Bob Gingrich
History revisionists, are striving to convince unsuspecting citizens that the Founding Fathers were something other than Bible-believing Christians who intended that the government they founded was to be guided in perpetuity by precepts of the Judeo-Christian Bible. Agenda-driven history revisers don’t want Americans to remember their spiritual roots; they plan to take the country in a secular humanist direction never intended by the Founding Fathers.
Information presented in this fact-filled book will help readers rediscover their Godly heritage and reintroduce them to a few of the inspired men and women who had the courage, intelligence, wisdom, and foresight to look to God for guidance in creating our foundational documents and our systems of government and commerce. It is a collection of entertaining and informative short essays centered on the lives of eighteen men who played major roles in the founding of the United States of America. Hundreds of quotations included in this book leave no doubt regarding the original intent of our Founding Fathers.
Today, there is much evidence to support the conclusion that the teaching of early American history has been both downplayed and revised to the point that people have become badly confused, especially by the twisting almost beyond recognition of the concept of "separation of church and state."
Founding Fathers Vs. History Revisionists is a non-scholarly, easy-to-read early American history refresher course for people who are struggling to understand the clash of ideologies that has increasingly become known as the "culture war." Younger Americans, special targets of history revisionists, must understand their Bible-based heritage in order to effectively refute those who would deceive them. This book provides information they need but aren't getting in many public schools. It is a wakeup call as well as a call to action.
Bob Gingrich is a freelance writer, a marketing executive, a former U. S. Navy officer, and a concerned citizen. His concern is generated by a love of country and a desire to preserve the freedoms and opportunities from which his and earlier generations have greatly benefited. He believes the continued security and prosperity of the USA are dependent upon open public acknowledgment of God as America's provider and protector which is clearly what the Founding Fathers believed, a fact that is unambiguously proven by the Founders' own words.
He is convinced the Bible must be restored to its rightful place of honor and authority in the mainstream of American society. This book is his response to those, led by the American Civil Liberties Union and other well-funded and misguided
individuals and organizations, who are systematically attempting to marginalize Christianity in general and the Bible in particular.
A graduate of the University Of Missouri School Of Journalism, Gingrich has, in addition to his freelance writing, served as editor of a statewide political publication and a weekly family newspaper while at the same time engaged in a successful commercial real estate marketing/development career.
Parents and grandparents, especially those involved in home-schooling, should find this book a valuable tool in making certain their children and grandchildren have a factual understanding of early American history.
Excerpted from Chapter 20, entitled: John Hancock
There! His Majesty can now read my name without
spectacles, and can now double his reward of five
hundred pounds for my head. That is my defiance!
John Hancock, upon signing
The Declaration of Independence
When John Hancock, as president of the Second Continental Congress was first to sign The Declaration of Independence, he, along with the others signers, was well aware that he may have just signed his own death warrant. After making his famous statement regarding the clarity of his signature on the Declaration, he went on to say, “There must be no pulling different ways; we must all hang together.” Rarely one to pass up a good straight line, Benjamin Franklin quipped, “Yes. We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.” Stephen Hopkins’ hand shook as he signed the historic document: “My hand trembles,” he said, “but my heart does not.”
Such was the range of feelings of the fifty-six men representing a fledgling nation that was now openly defying the most powerful nation on earth. That mixture of elation, joviality, hubris, confidence, wonder and trepidation was not confined to the room in which the members of Congress met to sign the document that would propel them on a course leading into dangerously unknown waters. Among the Colonists, there may have been a consensus of sorts for independence, but it was far from unanimous.
Until the Boston Massacre of 1770, Hancock himself had been of more loyalist persuasion than rebellious even though he had been involved in protesting most of Parliament’s provocations begun in 1765 with passage of the Stamp Act. Rather than as rebels, the Colonists had seen themselves as a people struggling to maintain their rights as British citizens. King George III, however, viewed any sign of resistance to his authority as rebellion.
Seizure by the British of one of Hancock's ships over a tax issue in 1768 added to his feelings that independence was an option the colonies must seriously consider. After "the massacre" as a result of which three Americans were killed and two others died later of their wound
