Constitutional Convention with prayer. They were fighting so badly during the Constitutional Convention that nothing was getting accomplished (Barton, 2023). Countless Founders gave credit directly to God quoting “the finger of God” was the only thing that finally guided the writing of the Constitution; at what seemed like an impossible task after their consistent fighting, they attributed to working out after they followed God’s ways and gave control back to Him (Barton, 2023. p. 2). Even further, many Founders proposed or instituted national days of both prayer and fasting (Barton, 2023). And on and on we could go with examples. Again, read the first source founding documents with their truth over the lies of indoctrinators; as well as, read and listen to sound historians that use first source documents, such as David and Tim Barton of WallBuilders.
Moving Forward
This is not meant to be a comprehensive, exhaustive, discussion on the topics above. It is merely an introduction and basic overview that hopefully leads you to do more research yourselves, and to learn how to find good sources and eliminate indoctrinators in your life. You must be vigilant in doing this because the indoctrination and false history far outweigh the truth.
One example, is I typed separation of church and state into the Google search bar, and the entire first page was all lies and false information on the phrase (I didn’t even bother going to the next page.), which obviously included the AI synopsis that now plagues the top of search engines. Be careful because AI is just pulling from those false sources and will not give you legit information most of the time. And to further the problem, many of those sources would count as allowable citations and references in many school, university, and other research papers, as well as people spreading the false information through blogs, social media, conversations, and books of their own.
Another example, is we sell books on our website. When I am searching for books to add to the site I have to scroll through endless books to find what I am looking for (The quick search bar doesn’t work well for some of my suppliers.). Anyway, most of the books are based on false, secularized, humanistic, godless, ideologies that falsely represent, twist, or full out lie and fabricate information to trick people not to believe the truth. It is very hard to find anything that is grounded in truth.
And yes, I have some of those destructive historical philosophers’ books on my site (not the current books written by misguided individuals who believe the old philosophers’ twisted ideologies, but the older philosophers themselves that ruined minds, like Karl Marx, etc.), because one should understand false ideologies and worldviews so you can test and find the truth, as well as being prepared with a sound argument for those who are misled in hopes of leading them to the truth.
The point is, there is a rapidly growing amount of false information being fed to you from every direction in your life. You must be extremely vigilant and discerning with your sources and what, and who, you believe. And as stated multiple times above, and most important, please start reading the founding documents in full, including the first drafts, the original state constitutions, Congressional Records, the Founder’s writings and speeches, our nation’s first court rulings, and any other founding documents you can find. Also, please read and watch all the references I cited in full.
You must educate yourself, your children, your grandchildren, friends, and beyond on the truth. We have all been indoctrinated for years, and some of us our entire lifetimes, by the school system, government, news outlets, web searches, church leaders, and beyond. We each have a responsibility to rebuild the foundations of our own lives, our families, our communities, and our country. That can only be done effectively through a biblical foundation and learning true history, the good and the bad, so we can learn from the mistakes of the past as well as the successes. But it must be based on truth, not twisted data to feed someone’s false ideology or goals of control.
Blessings to you and your family, and may God bless the United States of America. Also, remember, God uses us as vessels to further spread His blessings, but the Devil can also use us as vessels to spread his lies and destruction. Allow yourself to become God’s vessel by studying and being grounded on His truths, asking to be filled with His Holy Spirit to lead you and give you discernment, and then go and make disciples of others and build a nation/world that seeks to honor Him and His ways.
In Christ's love,
Danielle A Crimmins
Founder and President of Foundations USA
References
Barton, D. (2023, May 29). Founding Fathers on Prayer. WallBuilders. wallbuilders.com/resource/founding-fathers-on-prayer/
Barton, D. (2011). Original Intent: The Courts, The Constitution, and Religion. WallBuilder Press.
Barton, D. (2007). Separation of Church & State: What the Founders Meant. WallBuilder Press.
Beck, G. (Creator & Executive Director). (2025, September 25). From Lincoln to Charlie Kirk: Glenn Beck Calls on Teens to Continue the Fight (Ep. 457). [Glenn TV]. Blaze Media.
Beck, G. (Creator & Executive Director). (2025, October 15). Glenn Beck’s EMOTIONAL & HEATED TPUSA Campus Speech (Ep. 462). [Glenn TV]. Blaze Media.
Newman, A. (2024). Indoctrinating Our Children to Death: Government Schools’ War on Faith, Family, & Freedom – And How to Stop It. Liberty Sentinel Press.
WallBuilders. (2025, August 4). Benjamin Franklin was a Diest for a Day? [Video]. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/14VniR3HQAf/
